Oh yeah man! Summer of 1988, me and Tbone jacked Glamour Boys In his car for all of Tbay to hear! Also on our playlist that summer was Aerosmiths Permanent Vacation(full album except Angel like c’mon?!)/Beatles Revolution and Van Halens Fair Warning (full album) Man,Glamour Boys by Living Colour from there very good debut Vivid album is a classic! I Ain’t No Glamour Boys(I’m fierce…ha)
Corey Glover/Vernon Reid/Muzz Skillings and Will Calhoun drop down a real cool hard rock n funk song that kicks! These cats rocked it loud enough for the 21 year old me at the time to stand up and take notice! Hey man even Ol Mick Jagger dug EM as he played harmonica on Vivid and had Living Colour open for the Stones on there Steel Wheels tour of 1989! That’s using your connections kids!
As you know my deal with albums I really love songs that are buried at the back end of the record and Glamour Boys is one em! Track 9 out of 11 on Vivid! So there Ya go and man oh man these cats can play and Corey can sing! These dudes got the chops!Love the happy feel good picking and than the power riff along with the drumming slamming head first to rock out the chorus!
In case your wondering yeah these are the dudes that layed waste in the song Cult Of Personality!……
Crank Glamour Boys! Wooooooooo Whooooooooooooo!
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I always wanted to like this band more than I actually do. I kept trying them again and again!
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Me too.
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Wow man if anything we got a review divided!
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Fair enough..see at the time I dug the fact that they had some heavy riffs and were different to a lot of the fluff that was out there at the time! There very good musicians!
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I have a huge Living Color-sized gap in my collection, kinda like HMO. I too kept trying them. Maybe with Living Color I just one that one proverbial “good” greatest hits?
Thoughts Dekester?
Also, did Aaron co-write this? The WOOO WOOO at the end had me wondering!
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Not sure about their compilations, but as good as “Vivid” is, the follow-up (“Time’s Up”) is their definitive album in my opinion. “Stain” was also pretty good and much heavier but I never connected with them in quite the same way after the first two.
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Well said Rich
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Hmmmm. So perhaps two albums would serve me better than one comp…
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Get the first two Mikey..u will dig Em!
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You find it really easy to spend MY money doncha? LOL!
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Oh yeah..it’s all good!
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Mrs. LeBrain would love to meet you. The man who has set our grocery budget back thanks to metal albums 😉
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Hahaha….pass the steaks along with a side order of METAL!
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I like meat with lots of iron!
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Rich hits the nail on the head in regards to Living Colours catalogue….watch the vid and you know where the wooooo whooooo’s come from
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I think there are remastered versions. Those are what I would want.
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Yeah I think they have added tracks as well..not sure though….
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So close, man, so close. But I like to think there’s a very clear delineation between “WOOO WOOO” and my usualy hearty “WAHOO!” I see the distinction… 🙂
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Thanks for clearing that up! Haha
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Ahh I see! OK so it was just a very poor impersonation!
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I never had this one, so I appreciate your review of it! But I do still (somewhere, here) have Vivid and Time’s Up on CD. Great stuff!
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Glamour Boys is from Vivid….it is great stuff!
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Haha good catch. You see, if I’d read that a little closer, I could have saved myself from looking like a noob, especially on albums I own! Haha oh man.
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I’m another who wanted to like these folks more than I did. I often get to hear the few songs that I liked when I’m over at my friend’s, but I don’t actually own anything of theirs.
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If you come across the debut Vivid ..check it out,it’s worth it !
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Will do, fella.
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