What a great tune, a really powerful performance by Gregg. I am so grateful that this is on that album, as this song's sass and swagger offset some of the more somber or elegiac moments.

The album has really made me realize how little studio Gregg I had gotten over the past two decades. Most of the Gregg I was getting was live ABB - either me being at a show or me getting live recordings - and the trade-off with the ABB obviously was that you get the volume, the jams, the power of the band but that it lessened my ability to hear the subtleties that Gregg is capable of as a singer. The album has his voice recorded up front, nice and loud, and it is chock full of excellent well-recorded Gregg performances that make it an experience truly unlike the live ABB one that I have been accustomed to.

Good point.

It's why another studio album by the ABB would have been nice. Butch would say they hated the studio, but they were actually a really good studio band.....it helped solidify arrangements of songs and bring their creativity into focus....vocals (lead and harmony) were nailed to a T. They really only had two bad studio albums during the Arista years. Some better than others for sure, but they were much more than a live band and the studio often benefited Gregg's recordings (I'm not sure I've heard a better vocal take on on the Hittin the Note songs than the studio versions.....nor songs such as No One To Run With or It Ain't Over Yet).

All that said, this is a great Gregg statement which I am so thankful to get. I got so much more high quality Gregg and the ABB over the last 27 years than I had any reason to expect (even if they were far from prolific).