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MOLLY HATCHET:

FLIRTIN’ WITH DESASTER RE-RELEASE (DIGI) (CD) 1979/ 2008 18.00 BGN

Artist: MOLLY HATCHET
Album: "NO GUTS NO GLORY RE-RELEASE (DIGI)"

Year: 1983/ 2008
Media type: CD

- "No Guts....No Glory" (originally released in 1983) contains the big hit "Fall Of The Peacemakers"! Digipak with new booklet + Unseen photos + Liner Notes from Jerry Ewing (Metal Hammer / Classic Rock UK) [!]

Цена: 18.00 лв. (BGN)

Cat. No.: WIZ00008062

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Take one look at the cover of the album that you hold in your hand. Six burly figures prowling down the empty street of an old Wild West ghost town. Now ask yourself a question. Would you mess with these men? Probably not…

Molly Hatchet, like many of the bands who grew out of the Southern states, preferred to live life walking it like they talked it. Blazing a trail akin to their musical and spiritual forefathers Lynyrd Skynyrd, there was little room for frippery in both life and music, but with a dedication to their chosen craft, an understanding that you lived life hard, be it at home or on the road.

Molly Hatchet hailed from Jacksonville in Florida, the very same city as Southern legends Lynyrd Skynyrd, with whom the band shared a kinship, as well as fellow locals 38 Special, the band fronted by Donnie Van Zant, brother of Lynyrd Skynyrd mainman Ronnie. Molly Hatchet actually formed in 1974, named after a legendary Southern prostitute who allegedly beheaded her clients. Like Lynyrd Skynyrd they featured three guitarists, namely Dave Hlubeck (the only member not to hail from the South but from San Jose in California), Steve Holland and Duane Roland, as well as vocalist Danny Joe Brown, bassist Banner Thomas and drummer Bruce Crump. They eked out a living in their early days touring the rough and ready Florida bar circuit, often with 38 Special in tow. The interconnection between Skynyrd, Hatchet and 38 Special didn’t end their either. Always on the look out to aid their Southern brethren, Lynyrd Skynyrd had allowed Molly Hatchet to use their own 8-track recording equipment to record their early demos.

Thanks to their friendship with 38 Special, Molly Hatchet came to the attention of manager Pat Armstrong who took the band under his wing. This in turn led to the Molly Hatchet coming to the attention of Epic Records who signed the band. The original intention had been for Hatchet to record their debut album with Skynyrd frontman Ronnie Van Zant. However prior to that he’d undertaken the tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd which would include the fateful plane crash of 20 October, 1977, which claimed the lives of Van Zant and various other members of the Skynyrd entourage.

In hindsight even the end of the mighty Lynyrd Skynyrd opened doors for Molly Hatchet. With a debut album ready to record, the band were in the perfect position to fill the void in Southern rock left by the late Jacksonville act. And without a producer in light of the tragic demise of Van Zant, Epic drafted in Tom Werman, a man whose CV included fellow Epic acts Cheap Trick and Ted Nugent. It was the pairing with Werman that would give Molly Hatchet the edge over their contemporaries when their debut, ‘Molly Hatchet’, was released in 1978. Given Werman’s rock credentials, aligned with Dave Hlubeck’s assertion that Molly Hatchet were always, like fellow Southerners Blackfoot, more of a metal act who happened to be from the South, the combination of triple guitar attack, blues and boogie did indeed make the likes of Molly Hatchet stand out against more country-inspired acts like 38 Special and The Outlaws.

Housed in the dark and fantastical Frank Frazetta-designed album sleeve, Hatchet’s debut did indeed have the desired impact, appealing to Southern rock fans and an ever-growing audience of young metal fans around the world. The even more popular ‘Flirtin’ With Disaster’ followed a year later, again housed in another fantastical sleeve from artist Frazetta, and down and dirty boogie anthems like ‘Boogie No More’, ‘Whiskey Man’ and the title track secured Hatchet’s reputation as the South’s rising stars. Indeed the title track has since gone on to be featured in various computer games and films in the years since its release. Touring the album, Hatchet increased their already burgeoning fanbase. “We were a major force,” declared guitarist Dave Hlubeck. “We were headlining by the end of our first album.” The album hit the Top 20 in the US charts.

