ReGrinding the Axes
On Regrinding the Axes, Molly Hatchet revisits some of their favorite songs originally made famous by other legendary rock bands, covering well-known anthems from the repertoire of Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers, Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, George Thorogood, Thin Lizzy, and Leslie West s Mountain. The album also features three lengthy live tracks, recorded during one of their mind-blowing concerts. Combining loud hard rock boogie with guitar jam-oriented southern rock,
Molly Hatchet has become the definitive southern rock band and an icon of rock music in general.
Formed in Jacksonville in 1975, Molly Hatchet took their band name from a legendary prostitute who allegedly mutilated and decapitated her clients. Their self-titled debut album, recorded in 1978, quickly went platinum; the follow-up, Flirtin with Disaster, was even a bigger success, ultimately
selling well over two million copies. I dont know what this band is... but it ain't Molly Hatchet. Molly Hatchet WAS Danny Joe Brown. Even Jimmy Farrar's time with the band was still classic... and still Molly Hatchet. To Jimmy Farrar's credit he did not attempt to sound like DJB. He did his own thing, and it paid off. Phil McCormack is an impersonator, and not a very good one. He's the Rich Little of rock-n-roll. Nothing "Molly Hatchet" (so-called) has done since the late 90's can stack up against the real Molly Hatchet. This reincarnation of Hatchet is nothing more than a really pathetic cover band that you would pay $1 to see in some bar somewhere on Saturday night where no one is really paying any attention at all to the band, and everyone is watching the game on the big screen TV or playing darts. In other words... they suck. Everyone knows it. It's amazing they dont know it... or maybe they do, which makes what they are doing even more pathetic. And then to re-record and re-issue songs that were cover tunes to begin with... what? Why? Oh, I know... TOTAL LACK OF CREATIVITY. Posers calling yourselves "Molly Hatchet"... please, stop what you are doing. Phil, stop immitating DJB! Get some confidence and sing like yourself. I am quite certain the world has never heard your real voice. The world might like it, you never know unless you try. Band... get a new name. Try, like all other successful bands, to do something original! Keep it southern, keep it rockin'... but stop posing. Goodness, we cant take it anymore out here! You've become a parody of the original, and an embarrassment to southern rock in general. At least the boys in Skynyrd are trying to something original and not trying to mimick. Hatchet is a joke.
01 – Bad To The Bone
02 – Mississippi Queen
03 – Free Bird
04 – Back In The U.S.S.R.
05 – Sharp Dressed Man
06 – The Boys Are Back In Town
07 – Tumbling Dice
08 – Dreams I’ll Never See
09 – Melissa
10 – Wild Horses
11 – Tequila Sunrise
12 – Yesterday
13 – Get In The Game [Live] (bonus track)
14 – Layla / Guitar Solo [Live] (bonus track)
15 – Dreams I’ll Never See [Live] (bonus track)
Molly Hatchet has become the definitive southern rock band and an icon of rock music in general.
Formed in Jacksonville in 1975, Molly Hatchet took their band name from a legendary prostitute who allegedly mutilated and decapitated her clients. Their self-titled debut album, recorded in 1978, quickly went platinum; the follow-up, Flirtin with Disaster, was even a bigger success, ultimately
selling well over two million copies. I dont know what this band is... but it ain't Molly Hatchet. Molly Hatchet WAS Danny Joe Brown. Even Jimmy Farrar's time with the band was still classic... and still Molly Hatchet. To Jimmy Farrar's credit he did not attempt to sound like DJB. He did his own thing, and it paid off. Phil McCormack is an impersonator, and not a very good one. He's the Rich Little of rock-n-roll. Nothing "Molly Hatchet" (so-called) has done since the late 90's can stack up against the real Molly Hatchet. This reincarnation of Hatchet is nothing more than a really pathetic cover band that you would pay $1 to see in some bar somewhere on Saturday night where no one is really paying any attention at all to the band, and everyone is watching the game on the big screen TV or playing darts. In other words... they suck. Everyone knows it. It's amazing they dont know it... or maybe they do, which makes what they are doing even more pathetic. And then to re-record and re-issue songs that were cover tunes to begin with... what? Why? Oh, I know... TOTAL LACK OF CREATIVITY. Posers calling yourselves "Molly Hatchet"... please, stop what you are doing. Phil, stop immitating DJB! Get some confidence and sing like yourself. I am quite certain the world has never heard your real voice. The world might like it, you never know unless you try. Band... get a new name. Try, like all other successful bands, to do something original! Keep it southern, keep it rockin'... but stop posing. Goodness, we cant take it anymore out here! You've become a parody of the original, and an embarrassment to southern rock in general. At least the boys in Skynyrd are trying to something original and not trying to mimick. Hatchet is a joke.
01 – Bad To The Bone
02 – Mississippi Queen
03 – Free Bird
04 – Back In The U.S.S.R.
05 – Sharp Dressed Man
06 – The Boys Are Back In Town
07 – Tumbling Dice
08 – Dreams I’ll Never See
09 – Melissa
10 – Wild Horses
11 – Tequila Sunrise
12 – Yesterday
13 – Get In The Game [Live] (bonus track)
14 – Layla / Guitar Solo [Live] (bonus track)
15 – Dreams I’ll Never See [Live] (bonus track)
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