The band stormed the stage ahead of the, at the time, forthcoming release of their comeback album, “Through Worlds of Stardust”, which is represented with the inclusion of “My Dirty Girl”, while the rest of the setlist includes Steelheart classics.
I hope you all enjoy this video and album.
STEELHEART NEVER LET YOU GO FULL
He is here in spirit forever and I’m happy that we have this full set captured. Sadly, though, this was Kenny’s last performance with Steelheart before he passed away shortly thereafter. We love playing this one live as it has such a great dirty rock vibe to it! The night this was filmed was a hot, sweaty rock ‘n roll night to remember in Milan, Italy. “My Dirty Girl” is a track from our latest studio album, “Through Worlds Of Stardust”. Steelheart singer Miljenko Matijevic said: The show is a fitting tribute to the loving memory of Steelheart guitarist Kenny Kanowski, who passed away just a couple of months after this last concert with the band.Ī performance video of the song “I’ll Never Let You Go”, taken from “Rock’n Milan”, can be seen below. Astute listeners will recall that Jason Bonham would be considered a false one-hit wonder for “Wait for You” by Bonham that hit #55 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989 yet is likely the only song rock fans know from Bonham.On 7th of December, Frontiers Music Srl Front will release “Rock’n Milan”, a live album and long-form video of Steelheart‘s 2017 performance at Milan, Italy’siers Rock Festival IV. In one more one-hit wonder connection, the drummer of the Rock Star band is Jason Bonham, son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. They never reached the Billboard Top 40 again and remain heavy metal one-hit wonders, even though the band subsequently reformed a few times and released new music.Īs for lead singer Miljenko Matijevic, he ended up singing many lead vocals for Mark Wahlberg in the sort-of-Judas-Priest biopic, Rock Star. Sadly for Steelheart, the band broke up after playing an ill-fated show in Denver, Colorado on Halloween night in 1992. Though Steelheart never became a name brand in the United States, they were big in Japan and Hong Kong, where their records sold in big numbers. Listen to I’ll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes) by Steelheart “I’lll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes) features lead singer Miljenko Matijevic who makes Geddy Lee of one-hit wonders Rush sound like a baritone (Dee Snider of Twisted Sister is always ready with some wisecrack when he plays this song on “House of Hair”). Mama Dont You Cry 8.Steelheart 9.Sticky Side Up 10.Take Me Back Home Steelheart 1990 1.Cant Stop Me Lovin You 2.Down n Dirty 3.Everybody Loves Eileen 4.Gimme Gimme 5.Ill Never Let You Go 6.Like Never Before 7.Love Aint Easy 8.Rock n Roll (I Just Wanna) 9.Sheila 10.Shes Gone 1.We All Die Young 2.My Love Is Gone 3.Stay 4.Angel. “I’ll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes)” peaked at Number 14 on the Billboard Top 40, yet was another one of those songs that “had legs,” spending over six months on the Hot 100. But as mentioned in earlier articles, I would very quickly get tired of all the “angst,” the “woe-is-me,” the whining that followed like old garbage in Nirvana’s wake, and that still plagues today’s metal scene twenty years later, not to mention the complete lack of any decent guitar solos.īut back to Steelheart and the matter at hand. Personally, In Utero by Nirvana is one of my favorite albums, with Nevermind only a step or two behind. Interestingly, though hair-metal largely disappeared, wasn’t grunge just another name for metal? Like many of their brethren, Steelheart rode the heavy-metal explosion that started in the mid-1980s and continued until 1992.īut the times they would soon be a-changin’, and within a year of their only Top 40 hit in 1991, Steelheart, along with Warrant, Poison, Skid Row and all the others (save Bon Jovi, who would somehow manage to weather the oncoming storm) would quickly be rendered irrelevant when Nirvana’s Nevermind crashed into the album chart, signaling a changing of the guard and the arrival of grunge. “hair bands,” the band was actually from Norwalk, Connecticut. Although Steelheart and their hit “I’ll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes) sounded like a myriad of L.A.