Saturday, October 13, 2007

Saturday Rock Show

Here's something obscure.

In the summer of 1983 (the year I graduated from High School), Zebra released their first album. Getting heavy rotation on MTV and AOR radio, the first two singles seemed to portend a good career ahead.

Alas, it was not to be. To this day, I have wondered if the album was released 18 months too late, or perhaps 12 months too early. They were in the trough between the kind of artificial "music" promoted by FM radio (Journey, Loverboy, Supertramp) and the rise of melodic hard rock a la Bon Jovi, Ratt, Def Lepard, and the onslaught of the hair bands. As their initial album fell in to no neat category, I believe that Zebra's debut just fell between the cracks. Also, while the two singles were pretty good, and the final track, "The La La Song", was also pretty good, the album can generously be described as uneven.

Anyway, I always liked the first single. Here's "Who's Behind the Door".

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