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Autograph classic voice Steve Plunkett has just released “Turn Up The Radio – 2025”
#steveplunkett #autograph #turnuptheradio #signinagain #signinplease #newversion #solorecord #metalsludge
https://metalsludge.tv/40-years-later-a ... lo-record/

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The radio's volume is fine, Mr. Plunkett. Just turn up your hearing-aid and eat your applesauce.

steaming hot dog manure as Plunkett must be deaf or have dementia. 60% of Autograph are pushing up daisies so leave the Classics alone.

Simon Daniels does it way better in 2025 in Fraudgraph

New version has no teeth. Just like the audience for it.

At least Plunk can still hit those high notes. Otherwise, it sounds quite bland compared to the original. It’s not the same without the classic Autograph lineup, anyway.

Those geezers (what's left of'em) are as old as Aerosmith - they were over 30 when they had their 15 minutes in 84-85. Did anyone buy the follow-up records? Did they get any gigs after '85?

I bought Loud and Clear. One of the few that did.

Excellent record IMO. The label did spend money on a couple of videos with cameos of Vince Neal and Ozzy.

Loud and Clear
Dance All Night
More Than A Million Times
Everytime I Dream
She Never Looked That Good For Me

All good tunes but nobody bought into them.

..........And it sucks.

What's up with the GarageBand guitar chord overdubs?

Why do this...........................................?

Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 2:46 pm Those geezers (what's left of'em) are as old as Aerosmith - they were over 30 when they had their 15 minutes in 84-85. Did anyone buy the follow-up records? Did they get any gigs after '85?

For a couple of summers in the late 80s, they used to have weekly free concerts in downtown Dallas at the same place Van Halen did their free show in 91. Autograph played there in 87 and it was a pretty sparse crowd, maybe a couple of hundred at the most. At one point, Steve Lynch threw a guitar pick into the crowd and it landed on the ground and nobody went to grab it. After the show, it was still there, so I went over and picked it up. They sounded good, but were pretty cheesy - the drummer kept hitting his head in time with the bass drum and at one point during his solo, he pulled a low rent version of Bobby Blotzer's solo and had a beer delivered to him, but you could tell it was an O'Douls or some other type of non alcoholic beer.

Went back a week later to see the Tubes with their replacement lead singer and the show was packed.

that was...incredibly...anemic...d.m.

This is a great idea! I think the world was clamoring for the exact same song, with worse production and wimpier sound than the already wimpy original!!

The idea that there's anything "classic" about fucking Autograph is hilarious

woblinweebles wrote: ↑Wed Aug 20, 2025 3:37 pm Went back a week later to see the Tubes with their replacement lead singer and the show was packed.

Wow that's sad. The Tubes were already dead 2 years earlier before Fee left. IDK what's sadder - the ignored guitar pick, or getting outdrawn by scab Tubes.

Mediocre one-hit wonder still living off his mediocre one-hit wonder.

Why? Original is perfect

That sounded exactly like Atari 2600 music.

He's already released a solo version. So that makes 4 official versions of this song.... gotta be up there with all the re-recordings of 18 And Life

Autograph - Turn Up The Radio 1984 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWOvjx15Owk&list
Steven Plunkett - Turn Up The Radio 1991 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BJzpusRlGM
Autograph - Turn Up The Radio 2007 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCmXImK7IUw
Steven Plunkett - Turn Up The Radio 2025 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snvzcWE_Ibc

Just because you can make an album on your laptop doesn't mean you should.

RicksPickWrangler wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 5:43 pm Just because you can make an album on your laptop doesn't mean you should.

Seriously. Such a sterilized version of the original. An old man trying to catch relevancy 40 years later.

RicksPickWrangler wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 5:43 pm Just because you can make an album on your laptop doesn't mean you should.

Seriously. Such a sterilized version of the original. An old man trying to catch relevancy 40 years later.

That was bad

Turn down the radio

How is that Autograph Beyond coming? Did they ever officially end it?

MattleyCrue wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 6:18 pm That was bad

Turn down the radio

Michael Hotts Ghost wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 3:57 am How is that Autograph Beyond coming? Did they ever officially end it?

that was one of the most cringeworthy ideas ever, zero original members, why do that?

MattleyCrue wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 6:18 pm That was bad

Turn down the radio

Just like that Sweet Home Alabama piece of shit.

"Turn it up!"

*Turns it off*

File this under “100% will not impact my life at all, and would rather do laundry than bother to listen to this “gem” of a song!

It's funny, Autograph hasn't been on my radar at all. I hadn't thought about them probably since the 80's but shortly after seeing this post I bought a box of about 70 CDs and sure enough there's a copy of Sign In Please. Nothing else from the era at all, just that one. Maybe I'll even give it a listen.