Randy California and the Rock Of Ages

Had Spirit gotten a record deal in the late 1970s, and had a comeback record like, say, Radio Aqua Blue, been successful, maybe the record company would've asked Randy and his partners in Spirit to quickly come up with a follow-up. Today's One Buck Record is what this kind of album could have looked like. Rock Of Ages shows what Spirit could have issued in 1980.  

Different versions of "Rude Reaction" and "Wild Thing" later showed up on Randy's 1982 'solo album' Euro-American. As before, there was very little that separated solo Randy from a Spirit band effort, as former and current Spirit bandmates showed up everywhere. 

This is a lean, mean rock album. Almost nothing in terms of Sprit oddities: the little noodles, fragments or other idiosyncratic things that California likes to put on his albums. Here, it's Spirit probably at their most mainstream-friendly: Ten concise rock songs with more than a splash of pop in it, and lots and lots of guitars. If you like Randy California the guitar slinger, you'll be served here. 

Normally, I go long in these write-ups but here there just isn't more to say. I picked ten kick-ass song from around 1980, chose a sequencing that was balanced and made sense to me and that's it. So, for a guitar-heavy break in your working week (or, you know, to wake up the rest of the retirement home), off with you to the Rock Of Ages...