releasing his long-awaited solo
album Head Job in 2016. The
title track finds a gritty voiced
Rudd admitting he’s “crazy” underscored by the capable threepiece he assembled for the project. “Bad Move” gets going with
a good groove pulled from the
Sammy Hagar playbook. This is
the first solo album by the hard
rock stickman. Originally released in 2014 but newly put out
again after its poor promotion
the first time around started his
current bout of legal problems.
The album features guitarist
Geoffrey Martin and bass guitarist/vocalist Allan Badger who
help Rudd craft a record to be
proud of. What’s missing is the
dense two-guitar attack popularized by his former band. The
first single “Repo Man” is Rudd’s
attempt to reclaim his rightful
place in rock and he does the
job vocally somewhere between
Scott and Johnson showing he
was paying attention behind the
kit all those years.
Prog Noir is the ambitious,
Watch a video for “Repo Man” by Phil Rudd
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