Steevi Jaimz – My Private Hell

It’s funny how that cliché of ‘what goes round, comes round’ for anyone who was at Download last year to witness Kiss lay waste to the festival and then if you returned this year you would have found Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Journey and many more all holding their own in a world of teenage kicks the bad ol’ boys are still kicking hard…

Now I remember buying that first Tigertailz album on vinyl way back when from Penny Lane Records in Chester, boy we played it, we partied to it, we lived the life… Then we heard that Steevi had left and everyone got split into two camps, those who stayed true to the cause & those who fell in love with a hooker…

So then a few years later Steevi was back with the Kick The Habit EP & we got him up here to North Wales to play a gig, he was still on fire and seemed destined to grab the limelight again, a whole host of ‘new glam’ was breaking in and he was certainly seen as a founding figure on the scene…

Then it went south for us all, cowboy boots were replaced by shorts and trainers, grunge brought the rain… But something was unfinished for many of those bad boys playing rock n’ roll, they always had a great album waiting to be made, the question was, could it ever be delivered, that answer is here…

This album does not have a bad track, sure it has tracks that ain’t as great as others (show me an album that ain’t and I’ll tell you it’s a greatest hits record)

But from the moment the needle drops on opening track ‘Amazing’ you are aware that there is something fresh, something exciting going on here, and believe me when I say I don’t love everything that comes out by someone with a bit of eyeliner on, that shit killed the scene in the first place, there was no quality control, just a quantity of shit…

By the time you have hit track three you are ready to ‘uh all night’ and just groove your way into someone’s pants, ‘Something Good, Something Bad’ has that whole radio rock thing down to a tee, this is just a real great melodic rock song….

This album is a diamond n that bucket of shit, it combines so many great elements of things past into things present, there is the ‘Jake E Lee’ guitar tone on ‘Little Sistah’ that just takes your breath away and reminds you that we all once had a shot in the dark…

I can tell you that if Aerosmith were to put out ‘Kiss Of Death’ everyone would say that they had ‘returned to form’ and it was one of their best songs ever, well Steevi here delivers it just as good as the toxic twins for sure…

‘I Don’t Wanna Walk Away’ has a real Leppard twist that would sound so great on American radio, it’s just a quality track that’s so well structured and Steevi sings better than I ever heard…

then just when you think it’s time to stop the boys roll in with ‘Kikk It Down’ which has a swagger and sway that just makes you want to grab a bottle, find a girl and fuck all night long…

You really should invest in this album if you love rock n’ roll records, fuck the panther, this is the real deal, this album was on repeat and it just does not get boring or tired, in fact the more I played it, the more I wanted to listen to it…

At last Steevi Jaimz has delivered the record that we all knew he could; credit goes to the rest of the band who are playing out of their skin… I hope Steevi can return to North Wales and kick some shit up at ‘Hard Rock Hell’ boy he would make t worth buying a ticket for… This is simply a great rock record…

Jj