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468: 40: 231:. The first song also contains an excellent coda crescendo with vocal interplay between lead-singer Palladino and Feltenberger's background high harmonies. Another entertaining song is the closing number, a country-rock-ish, she-done-me-wrong song entitled "The Best Damn Things In Live Are Free". "Last Great Act of Defiance", co-written by Alexander and 39: 220:. Put in context, the title was actually derived from the more meaningful elder-to-younger monologue of the opening song of the same name; "…It’s too late for me, but it ain’t for you". 186:. It was Alexander's debut as a producer and it featured four, well-crafted, catchy, and energetic songs, each of which could stand alone well as a bar room anthem. 497: 223:
The title song starts with a driving acoustic riff by Jeff Feltenberger and gradually builds with Alexander's layered guitars and the precision rhythm of drummer
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and interim bass player Ric Stehman, filling in for Steve Feltenberger, who was now in the
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debut EP, was recorded in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Hoboken, New Jersey, and mixed by
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in 1988. Soon after there were several shifts within the band, including the addition of
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On October 10, 1990, the band released the EP, which carried the deceptive title of
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stepping back to provide harmonies and rhythm guitar.
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It Ain’t For You (Badlees EP)
It Ain't For You album cover. Photo by Ron Simasek, taken in Jersey City, NJ in 1990.
EP
The Badlees
Hoboken, NJ
Harrisburg, PA
Label
Rite-Off Records
Producer
Bret Alexander
The Badlees
The Badlees
Diamonds in the Coal
The Badlees
Bret Alexander
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
The Badlees
Bad Lee White
Pete Palladino
Jeff Feltenberger
Ron Simasek
Marines
Mike Naydock
Terry Selders
New York City
Rite-Off Records
Ron Simasek
Jersey City, New Jersey
Bret Alexander
Mike Naydock

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