Sounds From The Junkshop #107 - American Dog
"I've done it all before and I'd do it again/I keep on spinnin' around, this hell never ends..." - American Dog - Train Similar to American Heartbreak and Broken Teeth , American Dog were another band formed from the ashes of a Sunset Strip era group who promptly well and truly eclipsed their former incarnation in terms of quality. The precursor band this time was Salty Dog who put out a solitary album Every Dog Has Its Day in 1990 and...oh look, I'm just gonna say it, it really wasn't very good. They were basically one of those dreaded Sunset Strip groups who'd clearly listened to a fair bit of Led Zep and thought "hey, what if we tried doing that?" which, as we've established in Sounds From The Junkshop and Garbage Days Revisited columns past just NEVER works because if you try and copy Led Zep without at least trying to add your own twist on the formula then you basically just end up sounding like a poor man's Led Zep. Just a...