Y & T: Open Fire (CD)

Y & T

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Label:: HIP-O SELECT
Year of recording ca.:: 2006
UPC/EAN:: 0082839507622
Release date:: 30.6.1990

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Y&T was first known as Yesterday & Today (yes, it was taken from the Beatles album title), but when they signed to A&M, they must have recognized the power of initials separated by an ampersand, and they changed their name to Y&T, replete with a cool logo. Like a fair number of bands in rock history, they never quite seemed to be able to capture their on-stage luster in the studio, and while they were able to build a significant fan base, it was largely on the strength of their touring.

In 1985, they finally got to take a whack at a live record, and they got it mostly right. For some inexplicable reason, side two of the original album starts off with a studio track. It’s a pretty great tune, though. “Summertime Girls” might have been influenced in some small, tiny, nearly infinitesimal way by Van Halen’s “Jump,” and it seemed to get a good reaction on the tour, so perhaps a studio version was readied for a radio release before the live album came out. Who knows? In any event, we’ve got both versions on this release of Open Fire. There’s also a previously-unreleased version of “Black Tiger.”

Should you have the urge to crank your stereo up to eleven, you might want to pop in this fondly-remembered gem from 1985.

Hipocrates Says: Did You Know? In 1986, Y&T drummer Leonard Haze was named the World’s Fastest Foot in Circus Magazine.