I grew up around St. Louis listening to KSHE-95 and 106.5 KWK and they played this song and quite a few others from Shooting Star a lot in the early 80's. They are awesome!
KWK was the bomb and KSHE 95 still is the rock of St Louis. I stream it live in Baytown for my high school students between classes and sometimes during class when they are working on projects.
I want to start my own town where only this great music is played and people still believe in their dreams fueled by great rock.Sign up sheet posted soon
Yes they are from Kansas City. They practiced down the road from me many many yrs ago. And would come into the pro audio store I worked at to rent equipment for tours. Best hometown group ever!
I knew all about them living in San Jose, CA. Back in those days I listened to 98.5 KOME and they really championed these guys, Shooting Star was/is such a great Band and never got the credit they deserved! Peace. -dave
I wish this band would get the attention and recognition that they truly deserve. I've seen them every time they come to St.lou and the last time they deserved the main stage!
I still have this on vinyl, and it holds up pretty well. Shooting Star were underrated, in my opinion. They kick ass and wrote some great hooks. Thanks for posting...
saw them in st. joseph last nite. in chicago tonight. go see them. they wont disapoint you. very nice people. great musicians and one hell of a fun show
R.I.P. Van McLain....You and your incredible talent will severly be missed. I remember back in this day and age of the early 80's living in the midwest you and SS WERE THE SHIT!!!!!! Still to this day some of the very best concerts/shows I have ever attended. Love ya buddy!
Haven't heard this one in years. Big hit here in the Twin Cities for awhile. KQ92 used to plug almost every hard rock band that came to town, whether they were big or not. These guys should've been huge.
🤔My first concert I saw these cats with Robin Trower, Easter Sunday, 1979 in Denver, Colorado @ the Paramount Theatre, an old-fashioned dome structure. I was in the nose-bleed section, so aaaaaaaaallllll the smoke💯 from everyone puffing ☘🔥🌲(you could Totally smoke indoors back then..) hit my 13yo lungs Hard💥💨🤢🤔😊🤗😁😁! I remember seeing _these guys,_ but i only remember one song from Robin Trower 'cuz i was soooo f☆cked up😪😴😪😴💤💤. Since they were the "warm-up band," they were the *first band i've ever seen in concert.* ... Excellent Show, what i remember of it...😔😔🤣🤣
Here it is 2022 and I had forgotten for over 35 years the songs happened to resurface straight ahead and flesh and blood as well take me back to round 1981 driving in an old Econoline to Joshua Tree California hippies doing hippie things drinking California coolers can't get that back but what a great band they were and still are
Saw them at "Superjam" in the old Busch Stadium. Here was the lineup: Shooting Star, April Wine, Judas Priest, Sammy Hagar, and Journey! (I was 10......thanks Uncle Mark!)
I wish I was at that one 😭. However, I was at the one with REO speedwagon, loverboy, rainbow,38 special and 707. I'd like to see some of those Old school superjams again. These days they're called pointlessfests 🤪
Hang On For Your Life, what a rock song! I remember back in 1982 sitting in my 450hp Chevy Vega first hearing this great song on the radio. Oh how I wanted to rip up the street in Portland unleashing the horsepower. Glad I wasn’t driving when I heard it, it says to me, release the power and hang on!!
I think that was where I heard it...we were driving back from a SF Giants game one night, and it was playing as we drove back on 280. Saw them at Rainbow Music Hall in Denver in the 80's...excellent live.
I cant believe this band didnt make it bigger. I had this album in the 80's then finally found it in CD a few years ago....should have been a HUGE band!!!
One of the best rock albums almost nobody has ever heard of. Saw these guys open for Kansas after I'd already bought their first two albums and it's hard to pick who was the better band that night. Great show, great song and a greatly underrated rock band.
One of the most bad ass songs of all time !!!! Shooting star ,you guys did Kansas city proud ! Takes me back to racing in the streets given her hell !!!! Hail to Excelsior springs boys ! Procter ., McKown ,peppers ,Ballinger,Collins ,st. John , jarman ,Lyman original street hell raisers !!!!!!
Sounds like a cross between 70's Priest and early 80's Rainbow. Great stuff! And yeah, when I lived in No.Va. I don't recall this song being played on either DC101 or even FM105. (Anyone growing up in the Washington DC area around the time this album was released will remember the awesomeness of FM105!)
Shooting Star RULES! One band that really deserved world wide fame and fortune! I had a chance to see them live in 85' at the Blue Note in Columbia, MO. I got carded though and couldn't get in!!
Nothing Like Shooting Star on Friday nite-and the hard Rockin side of April Wine on Saturday, → cruzin chicks in the Chevelle..! #LOL Underrated for Sure.!
was in kansas city when these guys broke, local guys killing it, they had an mtv video if i remember right, but never really got the exposure they should have. huge band in the midwest. loved this whole album.
