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Rex

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It never goes to surprise me just when you think it won't happen. A long lost CD you dream of finding is finally released. This Album is Great Rock And Roll. I remember upon it's first release this and "Where do we go from Here". My friends and I loved this Band. Very Very unrated stuff the brother of Michael Lee Smith of STARZ. Hard on Rock and Roll with great vocals. I often wonder if Rex himself is proud of these two albums? Now working in Real Estate in Southern California. Well he should be this is some of the Best Rock and Roll to have come out of the 1970's!!! Iam very happy these have finally been released!! Thank you to the Gods of CD's. Every one reading this review should purchase these even if it is used copies!! All I can say is "BABY NEEDS A NEW PAIR OF SHOES & Seven Come A Eleven and of course "Trouble" yeah yeah yeah!! Where ever you are Mr. Smith I will turn it towards the Wind and crank it up loud so you may here it travel thru the Air. In Closing a must for anyone who enjoys true Hard Rock Rock On REX!!!!!!

Rex Smith went on to have a very successful career as a teen idol but this lp and its follow-up "Where Do we Go From Here?" are 100% Grade-A 70's hard rock.

These both escaped my attention until I read about them in Martin Popoff's excellent book on 70's hard rock and these are both a revelation.

Fans of solid bands from this era like STARZ (featuring Rex's brother on vocals), early TED NUGENT and RAM JAM should love this.

Rex has a powerful and expressive voice and his band are tight. This is very much a band effort however - showing that Smith can be a team player when its called for. The bass player - Orville Smith - is a standout on this record.

Highly recommended - and btw, I've done some reading on Rex Smith's career and he seems like one of the "good guys" so throw some support to the man's hard rocking past. You won't regret it.

Received my cd quite fast. I have been waiting for this cd for 30 years. I am glad they finally reissued this cd. If you are into music or remember the 70's, this would be a fun purchase. This is a rocking band that broke up for some reason or other. I saw them in concert every time they came to Louisville. Rex Smith went his own way with the soft rock and Broadway plays. Big loss for the rock world, but he gained more fans with the direction he took. He doesn't even acknowledge this era (R & R) of his career, and I think he fought the release of his rock cd's. Brother of lead singer for another band - Starz - that was more popular than Rex.

I knew Rex when he was in a band called Trix and played at The Losers Performing Arts Center in Tampa Florida. The funniest thing I ever remember Rex doing was when he came out on stage with just a towel on carrying a tank vacuum cleaner with the hose wraped around his neck as a feather boa--singing I Am Woman!! Just hysterical!! The book--The Losers * Tampa -- Performing Arts Center has Just been inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame!! The book is a Must read the early Rex Smith Years.

Best Wishes,

David Poppe

The Losers * Tampa

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If you're looking for some down and dirty 70's hard rock check out Starz and pass on Rex. Rex Smith's voice is just too high and sweet for my taste. This stuff will give you cavities it's so surgary sweet.

This album was released back when I still bought albums because of a cool title or an interesting cover. Something about this cover piqued my interest immediately and to this day I can't figure out what it was. It doesn't matter and I'm just thankful it caught my attention. If you HAVE to make a choice as far as which Rex CD to buy, this is the one. First, if you're a rock and roll fan the only two choices are the self-titled Rex and the sophomore release Where Do We Go From Here. While they're both good, the debut album is not only head and shoulders above the second, it's head, shoulders, and upper chest above the majority of the rest of the stuff released in the mid- to late-70s (and I like a LOT of stuff from that era). I won't walk through this one song-by-song. Suffice to say that the release rocks from start to finish. Rex has a different, identifiable, and very suitable voice for rock, and his band kicks booty - regularly. Again, if you're a rock fan, buy the first two Rex releases. If you're a rock fan on a tight, tight budget, pick the debut release just titled 'Rex!'

This is REX's first album and I never owned it- all I had was a lousy cassette tape made by recording the borrowed album through a mic. I never thought I would own it- I couldn't find the album anywhere. But now I have the CD and all I can say is IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!!! This is a rock CD- not pop.

Don't get me wrong - I am euphoric that these two albums (Rex, Where Do We Go From Here?) are FINALLY being reissued, but they are incorrectly being marketed as Rex Smith solo albums.

These are two albums being reissued by a ROCK band known as "Rex". The material is similar to Rex's brother's band Starz than his sappy late-1970s "You Take My Breath Away" material.

Buy these two albums the day they are available....