Dec 14

Fire with Fire

Under Appreciated

FIRE WITH FIRE


Frank Barbalace is ambitiously advertising on his website a two-CD collection of most of his recorded works – Wild Blue, Trillion and other material for a $50 tab.  Oddly, there are only three tracks from the No More Jinx album that are listed.  He was one of the bandmembers who was left behind when most of the recording was done across the pond; and these are the songs that he co-wrote, though he also played guitar on one of the best songs on the album, “Fire with Fire”. 
 
(June 2012)
 
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Once again, I mentioned the Flashback band, Wild Blue in the write-up of the current UARB; this sure has happened a lot.  YouTube has a music video for “Fire with Fire” at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGpO-2gr6PU .  The person who posted the video said that this was included in the soundtrack for a 1986 film, Fire with Fire.  The video intersperses color clips from the film with both color and black-and-white shots of the band in performance.  Wikipedia has an article on the film, whose cast includes Virginia Madsen.  Based upon a comment that was posted with the video, bandmembers Renee Varo and Joe Zanona married and raised a family.  

 

A better-quality audio-only version of the song is at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiY1p2cNF0c .  Unfortunately, “Fire with Fire” is the only song by the band that I could find on YouTube, but this is probably their best song.  

  
 (June 2014)
 
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