Keel Reunion news

Keel were "okay" in the 80's, not even a second tier act (more like 4th or 5th tier). The only audience he's going to attract with this would be old farts like me...with less taste than I have.

I used to like Keel back in the day and I thought 'The Right to Rock' was good album at the time, and had 'Lay Down the Law' which was ok, but I have to admit the only reason I even checked out 'The Right to Rock' is because Gene Simmons produced it.

The only reason I owned Lay Down The Law was the album cover...

A while back the Vegas Review Journal did a profile of Ron Keel and the claim was made that Keel sold out stadiums in their heyday.

I liked Keel well enough at the time but it isn't anything I ever bothered to upgrade on disc.

Ronnie Lee Keel is the definition of "poser". Metal artists do change and grow, but if you are truly metal, you don't do a 180 and think your fanbase is gonna be there when you come back. He won't be seeing any of my $.

SAXON1500 wrote:

Ronnie Lee Keel is the definition of "poser". Metal artists do change and grow, but if you are truly metal, you don't do a 180 and think your fanbase is gonna be there when you come back. He won't be seeing any of my $.

Him and Alex Skolnick?

DenimAndLeather wrote:

Dunn is the one with the bad hairdo and Brooks is the one with the cowboy hat.

Then I assume Ronnie must be portraying Dunn.

jstate wrote:

A while back the Vegas Review Journal did a profile of Ron Keel and the claim was made that Keel sold out stadiums in their heyday.

The only time that dude came anywhere near a 'sold out stadium' was when he was opening for Bon Jovi. Of course, Captain Ego Keel probably thinks all those screaming girls were there for him, not Bon Jovi.

But seriously follks... I've been beatin' on ole Ronnie pretty hard in this thread thus far, but I did really like THE RIGHT TO ROCK back in the day. (It's also the only Keel album I've bothered to upgrade to CD.) It was a great debut, but with each successive album they got less "metal" and more "radio friendly hard rock," to the point that by the time Keel's final release (LARGER THAN LIVE) came around in '89 or '90, they may as well have been Warrant or any other hair band. Each of the post-RIGHT TO ROCK Keel records has their share of good tracks but a hell of a lot of filler too.

[quote="jstate"]A while back the Vegas Review Journal did a profile of Ron Keel and the claim was made that Keel sold out stadiums in their heyday.

Stadiums my ass, the band opened the show at the Texas Jamm, which featured Boston headlining, Aerosmith and Krokus, I suspect that this show may have sold out even if Keel were not on this bill.

Like Freddy I have ragged on this band but at one time I was somewhat of fan and I should dig out my vinyl copy of 'The Right to Rock"

Well hot damn! screw Zeppelin, this is where its at!

Did he get tired of the country crap or something? Maybe this time his band won't Keel over a die.

Chairman_Smith wrote:

Well hot damn! screw Zeppelin, this is where its at!

Careful. If Ron sees this post, then the next Keel press release will say "Fans are more excited about the Keel reunion than they are about a Zeppelin reunion"

Two thoughts:

1.) I would be more interested in news of a re release of Keel's original studio albums or some type of box set ( as I am a fan) than in them reuniting.

2.) The " over 2 million records sold" does seem a bit padded to me, but possible. They did have 5 studio albums and a live release. But more curious is that Ron Keel himself ups this to "almost 3 million sold."

http://ronniekeel.tripod.com/Keel_body.htm

the sentinel wrote:

Two thoughts:

1.) I would be more interested in news of a re release of Keel's original studio albums or some type of box set ( as I am a fan) than in them reuniting.

2.) The " over 2 million records sold" does seem a bit padded to me, but possible. They did have 5 studio albums and a live release. But more curious is that Ron Keel himself ups this to "almost 3 million sold."

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There are also people who claim they have received phone calls from the dead.

Got this off of Ron's site that Sentinel mentioned a few posts ago:



WOO! Now THERE is an eye catching advertisement... they should've put that chick on the cover of the album, they probably would've sold more records...

Fat Freddy wrote:

Got this off of Ron's site that Sentinel mentioned a few posts ago:



WOO! Now THERE is an eye catching advertisement... they should've put that chick on the cover of the album, they probably would've sold more records...

Wow! Now that's advertising.

The chicks on their albums are more interesting than the music.

I am sure that advertisement accounts for why Keel sold 2 million albums and sold out all those stadiums in the 80's.

manny wrote:

I am sure that advertisement accounts for why Keel sold 2 million albums and sold out all those stadiums in the 80's.

And not to mention all the happy teenage boys that couldn't find their dad's playboy stash.

I like KEEL....are they cheesy. Hell yeah.

Were they huge...hell no.

They were decent though.

I actually go RON KEEL's solo cd the other day for $1...it's pretty good. Not country but mainly folky...acoustic, his voice is pretty good still...

Now his hairdo...another story, I'm afraid.

Shiney wrote:

I like KEEL....are they cheesy. Hell yeah.

Were they huge...hell no.

They were decent though.

I actually go RON KEEL's solo cd the other day for $1...it's pretty good. Not country but mainly folky...acoustic, his voice is pretty good still...

Now his hairdo...another story, I'm afraid.

Troublezone wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Got this off of Ron's site that Sentinel mentioned a few posts ago:



WOO! Now THERE is an eye catching advertisement... they should've put that chick on the cover of the album, they probably would've sold more records...

Wow! Now that's advertising.

That's the lesser known, but hotter Petrucci sister!!!

That's not Maxine Petrucci. That's some unknown model.

Keel sucks. End story.

DeathCult wrote:

Keel sucks. End story.

How can you say a band that has sold 2 million albums and sold out stadiums suck?