Magnificent live document from legendary power-pop singer/songwriter/guitarist Tommy Keene! Recorded in the Midwest and Northeast in the Spring & Summer of 1998 and 2000 ?Showtunes' features much of Tommy's best work, from the early songs "Back To Zero Now" and "Places That Are Gone" up to cuts from his ?98 Matador album ?Isolation Party', plus a rousing rendition of Mission of Burma's classic "Einstein's Day".

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'After a less than ideal tenure at Geffen Records, Keene emerged undaunted in the '90s with a rockin' new band and a strong batch of fresh songs, as evidenced on this five-song EP. Produced by Keene and Steve Carr -- who engineered a good share of Keene's work in the '80s, including the magnificent Places That Are Gone EP -- Sleeping on a Roller Coaster contains some of Keene's most dynamic and powerful pop/rock performances to date. With muscular grooves provided by Brad Quinn on bass, vocals and piano, ...   [ read more ]

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'Tommy Keene always sounded a bit smarter and edgier than the sizable majority of his pure pop brethren back in the early 1980s, and he was a much tougher guitarist than nearly any of his peers (check out his live take of Lou Reed's Kill Your Sons on the Run Now EP sometime and hear him blow a hole in Reed's original). Which might be why his best stuff hasn't dated much, and, 15 years after his debut album, he could still come up with an intelligent and razor sharp set of hard pop songs, with Isolation Par...   [ read more ]

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