Search - Steve Gibbons :: Any Road Up / Rollin on

Double Dose Dynamite

Ralph Quirino | Keswick, Ontario Canada | 06/29/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Like so many British rockers of the mid-seventies, Gibbons grew up influenced by fifties r&r and British skiffle. His long, hard work gigging up & down pubs adding hue to his rock. This double CD courtesy Road Goes On Forever teams up two great Gibbons albums on a double CD set that's surprisingly affordable and still enjoyable after all these years (both albums had seen limited North American release on MCA at the time). Like Dire Straits, the guitars tend to be bendable and fluid, the vocals a little grimy and unpolished, the production edgy and bright. But these are all pluses, especially on cuts like "Spark Of Love", "Rollin'", "Now You Know Me" and "Till The Fire Burns Out". Both CDs also boast bonus tracks (five in all) that sound like they fit right in. Like Sniff N'The Tears and Ducks Deluxe, Steve Gibbons serves up great British-flavored rock that's winning and heartening to hear. Fans won't be disappointed. Now, is there any chance somebody will reissue DOWN IN THE BUNKER, Steve's superb 1978 album?"

Any road you want...

Rick Chenault | Marysville, Oh USA | 07/26/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I have only just relistened to the the "Any Road Up" portion of this disc and it brought back a lot of great memories for me. I saw SGB with the WHO in a little gymnasium in Sindlefingen, Germany back in 76. The show was amazing!!! Gibbons rocked and his version of Watching the River Flow was stupendous. At the time that their album "Down In The Bunker" was released he was being touted as a "British Bob Seger" which I feel did him a real disservice. Seger had started the sharp decline into AOR mediocrity which he has since continued but Gibbons was still vital, rockin and relevant. The Real Shame was that he was never accepted stateside because at the time he was needed on american radio. Just a note he has an album/cd available thru import of dylan covers which are great. YOU MUST BUY THIS CD IF YOU VALUE GOOD,SMART, HONEST, ROCK N ROLL!!!"