BRITNY FOX: Bite down hard [Promo tape] Check samples!

BRITNY FOX BITE DOWN HARD Released 1991 (Eastwest)
Track List:
01. Six Guns Loaded
02. Louder
03. Liar
04. Closer To Your Love
05. Over And Out
06. Shot From My Gun
07. Black And White
08. Look My Way
09. Lonely To Long
10. Midnight Moses

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Band:
Tommy Paris - lead vocals and guitar
Michael Kelly Smith - guitar and background vocals
Billy Childs - bass and background vocals
Johnny Dee - drums, percussion and background vocal

Additional Musicians:
Zakk Wylde - guitar (1)
Rikki Rocket - percussion (10)

Production:
Produced, engineered and mixed by John Purdell and Duane Baron.

Review:
Bite Down Hard is the third release from Britny Fox, and the first to feature new vocalist Tommy Paris.
Songs such as "Closer To Your Love", "Shot From My Gun" and "Look My Way" highlight this CD. The guitar playing of Michael Kelly Smith is impressive throughout.
Released at the end of the "hair metal" era, it didn't as well commercially as the groups other albums unfortunately. Tommy Paris is a good singer in his own right, but it's not the same without original vocalist Dizzy Dean Davidson. All in all a fairly good album, it gets one thumb up.
1991's Bite Down Hard was the third full-length album from Philadelphia-based rockers Britny Fox. This was the band's first effort following the bitter departure of vocalist Dean Davidson (who formed Blackeyed Susan). Newcomer Tommy Paris joined the band, and the result is probably Britny Fox's strongest, yet least appreciated album.

With Davidson out of the fold, the band ended up relying less on the kind of gravel-voiced screams he used to provide. Paris could scream when necessary, but he had a strong "clean" voice that made the songs on Bite Down Hard go down a lot easier. Ironically, Davidson would drop most of his screaming for the Blackeyed Susan debut Electric Rattlebone, and the result is almost identical to Bite Down Hard. The songs on this album are stronger overall and less gimmicky than the band's previous work. Leadoff single Six Guns Loaded starts things off with a bang (pardon the pun), and features a guest appearance by Ozzy's guitarist Zakk Wylde. Other highlights are the mellow, not-quite-a-ballad Over and Out, Look My Way, and Lonely Too Long, which is a single in the Long Way To Love mold.

The third time should have been the charm for Britny Fox, but by 1991 fewer and fewer people were paying attention to the hair metal scene. It would take another 12 years before the band would issue another studio album.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fan of rockin music!,

The album is fantastic!

Every track is a good solid song, a very rock and metal based album. Tracks I love are - six guns loaded, louder, closer to you love, black and white and lonely too long. But all the tracks are good!

Its very different from the 1st album as Dean Davidson isn't on this cd. And because of this the album is more metal n rock than glam rock. But most def worth buying, I am in no way disappointed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good overall album,
Britny Fox released their third album at a bad time when rock music was losing its popularity. But new singer Tommy Paris co wrote all the album's songs and there is not a single weak track on here. His vocals sound better than Dean's with a more melodic sound while keeping the rock element.
Michael Kelly Smith's guitar is shredding all the solos and there is even a guest solo from Zakk Wylde on the first track Six Guns Loaded.
Other good tracks are Closer To Your Love and Look My Way.
In my opinion, this is the band's best effort.