Dizzy ReedRock ‘N Roll Ain’t Easy

If you were a rock ‘n’ roll legend with a plethora of experience and huge name collaborations under your wing and you wanted to really show the world the extent of your talent with a solo album, this is how you’d do it.

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Dizzy Reed takes his 28 years’ experience as keyboardist and backing vocalist for Guns N’ Roses, adds in his love of jazz and funk, and calls upon his friendships with the likes of Ricky Warwick, Del James, Mike Duda and plenty more, to bring you Rock ‘N Roll Ain’t Easy, his first solo album.

It should come as no surprise that a debut release from a musician of Reed’s calibre should be anything less than awesome. Warwick and Richard Fortus’ gruff guitars marry well with Reed’s own face-melting vocals and unadulterated lyrics that tell tales of the nasty side of rock ‘n’ roll. Reed’s talent at the keys are wonderfully framed in more emotive tracks like Crestfallen, while This Don’t Look Like Vegas elicits an excellent fusion of rock

This is an album packed with passion and severity, the second half really stepping up a gear into more killer riffs and infectious melodies than you may be able to handle. It’s an epic thing to hear Reed at the forefront of the music for a change, and Rock ‘N Roll Ain’t Easy could surely be considered a new rock staple, going down in history in its own right.

STANDOUT TRACKS: Mother Teresa, This Don’t Look Like Vegas, Rock ‘N Roll Ain’t Easy
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