Customer Reviews

Stand in Line (Incl. Bonus Tracks)

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This CD rocks so hard! It not only includes the best Impellitteri CD ever but it has bonus tracks from there first CD.

Back in the 80's a young Swedish guitar player Yngwie Malsteen came out with the band named Alcatraz and changed the way modern metal guitar players play. Inspiring 101 copy cat bands. The difference between Impellitteri and those bands is that the songs are actually good. Chis has his own style and rocks like the best of them. Not only that but Gram Bonnet from Alcatraz is on the CD!

What a great version of such a classic song. never thought it could sound like that. Other songs are very good. Have not stopped listening to it for a day. Will keep on listening to it for another day or to. The bonus tracks are a little like racer x. Got to get more

I grabbed this cd a long time ago at Aquarious Records' Mission St. store in S.F. (circa 1988) along with Blue Murder's self titled cd out of a dollar bin and couldn't have been more impressed with the QUALITY of Graham Bonnet's vocals, classic cover tunes done METAL STYLE and of course, the lead guitarist/wizard's impeccable chops.This is like..HIS FIRST ALBUM, basically and it is at the same time melodical and heavier than S#*%!!! (bargain price OR NOT..once I heard it I would have paid 10.00 for this even back then!!).Way to bring it back with bonus tracks I hope it's even louder than it's predecessor!!

This is another album that's a bit of a quandry. On the one hand you have a style completely lifted from a certain Swedish guitar player, and it's funny our man Chris thanks Al Dimeola and Bach in the liner notes, like that's supposed to mean he's never even heard of the Swede. Then for the next 35 minutes or so you are treated with new versions of every Yngwie move in the book, every riff, squeal and arpeggiated 32nd note. His new take on "I Am A Viking" freakin' rocks however, just like every other molten piece of focused intent on here. The superb singing helps things considerably and Impelliteri is an adept arranger, making the songs' choruses really hammer their point home. Not a particularly good recording job (it says 'produced by Impelliteri), clattery drums, with the guitar solos oddly mixed way back like he's in some giant barn. But still I couldn't find the willpower to take this out of my player, the repeat button getting tapped over and over again.

I read an earlier review of this cd headlined "Rainbow's Down to Earth, Part 2". If the reviewer meant in terms of songwriting or guitar playing, then that has to be one of the most laughably inaccurate ratings in history. Oh, there are Rainbow riffs lifted, not to mention Van Hagar and Malmsteen hijinks galore. But besides the firing-on-all-cylinders vocal performance of former Rainbow frontman Graham Bonnet, this album quality-wise is nowhere near that late 70s hard rock classic.

It's interesting that Graham Bonnet didn't just tell Impelliterri to call the group Alcatrazz, or better yet Graham Bonnet, because Chris' guitar playing most definitely ain't making this band. In fact, this is like the album Alcatrazz would have come out with had Yngwie had a pupil with a very poor ear. Try humming any of these guitar solos...FAIL!

From what I've heard Chris Impelliterri has improved some over the years, and he did better overall with his second album with Bonnet, "System X". But "Stand in Line" from his end is rife with terrible "guitar solos" that have about as much personality as a clothespin. For some reason no one told him that he didn't have to use all that distortion in the studio, but of course his complete disdain for tasty phrasing makes it moot anyway.

This album adds up to a great hard rock singer at the top of his game, leading a typical late-80s L.A. band that can only recycle or speed up the great songs of the above mentioned acts. Great for people who want to hear prime time Bonnet, otherwise negligible.

You won't be enjoying the solo like what Yngwie did on Alcatrazz 'No Parole From Rock & Roll'. All the guitar solos in this album are very muddy with too much reverb. some parts of the songs are snatch from malmsteen's album..

what do you expect from a malmsteen wannabe...

sorry Impellitteri..but you should create your own image and guitar styles..and there will always be ONE Yngwie..