Y & T The Newest Beginning Yet

Paul Suter

Memories can be painfully short in the wicked world of rock 'n' roll; even with conservative signing policies, labels come up with an onslaught of new pro-duct each and every month, all of it ser-ving to whittle away at the status of even the hardiest of rock icons.

Y&T were an icon; hard-working and spected maybe, inarguably well-known, t let’s face it, Earthshaker was the title an album and not the title afforded to 3 band itself. And that album was a long le ago, too—six years—and it’s nigh on o years since the aptly named Down r The Count marked the end of the nd’s liason with A&M Records. Ironicalthe split had come soon after “Sumsrtime Girls,” the single which had emed to mark a crucial turnaround for a band apparently doomed to be forever known as also-rans. Yes, there’s a story there...