Ramos – My Many Sides
Label: Frontiers Music
Release date: August 7th, 2020
Website: https://www.facebook.com/josh.ramos.148
2nd solo album from the former THE STORM and HARDLINE guitarist Josh RAMOS. And the album title here really fits to the music which is offered: “My Many Sides”. The guitarist’s sound can be described as Classic Rock which is showing all its facettes here and features a whole bunch of great vocalists such as Eric Martin (Mr Big), Danny Vaughn (Tyketto), Harry Hess (Harem Scarem), Joe Retta (Heaven & Earth), Terry Ilous (XYZ), John Bisaha (The Babys) and Tony Harnell (ex-TNT, SHY).
My personal highlights include the heavily RAINBOW influenced “Same Old Fears” (Joe Retta, Heaven & Earth), “Blameless Blue” with the great Danny Vaughn (TYKETTO) on vocals and “I’m Only Human” with the late Tony Mills (RIP) as singer.
Conclusion: with a better, i.e. transparent & more powerful, production (Fabrizio Grossi), “My Many Sides” could have turned out to be a killer record. The fantastic tracks and the great musicianship still reign supreme though. With this sound production, our rating is two points less and results in:
7/10
Birgitt Schwanke
Track list:
1. Today’s The Day 4:59
2. Unbroken 5:03
3. Blameless Blue 5:17
4. Immortal 5:08
5. Same Ol’ Fears 4:13
6. I Have Been Waiting 4:38
7. Moving On 4:57
8. Forefather 3:34
9. Too Good To Be True 4:25
10. Ceremony 4:47
11. All Over Now 4:02
12. I’m Only Human 5:31
