Saw them for the first time last night at a small bar in Hamden CT; met them after the show. What a cool, talented, sweet bunch of guys! So grateful to still catch bands like this performing. The music from this era his such a huge part of my life although I wasn't even alive to witness it firsthand. As long as the bands keep doing shows, I'll keep supporting them. ❤🙏
Hey all thanks for all the great feedback we are stoked fir our up coming shows and we are writing a new record so help us SPREAD the word!!!! Thanks a million
Damn great guitar solo. WAY above average. You'd expect some standard filler-ish blues licks and such, but this dude hits it out of the park. I salute you sir.
If that's really your dad you need to keep bugging him until this band gets back together, I will never get over the fact that a generation of depressed kids and adults ruined so many great bands careers like spread eagle just so they could indulge in self pity while listening to nirvana
@@shaynahibbard6771 I dont say this lightly beleive me,,,,that is a rip of a guitar solo...a real masterpiece,,Im just out of the recording studio with my band and this was an influence to me as the lead guitarist.....Maybe you can tell him that?..Hello from England and good luck.
How have I never heard of these guys. Damn! Dozens of live concerts in the 80' s and first time I've heard of them. Definitely have a Skid Row feel to them!
I lived in Boston at the time their debut album came out and saw these guys at the Channel and Axis several times between 1990 and 1992. Even did a road trip with my buddy Don to catch them in new haven as well and help them load in at the club. They rocked live and Paul DiBartolo was always on the money and shredding. And Nobody could scream like Ray West. I miss those club days but I still listen to these guys all the time.
Rock on for sure my friend - respect to you from someone who actually listened to this stuff in high school on cassette and absolutely loved it and still listens to it with just as much joy today as when I was a teen in the 80s :) But still (if not already) get some education and work on your own creativity - you'd be surprised how many of these musicians were actually intelligent people even though they might not have looked it.
David Hall sweet bro I'm 20 and I've been raised on this style since birth! No joke I was wear KISS and def leppard shirts when I was 4 or 5 years old! You're never to old or young to rock!!!
Yo David, do what you gotta do, but above all keep your head. I've been rocking this way for 40 years bruh, saw these guys in the 90's They had my attention in the same manner they have yours. Look after yourself, be smart my friend. Don't let any extra curricular activity take hold, man. Be cool, be smart. Mary Puleo gave you good advice, heed, man. Heed. 16! You have time to learn to play like these guys! Just sayin.
these guys and UFO, LA Guns, American Angel, Hurricane , and Warrior Soul are just some of the bands that should have gotten much more attention, angie
You have real good ears there and musical knowledge. I was thinking the exact same thing. I hear elements of both Sebastian Bach and Tim Skold in the Spread Eagle singer on this track. Shotgun Messiah and Skid Row both had so many kick ass songs on their early albums.
Sorry, gonna have to stop you right there... Grunge was far more gritty and dirty than this commercialized pop-rock Axl Rose bullshit. Have you ever actually LISTENED to Mudhoney, Melvins or Tad?
I remember these guys! We opened for them a few times in a place called "The Rock Horse" in Asbury Park, NJ. They were ALL super nice to us and all the other people there. Great guys! I am really happy to see them still kicking around. Cheers guys!
Who is sill listening to this great music today? I am in tears for modern musicians to writhe these kind of metal so we can al enjoy old school rock like those days.
These guys became semi popular at the very end of the hair band era. Performing local acts at the same time and before some bands like Skid, GNR and others. They still had good music. 2 or 3 years earlier they would have been top 40.
I bought this CD in '90...still gotta listen to it. All the glam/hard metal was coming off the West coast, and it was good, but these cats are NEW YORK.
@@paulobianquini That is your opinion but success, popularity, memorability would beg to differ. Niki minaj and Taylor swift have songs that everyone can recognise in a heart beat where as these boys wouldn't even have a single song that is memorable at all. It's just a fact.
