Steve STEVENS Atomic Playboys CD (1989). Billy Idol, Michael Jackson, Vince Neil guitarist. + Sweet cover “Action”. Check videos + audio

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Atomic Playboys is the first studio album by guitarist Steve Stevens, released in 1989 through Warner Bros. Records. It charted at #119 on that years Billboard 200, and featured cover art by surrealist artist H.R. Giger, who designed the Xenomorph creature in the Alien film series. The title track was used in the closing credits of Australian television network The Nine Networks coverage of Formula One throughout the early 1990s, whilst “Power of Suggestion” featured in the 1994 film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

Track listing:
1. “Atomic Playboys” Steve Stevens 5:47
2. “Power of Suggestion” Stevens 4:37
3. “Action” Andy Scott, Mick Tucker, Brian Connolly, Steve Priest [cover: The Sweet] 4:44
4. “Desperate Heart” Stevens, Perry McCarty, Beau Hill, Fiona 4:33
5. “Soul on Ice” Stevens 3:57
6. “Crackdown” Stevens 5:44
7. “Pet the Hot Kitty” Stevens, McCarty, Hill 4:03
8. “Evening Eye” Stevens, McCarty 3:56
9. “Woman of 1,000 Years” Stevens 4:21
10. “Run Across Desert Sands (Instrumental)” Stevens 3:52
11. “Slipping into Fiction” Stevens 4:43
Total length:
50:17

Personnel:
Steve Stevens vocals, guitar, bass (except track 1), production
Perry McCarty vocals
Phil Ashley keyboard, preamplifier
Thommy Price drums (except tracks 4, 8)
Anton Fig drums (tracks 4, 8)
Kasim Sulton bass (track 1)
Chris Botti horn (track 2), horn arrangement (track 2)
Kent Smith horn (track 2), horn arrangement (track 2)
Mike Davis horn (track 2)
Andy Snitzer horn (track 2)
Daniel Wilensky horn (track 2)
Paul Winger background vocals
Nate Winger background vocals
Paulette Brown background vocals (tracks 2, 9)
Bunny Hull background vocals (track 2)
Fiona background vocals (track 4)

Associated acts:  Billy Idol, Michael Jackson, Bozzio Levin Stevens, Juno Reactor, Vince Neil

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Cool Album,
this is one of the greatest albums I’ve ever heard.  great, driving , energetic music. Steve Stevens is an excellent guitarist, he plays all the right notes and never has to overplay. very tasteful.

the band is very cool, very tight and they sound great together. I actually liked Perry McCarthy’s vocals, he really lets go on a lot of the songs.

Steve Stevens is a masterful rhythm player.  i mean the riff is everything and there are some great guitar riffs on this album like: the title cut ‘atomic playboys’, ‘pet the hot kitty’ (the ending reprise is godlike), slipping into fiction’. It is like cowboys from hell in a lighter more eclectic vein.

‘run across desert sands’ is …well …just amazing. beautiful…

this album is good. totally worth it.

i wouldn’t know then , in a dusty shop in the middle of nowhere that this album would inspire and change my life.

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Debut,
This is an awesome debut from Steve Stevens, who was formerly Billy Idols guitar slinging mad man. Stevens goes crazy in songs like Pet The Hot Kitty, but shines with grace and fluid style on songs like Desert Sands. As a guitar player, I would have to say that Steve Stevens has to be one of my all time favorites. I would recommend it to anyone….

5.0 out of 5 stars Atomic!,
Atomic! Nothing less! Atomic guitar playing is what Steve Stevens delivers here, in each track of the album, but not only this. He is and was an excellent song writer and performer in the hard rock category and he proved it here at his best. There are here some songs which needs to be considered some of the best examples of the hair metal genre and nevertheless, exceptional examples of good songwriting overall. These are in my opinion. “Atomic Playboys”, the opener, a catchy killer hard rock anthem which you will listen to again and again without never be tired of. “Power of suggestion” a strange r’n’blues type of thing, with horn parts which will have you beg for more. “Desperate heart” one of the definitive power ballads of the era. Absolutely fantastic! “Slipping into fiction” an incredible riff song that each time I can’t do nothing but listen to it ten times before being tired of it (for the day). But each track from this album deserves to be discovered because each one is really a gem. Perry McCarty, the very good lead singer here, previously has been the singer in a band called Warrior for the album “Fighting for the earth” which you may also like a lot. It was a more classic metal oriented and a little less glamorous album than this work from Stevens but still very good. You may find a very good Steve Stevens in Billy Idol albums but more than anywhere else in Vince Neil’s album “Exposed”. In the end I want to point out the exceptional guitar sounds Stevens choose here. Absolutely perfect, hard, focused, direct, heavy, clean distorted sounds. Steve is really an atomic guitar player! An album that you absolutely should have! (It has also an excellent H.R. Giger cover … one of the few the maestro realized for rock bands.

5.0 out of 5 stars loving it,
this is great if you like billy idol you will love this Steve Stevens they go together he has the smoothest guitar hot screaming good great to sew by pegs.

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Steve Stevens. The guy fucken ruled when he was Billy Idol’s guitarist from ’82 to ’86 and then in 1989 he released one of the best albums of the year with his Atomic Playboys outfit – not a dud song on it. Of course the riffs were sick, but the other selling-point were the vocals. Perry McCarty – what a fucking voice! Powerful as fuck with heaps of melody. I remember about 10 years ago thinking that he was too good to just appear out of nowhere in 1989 and get the gig with Steve Stevens and after a little digging around, my hunch proved correct. This is the band that he cut his teeth with and it’s a pretty sweet slab of 80s Euro-influenced power metal. Similar vibe to mid-80s Judas Priest, maybe a bit heavier, but still melodic.  Anyway, a bunch of great songs and solid production make this a pretty cool undiscovered gem. As essential as the Atomic Playboys album he’d later contribute to. Definitely worth picking up :

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