by Doug Stone
Never understood why the boys dubbed their third record 7 Wishes and not 3 Wishes (maybe cause Shooting Star snagged the idea first); whatever the case, the title track, concerning a magic lamb, burns down one side and up the other. Same goes for heavy smoker &Interstate Love Affair,& a tune previewed in Teachers (They just don't write 'em like that anymore). &Four in the Morning& (original title &I Can't Take It No More&) contains some of Blades' sharpest whiskey pontificating: &Tonight, tonight, tonight, this boy needs to rock!& At the end you get &Goodbye,& a beautiful memory-go-round of bitterness and sweetness. Blades reverts back to a school boy until the dynamic Gillis/Watson duo steps in trading scorching solos like the sun bursting through a hangover: &And all this could be such a dream so it seems/I was never much good at goodbye.& Amen.