The video really does justice to the emotional turmoil and musical frenzy going on in this great song. I have loved it since it came out back in the good ol' days. BG/Zitter
Now this band brings back memories and really shows my age. Loved the walk back down memory lane. Seen these guys a a few times in NYCity. Loved em. Keep it wicked!!
Back in 1990 me and my friends [young brazilian hard rocker & metalheads!] received a demo from this unknown band... we put the tape [yeah!] on the pick up and... wow! WHAT A BAND!!!! You blow our minds, guys!
many moons ago we saw them at the cricket club .despite a tiny crowd due to snow& ice that night, a fight still broke out.after one guy was laid out on the floor, the singer sang"lying on the dance floor spead eagle" . aaaaaah newark.
Such a great band! Bought this album when I was a teenager when it came out, and still listen to it from time to time now in my late 40s, haha! Glad they are still together and wish Paul "Poe" would come back to the Eagles Nest!!!!!!
I don't agree. While this first Spread Eagle record is legendary. And I mean fucking legendary... Unfortunately they were on a label MCA who killed the careers of any metal acts who were foolish enough to sign with their label. They never promoted them properly and eventually just lost interest in these type bands altogether. The pressure on spread eagle to make a second record that would somehow rebuild their careers that were going nowhere despite that first great album, they ended up going soft. They let mca force them to tone down everything that made them great. Just like the vinnie vincent invasion situation on their second album on chrysalis. And in both stories we had great bands who put out soft as kreme donut 2nd albums and eventually broke up not too much afterwards... Spread Eagle's second album is garbage in my opinion. As is VVI's second album of course. The latter being an utter joke to my ears... That is why I can't like them after their first one period... If you want something that is along the lines of their first record, go get Uttaro - "Edge Of My Life" cd ep from a long time ago. Skip their second album...>
Sean Morpheus Their 2nd had some really good songs like Devils Road and Revolution Maker.I see it as them expanding on their core sound with some new flavors.As far as VVI,I'll agree with you one that one.Mark Slaughter is totally under used on the 2nd
Until just now I hadn't heard this song in probably 30 years, yet the hook still regularly pops up in my head. That's what led me to seek this out tonight. Objectively good songwriting.
There are actually quite a few sleaze rock bands from Europe. I looked up recommended bands on my Cowboy Prostitutes search on Apple Music and it led me down quite a rabbit hole. I would guess 20/30+ bands that I discovered.
This band reminds me alot of skid row... Looks, attitudes, style, and definitely their music... Well early skid row, BEFORE the crap that was called Thick-Turd-Skin and all that even worse crap later...> BEFORE bach was fired. BEFORE skid row ceased to be relevant or good...
nicely said, Sean, I will always be bummed that Bach and The Skids couldn't work out their childish, bullshit soap opera antics.....what a waste! Yes-this Spread Eagle album wreaks havoc, destroying all wimpy poser mascara bands!
I loved this song when it first came out but never owned anything by Spread Eagle. I finally found the debut on cassette a few months ago and bought Open To The Public on CD. Spread Eagle's debut is a classic of raw LA glam metal.
Wow! Just came across this for the first time. Thanks Rob De Luca for finding my Thunderbird. I still have it, but I have lost your address in a computer crash. I hope you’re still rockin!
This song is absolutely mint! Love it even more than when I first heard it. The album version trumps this version slightly but when I I was a wee rebel without a clue, this tune was absolutely the shit. Broken City, the lead off from track from their debut is arguably even better. Ray West could belt!!!!
Hell yes he could. I saw them once live in DC the they played a song for me after the show. it was incredible. with acoustic guitar. just cause I asked....
My absolute videopclip #1 for ever......really it is. Killer Song. A song "to survive" from frustration. Medicine against the ''Inner Devil". ( Song + Clip )
Was fortunate to have known and worked with Ray back in the beginning as part of a copy band in 1980. Always knew he had that special voice and showmanship to make it to the top of industry. He was my inspiration to become a better vocalist and guitarist and that enabled me to shoot for the stars in the late 80's. Always my friend and I still think of him when I'm belting out songs, mostly wishing I could scream in tune the same as him.
