CD Autograph – That’s the Stuff [Import]

Digitally remastered edition of the L.A. Metal band’s 1985 sophomore release. Amazingly, when the album was released it’s cover had to be changed due to bungled copyright issues. And if that wasn’t enough, in order to combat the appearance of Russian band Avtograf (pronounced Autograph), RCA thought it might be a good idea for Autograph to record a cover of Grand Funk Railroads classic ‘Were An American Band’, adding it to the record half way through the campaign. Under any other circumstance this set of events might have spelled disaster but for Autograph it was just a one more river to cross and one more hurdle to jump. That’s the Stuff, despite all the pressures baring down on them, was hailed as another solid slice of prime-time American Hard Rock, big on hooks and crammed with some of the best guitar playing that Steve Lynch ever recorded. Rock Candy. 2009.