CD Review of Resolution by Andy Timmons Band

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Resolution
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Released: 2006
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We all go though phases in life. Some of us want to grow up to be astronauts, so we do a bunch of drugs. Others want to be firefighters until we go on the Backdraft ride at Universal Studios in Hollywood and burn our eyebrows off. Regardless of what you wanted to be, it’s pretty easy to conjure up those innocent childhood memories about wanting to do something great with your adult life. Andy Timmons wanted to be a guitar player, and he’s still doing it cause he didn’t lose sight of his goal. And his hair in the ‘80s was radical.

He probably doesn’t want folks to mention this, but he was in a hair metal band in the ‘80s called Danger Danger. Their huge, huge single was called “Naughty Naughty.” Not long after their assent to stardom, flannel shirts and out-of-tune guitars took over the world. Andy probably wasn’t far from being Homeless Homeless but while other bands and musicians tried desperately to assimilate, Andy stuck to his guns and has continued to make records the way he wants to make them. Regardless of how unpopular they may turn out to be. Listen, he might not sell a shitload of copies but if you’re a guitar player, this dude can teach you a lot about the ins and outs of life under the spotlight.

Here’s a case in point: When I was probably 15 or so, I snuck off to Boston from my extremely remote dwelling and attended the Berklee College of Music Guitar Week. Andy was there and played his nuts off, and all of the geeky-ass guitar players didn’t really give him the props he deserved. Anyway, being the starry-eyed little sprite that I was, I went up to him after his set and no doubt said something dumb as balls and scored an autograph or something. Years later I found myself in Boston again and was in Daddy’s Junky Music where Andy Timmons was playing around. He came up to me afterwards and spoke to me like we’d been friends for a thousand years. That, ladies and gentlemen, is show business, and I’ve never forgotten how cool this guy made me feel having just moved to a city with no friends to speak of. I even remember the story he told about when he was in Danger Danger and they opened for Kiss, and Gene Simmons intentionally dumped Cherry 7-Up on his shoes while they were on stage just to remind him who was boss. I barely remember the Clinton era, but I remember that story.

So yeah, this review comes loaded with bias, but I could give a rat’s ass. This review is karma personified.

~Josh Preston