Old Enough to Forget

After four albums, it was time for the mandatory live record. Coming on the heels of Pat Benatar's Get Nervous Tour, she released an odd hybrid album titled Live from Earth . The album was 80% live, with two new studio tracks: the awesome "Love Is a Battlefield" and the throwaway "Lipstick Lies," which is perplexingly bland. The band here was tight: Neil Giraldo on guitar, Myron Grombacher on drums, Roger Capps on bass and Charlie Giordano on keyboards. Neil runs the band through its paces, and for the most part, the results are pretty decent, and in a couple of instances spectacular. His guitar tone at times was questionable and overly processed, but heck, it was the early '80s and that was a thing. At the time, it was cool. The album, as you'd expect, mines a little more from her latest album, but that's not a bad thing. It was top of mind for her audience. What was weird, though, was the omission of "Shadows of the Night," one of the be...