I know, right? lol I grew up in the Bay Area, and 98.5 KOME Radio would play them ALL the time in San Jose! God, I miss all the great bands from the early 80's!!! Peace.
@11Stucat That's so cool man. I'm 42 in April, and miss the good ol days of straight ahead hard rock Shooting Star, Pat Travers, Y&T, etc. I was never a Grunge or Death Metal fan, and the early eighties was such a fertile period for this kind of sound and productuion values. Peace! -dave
I saw these guys at the Rainbow Music Hall in Denver, CO about 30 years ago. KBCO played this song and Hollywood and we were hooked. It was a great show and I ended up catching a drum stick. Good times.
1 dislike?..........Nelson fan. These guys rock. Saw them twice @ the Uptown Theater in Kansas City. Still have 4 of their albums. Never really understood how they didn't get a lot more exposure outside the midwest.
I went to DeVry Institute in Kansas City in Feb. 1980 and was immediately turned on to Shooting Star by the KC radio stations. They were a great rock band.
Love this band! They were SEVERELY underrated
John Gasco darn right!! Hot band! Great vocals!!
Saw them 85 opening for Heart. They blew Heart off the stage.
More like CRITICALLY underrated...
I played this song in a cover band. No one ever seemed to know it, but by the end everyone always dug it. Underrated indeed.
Oooooh man I wore this song out back in high school cruisin main in my 66 Chevelle!!!!!!! 8o's forever man!!!!!!!
Gary Walter difficult to drive slow to this song
This one and barracuda
Mine was a 69 Chevelle
Boy do I miss that car
Love this track. Really great album. One of those albums you can play from start to finish.
I grew up around St. Louis listening to KSHE-95 and 106.5 KWK and they played this song and quite a few others from Shooting Star a lot in the early 80's. They are awesome!
Fred Flintstone kwk kicks ass. Or so I was told....
The rock of St.Louis!!!! And Shooting Star!!!
KWK was the bomb and KSHE 95 still is the rock of St Louis. I stream it live in Baytown for my high school students between classes and sometimes during class when they are working on projects.
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Their slogan at the time was “The Rockin’ Best”. For a brief time they knocked KSHE down to #2 on the charts.
I want to start my own town where only this great music is played and people still believe in their dreams fueled by great rock.Sign up sheet posted soon
Joseph Dow Joseph I am in buddy
Commercial radio sucks ass.
4 years and still waiting...
K-SHE 95 St Louis is the closest you'll ever get to great rock 24/7. Sunday mornings are all classic rock from 1967-early 80's
I move there tomorrow
Yes they are from Kansas City. They practiced down the road from me many many yrs ago. And would come into the pro audio store I worked at to rent equipment for tours. Best hometown group ever!
Wasn't kc from there
This is one band that deserved much more fame and recognition than they received!
Been a fan since day one
STILL one of the best album covers EVER.
Andrew Chase who was the cover to/from?
Kid on a dirt bike jumping over a young lady in his bed (room).
@@richavic4520 what young lady? Do you see something I don't see? Idiot.
I knew all about them living in San Jose, CA. Back in those days I listened to 98.5 KOME and they really championed these guys, Shooting Star was/is such a great Band and never got the credit they deserved! Peace. -dave
saw them downtown st.louis 4th of july...thank you kshe 95
The must have torn it up!
I wish this band would get the attention and recognition that they truly deserve. I've seen them every time they come to St.lou and the last time they deserved the main stage!
Cancelled here in KC due to the heat
I still have this on vinyl, and it holds up pretty well. Shooting Star were underrated, in my opinion. They kick ass and wrote some great hooks. Thanks for posting...
One of my all time favorite bands. I have all their vinyl
Great band and like The Rockets and April Wine almost entirely absent from "classic rock" radio play.
This is a great band !! This was the feel good song when you where going out to party on a Friday night !!! Damn I miss those days !!!
I hope my neighbors like this song
LOL. I hope they do too.
My neighbors are forced to listen to them right now. Haha
@@libbybertsch2681 I wish I were your neighbor!
@@vance917 they were just here in cincinnati in june. They are coming back this coming april. They rocked the house!
@@libbybertsch2681 I can imagine! Keep on rocking out!
saw them in st. joseph last nite. in chicago tonight. go see them. they wont disapoint you. very nice people. great musicians and one hell of a fun show
I listened to this band while in the Navy, got us thru some tough times.
R.I.P. Van McLain....You and your incredible talent will severly be missed. I remember back in this day and age of the early 80's living in the midwest you and SS WERE THE SHIT!!!!!! Still to this day some of the very best concerts/shows I have ever attended. Love ya buddy!
Haven't heard this one in years. Big hit here in the Twin Cities for awhile. KQ92 used to plug almost every hard rock band that came to town, whether they were big or not. These guys should've been huge.