All was not well, however, in the Molly Hatchet camp. Danny Joe Brown, who suffered from diabetes, did not enjoy the prolonged bouts of touring and decided to leave the band in 1982, forming The Danny Joe Brown Band alongside future Hatchet guitarist Bobby Ingram (the band’s sole self-titled album, released on Epic in 1981 is well worth seeking out). His replacement came in the form of Jimmy Farrar, who had been recommended to the group and whom Hlubeck spoke to over the phone, but did not meet, prior to him coming down to rehearse. Despite an impressive voice, Farrar was said to be so ugly he could stop traffic, something Hlubeck refused to refute in an interview recently. However, given Hatchet’s own image was hardly that of leading men, they soldiered on, releasing both ‘Beatin’ The Odds’ (1980) and ‘Take No Prisoners’ (1981). Although both charted, reaching Nos. 25 and 36 respectively, both signified a major change for Molly Hatchet not simply in the lead singer stakes. Frank Frazetta had been replaced on ‘Take No Prisoners’ by cover artist Ezra Tucker who attempted to recreate Frazetta’s distinctive style. And musically, whilst not a carbon copy of the Danny Joe Brown-fronted Molly Hatchet, the more straight forward rock approach of both seemed to be dragging Molly Hatchet away from the sound many fans hankered for.

Thus it seemed inevitable that Brown would return, as he did after Farrar had bailed on the band in 1981. That wasn’t the only fluctuation in the band’s line-up however. Bassist Banner Thomas was replaced by the aptly named Riff West, whilst ex-Mother’s Finest drummer B.B. Borden replaced Bruce Crump. Thus a fresh, revitalised and new-look Molly Hatchet entered the studio, again with producer Tom Werman, to begin work on their fifth studio album. ‘No Guts… No Glory’ is that album, and it was very much seen as a return to form for the band. For the first (and last) time there was no fantasy illustration adorning the sleeve and the band appeared in photograph form on the front cover and the music had not only taken a turn back towards the Southern themes of the band’s first two releases, but retained a hard rock freshness from the Farrar era. Rowdy rockers like ‘What Does It Matter’, ‘What’s It Take’, ‘Ain’t Even Close’ and the emphatic ‘Sweet Dixie’ are classic Molly Hatchet tunes, ideally suited to the returning Brown’s cowboy horse-whistling character. But the centrepiece of the album is surely Dave Hlubeck’s eight minute plus anti-war epic ‘Fall Of The Peacemakers’. If almost every Southern style rock band has to have their own ‘Free Bird’ (look at Blackfoot’s ‘Highway Song’ or The Outlaws ‘Green Grass And High Tides’), then ‘…Peacemakers’ is Molly Hatchet’s and swiftly became a live favourite.

Amazingly ‘No Guts... No Glory’ did not serve Molly Hatchet as well as one might suspect, stalling at No. 59 in the US album charts, although this is perhaps more indicative of a shift in taste away from Southern rock in the ‘80s. Steve Holland quit the band and they drafted in keyboard player John Galvin for 1984’s ‘The Deed Is Done’ which featured a more AOR sound. After 1985’s live double ‘Double Trouble Live’, for which Crump was back behind the band’s drum kit, Molly Hatchet all but faded from view. They returned in 1989 with another melodic rock set, ‘Lightning Strikes Twice’ on which Hlubeck had been replaced by Bobby Ingram, but found times had changed dramatically. They continued as a touring act throughout the first part of the ‘90s, and were preparing to record a brand new Molly Hatchet album when Danny Joe Brown suffered a major stroke whilst driving to his brother’s house.

Ingram, on the basis he’d appeared on ‘Lightning Strikes Twice’ and was therefore an original member, obtained a license from the original members to carry on the band, and drafted in vocalist Phil McCormack to complete 1996’s ‘Devil’s Canyon’ since when Ingram has led Hatchet. They’ve released a string of albums on SPV, including 1998’s ‘Silent Reign Of Heroes’, 2000’s ‘Kingdom Of XII’ and 2005’s ‘Warriors Of The Rainbow Bridge’ which saw Dave Hlubeck return to the fold.

Danny Joe Brown sadly passed away in March 2005. He had last performed on stage in 1998 at a Jammin’ For Danny Joe Brown concert, managing to sing ‘Flirtin’ With Disaster’ at the end of the show. Guitarist Duane Roland died of natural causes at his home in Florida in 2006, aged 53. Jimmy Farrar, Steve Holland, Bruce Crump and Riff West all feature in the Southern rock band Gator County. Banner Thomas is still active in music and can be found on MySpace.com and B.B. Borden played with both the Marshall Tucker Band and The Outlaws following his tenure with Molly Hatchet.

They all helped make the band Molly Hatchet one of the most special of Southern rock bands and their spirit is to be found on albums like ‘No Guts… No Glory’. Enjoy.

TRACKLIST:

01. What Does It Matter?
02. Ain`t Even Close
03. Sweet Dixie
04. Fall Of The Peacemakers
05. What`s It Gonna Take
06. Kinda Like Love
07. Under The Gun
08. On The Prowl
09. Both Sides