I bought the cassette after seeing the video on Headbangers Ball in '90. I play my music on random so I still hear the album version about once a month or so. Guys, I shit you not, this is the first time I've heard this version in my 30 years of listening to it haha. I was just like wtf? Am I hearing this right? How did I miss this??
One of the best bands you never heard of from the 90's
SPREAD EAGLE KIX EVERYONES ASS #
Very underrated
Yes as in not original whatsoever in an I have already heard this done kind of way
@@rhaastaa okay Heavy Metal Karen
@@rhaastaabetter than guns and roses. Talk about doing nothing original.
Saw them for the first time last night at a small bar in Hamden CT; met them after the show. What a cool, talented, sweet bunch of guys! So grateful to still catch bands like this performing. The music from this era his such a huge part of my life although I wasn't even alive to witness it firsthand. As long as the bands keep doing shows, I'll keep supporting them. ❤🙏
Hey all thanks for all the great feedback we are stoked fir our up coming shows and we are writing a new record so help us SPREAD the word!!!! Thanks a million
Spread Eagle absolutely killed it with this album! One of the best all times in my opinion! This band never got enough recognition it deserved. 🤘🏻🇺🇸
Don't tell everyone it's one of your # Favorites # TURTSHELL # NOBODY REALLY CARE! AND OR ??? MAYBE WHO? CRYING AGAIN TURTSHELL 😢
One of the greatest guitar solos EVER recorded,,,,
Damn great guitar solo. WAY above average. You'd expect some standard filler-ish blues licks and such, but this dude hits it out of the park. I salute you sir.
I agree, this is fantastic playing!
If that's really your dad you need to keep bugging him until this band gets back together, I will never get over the fact that a generation of depressed kids and adults ruined so many great bands careers like spread eagle just so they could indulge in self pity while listening to nirvana
He legit gave up guitar and metal and became a Buddhist. I wish he would come back.
@@shaynahibbard6771 I dont say this lightly beleive me,,,,that is a rip of a guitar solo...a real masterpiece,,Im just out of the recording studio with my band and this was an influence to me as the lead guitarist.....Maybe you can tell him that?..Hello from England and good luck.
@@kamikazekrush3758 No shit!!
How have I never heard of these guys. Damn! Dozens of live concerts in the 80' s and first time I've heard of them. Definitely have a Skid Row feel to them!
Thanks! This album came out 11 months before Slave To The Grind...
I lived in Boston at the time their debut album came out and saw these guys at the Channel and Axis several times between 1990 and 1992. Even did a road trip with my buddy Don to catch them in new haven as well and help them load in at the club. They rocked live and Paul DiBartolo was always on the money and shredding. And Nobody could scream like Ray West. I miss those club days but I still listen to these guys all the time.
16 and listening to these, im growing my hair:) wearing leather jackets and boots and not giving a fuck,im all about the old skool metal,etc feeling!
David Hall Rock on dude, just make sure you have a trade or something to fall back on.
David Hall see rock is not dead. rock on little dude
Rock on for sure my friend - respect to you from someone who actually listened to this stuff in high school on cassette and absolutely loved it and still listens to it with just as much joy today as when I was a teen in the 80s :) But still (if not already) get some education and work on your own creativity - you'd be surprised how many of these musicians were actually intelligent people even though they might not have looked it.
David Hall sweet bro I'm 20 and I've been raised on this style since birth! No joke I was wear KISS and def leppard shirts when I was 4 or 5 years old! You're never to old or young to rock!!!
Yo David, do what you gotta do, but above all keep your head. I've been rocking this way for 40 years bruh, saw these guys in the 90's They had my attention in the same manner they have yours. Look after yourself, be smart my friend. Don't let any extra curricular activity take hold, man. Be cool, be smart. Mary Puleo gave you good advice, heed, man. Heed. 16! You have time to learn to play like these guys! Just sayin.
This guitar solo was so perfectly constructed !!
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these guys and UFO, LA Guns, American Angel, Hurricane , and Warrior Soul are just some of the bands that should have gotten much more attention, angie
It is fascinating but also sad how some bands come along who would have been huge if they're been found a couple of years earlier.