🤔My first concert I saw these cats with Robin Trower, Easter Sunday, 1979 in Denver, Colorado @ the Paramount Theatre, an old-fashioned dome structure. I was in the nose-bleed section, so aaaaaaaaallllll the smoke💯 from everyone puffing ☘🔥🌲(you could Totally smoke indoors back then..) hit my 13yo lungs Hard💥💨🤢🤔😊🤗😁😁! I remember seeing _these guys,_ but i only remember one song from Robin Trower 'cuz i was soooo f☆cked up😪😴😪😴💤💤.
Since they were the "warm-up band," they were the *first band i've ever seen in concert.*
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Excellent Show, what i remember of it...😔😔🤣🤣
Boy what a night had some good clean fun!!!😃😆😂😋
Here it is 2022 and I had forgotten for over 35 years the songs happened to resurface straight ahead and flesh and blood as well take me back to round 1981 driving in an old Econoline to Joshua Tree California hippies doing hippie things drinking California coolers can't get that back but what a great band they were and still are
I'm embarrassed to say today is the first time I heard this group and song. they are amazing and definitely should have more reconition classic radio
Welcome
Same here. ButI remember that album cover...lol
that's THE perfect rock voice!!
Saw them at "Superjam" in the old Busch Stadium. Here was the lineup: Shooting Star, April Wine, Judas Priest, Sammy Hagar, and Journey! (I was 10......thanks Uncle Mark!)
What a great lineup! I was about 19! Saw Sammy on my 19th birthday in 82. One of the loudest concerts I have ever been to!
I wish I was at that one 😭.
However, I was at the one with REO speedwagon, loverboy, rainbow,38 special and 707.
I'd like to see some of those Old school superjams again.
These days they're called pointlessfests 🤪
Local AOR stations in Cincinnati and Dayton played this song a LOT. Probably their best tune.
K-SHE 95 Plays this song pretty often. Hang in there SWEETMEAT!!!!
I agree with ya, This song rocks. Saw them live back in the 80's. Thanks for the upload
most underrated rock & roll band ever. period.
Hang On For Your Life, what a rock song! I remember back in 1982 sitting in my 450hp Chevy Vega first hearing this great song on the radio. Oh how I wanted to rip up the street in Portland unleashing the horsepower. Glad I wasn’t driving when I heard it, it says to me, release the power and hang on!!
I think that was where I heard it...we were driving back from a SF Giants game one night, and it was playing as we drove back on 280.
Saw them at Rainbow Music Hall in Denver in the 80's...excellent live.
This album hangs on my wall. Great stuff reminds me of high school and hanging out.
It was played A LOT on the radio back when and was released. YES, it should be played on the "classic" rock stations.
I went to high school with the niece of one of the guys in this band. Small world. This song wails. It sounds like Montrose.
Shooting star had a good following in the Midwest., I saw the group perform in the late 70's and they absolutely rocked the house down!
Since this song came out when I was 17, it has always made me feel like I need to drive 100 miles per hour..
I will stay out of your way!
Fuck N A Right
🤣🤣🤣 I remember feeling the same way.....had fun on the gravel roads
I cant believe this band didnt make it bigger. I had this album in the 80's then finally found it in CD a few years ago....should have been a HUGE band!!!
This band rocked free @ six flags Stl inthe late 80's
I was turned onto this band in Chicago in 1981. They rocked!
Great song by a great band it's your last chance to live!!
Memories of College & KLOS (Los Angeles)
WHOO-YA!
I AGREE, this IS the most underrated groups in history. This album ROCKS.
KY-102 PRESENTS
" A DAY IN THE PARK WITH SHOOTING STAR " AT SMITHVILLE LAKE
WAS THERE IT ROCKED!!!!!
Kick ass song and band !!!
Shooting Star IS CLASSIC !!!!!!! LOVE !
RIP VAN MCCLAIN. SUCH A GREAT MUSICIAN AND A GREAT PERSON
I love this song God Bless rock and roll
One of the best rock albums almost nobody has ever heard of. Saw these guys open for Kansas after I'd already bought their first two albums and it's hard to pick who was the better band that night. Great show, great song and a greatly underrated rock band.
just some straight up ROCK
Back when MTV still played videos kickass rock n roll
Cool, I was there too - Sammy came riding out of the sun roof of a red Trans am - Jumped up on the stage and started jamming - Got my stub somewhere.
I haven't heard this song in ages. Used to crank this one a lot back in the early 1980's. It still kicks ass!
want it back miss u guys/ Greg from Saint Paul,mn
One of the most bad ass songs of all time !!!! Shooting star ,you guys did Kansas city proud ! Takes me back to racing in the streets given her hell !!!! Hail to Excelsior springs boys ! Procter ., McKown ,peppers ,Ballinger,Collins ,st. John , jarman ,Lyman original street hell raisers !!!!!!
