Johnny Burning-Get up, Get Loose, Get off

Street Symphonies
2008

In recent years Sweden has become a hot bed of sorts for producing glam/sleaze bands, but even more recently Italy has been producing some bands that are playing that style as well. Johnny Burning are one such act and they had been working at honing their craft for a few years and now have their debut disc out. Like many other artists following this path they sound for the most part like a mixture of Motley Crue, Skid Row, Guns –n- Roses and a few others. The part of this band that took me off guard was the vocals of Manuel. They took me off guard because they were high, very high, way up there like Vince Neil on helium. Now he did bring it down some on later tracks and when he goes for the more mid-range parts he does alright. However it’s just that his voice is really high most of the time and it’s hard to summon up any grit or real hard hitting rock moments with this kind of vocal approach. The music perhaps is more consistent, but I would say that they have quite a few mediocre moments where the music just doesn’t due enough to reel anyone in. On maybe half of the songs the music steps up and push out some decent twists and hooks. After multiple plays I was left knowing they had some potential, but they also have a lot of holes and just too many moments where they are just going through the paces.

http://www.myspace.com/jburning