Sure it’s easy enough to go out and buy the uniform and then ape the latest trend, but you can’t fake swagger. Real Rock ‘N’ Roll is elusive these days. and open shows for a host of artists including Dramarama, Modern English, Tom Petty, Jet, Unwritten Law and many others. whose client roster also included Patti Smith and Tom Petty. Operating just under the radar for nearly a decade, Blizzard – essentially the duo of songwriters Christopher Leyva (guitar, vocals) and Gerardo Baladon (lead guitar, vocals), with for the first three albums, Adrian Ochiuzzi (drums) and Antonio Franko (bass), honed their sound and skills through relentless recording and touring that saw them make several road trips around the U.S. The making of the album, a dinner-party favourite in the mid Nineties, was truly a labour. While it certainly works as a standalone release, the albums twenty-one tracks covers a span of ten years, showing impressive growth from this indie quartet. Time Lapse is the right title for this album.
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Although most of their material was produced and performed under the name 'Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers', Petty released three solo albums, the most successful of which was Full.
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Solo or with the Heartbreakers, he had hit albums from the 1970s through the 2010s and sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, their first year of eligibility. Petty's solo hits include 'I Won't Back Down' (1989), 'Free Fallin'' (1989), and 'You Don't Know How It Feels' (1994). It’s likely that for many, this “best of,” compiled from Blizzard’s six albums released between 2001 – 2011, will be the first chance to hear the band. Their final studio album, Hypnotic Eye, was released in 2014.