If I hear another person say they are nothing but a cover band,I might lose my mind.Since 2001,they have put out some quality music that I am pretty sure the original members would be proud of if they were alive to carry on.I counted up that when Dave Hlubek and Phil McCormack were with them till they died two years ago,this band had combined over 100 years of playing Molly Hatchet music.
@K-Ray Zee It has happened this way to me: even though I am not young (51) I had never listened to Molly Hatchet until a few years ago (and I listen to, and play, Hard Rock/Heavy Metal/Prog Rock since mid eighties).I had only read about them in music magazines, but I did not know any of their songs. So I heard in the same weeks both Fall Of The Peacemakers and Silent Reign Of Heroes, both Bounty Hunter and Tatanka, and so on... older songs and newer songs! And I really liked both, regardless of the different musicians who played on those songs. It is not so important. Indeed, most of my favorite songs by Molly Hatchet seem to be not from the classic line up: Silent Reign Of Heroes, Devil's Canyon and The Journey are awesome epic songs and really no one can deny their valor, I think. Of course I like old songs too, Fall Of The Peacemakers is another favorite of mine, but it is really wrong that some dislike the newer songs only because there are no original members left: they still are good songs. At least, in my humble opinion. Greetings from Italy!
@K-Ray Zee yeah, thank you! Very great! The song you put the link is another that I like very much! Indeed, today I had already watched it a few hours ago, this afternoon (now it is late night in Italy) 😆; and, of course, the video with the bikers is always good, too! With Rock songs they are never out of place, I think! Even though I do not drive, I always liked the bikers for their image and lifestyle (not the ones who commit crimes, of course, but all of the others) since I was a kid, and they were (almost always) the bad guys/rebels in movies/comics and so on. Of course their look could seem intimidating for someone! And it goes very well with HR/HM musicians... Motorhead is the first name that come to my mind now, but the list could go on and on. I like Frazetta too, his painting are very epic. One of my favorites is the cover for Hard Attack by a band called Dust, it shows Conan that fights two giant vikings. But Frazetta made so many good paintings. I like Michael Whelan too. I have a channel of bass covers, here on RU-vid; for now I have not made any songs by Molly Hatchet, but I am thinking to make one (or two) in the future. One it will be Devil's Canyon, probably, because it's a song that I often play. Greetings from Italy!
I know it ,I just recently found this song. I didn't even know this guy ever sang with them .The other replacement wasn't very good but this guy is good and I love the part where he says "They ride for freedom .." I listen to this song over and over .👍❤🇺🇸
@@robertwhitewolf2910 I had the pleasure of seeing them live again maybe 3 months before Phil passed (in Cardiff of all places). They kicked some ass, and I was the only red-blooded American in the crowd giving them a *proper* HELL YEAH.
