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Whatever happened to Henry Paul between the release of his band's debut album in 1979 and Feel the Heat in 1980 wasn't healthy. Whereas Grey Ghost was a record full of influences ranging from the Eagles to the Byrds to the Allmans and Lynyrd Skynrd tossed into a Southern-fried salad with Paul's own country, rock, and folk sensibilities, Feel the Heat feels like jarhead, clichéd Southern boogie rock. All the gorgeous harmonies, complex dynamics, tight songs, and sparking arrangements have been tossed over in favor of a heavy-handed collection of tired riffs, stupid lyrics, and themes that are saturated with drinking, picking up girls, and yeah, "Let's R-O-C-K." A harder edge isn't the problem; there's nothing wrong with turning up the volume, unless you leave your imagination behind in the process and settle for a lowest common denominator set of songs and even worse rock & roll monotony. There is evidence that Paul hasn't totally lost it on "Running Away," but this is unfortunately fleeting. Whereas the harmonies and arrangements are nice and tight, the track still suffers from stupid lyrics and an overburdened twin-guitar sound. In fact, the band is so riff-heavy and melody is so absent, one would think she or he were hearing a Bloodrock album instead of Henry Paul. Even two guests from Joe Walsh's former band Barnstorm, Joe Lala and Joe Vitale, don't help. Man, what were they thinking and who at Atlantic let this piece of crud hit the bins. Feel the Heat is unintentionally hilarious as a parody of Black Oak Arkansas. For those who are HPB completists, you'll be happy to know that this waste of an album is available remastered on CD from Wounded Bird. But the advice is to get any album by the band except this one. ~ Thom Jurek
Recorded at Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida.
Henry Paul Band: Henry Paul (vocals, guitar); David Fiester (guitar, slide guitar, background vocals); Bill Crain (guitar, slide guitar); Wally Dentz (harmonica, bass); Barry Rapp (keyboards, background vocals); Bill Hoffman, Monte Yoho (drums).
Personnel: Henry Paul (vocals, guitar); David Fiester (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Barry Rapp (vocals, keyboards); Jim Fish, Valerie Wilson (vocals, background vocals); Billy Crain (guitar, slide guitar); Wally Dentz (harmonica); Joe Vitale, Jon Mathias (synthesizer); Bill Hoffman, Monte Yoho (drums); Joe Lala (percussion).
Audio Mixer: David Thoener.
Recording information: Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, FL.
Photographer: Chris Callis.
Additional personnel: Joe Vitale, Jon Mathias (synthesizer); Joe Lala (percussion); Jim Fish, Valerie Wilson (background vocals). Feel The Heat Music | List Price | $11.99 (You save $1.50) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Pop CDs, Hard Rock, Rock | | Label | Wounded Bird | | Orig Year | 1980 | | All Time Sales Rank |  4553  | | CD Universe Part number | 5853081 | | Catalog number | 9273 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | May 06, 2003 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | David Thoener; Henry Paul Band | | Engineer | David Thoener | | Personnel | Henry Paul - vocals, guitar
Henry Paul - vocals, guitar
Monte Yoho - drums
Billy Crain - guitar, slide guitar
Wally Dentz - harmonica
Bill Hoffman
David Fiester - vocals, guitar, slide guitar
Barry Rapp - vocals, keyboards
Also: Joe Lala, Joe Vitale, Jim Fish, Valerie Wilson, Jon Mathias |
Henry Paul Feel The Heat Songs | 1. | Feel the Heat |
| 2. | Whiskey Talkin' |
| 3. | Running Away |
| 4. | Turn It Up |
| 5. | Go Down Rockin' |
| 6. | Longshot |
| 7. | Night City |
| 8. | I Can See It |
| 9. | Shot to Hell |
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Feel The Heat Music Review Purchase Feel The Heat CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Blackfoot Highway Song: Live CD (1982)
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Like their Native American ancestors before them, the members of Blackfoot must have known what it felt like to be exiled from their homeland. Only, rather than being forced into an Indian reservation, the world's first all-Native American hard rock band found itself trying to scrape together a good wage across the pond, where U.K. audiences couldn't seem to get enough of its uniquely metallic, Skynyrd-derived Southern rock. Despite experiencing diminishing returns in the good ol' U.S. of A., all three of their studio albums for Atco had been warmly embraced here, leading to nearly two years of incessant touring. Such acclaim eventually led to demands for a live album, which the band duly recorded with the help of the ...
| | Henry Paul CD (1982)
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By 1982, Henry Paul was completely devoid of musical direction, let alone inspiration. After issuing a truly fine album in Anytime a year before, Paul decided on yet another musical change in direction. On his eponymously titled final album for Atlantic before re-forming the Outlaws, Paul took the hard boogie stance of Feel the Heat and married it to pop hooks à la Boston, Loverboy, and Styx, making for a truly disastrous finale. The shrill edges in the vocals seem to be trying to get something out of Bruce Springsteen's mileage as well. But the choruses on "Nightline" are right off of Styx's Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight albums. Synthesizers careen into incredibly shattering -- yet compressed -- power chords; the guitars and drums are more filtered through effects than they are played. While it seems Paul was doing everything he could ...
| | Henry Paul Grey Ghost CD (1979)
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Henry Paul was a rhythm guitarist and vocalist for the Outlaws. He left the group in 1977 after its third album. He formed the Henry Paul Band in 1978 and signed to Atlantic later that year. Grey Ghost is the band's debut, and it is drenched in Southern rock influences as well as those of '70s West Coast bands such as the Eagles. The opening cut, "So Long," combines folk, country-rock, and the over the top guitar punch of bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers, while "Crossfire" sounds like the Joe Walsh-era Eagles jamming with the Pure Prairie League and "Foolin'" has the Byrds' signature all over it. But to say that Paul and his band merely copied what was out there wouldn't be fair. Grey Ghost is a fine album; the songcraft is tight and crisp, the lead and harmony vocals are crystalline, and the production is unobtrusive. But those twin guitar leads that sound like they come from the Allmans' "Ramblin' Man" are a bit derivative sounding. The title track is the best thing on the record. Written in 1977, it ...
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