Category: ASPHALT BALLET

Here’s a request from an album that many never heard: ASPHALT BALLET, and their self-titled debut album in its Japanese CD press. Emerging from the late-’80s L.A. hard rock club scene, the San Diego quintet Asphalt Ballet caught the attention of Virgin Records and released this self-titled, major-label debut in 1991.
Led by ex-Broken Rule vocalist Gary Jefferies, the band concocted 13 bluesy, commercial rocking tracks that fans of Guns N’ Roses and Poison should find satisfying. The album’s second track “Soul Survive” enjoyed minor radio and MTV attention, but, for the most part, the disc and the band were largely ignored.
Part of this because Virgin Records, not exactly specialists in hard rock – when the group was touring presenting “Asphalt Ballet”, there wasn’t physical copies of the album at local record stores. And then, the musical climate started to change…