GLAM... Great Legendary Awesome Music
Dude, this is incredible! Like the good parts of Skid Row mixed with the good parts of Shotgun Messiah.
You have real good ears there and musical knowledge. I was thinking the exact same thing. I hear elements of both Sebastian Bach and Tim Skold in the Spread Eagle singer on this track. Shotgun Messiah and Skid Row both had so many kick ass songs on their early albums.
Yes!!!!! And D.A.D
Have you heard the band Dangerous Toys? The singer of that band looks and sounds like Sebastian Bach and Axl Rose mixed together
@@slugz6718 Jason McMaster has his own style look etc though.
Привет, ,ты откуда))))
I wish hard rock would have continued this gritty street style direction in the 90s!
Yes, with Warrant releasing 'Dog Eat Dog' and Skid Row releasing 'Slave to the Grind', it was pointing in that direction. Then we got Grunge. : (
Sorry, gonna have to stop you right there... Grunge was far more gritty and dirty than this commercialized pop-rock Axl Rose bullshit. Have you ever actually LISTENED to Mudhoney, Melvins or Tad?
Grunge is shit!!!!
@@rhythman69uk Don't blame grunge, it's what the people wanted to hear. It was hip and cool.
@@SatoshiKong it's just your point of view... Many people like me think that bands like mudhoney and tad were depressively nerd. Grunge sucks.
I remember these guys! We opened for them a few times in a place called "The Rock Horse" in Asbury Park, NJ. They were ALL super nice to us and all the other people there. Great guys! I am really happy to see them still kicking around. Cheers guys!
Saw these guys open for Dokken this past Saturday man what an awesome show crowd was going insane they still got the energy
love my uncle tommi!! no matter what!!!! best drummer in my eyes.... miss him!
MsNicoleLee143 is he still alive?
these guys are the real deal... no hairspray,no makeup.. just punch you in the face,kick ass rock-n-roll... THE WAY IT SHOULD BE!!!!!!
Who is sill listening to this great music today? I am in tears for modern musicians to writhe these kind of metal so we can al enjoy old school rock like those days.
Catching them a lot on tour in 2023!!! Even better catching them in 2024 on MORC❤
These guys smoke...riffs are heavy and vocals sleazy and cool....you don't here songs like these ...These days..
These days... they just released a new song just as good - if not better : ruclips.net/video/_YWYEhwArMc/видео.html
one of the best rock bands ever .
YES!!!!!
Love this song - especially the solo.
This is the real deal....Listen learn and bang your head ....Real music from real talented musicians....Spread Eagle rule....
One of the most underrated bands to come out of late 80s early 90s..Still listen to their music weekly
Never heard of these guys til I met their bassist, who's now touring with UFO and Sebastian Bach. Super cool and very underrated band!
One of my favorite songs ever...no matter how many times I listen to it I'll never get bored.
Great song! Still relevant in 2015!
Still relevant in 2019!
A New York City Based Band With An Awesome Sound , wish they would make a comeback and show these youngsters what real music should sound like !
they are in the studio as we type with a new cd due out soon
heavymetalnut1965 thanks bro
great can`t wait to hear it bro !!!
heavymetalnut1965 for real??
I've seen them recently, fantastic show
The head of my college radio station personally recommended them to me. He knew good music...
These guys became semi popular at the very end of the hair band era. Performing local acts at the same time and
before some bands like Skid, GNR and others. They still had good music. 2 or 3 years earlier they would have been top 40.
This is the very first album that I listed to from front to back and loved every single song.
Totally agree,,,,,,,great band......a forgotten one...but I like it that way......good music is not for the masses!!!!!! Greetings from Honduras
I bought this CD in '90...still gotta listen to it. All the glam/hard metal was coming off the West coast, and it was good, but these cats are NEW YORK.
This is better than many popular bands..
No doubt , dude . Spread Eagle is better than Taylor Swift , Nick Minaj , for example !
