Audio Cassette review:
Tony Macalpine - Freedom to Fly

Tony Macalpine - Freedom to Fly

Band: Tony Macalpine Title: Freedom to Fly Rating: Release Date: 30 June, 1992 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Ice Princess 2: Box Office Poison 3: Salvation 4: Freedom to Fly 5: Champion 6: Stream Dream 7: Albania 8: Chopin Etude No. 2, Opus 25 9: Disciplines of Fear 10: Capistrano

Customer Reviews "Salvation" from MacAlpine rocks. i also recommend maximum security by this artist as well. the 80's had several rock intrumentalists but Tony Macalpine's ability to compose/play music was ahead of its time. from this album, the songs are not bad, but i really like "Salvation". just listen to the song in your car and without any friends(so you don't have any type of noise), and it really is a great intrumental rock piece. i really recommend that you pursue (buy/rent/or borrow from a friend) music from this category, music from the past (either in audio cassette or in cd). this was very hot music back in its day, the days of preinternet. the days of paper magazines which the rock groups used in order to promote themselves, and audio cassettes. cds were barely being introduced into the market back in the day. 10 stars to all the albums that tony macalpine did as well as this one. music from the beyond. music that is timeless. music that you never thought could be created but has. macalpine: talented pianist, guitarist. A must for any real guitarist... I'm also a big Steve Vai and Joe Satriani fan, and this is album is a more melodic offering a little more towards Satch or Vai in that sense. I've been a fan of Tony Macalpine for a while now. Don't get me wrong however, the guitarist on this album is unmistakably Tony Macalpine. The first time I heard Tony Macalpine was when he first joined Planet X. There was a video clip on the Planet X website of Tony Macalpine playing a solo and it was probably the fastest yet still clean and smooth bit of soloing that I have ever heard. Since then I realized I had never heard any of his solo materials and did a google search on Tony Macalpine. I found three tracks, "Tears of Sahara", and two off Freedom to Fly, "Ice Princess" and "Salvation. " I was blown away! What I was hearing almost sounds like a paradox these days. . . a shredder with melodic sense! This is one of my favorite Macalpine albums, and is probably the most underrated guitar album ever if not one of his other offerings. It's worth the price for "Ice Princess" and "Salvation" alone, but the rest of the album is equally as good. OK, but pales in comparison to the rest of his work To me he is one of the gods of guitar. I love Tony MacAlpine. Edge of Insanity, Maximum Security, Evolution, Premonition, even Chromaticity, all have great stuff. I highly recommend his stuff in general. That said, I think this album is weak. He is a good guitar player as always, but the tunes here are light and simple, this is neither the heavy metal nor the complex jazz influenced stuff he has been known to do. I listened to this, and although not a single song was "bad", they were all kind of cookie cutter attempts at making something groovy, like he was experimenting with glam rock or something. Flashy and simple tunes from someone known for calculated and serious performance. Some people might enjoy this CD; I think it has more mainstream appeal, but it isn't something I find myself ever listening to. I can't pin down what's wrong with it, it doesn't suck, but it just doesn't click. Check out one of his many better albums. . You can see a complete list of all Tony Macalpine discography, or go back to the Tony Macalpine tabs