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Title: Walk Away
Review: Tom Scholz is a perfectionist and he takes a tremendous amount of time recording albums. It took eight years to follow-up 1978's Don't Look Back with 1986's Third Stage. Along the way most of the original band left leaving just Mr. Scholz and vocalist Brad Delp, but those losses were easily overcome. In the seven and half years in between Third Stage and Walk On, Brad Delp left and this was no minor bump in the road. The secret behind the band's success was not only the orchestra of guitars but Mr. Delp's roof raising vocals. While Mr. Scholz replaced him with sound alike Fran Cosmo and a second vocalist, David Sikes, neither have the depth and range that match Mr. Delp and the songs suffer. There are a couple of decent tracks like "I Need You Love", "Livin' For You" and the title track but basically the rest of the album doesn't offer much.
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