VANDENBERG’S MOONKINGS
Vandenberg’s Moonkings
Provogue Records
Really? Adje has finally made a record? Indeed, tis so. Adrian Vandenberg has got round to releasing his first album since 1994 when the Manic Eden record came out. And that wasn’t exactly a world beater. But this time he’s dipped into his bag of long lost Whitesnake riffs and come up with a peach of a record.
He must have done it on purpose, because vocalist Jan Hoving is straight out of the seventies tight trousered mould, and he swaggers his way through an excellent set of songs. I must admit to being slightly annoyed at having to wait this long for such a good Vandenberg album. Damn those paint brushes! However, with lots of Hammond organ runs, powerful riffs and even some cowbell, this has ended up one of the best things he’s been involved in.
For sure, the ballads really need a vocalist out of the top drawer to make them work 100%, but on the up tempo numbers like ‘Lust And Lies’, Close To You’ and ‘Good Thing’ everything is just so right. Fans of his Whitesnake work should head straight for ‘Steal Away’, and just in case you’ve forgotten who he is, the whole set ends with a low key version of the Snake song ‘Sailing Ships’, with a certain Sir David Coverdale on vocals.
This will be one of the hard rock albums of the year; no doubt about it. So let’s rawk!
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