31 January 2009, admin @ 4:46 am
Promotional film produced in 1979 for the band Blackjack, featuring Michael Bolton, Bruce Kulick, Sandy Gennaro, and Jimmy Haslip. Includes two songs from their debut album, “Love Me Tonight” and “Without Your Love.”
Take the moustache off, and Bruce looks EXACTLY like he did 5 years later when he joined KISS in 1984, hair and everything.
Thanks for posting this document!!!
I actually have the Blackjack record. The packaging was very cool. Big deck of cards with a fold up top. Very nice.
Haslip never had a really cool look
He went on to become one of the most successful studio bass player. He was a founding member of jazz giants Yellowjackets (he is still with them). Over the years, he played with lots of guys including Michael Bolton, KISS, Bruce Hornsby, Pat Metheny and Cher.
bolton now as ever has always been amazin but i ahve to say i never new this existed
I own this album and it rocks!!!
The film part kinda reminds me of Spinal tap , but really great seeing these songs , Great stuff!
You’re right. That was when music still had air to breath before they squashed it to death with hypercompression - my point of view…
I think record production and recording peaked in the 70s before any of the digital stuff. Digital reverb and drum machines changed it in the early 80s and it’s never really recovered IMO. This is pure engineering and production skill making this sound good, instead of a bunch of procesing and computer editing- vocal correction, drum replacement, etc, etc.
The bass player looks like the guy from Spinal Tap
cant believe that its burried..bolton should’ve cherished himself being part of this band..because this one really ROCKS
LOL, I know - Sandy looks like a little girl. Hits drums like a man, though!
Gennaro is a killer drummer with a long list of creds.
Jimmy Haslip is just chillin’ and ‘playing for the song’ on these cuts, but he’s simply a freak on bass.
…and everyone knows that Mike and Bruce are both enjoying stellar careers.
Reminds me of the Edgar Winter Group classic 1972 lineup, where every member later went on to mega-stardom on their own.
Classic stuff!!!
Michael Bolton actually rocked once. Bruce Kulick, like his brother Bob, always rocked!
I’ve never been able to track down the Blackjack material from Bolton’s “rock” career and was curious to hear it. Thanks for posting it!
Kulick is the coolest
Watching these 2 majestic videos was like a trip back in time….to when music had soul and a meaning…
dude, you should post some viedo clips with songs, even if they just have black text with the song title. it’s impossible for people to get this stuff, that would be awesome.
I have the 20 song CD of their first two albums on one disc. This album would have been a classic if Bolton had not found ballads.
This kind of reminds me of Coverdale/Whitesnake. It’s cool.
Michael bolton is my idol. I have a life-size cut out of him. I lay it next to me in bed and kiss it every night before I go to bed. His rendition of “When a man loves a woman” brings a tear to my eye everytime. I don’t care when people call him a “no talent assclown”.
Wow this was when Bolton was actually cool
bolton= god.
Not that I can find. The band had already broken up by the time My World is Empty Without You was released as the first single, so I’m assuming there’s no video for either one.
This is truly Christ-like: the hair, the taches, the waistcoat, that little daub of mascara around Mickey B’s peepers. In the name of God!