Loudness

[ELVIS]

This sucks...

No better than Poison...

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:rolleyes:

[ELVIS]

This sounds like bad Queensryche...

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The guitar playing isn't all that great either...

[ELVIS]

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Horrid bass and drums...


:elvis:

[ELVIS]

Better than this...:D

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:D:elvis:rolleyes:

[ELVIS]

This guy almost looks like Dave...

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:D

[Dan]

Shit,They Suck Big Time.

[jhale667]

Originally posted by ELVIS
The guitar playing isn't all that great either...

Akira had his moments....
Max Norman producing didn't hurt either, I bet....

That was another one of those 80s bands where the guitarist was the only reason
you listened to them in the first place, the years later you're like "That wasn't THAT cool..."

[Panamark]

Never saw them live before this...

Thanks Elvis, I used to like "Thunder in the East"

lol...

[Matt White]

SAw them open up for AC/DC in DETROIT in 1986.......

they didn't get a very "friendly" crowd response...to say the least.....

The guitar player is good though......

[VanHalener]

Hey Loudness
http://i12.tinypic.com/66t9u9u.jpg

[Prothro]

Loudness reminds me of that obscure Japanese band called "E.Z.O."

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by Matt White


The guitar player is good though......

Maybe for 1986

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Jesus Christ Elvis, you couldn't have picked any worse videos for them.....

Try this one out for size....


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[Va Beach VH Fan]

Akira solo #1...


http://youtube.com/watch?v=a5GUUEBrGao

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Solo #2....


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[Seshmeister]

Talking of silly late 80s Jap bands with widdly guitarists anyone remember this crowd...?



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[Terry]

Only thing Loudness REALLY had going for them, in the end, was the Asian angle and the fact that some of their stuff was initially hard to get and had to be imported...nothing really spectacular...

Van Halen cover bands, and seeing players pull off Eddie's licks now, ain't no big deal. Agreed with Elvis that seeing someone playing EVH-style licks back in the mid 1980s was one thing, but after 20 + years of seeing and hearing everyone and their brother doing their version of Eruption in local clubs and music stores, well...not so amazing anymore.

[Panamark]

Its a shame that this attitude has evolved.
(As its perceived as old and wanky)
Modern bands are shunning the lead breaks.
Perhaps lead virtuosity is now a dying craft.

[Steve Savicki]

Sampled their '86 so called best album. Wasn't melodic at all.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Originally posted by Terry
Only thing Loudness REALLY had going for them, in the end, was the Asian angle and the fact that some of their stuff was initially hard to get and had to be imported...nothing really spectacular...

Van Halen cover bands, and seeing players pull off Eddie's licks now, ain't no big deal. Agreed with Elvis that seeing someone playing EVH-style licks back in the mid 1980s was one thing, but after 20 + years of seeing and hearing everyone and their brother doing their version of Eruption in local clubs and music stores, well...not so amazing anymore.

Gotta disagree Terry, I think to this day that Akira Takasaki is still one of the most underrated guitarists.....

[jhale667]

Originally posted by Panamark
Its a shame that this attitude has evolved.
(As its perceived as old and wanky)
Modern bands are shunning the lead breaks.
Perhaps lead virtuosity is now a dying craft.

Not as long as I have 10 fingers and the will to live, my friend. :)
In the words of Joe Satriani: "Fashionable or not, I will CONTINUE TO PLAY THE SHIT OUT OF MY GUITAR."

Preach on, brother Satch! :D


Originally posted by Va Beach VH Fan
Gotta disagree Terry, I think to this day that Akira Takasaki is still one of the most underrated guitarists.....

Agreed. Not for nothing was he known as "the Japanese Eddie Van Halen"....

And Max Norman was not known for producing bands with sub-par guitarists....

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Panamark
Its a shame that this attitude has evolved.
(As its perceived as old and wanky)
Modern bands are shunning the lead breaks.
Perhaps lead virtuosity is now a dying craft.

Naw, it'll make a comeback. Just like bellbottom jeans did/will.

[Terry]

Shit, I play a bit myself, and by the latter part of the 1980s, even I was getting tired with seemingly every other hard rock song I was hearing having a guitar solo that (to my ears) was little more than an excuse for having everything but the kitchen sink thrown in...and this is coming from someone who totally dug what EVH, Randy, Vivian Campbell and Yngwie Malmsteen were doing in the eraly to mid 1980s.

Far as Akira Takasaki goes, I'm not saying the guy stinks. It's clear he could play. But Loudness was just an average hard rock band with average to subpar hard rock tunes. Put it this way; I think Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey can all sing very well. But they all ended up singing some of the most banal, unimaginative live song lyrics within the context of some typical, uninspired top 40 style song patterns.

All that talent, and they're doing little to nothing worth listening to with it. Takasaki in Loudness was along those same lines for me.

I will agree it is a shame that the guitar solo as a staple feature of the rock song is a concept that seems to have vanished from what's happening today, but if said feature is gonna resurrect itself as little more than some jagoff going wheedly-wheedly-wee and showing me how fast he can play a bunch of scales for 30 seconds, perhaps it's better if that stays dead.

[binnie]

Yep, they really, really, really sucked....

[SparkieD]

Originally posted by Steve Savicki
Sampled their '86 so called best album. Wasn't melodic at all.


Pure 80's cheese, but nonetheless, a very good tune that you couldn't fit more melody in:

Let It Go

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As for Akira's playing, he was a product of his time frame. The guy could probably play just about anything he wanted.

[Coyote]

Well, Akira DID do the soundtrack for an anime called Geneshaft 'bout 3-4 years ago.

And, no, it ain't hair metal.

[ULTRAMAN VH]

I really liked Thunder In The East. In my opinion it was a pretty raw hard hitting guitar album and Akira did some pretty cool stuff on that disk. I saw them open for Motley Crue in 85 and from a guitarist standpoint, Akira just whooped the snot out of Mick Mars. Yeah they were 80's cheese, but they were not as bad as Elvis is making them out to be.

[bueno bob]

Akira was a decent player (albeit another one of the endless slew of Malmsteen clones that the 80's generated), but Loudness was just a fucking shitty band, period...anyone ever hear that "Soldier of Fortune" bullshit? So fucking awful it was LITERALLY laughable...

I guess it was OK for it's time, but even back then, short of the guitar theatrics (which were a dime a dozen once Malmsteen taught everyone how to do it), there wasn't anything to write home about...

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by ULTRAMAN VH
from a guitarist standpoint, Akira just whooped the snot out of Mick Mars.

Of course...doing that doesn't take much more than 2 weeks of practice for new guitar players...

:D

[canadian halen]

Wock and Woll cWazy night, you are de heWo tonight! My buddies and I laughed @ loudness then and are still laughin now! :monekyr:

[jhale667]

Originally posted by SparkieD
Pure 80's cheese, but nonetheless, a very good tune that you couldn't fit more melody in:

Let It Go

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As for Akira's playing, he was a product of his time frame. The guy could probably play just about anything he wanted.

Agreed, and that video is cool if only for all the guitar-construction footage in it....:D


Originally posted by canadian halen
Wock and Woll cWazy night, you are de heWo tonight! My buddies and I laughed @ loudness then and are still laughin now! :monekyr:

I remember the rumor was back in the day that the singer learned the lyrics phonetically, and didn't even speak English...much like Klaus in the Scorps back in the early days, too....