{"id":10984,"date":"2013-03-27T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:52:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:52:18","slug":"album-review-desperado-bloodied-but-unbowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=10984","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Desperado &#8211; Bloodied, But Unbowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?attachment_id=10985\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10985\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10985\" alt=\"220px-Desperado_-_Bloodied_But_Unbowed_-_Front\" src=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220px-Desperado_-_Bloodied_But_Unbowed_-_Front.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a>Desperado \u2013 Bloodied, but Unbowed<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date<\/strong>: 1996<\/p>\n<p>Desperado was a band formed by former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider. For this band, Dee recruited former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr, guitar great (and Randy Rhoads predecessor) Bernie Torme, and bassist Marc Russell to create something that was so unlike anything he had ever done with Twisted Sister. Desperado boasted a very rootsy, bluesy, and much more organic sound than what I would have ever imagined. How in the living fuck could a band featuring Dee Snider, Bernie Torme, and Clive Burr not be fucking huge? Ya know? I will really never understand for the life of me how this band didn&#8217;t take off.<\/p>\n<p>After forming in 1988, word of Desperado seemed to be everywhere and offered some promise of being something really exciting. I mean, just the fact that Dee Snider and Clive Burr were in a band together was awesome but to hear that Bernie Torme was in it as well had me dying to hear what it would sound like. The band had a full album to be titled \u201cBloodied, but Unbowed\u201d all set to be released in May of 1990 and all of the sudden\u2026 nothing. Being that this was pre-internet, one couldn\u2019t just Google to find out what the fuck was going on so instead, we just had to be with it. Years later I would learn that what had happened was that the record label pulled the plug at the very last minute, shelved the album, and then dropped the band while keeping the rights to the songs and the name. Desperado disbanded and that was the end.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zU8uBqGRt4\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>The album was heavily bootlegged and officially released in 1996 via Destroyer Records and then released in a condensed version in 2006 and titled \u201cAce.\u201d When I finally got my mits on this gem, I was truly blown away by this album. The album is made up of a collection of roots oriented hard rock that is very reminiscent of the style of music played by bands like Tesla and Cinderella. The songs all have this kind of cowboy\/western theme with titles like \u201cHang \u2018em High\u201d, \u201cThe Maverick\u201d, and \u201cSon of a Gun.\u201d The highlight of this album for me was \u201cSee You at Sunrise\u201d which featured some really tasty jamming featuring some amazing guitar work from Bernie Torme. \u201cThere\u2019s No Angels Here\u201d is a fucking fantastic song and very well could have been a hit for these guys.<\/p>\n<p>After really listening to this album I just cannot understand why Elektra would scrap this record. \u201cBloodied, but Unbowed\u201d is a really cohesive and stellar album that deserves to be remembered as one of hard rock\/metal\u2019s greatest lost treasures. Desperado sounds so tight and so connected with each other. There\u2019s a lot of feel and emotion behind the playing that I could feel just listening to this album. Desperado sounds like a band of guys that were born to play together. You can hear and feel the connection these guys had with each other. Yeah, it wasn\u2019t the most original stuff and they weren\u2019t trying to re-invent the wheel but Desperado was a great band that was never given the chance. The songs on this album are every bit as good if not better than anything their peers at the time were producing. I\u2019m just thankful that this album eventually found its way to the surface. \u201cBloodied, but Unbowed\u201d is just too good to stay buried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desperado \u2013 Bloodied, but Unbowed Release Date: 1996 Desperado was a band formed by former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider. For this band, Dee recruited former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr, guitar great (and Randy Rhoads predecessor) Bernie Torme, and bassist Marc Russell to create something that was so unlike anything he had ever done with Twisted Sister. Desperado boasted a very rootsy, bluesy, and much more organic sound than what I would have ever imagined. How in the living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[44,909,911,910],"class_list":["post-10984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-bernie-torme","tag-clive-burr","tag-dee-snider","tag-desperado"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19794,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions\/19794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}