RhoDeo 1124 Goldy Rhox 30

Hello, today the 30th post of GoldyRhox, classic pop rock. Another remaster today, an album which is sometimes bombastic and over the top but which has seen plenty of first kisses, and not just because of that car sex mini opera. Think the Voice and the public overwhelmingly choosing the Texan who could be mistaken for a truck driver.

Yesterday's post got delayed because i got confused/distracted by the so called preview. anyway i noticed my mistake the next day and meanwhile the Aetix post has been up for half a day..Almost 700 posts and such has never happened before...hmmm

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Most of the albums i 'll post made many millions for the music industry and a lot of what i intend to post still gets repackaged and remastered decades later, squeezing the last drop of profit out of bands that for the most part have ceased to exist long ago, although sometimes they get lured out of the mothballs to do a big bucks gig or tour. Now i'm not as naive to post this kinda music for all to see and have deleted, these will be a black box posts, i'm sorry for those on limited bandwidth but for most of you a gamble will get you a quality rip don't like it, deleting is just 2 clicks...That said i will try to accommodate somewhat and produce some cryptic info on the artist and or album.

Todays mystery album has sold more than 43 million copies.After more than 33 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best selling albums of all time. The artist certainly had a colourful time getting there, after supporting big names with an everchanging line up rock band in the LA area he ended up in the musical Hair..which led to an album for Tamla Motown a single , What You See Is What You Get, reached number thirty six on the R&B charts, after the support tour he ended up in New York doing Hair again. During the winter of 1973, after returning from a short production of Rainbow in New York in Washington, D.C., he received a call asking him to be in The Rocky Horror Show asking him to play the parts of Eddie and Dr. Everett Scott.The success of the play led to the filming of The Rocky Horror Picture Show where he played only Eddie. Around the same time he started working on the mystery album with Jim Steinman whom he met at an earlier NY audition. Late 74 they were seeking a record deal. Their approaches were rejected by each record company, because their songs did not fit any specific recognized music industry style. Finally, they performed the songs for Todd Rundgren, who decided to produce the album, as well as play lead guitar on it (other members of Todd's band Utopia also lent their musical talents).They then shopped the record around, but still had no takers until Cleveland International Records decided to take a chance. On October 21, 1977, the mystery album was released. ..
Go figure those overpaid record execs, were any sacked because they lost their company hundreds of millions not being able to recognise a rock classic, i doubt it. If artists were as incompetent there would be no music industry. I suppose todays singer had a hard time being taken seriously by the industry as a product to sell. Unbelievably when 13 years later the duo wanted to release a part 2, again they were snubbed by the music insiders and again these pretentious airheads were completely wrong, scores of platinum wrong.



Goldy Rhox 30 (107mb)

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