Best of Bad Boy

Although tracks from the United Artists' releases are missing in action, Best of Bad Boy contains cuts from their '80's releases of Private Party, Electric Eyes and Girl on the Run along with two new songs. This CD actually resurrects the band out from obscurity to a Midwestern must see act.

Electric Eyes

Continuing with another entry from Milwaukee's Bad Boy, this is their fourth studio release from 1984, Electric Eyes. With Xeno (original Cheap Trick vocalist) now at the helm, the melodies are more prominent than ever. Tunes like "Cheat on Me" and "Thunder and Lightning" became popular regional hits.

Private Party

Bad Boy's third album released in 1981 on their own Streetwise Records, shows the band moving forward. The album swaggers with confidence at every angle, complete with charging guitars, heavyhanded rhythms and a charismatic vocal approach that demands your immediate attention from the very first note. Private Party is the sound of a hungry band on fire and hellbent on making a powerful musical statement.

The Band That Milwaukee Made Famous

A southeast Wisconsin local favorite, Bad Boy released their debut in 1977. Signed by the now defunct United Artists label, Bad Boy rapidly grew national interest opening up for acts like Cheap Trick. Blending sounds from Cheap Trick, BTO and KISS proves Bad Boy simply just can ROCK!

Coming Up for Air

"A legend in the making!" were the words spoken after a Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam concert I saw in 2009. Never before I've so much emotion and passion in one man's guitar work and the gruffy tenor of his just left me tingling. Back Door Slam's second effort shows the maturing of Knowles. Working with Peter Frampton, they somehow perfectly tie past and present together and bridging the generations.

Roll Away

Young blues guitar prodigy, Davy Knowles and his band burst into the scene in 2007 with an unbelievably great album , Roll Away. At a young tender age of 20, Knowles' crisply sizzling licks and gruff, wise, and pained-beyond-his-years vocals, captures great vibes and intensity while bringing fresh invention. A band with HUGE amounts of potential to be legends.

Freeways

Bachman-Turner Overdrive was pretty much was at the end of their road at this point. Released in 1977. It was the last album that Randy Bachman would be a part of with BTO until the "reunion" in 1983. Everything flows nice enough, resulting in a consistent and easy-to-listen-to batch of songs; it's just that what's missing is the antagonism. Outside of a few standouts, it's all very B-grade non-offensive rock.