Zebra (Official Thread)

[METALPRIEST]

Zebra has all good stuff..here's another goodie from the 3.V album!!

A little Al Stewart goin' on with Randy here??

 

[TeleCat]

I'm kinda partial to No Tellin' Lies. Bears is a great song and Wait Until The Summer's Gone absolutely rocks! I once heard them described as a Zeppelin/Rush hybrid which I can't disagree with.

 

[rtbuck]

Bucky and I were fortunate enough to catch them live at a local club in Buffalo back in the mid 80's. Fantastic show. They were actually much better live than on record.

Yes we did! At Uncle Sam's...Great show indeed!! That was another band I thought would be big

 

[ANTHEM]

For those who aren't familiar with Zebra they are a power trio out of Louisiana which had spent equal time learning their chops in New York and imho are a mixture of Zeppelin, Rush, and the Beatles along with a Frankie Valli'sh vocal style at times. They had semi hits in the early 80's such as Who's behind the door, Tell me what you want, Wait Until the summer's gone, and Bears. After 3 albums they made a live album in 1990 which contained a couple of new songs which included this one which shows how well they can rock. It's a shame they didn't receive more credit than they did.



The second of the two new ones introduced on this live album



Again a badly overlooked band imo.

 

[tomcat]

I like the band...But I'm not sold on that singer; he grates on my nerves.

 

[METALPRIEST]

Merged your post here ANTHEM in the Official ZEBRA thread. Good for the bump and I'll do some fixin' on it now too

 

[METALPRIEST]

Thread updated for all our ZEBRA heads

 

[ANTHEM]

The band had great above average musicians "imo" and it's true that Randy Jacksond higher pitch vocals might be a little hard to get past for some which is kind of like Robert Plant or Geddy Lee but even higher and again also similar to Frankie Valli imo. He also used a lower tone vocal style like this.........



......and at times would switch between both styles in one song. They didn't fit the neat little box of what was being pushed in rock or metal during that era and I think that hurt them on getting some of the recognition they deserved.

 

[METALPRIEST]

I think they are a WONDERFUL band with fantastic songs all around

 

[ANTHEM]

Thread updated for all our ZEBRA heads

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