22/06/2022
Review from France of Too Much Information from Bernie Shaw ( Uriah Heep ) & Dale Collins English translation ; Here's an album that will please FM rock fans of the 70's, because you really think you've found a lost album from this era. That's what Bernie Shaw & Dale Collins' debut album Too Much Information offers, since he became the URIAH HEEP singer in 1986! Dale COLLINS is a multi-instrumentalist and Canadian producer. These two acolytes had worked together in the early 2000s and had together developed some songs for a mini album with the idea of a possible sequel that never came, but finally, here it is concretely. With "So Many Times", we sail in the waters of the JOURNEY of the beautiful era of the album "Departure", and the mimicry with the voice of Steve PERRY is striking. Moreover this phenomenon is repeated several times throughout the album including "Alone", the walk "Sad Song" and "Here We Go". There is also a moving tribute to Jimi HENDRIX, on "Hey Jimi", a piece slightly "blues", where the guitar is wonderful. To conclude the album, the duet takes over the "Rock ON" of 1973, by David ESSEX. This duo does not invent anything new, because the protagonists install a typical atmosphere of the great time of the great classics of rock and its heroes armed with guitars. At times, one would think to recognize passages inspired by BOSTON and KANSAS. SHAW sings extremely well, and the COLLINS guitar solos all through the album are excellent. All this is superbly produced, and through this journey in time, we think that several pieces of this album could have flirted with the headliners of the time. Superb tribute to a bygone era. Favorite piece: "So Many Times". Good listening ! Great Job Jason !!!! Love the piano work you did on this Album