Kicking some ass with this one!
Forgot all about this classic
You are correct Sir! Pur energy Rock!
SHOOTING STAR WERE TREMENDOUS
Great jam....brings back early 80's good times.....
Seen them at keil opra house in st.louis opened for robin trower one for the ages !!!
Sounds like a cross between 70's Priest and early 80's Rainbow. Great stuff! And yeah, when I lived in No.Va. I don't recall this song being played on either DC101 or even FM105. (Anyone growing up in the Washington DC area around the time this album was released will remember the awesomeness of FM105!)
Shooting Star RULES! One band that really deserved world wide fame and fortune! I had a chance to see them live in 85' at the Blue Note in Columbia, MO. I got carded though and couldn't get in!!
The world could use some new music like this!!!!!!!
The lead guitar player is amazing! He has a great stage presence too!
THIS FUCKING ROCKSS THE LIVE VERSION IS GREAT TOO AND LAST CHANCE GREAT BAND
Nothing Like Shooting Star on Friday nite-and the hard Rockin side of April Wine on Saturday, → cruzin chicks in the Chevelle..! #LOL Underrated for Sure.!
Saw them open for Cheap Trick at Southwest Missouri State in 1982 I think.....at McDonald Arena. There was nobody there but they were awesome!
I haven't heard this song since I was on the JFK in the Indian ocean, damn, I still remember most of the words
DAMN GOOD BAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They used to play this one on WLLZ, and WRIF in Detroit back in the day. Holla back.
Kick ass band from the 80's!!!! Loved them.
Same here, I was amazed that some people did'nt remember them or even know who they were!!
Saw these guys at Chicago Fest when it was at Navy Pier. They were actually the opening act for Charlie Daniels. What a show!
was in kansas city when these guys broke, local guys killing it, they had an mtv video if i remember right, but never really got the exposure they should have. huge band in the midwest. loved this whole album.
They played this song when it first came out in 1981 and after that it was never played,
yes, it is a very under-rated song !!!
They played here in cincinnati a lot saw the 8 or 9 times always had a blast great party band! very underrated!
krankensteinrocks 1982, Bogarts. They brought the place down...
Great song. Lots of memories of growing up in the 80's
Funny grew up in the cities when KQ92 just started and hot rocking 101 lol and I remember this song as a kid I loved it
I know, right? lol I grew up in the Bay Area, and 98.5 KOME Radio would play them ALL the time in San Jose! God, I miss all the great bands from the early 80's!!! Peace.
@11Stucat That's so cool man. I'm 42 in April, and miss the good ol days of straight ahead hard rock Shooting Star, Pat Travers, Y&T, etc. I was never a Grunge or Death Metal fan, and the early eighties was such a fertile period for this kind of sound and productuion values. Peace! -dave
Definitely adding to my favorites!!!
SHOOTING STAR WAS A GREAT BAND,,, STILL DOING GIGS TO THIS DAY,,, CLUB TOURS, I GOT TO SEE THEM,ALONG WITH FASTWAY, & RED RYDER... GREAT SHOW...
Gregory Roland Lucky you....I saw Red Rider in 81....I was a puppy then...lol!
I saw these guys at the Rainbow Music Hall in Denver, CO about 30 years ago. KBCO played this song and Hollywood and we were hooked. It was a great show and I ended up catching a drum stick. Good times.
1 dislike?..........Nelson fan. These guys rock. Saw them twice @ the Uptown Theater in Kansas City. Still have 4 of their albums. Never really understood how they didn't get a lot more exposure outside the midwest.
I went to DeVry Institute in Kansas City in Feb. 1980 and was immediately turned on to Shooting Star by the KC radio stations. They were a great rock band.
I recorded this song from wapp fm station in New York in 1985,I have it in my collection;great song.
Just good ole R&R
I convince the band to play this song and every time we did we lay them on their ass excellent song
the radio stations in Cincinnati played their songs all the time back then , hat made me a big fan
WHOA what a great find this tune is.Never heard of this band or the song.Thanks for posting this gem.
Gary and Van. Shooting Star!
I hope my next door neighbor likes this song.
i saw these guys in the early 80s the whole band was great the guitarist Van McLain was outstanding...
this album deserved to have videos made for it... I wore out several copies of it. Shucks! :) happy to see it here!
They used to play these guys all the time on WFBQ and WNAP here in Indianapolis. Great band! I've yet to hear a song by them I DON'T like. :)
WLRS and WQMF in Louisville played the hell out of these guys in the early 80s...especially the songs from this album.
GREAT Band !!! I STILL Have My ORIGINAL Copy of This LP in MINT Condition & It's Been Played A LOT !!!!!!
Nothin like kick ass rock n roll
Especially Shooting Star!
The beginning to hang on is cool
Great KC metal song
What a great album this was!
It is a rocking song...