Stryken was a band that started out as Stryker, but changed their name to try to avoid comparisons to Stryper, although both bands were “Christian” rock. Here’s a MySpace page on the band with more information. With an album cover like 1987′s “First Strike” (why not “First Stryke”?), it appears that the band had more [...]
Jefferson Airplane The band that was known as Jefferson Starship throughout the 1970s and early 80s evolved out of Jefferson Airplane, the San Francisco-based psychedelic rock unit that formed in 1965. Jefferson Airplane is best known for “Somebody to Love” and the “Alice in Wonderland”-themed “White Rabbit”. Jefferson Starship Tensions among band members and side [...]
It’s a fact that most 80s videos look dated and don’t hold up well, but Journey’s “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” takes it to a new level. Taken from their 1983 album “Frontiers”, the song is classic Journey, driven by Jonathan Cain’s keyboards and Neal Schon’s guitar. The song was a big hit, hitting #1 on [...]
80s R&B hitmaker Michael Bolton went through a rock phase early in his career. After a couple of failed singer-songwriter solo albums in the mid-1970s, Bolton gave hard rock a try as the frontman of Blackjack, a four-piece unit that also featured future KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick. Bolton (then going by his real name Bolotin), [...]
