Trouble’s a cool band. I dig their early stuff, but I think “Manic Frustration” was my favorite album.

Here’s “Memory’s Garden” from “Manic Frustration”

Here’s “Assassin”, from “Psalm 9″… and recorded on public access TV! Get your exposure wherever you can. 🙂

And here’s “At The End Of My Daze”  from their self-titled album:

“Plastic Green Head”, a more recent song:

Got to see them live during a CMJ Music Marathon back in the early 90’s, including doing a meet and great. They were nice guys, a little tired at the event, but very nice.

I must admit tho, I prefer Eric Wagner’s singing. While I dig what Kory Clarke did in Warrior Soul, his vocals are just so radically different and it doesn’t really fit the vibe of what Trouble means to me (and apparently a lot of other fans). That’s why I put a lot of Eric-era videos in here, so you could hear how the band sounded with him singing.

Here’s Kory singing “Come Touch The Sky”

And while it’s not an exciting video, here’s the original recording, with Eric Wagner singing:

Here’s Kory singing on a new track called “Hunters Of Doom”:

Sorry. It’s just not the same. Granted, I guess the band doesn’t want to sound the same, but it’s hard to hear the old songs sung so differently. I’m not saying they should do like Journey and get a guy that sounds exactly like Eric, because other bands have switched vocalists and did alright (Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Van Halen). But sorry… Kory just isn’t doing it for me. 😦

Time to spin my old albums…