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We reported a teaser from Ernie Burns back here, in which a new version of the 1986 movie Instruments of Destruction was announced - we now have, thanks to Seibertronian xRotorstormx, the new remastered clip, featuring Doug Aldritch, Mark Boals, Larry Aberman and more. Check out the clip below!
Doug Aldrich – guitar (Whitesnake, Dio, Dead Daisies, Lion),
Mark Boals – vocals (Yngwie J. Malmsteen),
and Larry Aberman – drums (Jimmy and Stevie Ray Vaughn ‘Family Style’, David Lee Roth)
have joined together with Ernie “Burns” Petrangelo (N.R.G.) to release a special 30th anniversary edition of “Instruments Of Destruction” from the original “The Transformers, The Movie” soundtrack.
Transformers Generation One fans will remember that Doug’s band Lion was featured on the original soundtrack released in 1986 performing The Transformers theme song.
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1832667)
Posted by steve2275 on October 12th, 2016 @ 3:22am CDT
while i love the music im not that keen on the vocals
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1832668)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on October 12th, 2016 @ 3:42am CDT
Not bad, the beginning needs some work but overall it was pretty good.
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1832670)
Posted by Rainmaker on October 12th, 2016 @ 4:04am CDT
I loved Instruments of Destruction but this version seems off in some way...
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1832672)
Posted by fenrir72 on October 12th, 2016 @ 4:47am CDT
I cringe every time I hear this piece. The massacre in the shuttle..........
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1832677)
Posted by BeastProwl on October 12th, 2016 @ 5:15am CDT
Always thought it was "Iron Birds of Fortune"
huh.
Wait it WAS. I'm not crazy am I? Like, is it me, or have the lyrics been changed into overtly sexual ones ?
Edit: Oh okay. I looked into it, and itmakes more sense to me now. I still prefer the lyrics of the movie version though.
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1832690)
Posted by Emerje on October 12th, 2016 @ 7:16am CDT
Dumb that it was the inferior, over sexualized version that they decided to redo rather than the superior and infinitely more popular movie version.
Emerje
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1832735)
Posted by Big Grim on October 12th, 2016 @ 8:37am CDT
Gotta admit, the changes to the lyrics here do nothing for me and took me quite by surprise! To be expected I suppose. I've been listening to the movie version since it came out!
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1832814)
Posted by Deathastator2212 on October 12th, 2016 @ 10:49am CDT
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1832819)
Posted by necr0blivion on October 12th, 2016 @ 11:01am CDT
Other than changing the lyrics, I'm not sure what makes this different than the version on the soundtrack. I'm such a fan of the OST version, this just feels like a bad live recording.
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1832874)
Posted by xRotorstormx on October 12th, 2016 @ 1:07pm CDT
I would like to make note that the lyrics were not changed *technically*
A few years back Ernie was at Botcon selling the NRG2 album with unreleased material from the 80s. This is the original unedited version of Instruments of Destruction and the lyrics were changed for the TFTM (for obvious reason) ..
Hey man it was the 80s!
* If you like hair metal .. I suggest you pick up the NRG2 album if you can still find it.
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1833048)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on October 12th, 2016 @ 8:23pm CDT
This is a solid early/mid 80's line up. It's funny, Mark Boals was hired by Yngwie and his first appearance was in the the video for "I'll See The Light Tonight" but he didn't sing the song; it was the original vocalist, Jeff Scott Soto. Lyrics are pure 80's sleaze, never knew it was the original. There might be a copyright issue preventing the use of the original lyrics.
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1833092)
Posted by Ultra Markus on October 12th, 2016 @ 11:32pm CDT
i always imagined that song as megatrons theme song
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1833100)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on October 13th, 2016 @ 1:38am CDT
It's a shame that this isn't available on Amazon
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1833127)
Posted by xRotorstormx on October 13th, 2016 @ 7:20am CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote:It's a shame that this isn't available on Amazon
The NRG album? Just stumbled upon this... I've got two copies myself
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1833345)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on October 13th, 2016 @ 6:09pm CDT
xRotorstormx wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:It's a shame that this isn't available on Amazon
The NRG album? Just stumbled upon this... I've got two copies myself
I meant the track. I use Amazon music so it would be great to have the digital copy across platforms.
Re: New Version of Transformers: The Movie Instruments of Destruction, feat. Doug Aldrich and More (1833474)
Posted by xRotorstormx on October 14th, 2016 @ 7:29am CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote: I meant the track. I use Amazon music so it would be great to have the digital copy across platforms.
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