Following the departure of Steve Vai to join David Lee Roth’s solo gig, Alcatrazz hired guitarist Danny Johnson to record Dangerous Games, an unsightly blemish on the world of hard rock/heavy metal music. All pretence at being in this genre of music has been scrubbed away on this release, and they have obvious tried to go for the big 1980’s pop power hit, and failed dismally even at that. They are not the only band that has fallen for that trap (Def Leppard in the past two decades come to mind), but this is incredibly disappointing considering the start they had, and the musicians who have been in the band.
Graham Bonnet has a great rock voice. His work with Rainbow and Michael Schenker Group is outstanding. Here however he has sunk to new depths, and there is nothing even remotely interesting on this album. It is truly cruddy, awful stuff – cringe-worthy even.
It is no surprise the band went their separate ways following this album. There was obviously no future. What a shame.
Rating: As poor a release as there was during the 1980’s. 1/5.
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