Silver & Gold

A.S.A.P. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 14, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000008CZA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,134 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lion

2. Silver and Gold

3. Down the Wire

4. You Could Be a King

5. After the Storm

6. Misunderstood

7. Kid Gone Astray

8. Fallen Heroes

9. Wishing Your Life Away

10. Blood on the Ocean

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adrian can do no wrong! AMAZING!, May 22, 2004

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Jeff (PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silver & Gold (Audio CD)

I just recieved my copy of this disc from Ebay. This is an amazing disc, and furthers my appreciation for Adrian Smith. As a DIE HARD Iron Maiden fan, I'll be the first to say that this is not like Maiden at all. Its almost like what you would get if you threw the better Bon Jovi in a blender with Maiden's Somewere In Time and 7th Son ofa 7th Son. It's like an 80s hard rock album: big guitars, synths, great vocals... it's interesting... and I LOVE it. I would recomend it for any 80s hard rock fan. Highlights include: 1,2,3,7,8,10

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a musician; what an album, April 21, 2007

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Jack Lurhstaap (SF Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silver and gold (Audio CD)

For years, while traveling, I had a steady rotation of three albums in my CD player, in this order: Bruce Dickinson's Accident of Birth, Psycho Motel's Welcome to the World, and this album. In an endless loop, because it seemed to me that the three were perfect compliments.

Of the three, this album, on a whole, is probably my favourite, in the sense that it's pure Adrian Smith. If you're an Adrian Smith fan, you need this album. Period. No argument. It is worth any amount of money you have to put down for it, particularly if you, like me, are especially fond of his songwriting circa Somewhere in Time.

Imagine if Somewhere in Time had been written -- and sung(!) -- entirely by H. That's what Silver and Gold sounds like. That's not to say that it's not an original, separate album of its own, for it is. But that's the closest comparison in terms of feel, quality and style I can come up with.

Silver and Gold is highly melodic but without the keyboard abuse (IMO) seen in a lot of its better-known contemporaries. It explores a lot of personal issues and ideas, many times in language that only someone else going through the same thing will recognise. Very much a good album for seeking and finding reflections of oneself in.

The music is often better than the lyrics, but there's nothing embarrassing here either. It's a good, strong effort -- honestly, as much as I like Welcome to the World, I really wish Adrian Smith had stayed on the track he was on for ASAP for State of Mind. That album, in fact, I think reflects his uncertainty about where he was going musically and suffers from it.

Silver and Gold is completely free of that kind of problem. It's 1987 and Adrian Smith is making music free of oversight. That's this album.

I wish it hadn't gone out of print. It deserves to be heard by more people than it has. It deserves at least as much recognition as Psycho Motel does, and certainly more than State of Mind. In a just world, this album would be known to everyone who knows anything about Adrian Smith. Oh well.

My copy of this is packed, unfortunately, as I just moved; I'll give a more detailed review once it comes out of a box.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected Adult Rock brilliance from Iron Maiden's guitarist., October 28, 2008

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Sera69 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silver and gold (Audio CD)

On a sabbatical after touring Iron Maiden's "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son" album Adrian Smith pulled a few old ex-band mates together to record this Bruce Springsteen-esque slice of up tempo Adult Rock. And at the time, in 1989, it wasn't so much unexpected from the Maiden guitarist as completely and utterly unbelievable.

Ade's voice bears close comparison with Bryan Adams; rough and gravely and very Mid-Western American. Musically it was radio friendly AOR not a million miles away from a heavy Foreigner. Needless to say Maiden fan's hated it and the AOR community were not about to get interested in a `Heavy Metal' guitarists part-time side project. Subsequently it sold about 10 copies and sank without a trace.

In my opinion, with hindsight and a fresh pair of ears, it's a brilliant piece of Rock. Smith proves his guitar prowess, buzzing all over the place like a kid in the candy store; he's obviously thoroughly enjoying himself. His band too, is spectacular. We're not just talking straight down the line bludgeoning, hard-headed, misogynistic rock here, it's mature and thoughtful and full of light and shade. It's also worth noting that this album contains NO saccharine ballads and only one relatively slow song. Always a plus in my book :o)

So, it's not world beating by any means but like The Georgia Satellites or Bryan Adams at his rocking best, it's immense fun. It's a shame `Metal' prejudice did not give this album a chance and if any of the above mentioned artists ring a bell then you're going to love A.S.A.P.