The Firm - Mean Business

Mean Business

Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page are two of the all time greats together with THE FIRM. I like this one! August 18, 2008

Jimmy Page Still Rocks

The second album from what was supposed to be a super group. Paul Rogers got greedy and blew this deal, but, this second of 2 albums from The Firm is as rock solid as just about anything Page did with Zeppelin. No Rogers is no Robert Plant but he does well Chris Slade is a solid Drummer and Tony Franklin I think is one of the best Bass Players of all time. You won't be disappointed but don't expect the mystic Zeppelin either. I love this piece of work. Great tunes such as All The Kings Horses, Live In Peace, classic balads that only Page can pull off. A must for Page and Zep fans, it is beautiful and hard as well as emotional and gripping. August 30, 2007

One very underrated Classic from a Supergroup that is sadly forgotten

The Firm were the Blues Supergroup of the 1980s, and they did two amazing albums in Blues style and majesty. Paul Rodgers of Bad CO. fame was on Vocals and Guitar as well as Piano and Keyboards, when Bass prodogy Tony Franklin was on Bass and Keyboards, while Manfriend Mann's Earth Band Drummer Chris Slade was on Drums, and the four dimentional Guitar Wizzardry of Jimmy Page filed in the rest.
The two albums were the self titled debut which was fantastic, while Mean Business was a great and amazing album that unfortunatley was not recieved well.
Fortune Hunter is a Blues track in the style of Bad Company, when Cadillac was a Zeppelin influenced track with Jimmy using the Bow on his Guitar in this track, that is also a true throwback to the Blues of Cream.
The songs of All The Kings Horses and Live In Peace were Paul Rodgers songs in which only one was previously recorded in a failed solo album by Rodgers. All The Kings Horses is a love story based on a Japanese Fairy Tale, thus being the cause of the Asian influence in the music, when Live in Peace is a dark song about the sadness of why our world was so much troubled in that time of the 1980s, although it still is a world that is so troubled and close to oblivion in so many ways. The Guitar solo that dominates the end in two sections, end to end, is amazing, and especially with it being by Jimmy Page, where Paul plays a beautiful Piano throughout the song.
Tair Down The Walls is a Blues song again in Bad Co. style, when it is also in a Jimmy Page style, which is the same with Fortune Hunter, while Dreaming is a song that Tony Franklin wrote, and it is a beautiful Guitar Rock song, which is Blues Ballad through and though; while Free To Live is a Blues foundated song about liberation, and the final song on the album is a Piano driven song that Rodgers wrote about self searching, and it is called The Spirit of Love.
I admire this album due to it being so fresh and clear to this very day. I truly recomend this classic. June 12, 2007

It's Jimmy Page!

That's all you need to know. If you like him then you'll like this album. But then again, I'm a bit biased. January 4, 2007

Starts off well...

then drifts into a few different areas. Paul Rodgers does some great vocal work... something right off of Burning Sky. Page's guitar work is unique to the band, not too many (if any) out-right similarities/comparisons to his Led Zep stuff... July 19, 2006

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