Garbage Days Revisited #86: Rene Berg - "The Leather, The Loneliness And Your Dark Eyes" (1992)
"I feel a fool in conversation/I'm so surprised by what you say/I can't control this situation/I've fallen all the way..." - Rene Berg - Secrets Had this album come out five years earlier than it did then I'm pretty sure it'd still be being talked about by connoisseurs of good old fashioned knockabout Soho glam rock in the same breath as the Dogs D'Amour 's In The Dynamite Jet Saloon and the Quireboys ' A Bit Of What You Fancy . As it is, The Leather, The Loneliness And Your Dark Eyes is yet another of those great albums in this genre that came out a year or so after grunge came in and glam was essentially exiled back to the margins. But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here. Rene Berg then. I have to be honest, my knowledge here is a little bit sketchy so I apologise in advance if there's a few details missing from this here article. But the guy's probably best known for his spell as bass player in Hanoi Rocks ' final li...