Raise the Curtain, as you can tell from the cover art, is something of a tribute to Criss. It sounds a bit like a cross between Yes and Queen’s more bombastic moments, with the only vocals being a show-style gang chorus of “Raise the Curtain.”Ĭonsidering the album contains the final unreleased music from his late brother and Savatage guitarist Criss Oliva, one would expect connections to the sound of that band, and they’re here, but not completely obvious.
The largely instrumental five-minute track plays on his 1970s prog and Broadway influences.
The album opens with the title track, which sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard from the Mountain King before. I think that the Grateful Dead were f***ing horrible and most people, except for a bunch of snooty hippies, would agree with me that the Grateful Dead's music was just watered down f***ing country music and f***ing Black Flag were a much more credible band".If you thought Jon Oliva’s debut solo album would sound like Savatage or Jon Oliva’s Pain, you’ll be disabused of that notion right from the top. "There's our good friend Bill Stevenson who played drums in Black Flag and also the Descendants and All and I think that changing the name from the Deadhead sticker on the Cadillac to the Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac was a great honour to take the f***ing Grateful Dead name out of that song. "We actually did about ten different versions with different band names" Kris says. Don's line 'I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac' has become 'I saw a BLACK FLAG sticker on a Cadillac'. The Ataris made one small change to the lyrics. It was kind of like a nostalgic tint for me and it's just a great Americana rock song". That song reminds me of my grandmother and it also reminds me of travelling the world for the first time. "I heard it on the radio and my grandmother, who recently passed away, I made her take me out and buy that record. "That song represented a part of my childhood where I remember travelling down to Florida for the first time to visit my grandparents in the summer and that song was huge" he says. ".Kris says he has a personal attachment to the song. I do like the reasoning behind why they did the cover. Not a bad version but doesn't add much more to the original which is still an all time classic. Past editor: JuniorĬover songs beginning with: A lot ofĮarly rock songs were covers of old R&B tunes. The Beatles albums and they were the original cover group. All groups in modern history start out this way, I own a lot of As a matter of fact, cover bands can be great fun to
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Starting out and don't have enough original material of their own for a full I have no problem withĪrtists who do a cover of a song in concert, or because they are just Oh and to clear up a misconception a few people out there seem to be havingĪbout this page (and sending me very nasty letters).
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