Yayo-The demos

Self-produced
2008



Young guitarist/vocalist Yayo Sanchez hails from Austin, Texas. He is obviously a fan of 70's and 1980's hard rock as those sounds shine through loud and clear on the four tracks on his CD. Most of the tracks remind me quite a bit of Ratt with a slight sprinkling of early KISS. The guitar rhythms are basic, but solid and the vocals are decent enough. I like the guitar solos because he leans more towards tones and notes that really fit with the overall song as opposed to speed just for the sake of being flashy. I think some of the songs could use a little more variation at times and there is little doubt he could handle doing that as well. My favorite track was the final one "True" which has probably the strongest song structure of the bunch and you can just feel the track growing and building as it goes along. Rounding out the band on the CD are former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick on bass, Jerry Rubolino also did some bass plus piano and backing vocals. Bret Fitz (Vince Neil, Union) played drums on all songs. Kulick and Rubolino also helped with the writing so there were veteran hands helping out this young talent. As for Yayo, I think the playing talent is unquestionable, but he just needs to work on songwriting and maybe stretch out and take a few more risks here and there.

http://www.myspace.com/yayosanchez