The Pop rock duo Shaw Blades is a side project featuring songwriters Tommy Shaw of Styx and Jack Blades of Night Ranger. The two began working together in the successful Eighties/Nineties "supergroup" Damn Yankees that also featured guitar hero Ted Nugent and drummer Michael Cartellone.
Review
"Impressively consistent from beginning to end, Influence is certainly one of the better "all-covers" albums of recent times."—Allmusic.com
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Fast Facts
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Fact:
First album Hallucination released in 1995 after Damn Yankees went on hiatus
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Fact:
Second album, 2007's Influence, consists of only covers
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Bands covered include
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Fact:
Shaw wrote or co-wrote Styx hits like "Fooling Yourself," "Too Much Time On My Hands" and "Blue Collar Man"
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Blades wrote or co-wrote Night Ranger hits like "When You Close Your Eyes," "Dont Tell Me You Love Me" and "(You Can Still) Rock In America"