@@paulobianquini That is your opinion but success, popularity, memorability would beg to differ. Niki minaj and Taylor swift have songs that everyone can recognise in a heart beat where as these boys wouldn't even have a single song that is memorable at all. It's just a fact.
@@punkrock1989 ANd how sad is that!
@@thedappercook very
The video really does justice to the emotional turmoil and musical frenzy going on in this great song. I have loved it since it came out back in the good ol' days. BG/Zitter
The accoustic, electric riff and the pre chorus- CHILDHOOD
wow... this song still makes me feel alive... i havent heard it in 20 years or so ...
I won tickets from 14x in Buffalo in 1990 to see the album premiere for this album. Great show.
Still listen to their two albums...awesome band!
The absolute real deal. 2023 and this STILL KICKS ASS
Always in the mood for some Switchblade
What a guitar solo!
Now this band brings back memories and really shows my age. Loved the walk back down memory lane. Seen these guys a a few times in NYCity. Loved em. Keep it wicked!!
est dat .. hehe 3:16
Back in 1990 me and my friends [young brazilian hard rocker & metalheads!] received a demo from this unknown band... we put the tape [yeah!] on the pick up and... wow! WHAT A BAND!!!! You blow our minds, guys!
this song was love at 1st
listening!
many moons ago we saw them at the cricket club .despite a tiny crowd due to snow& ice that night, a fight still broke out.after one guy was laid out on the floor, the singer sang"lying on the dance floor spead eagle" . aaaaaah newark.
Such a great band! Bought this album when I was a teenager when it came out, and still listen to it from time to time now in my late 40s, haha! Glad they are still together and wish Paul "Poe" would come back to the Eagles Nest!!!!!!
Unforgetable..The bridge of the song stucked on my mind forever...
Cause i'm still fuckin lovin you, anyway...
Fuck Yeah!!!
VERY addictive song...
A great hard rock classic. Spread Eagle, the most underrated band ever!
I don't agree. While this first Spread Eagle record is legendary. And I mean fucking legendary... Unfortunately they were on a label MCA who killed the careers of any metal acts who were foolish enough to sign with their label. They never promoted them properly and eventually just lost interest in these type bands altogether. The pressure on spread eagle to make a second record that would somehow rebuild their careers that were going nowhere despite that first great album, they ended up going soft. They let mca force them to tone down everything that made them great. Just like the vinnie vincent invasion situation on their second album on chrysalis. And in both stories we had great bands who put out soft as kreme donut 2nd albums and eventually broke up not too much afterwards... Spread Eagle's second album is garbage in my opinion. As is VVI's second album of course. The latter being an utter joke to my ears... That is why I can't like them after their first one period... If you want something that is along the lines of their first record, go get Uttaro - "Edge Of My Life" cd ep from a long time ago. Skip their second album...>
Sean Morpheus Their 2nd had some really good songs like Devils Road and Revolution Maker.I see it as them expanding on their core sound with some new flavors.As far as VVI,I'll agree with you one that one.Mark Slaughter is totally under used on the 2nd
Along with Salty Dog. Utterly overlooked. Check out 'Come Along', from the 'Every Dog Has Its Day' L.P.
@@rhythman69uk LOVE Salty Dog🎸🤘👍🇬🇧💋
Tell them all to stay out of my yard# TURTSHELL # IF ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS MURDER ME!
These guys melted my face back in the day
When this album came out I played it front to back for a year straight
Wow! How dou you like our new stuff?
Until just now I hadn't heard this song in probably 30 years, yet the hook still regularly pops up in my head. That's what led me to seek this out tonight. Objectively good songwriting.
Spread Eagle kicked ass!!!! I still listen to their cds.
Loved working with these guys. All super talented and very cool songwriters too!
I saw these guys last night in Columbus Ohio and they rocked!
Still thirsty for these bands! 😎🤘
Yes! WTH happened to make the good stuff like this go away?!
There are actually quite a few sleaze rock bands from Europe. I looked up recommended bands on my Cowboy Prostitutes search on Apple Music and it led me down quite a rabbit hole. I would guess 20/30+ bands that I discovered.
