Scott Weiland And The Wildabouts - Blaster

Published March 29 2015

*=Staff's pick	Modzilla* Way She Moves Hotel Rio* Amethyst White Lightning Blue Eyes* Bleed Out Youth Quake* Beach Pop Parachute 20th Century Boy Circles

Genre	Rock	Scott Weiland	Vocals
Tracks	12	Jeremy Brown	Guitar
Running time	46 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	EarMusic	Tommy Black	Bass
Release	March 27, 2015	Danny Thompson	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboard
Producer	Rick Parker
Similar artists	---

The versatile and former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland releases another solo effort, now including the name of his band The Wildabouts too. Despite the man's turbulent history, his frequent slips of the tongue and his sometimes rude and uncontrolled behavior, he has always in some weird and particular way remained somewhat relevant, but at this point I wonder if he still will be able to keep up his appearance for many years to come, because Blaster mainly shows a man trying to relive his past, as far as I'm concerned.

The total production is highly resemblant to sounds and effects created decades ago and a big part of the material seems to run a little on idle or automatic and I miss the badass attitude and the comprehensive passion that earlier made Weiland's efforts into something valuable and desirable. The songs definitely are all right almost all throughout the record, but still Hotel Rio is factually the only song that makes me really wanna get up and move to the music and personally, which you may ignore, I really loathe the cover song 20th Century Boy.

The performance of the band is solid, although miles away from groundbreaking, and I positively enjoy the way the bass often is strongly audible in the mixing. I have indeed listened to this effort thoroughly during the last 2 months and I'll tell you it's a fine line between complete success and something decent. It kind of sounds like before, yet it doesn't have the capacity to crash itself through my barriers. I won't come out and say that the result is anywhere close to a bad effort, but since it just can't make me rock in a way that I'm supposed to, my final rating has to stay at 6 fairly good chalices.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	5	7	7	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe