Last year I wrote about Fastway's sophomore album All Fired Up!, a very fine hard rock effort. I spoke about the history of the band there, so I won't cover that again. Now I've happened upon the debut, which I was more familiar with in the past. Primarily the song 'Say What You Will', which received decent airplay real time. Overall though, this debut is the template for future releases. Pure Zeppelin-ish hard rock. Which is why I didn't go for it much back in the day. By 1983, bands like Metallica were showing up, and that's what I wanted out of heavy metal. And yes, the latter designation is where Fastway was placed back then, due to its Motorhead heritage. But it's not metal at all. This is pure unabated late 70s styled hard rock, which obviously I appreciate more now than in my youth. I enjoyed this more than All Fired Up!, and I'll probably only keep one. This will likely be the sole representative for my collection. A decision for another day.
Ownership: LP: 1983 Columbia. Single sleeve with lyric inner bag. I like the simplicity of the checkered race flag cover - says what it needs to say. Found for a $1 at an estate sale (same one as the Goedert that I wrote about yesterday). Not as common an album as one would think (in the wilds) as I'm sure it sold quite a bit of copy back in the day.
8/30/22 (new entry)
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