I got Paul's new release the other day and have given it a few spins. If you like Paul, you will like this. Typical. Sounds like his Bad Company and his solo stuff.
There is an ABB connection as Chuck plays on two songs. He plays keys, Hammond B-3, and synthesizers. I listened closely to the two songs and you can definitely tell it is him.
My only beef is the brevity. Eight songs and maybe 32 minutes. He couldn't come up with a couple more tunes?
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
i'll check it out
Free were a good short-lived band. Nice playing young guitarist Paul Kossoff. He passed away very young from drugs. Really big vibrato.
Tunes were hit and miss, to me, but their good ones are really really good.
Yep, Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke went on to co-found Bad Company who of course were way more commercially successful than Free. I think Free's biggest song was probably "All Right Now". I've liked every incarnation of Bad Co. Their 90s stuff with Brian Howe on vocals instead of Paul was still good.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
His new one is on my list to get. Looking forward to it. I really like the Free catalog. Good stuff and Paul has some solo stuff I like as well.
This one is good as well.
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
@jszfunk Article with Paul on guitar playing.
https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/paul-rodgers-on-paul-kossoff-mick-ralphs-and-jimmy-page
@robertdee Here's a clip of Bad Company playing, "Can't Get Enough" - with Paul taking the solos at the end.
My high school rock band was pretty much a Bad Company cover band. We could barely play, but I got one of those dot-chord books and studied the records until we got it ... acceptable. Great rock and roll band!
@rusty That is cool. Thanks Rusty. Every band I was in back in the 60's and 70's we could barely play. Should have kept one of the band's going because in the 1980's bands that could barely play were in vogue for a few years.
I remember seeing The Stretch Marks and The Dead Kennedys on the same bill and the musicianship was passable but just barely.
