Old Enough to Forget

After Molly Hatchet's Flirtin' with Disaster , Danny Joe Brown left the band and ventured out on his own, releasing his one and only solo effort as the Danny Joe Brown Band. The album was produced by the legendary Glyn Johns and mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound. By all accounts, it would seem that the folks at Epic put some budget behind the band, and if it wasn't for the changing musical landscape, I wonder if this wouldn't have been bigger. 1981 was the changing of the guard. A new decade was underway, and rock was becoming more polished. The hair wasn't going to get longer, but it was going to get bigger. New wave and techno were just on the horizon, and the three-guitar attack of bands like April Wine and Molly Hatchet - who would release their second album, Take No Prisoners , with Danny Joe Brown's replacement Jimmy Farrar later that same year - were on the way out. Although April Wine's Nature of the Beast was huge, so there goes that theo...