Tom Keifer Releases Full Version of 'Flower Song'
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 12:01AM Tom Keifer just premiered a new solo song. The track, called "Flower Song," debuted on USA Today's website earlier this week. It’s the first single from his long-awaited, solo album The Way Life Goes. That album is finally due out April 30. Be sure to click the link to hear the complete new song. Soundcloud would not allow me to directly embed into this site.
Tom is going out on the road for his first-ever solo tour. He'll play 14 cities in small venues. The tour will act as a preview of his long-awaited solo disc The Way Life Goes. He'll play Cinderella tunes as well. Here's the tour dates:
Feb. 09 - Winston-Salem, NC - Ziggy's
Feb. 11 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
Feb. 13 - Philadelphia, PA - JC Dobbs
Feb. 15 - Pittsburgh, PA - Altar Bar
Feb. 16 - Salisbury, MA - Blue Ocean
Feb. 17 - Portland, ME - Asylum
Feb. 19 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's
Feb. 22 - Lincolnshire, IL - Viper Alley
Feb. 23 - Lexington, KY - Busters
Feb. 24 - Detroit, MI - Magic Bag
Feb. 26 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Intersection
Feb. 27 - Cincinnati, OH - 20th Century Theater
Feb. 28 - White Marsh, MD - House of Rock
Reader Comments (11)
No doubt, Cinderella is one of the REAL Big Four that also includes Crüe, RATT and Poison.
But this may be the only way Keifer thinks he has a shot at getting some hits or, at the very least, gain some traction on Modern Rock or Alternative Radio and Satellite Radio formats, in much the same way Nikki Sixx has been able to capture new relevance with Sixx:A.M.
If you've watched Sam Dunn's lopsided, grossly inaccurate and non-fact checked VH1 Classic documentary series, "Metal Evolution", you see Dunn attempt to rewrite Metal History by "foot noting"
mega-platinum Glam Metal acts such as Cinderella.
In one scene, he digs up a now barely relevant record exec who recounts a tale where, just a couple of years ago, he was playing a demo in his office when some A&R kid sticks his head in the guy's office and asks excitedly, "Hey, who's this?!", to which our fearless record exec responds, "Cinderella." And the kid, now deflated, says, "Oh."
Rumor has it, Keifer was shopping that demo for a million bucks. Though it may be worth it in our eyes, the rest of the market does not feel that way, unfortunately.
I really wish he had taken that Cinderella demo to Frontiers, the same label RATT went with for the release of their well received recent comeback album, "Infestation". Frontiers is a fantastic, relatively new label releasing new material for a huge stable of 80's style Hair Metal and AOR bands, both new and old, such as their most recently signed act, KIX.
Though there should be no denying Keifer his due with this new first-time solo effort, "The Way Life Goes", one can only hope it will actually warm up the general listening public for a re-emboldened attempt to get Cinderella back in the studio, put down some new tracks, and take 'em to Frontiers to finally get a new Cinderella album out to the adoring legions of Cinderella fans, as well as a potentially new fan base, who are, unknowingly to Keifer, waiting in the wings to buy it.
If Frontiers is good enough for RATT and KIX, it should be good enough for Cinderella. Go for it, Tom!
Wish I was in NYC to see him play at The Highline Ballroom. First class gig all the way.
Maybe Keifer should go with Roadrunner for a new Cinderella album. After all, the intent of my comment doesn't change -- That Keifer should RATT tail over to RATT's label, whatever the hell it is, in the case of "Infestation", Roadrunner. And maybe he can talk to Pearcy about it when I get those two together over dinner on The Monsters of Rock Cruise.
I have a bunch of sh*t on Roadrunner, including a few out of print rarities and compilations but I'm not about to start sifting through mountains of CDs to find 'em, so the fact checking will have to wait on that, trolls.
As far as debating about what constitutes "relatively new", though fifteen years may seem like ions to you, DICK (Is that how old you are?), it's "relatively new" when compared to where Keifer was shopping the Cinderella Demo -- the labels being the usual suspects such as their original label, Mercury (Vertigo in Europe, the same label as Sabbath's classic stuff).
Put that in your pipe and fact check it, f*cker.
To parallel the sh*t Big Four the poseurs on here actually think are good -- MetallicUGH!, Megadeth, Can'thacks and Slayt*rd -- isn't Metallica the only one of the four who are "original", the rest being copycats?
One could argue Slayer is original but is that whole debate even worth wasting our breath on, when you can barely classify the noise they make as Music?
And don't even get me started on Antfarm's sh*t. Aside from their covers of Cheap Trick, Joe Jackson and Sabbath, there stuff absolutely blows!
Sure, Crüe was on the scene first, those bands are the other three in the REAL Big Four. But it's actually not about who was there first, or copycats (I would argue they all have their own sound which is another reason why I list them in this elite group).
It's simply about who made the biggest contributions to what this site is dedicated to -- GLAM METAL!
p.s. Notice I didn't misspell Megadeth, since they're sh*t's actually good, no matter how big of an as*hole Mustaine is as a person.