suiting that band's style, and not changing so much from what we hear here. Dickey went on to debut yet more new
tracks with BHLT such as “Pick A Little Boo- gie”, “Stop Knocking At My Door” Gregg’s tracks show an interesting de-
velopment from his ABB sound moving clearly towards his “I’m No Angel” solo style – without the 80s production values of that album, which proved to be more of a curse than a blessing, dating those particular efforts from 1987. It would be interesting to hear the GAB demo tape versions from 1985 (that al- legedly ended up in the A&R bin at Epic), to see how they compared. “Rain” from the “Dreams” box set could well be something featured on there. So, what of these 1982 Gregg sung ef-
forts?
blows, a perfectly acceptable group of “album tracks”, looking for some killer additional material to make a good album The problem comes with the “Outside
Demos.” Without any ABB participation (the exception being “Need Somebody Bad Tonight”), there is nothing to lift them out of being some very ordinary performances and compositions. If these were coupled with the Gregg
and Dickey tracks, even with the ABB playing them, it would have pushed the release into being “disappointing” – without a “Brothers Of The Road”, “The Judgement” or even “Never Knew How Much” stand out track to lift it as on the “Brothers Of The Road” album.
• “Anything Goes” - is remarkably close to the arrangement on “I’m No Angel” – a mature AOR style rocker with a funky style, and nice guitar touches from Dan Toler • “Feel Your Love” - the above mentioned track by Chuck Leavell, is appropriately a piano ballad, nice feel and tempo with some very nice Dan Toler solo work. • “Make It At All ”- sounds very much like an “I’m No Angel” – up tempo and bright, well sung by Greg, with more decent Danny Toler playing
Whilst not providing any knockout
• “Helpless” – an AOR rockers with some “Brothers Of The Road” album leanings. Big chorus – not much to offer. Perhaps geared towards a Gregg vocal. Weak guitar on this demo. • “Face The Music” – A sub Bo Diddley beat effort – maybe geared towards a Dickey vocal. Rockin’ sounds from the guitars – its OK . A little harmonica too. • “Blinded By Love” – Not at all suitable for the Brothers. More like a commercial 38 Spe- cial track but not a good one… • “Handle With Care” – A very nasty sappy ballad; even Gregg would have trouble selling this Horrible! • “Need Somebody Bad Tonight” – As used by BHLT – a mid tempo rocker, played too straight so it lacks groove, However it has a decent hook / chorus. Dickey shines on some cool guitar. With the exception of “Need Some-
body” – if you find this collection, these can be skipped with no regrets. As a footnote – also sometimes in-
cluded on this hard to find collection, are a group of demos for the Brothers Of the Road album.
Amongst performances of the eventual
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