The Rembrandts, new masters - Danny Wilde goes solo (kind of)
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Artist:
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Album:Danny Wilde - The Boyfriend
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Track:Isn't It Enough
(Fifth in a series)After Great Buildings broke up, Danny Wilde spent the latter half of the 1980s looking for success as a solo artist. The first solo LP, entitled ??The Boyfriend??, was released in 1986.
His fellow Rembrandt-to-be, guitarist extraordinaire/singer/songwriter Phil Solem, came along (from *Great Buildings*) for the ride on that first LP, providing lead guitar and background vocals. He can even be seen, albeit briefly (look FAST for the semi-mulleted lead guitarist), in the video for one of the singles off the album, ??Isn’t It Enough??. Being the 1980s videos HAD to be made, and they hit a lot of the clichés with this one. Still, I love the song. The album failed to make the U.S. charts, but the two singles from it were what are termed “radio hits”. This means, I guess, that they garnered airplay without troubling the charts. *Patty Smyth* (once of *Scandal*) must’ve been listening, for she covered ??Isn’t It Enough?? on her first solo LP, ??Never Enough??. I’ll include her version in Comments. SIDENOTE: How hip are ye? A quick ??pop?? quiz. Do ye prefer *Patty Smyth*, cute-as-a-button diminutive rock vocalist
or *Patti Smith*, the rock poetess? On a good day, she looks like Keith Richards.
On a bad one, a goblin. The hip answer is, of course, goblin-girl. I own *all* the CD output of Patty Smyth (now Mrs. John McEnroe) and none by the poetess. Hipster certification, ??sayonara??! The first time I saw the Rembrandts in Philadelphia, at the Theater of the Living Arts (TLA) on Philly’s South Street – back in the good old days when they had actual seats instead of standing on a concrete floor, they did ??Isn’t It Enough??. I knew I recognized it, but could not remember from where. Years later, when I found a copy of the out-of-print CD from Patty, I realized it must’ve been her version that I heard on AOR radio. One more video from Danny’s first LP exists – for the other single, ??Body To Body??. The videos seem to have outlasted the LP, which has never been released on CD and is out-of-print. I burned a copy off of my vinyl, but last weekend found that, through the new Rembrandts website (The Rembrandts.net) you could download, for free, mp3s of the original album in better sound quality. Alas and alack, after Danny’s first solo LP, Phil and he would not meet up on record for another 4 years, when they formed The Rembrandts. NEXT: Danny’s next two late-80s solo releases.
His fellow Rembrandt-to-be, guitarist extraordinaire/singer/songwriter Phil Solem, came along (from *Great Buildings*) for the ride on that first LP, providing lead guitar and background vocals. He can even be seen, albeit briefly (look FAST for the semi-mulleted lead guitarist), in the video for one of the singles off the album, ??Isn’t It Enough??. Being the 1980s videos HAD to be made, and they hit a lot of the clichés with this one. Still, I love the song. The album failed to make the U.S. charts, but the two singles from it were what are termed “radio hits”. This means, I guess, that they garnered airplay without troubling the charts. *Patty Smyth* (once of *Scandal*) must’ve been listening, for she covered ??Isn’t It Enough?? on her first solo LP, ??Never Enough??. I’ll include her version in Comments. SIDENOTE: How hip are ye? A quick ??pop?? quiz. Do ye prefer *Patty Smyth*, cute-as-a-button diminutive rock vocalistor *Patti Smith*, the rock poetess? On a good day, she looks like Keith Richards.On a bad one, a goblin. The hip answer is, of course, goblin-girl. I own *all* the CD output of Patty Smyth (now Mrs. John McEnroe) and none by the poetess. Hipster certification, ??sayonara??! The first time I saw the Rembrandts in Philadelphia, at the Theater of the Living Arts (TLA) on Philly’s South Street – back in the good old days when they had actual seats instead of standing on a concrete floor, they did ??Isn’t It Enough??. I knew I recognized it, but could not remember from where. Years later, when I found a copy of the out-of-print CD from Patty, I realized it must’ve been her version that I heard on AOR radio. One more video from Danny’s first LP exists – for the other single, ??Body To Body??. The videos seem to have outlasted the LP, which has never been released on CD and is out-of-print. I burned a copy off of my vinyl, but last weekend found that, through the new Rembrandts website (The Rembrandts.net) you could download, for free, mp3s of the original album in better sound quality. Alas and alack, after Danny’s first solo LP, Phil and he would not meet up on record for another 4 years, when they formed The Rembrandts. NEXT: Danny’s next two late-80s solo releases.
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