Review: Adam Bomb – LIVEDREAM
Black Chrome (June 6th, 2025)
Reviewer – Grant Foster
Adam Bomb is a survivor.
A road dog.
A rock n roller.
He has worked with the likes of T.K.O., Black and Blue, John Paul Jones, Cliff Williams of AC/DC and Michael Monroe amongst others.
Adam is still out there playing in dive bars, clubs, toilets, service stations, in fact anywhere that will have him.
Driving thousands of miles in a beat up van. The latest tour covering nearly every nook and cranny of Europe.
That alone should command respect and recognition.
He has now released a live album. The soundtrack to the madness of the road, the empty beer bottles, curled up dry sandwiches, the sweat stained socks and jocks, the grime, the volume, the soundchecks, back breaking equipment humping, the merchandise stand meet and greets, the ability to keep a van in a straight line on zero hours sleep, the police stops, the bad food, the smell and all for those 90 or 120 minutes on a cramped stage with the low stage lights burning out your retinas.
Adam’s band is completed by the wonderfully named Kozzy Havok on bass and Kid Leo on drums.
His troops on the highway to hell and beyond.
But what about the live album – ‘LIVEDREAM‘?
Is it actually live?
Is any album totally live these days?
Some of the greatest have been ‘fixed.’
‘Unleashed in the East‘, ‘If You Want Blood‘, ‘Alive‘, the list is endless.
It’s produced by Dieter Derks, he of Scorpions/Twisted Sister/Accept fame.
It contains 20 tracks from across Adam’s 13 album career, including band solo spots.
Sonically, it’s punchy. And ambient. You could almost be front and centre standing underneath Adam’s ringlets.
If you aren’t familiar with Adam’s style, think early Kiss, Hanoi Rocks, Van Halen, add a pinch of glam, glitz punk and sleaze and you’re about there.
As you may expect, the band are tighter than the tightest screw that’s been over tightened. It’s brash, yet it’s slick.
Adam’s voice is perfectly serviceable and rock n roll in that lived in like a sneaker kinda way.
Stand out tracks are ‘I’m On It‘, ‘Might Makes Right‘, ‘Shake The Earth‘, ‘S.S.T.‘ ‘Pure Sex’ and ‘Rock Like Fuck‘. These are fuse lighters and then they go off like, well, like an atom bomb.
The last track, ‘One Punch Can Change The Fight‘ is a slower Aerosmith style track that demands you hold your flames high.
Oh and watch out for ‘Joint‘, which is AC/DC’s ‘TNT‘, but with the lyrics praising the joys of the herbal cigarette!
The killer track is, ‘I Want My Heavy Metal‘. It still kicks you square in the bollocks and then raises its middle finger as you’re hollering on the floor.
Look, just go and bloody buy this! Adam and his band deserve no less. It’s the sonic diary of a man who has given and continues to give his all to the cause of rock and roll and should have our respect for it.
Tracklist:
- Mb Intro/911
- Last Night On Earth (Instrumental)
- I’m On It
- Might Makes Right
- Shake the Earth
- Joint (THC)
- They Only Love You When You’re Dead
- Lyin’ With Dogs
- Crash Boom Bam
- Kid Leo Drum Solo
- Je T’aime Bebe
- Adam’s Guitar Solo
- D.W.I. On The Info-Superhighway
- S.S.T.
- I Want My Heavy Metal
- Pure S.E.X.
- Bought the Farm
- Crazy Mf
- Rock Like F#%K
- One Punch Can Change the Fight
Line-up:
Adam Bomb – guitar, vocals
Kozzy Havokk – bass
Kid Leo – drums
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