This dope guitar solo.
Thank you!
Awesome, one of the best songs I've ever heard!
Still jamming this at work!!!!!
That solo tho is fire!!! 🔥🔥🔥
This band reminds me alot of skid row... Looks, attitudes, style, and definitely their music... Well early skid row, BEFORE the crap that was called Thick-Turd-Skin and all that even worse crap later...> BEFORE bach was fired. BEFORE skid row ceased to be relevant or good...
nicely said, Sean, I will always be bummed that Bach and The Skids couldn't work out their childish, bullshit soap opera antics.....what a waste! Yes-this Spread Eagle album wreaks havoc, destroying all wimpy poser mascara bands!
this song is soo awesome, never get tired of it :D
sleeze kicks ass!
GREAT BAND AND GREAT SONG...SALUTE FROM ARGENTINE!!!
That guitar is really good. I was not expecting that.
PERFECTION 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
This band just rocks
Cool and underrated band!!!
I have no clue why they didn’t realize this version of the song on the album.. this version is so much better than the album version
One was the radio/video single edited version
Their guitarist is badass..
This sat hopefully spread 🦅 rocks
I loved this song when it first came out but never owned anything by Spread Eagle. I finally found the debut on cassette a few months ago and bought Open To The Public on CD. Spread Eagle's debut is a classic of raw LA glam metal.
I can't count how many times I listened to this song, and it doesn't get old. Also the solo fuckin' rocks!!!!!!
Absolutely No doubt this album had to be on my forgotten album series 🤘 greatness
love switchblade!!!!!
This song kix ass!!!!!!
love this band!
This song is amazing, the energy is out of this world
Wow! Just came across this for the first time. Thanks Rob De Luca for finding my Thunderbird. I still have it, but I have lost your address in a computer crash. I hope you’re still rockin!
Hi Eric! I'm easy to find on Facebook.
These guys were awesome
This song is absolutely mint! Love it even more than when I first heard it. The album version trumps this version slightly but when I I was a wee rebel without a clue, this tune was absolutely the shit. Broken City, the lead off from track from their debut is arguably even better. Ray West could belt!!!!
Hell yes he could. I saw them once live in DC the they played a song for me after the show. it was incredible. with acoustic guitar. just cause I asked....
just so Lovely...a lot of energy love it
My absolute videopclip #1 for ever......really it is.
Killer Song. A song "to survive" from frustration.
Medicine against the ''Inner Devil". ( Song + Clip )
I saw them at the Button South! Hallandale Beach Florida!
Was fortunate to have known and worked with Ray back in the beginning as part of a copy band in 1980. Always knew he had that special voice and showmanship to make it to the top of industry. He was my inspiration to become a better vocalist and guitarist and that enabled me to shoot for the stars in the late 80's. Always my friend and I still think of him when I'm belting out songs, mostly wishing I could scream in tune the same as him.
I remember seeing these guys and ML Chasers in Clearwater Florida they rocked the house they were awesome
Spred Eagle helped define slease metal, gotta love it.
Spread Eagle the East coast version of Motley/ L.A. Guns great stuff.
Cool. I wonder if they somehow know skid row too? U know East Coast bands.
Damn, so talented, I miss these guys.
One of my very fav's for sure!!..AMAZING band!!..Dig 'em BIG TIME!!!!
I bought the cassette after seeing the video on Headbangers Ball in '90. I play my music on random so I still hear the album version about once a month or so. Guys, I shit you not, this is the first time I've heard this version in my 30 years of listening to it haha. I was just like wtf? Am I hearing this right? How did I miss this??
A wonderful song & vid!
These guys and Shotgun Messiah were my shit and still like them.
This band fucking rocks so underrated.
One of the best. RIP Rob. Won't be long....
Love this
i saw them years ago at one of the Livstock festivals 98 rock here in Fl had back in a day they were great
I m adicted to this song, dirty glam as should have been...
We're happy you dig it. How do you like our other songs?
@@SpreadEagleBand Yes I do 👏👏👏