Okay, okay. I’ve been meaning to do this episode for years. And well, I just can’t put it off any longer. Today, I’m counting down my Top 10 picks for the dumbest and cheesiest celebrity music projects that no one asked for… Songs and albums spearheaded by actors and famous personalities who just had to have their cake and eat it too. The good news is that most of these celebrities had a day job to fall back on… because I tell ya, their music careers weren’t going to pay the bills. There’s the story of the larger-than-life WWF icon Hulk Hogan who once claimed he was ready to throw in the towel on his wrestling career to play bass for Metallica. He sent in an audition tape, but it was a pipe dream. Then there’s the teen movie star Corey Feldman, who turned down a guaranteed #1 hit from Michael Jackson to write his own song instead… and his music career has been mocked ever since. And finally, there’s Eddie Murphy, who won a hundred thousand dollar bet by proving he could make a “serious” music album with no jokes in it. But he never got paid. Let’s get into it.
Bruce Willis - The Return of Bruno:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYwE8cbYlNU&list=PLSHpr766HS6R1eqlpsccpe4noSTZ-nfgH
The Bacon Brothers:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheBaconBrothers
Corey Feldman Truth Movement - Technology Analogy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fW0C_8BAk&list=PLxh5OIlu5ZdCBXPwNV3DCrfRHUYyf1T3J
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Hey Music Junkies, It’s time to break out the cheez wiz. for our Celebrity music countdown, but I will tell you this. As I listened through these unfortunate musical projects…A lot of it is really bad, but some are surprisingly good. Let’s get into it… Coming in at #10, we’re covering the music career of action flick actor Steven Seagal. And there’s no doubt about it, the man is “Hard to Kill,” even when he’s “Under Siege.” No pun intended….Most of us know Steven Seagal from campy 90s action movies, but did you know that the martial arts master was actually a musician before he was an actor? Steven got his first guitar at age 12 and has been playing the blues ever since. Over the years he's even built one of the most valuable private vintage guitar collections in the world, including instruments from Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and B.B. King.
As Steven recalled, “I played in bands when I was a kid, but life got in the way... I sold everything that I owned except for one guitar when I moved to Japan. And after practicing martial arts every day, I'd pick up my guitar and practice that. I'd play first thing in the morning and last thing before bed. I'd spent many years as a bedroom guitarist, but I wanted to get out there and play.”Later in 2004, this Glimmer Man turned blues-man released his debut album, Songs from the Crystal Cave, in 2004. But no one took him seriously and the album was universally panned. Still this collection of pop, country, and blues, featured some surprise guests… including R&B legend Stevie Wonder playing harmonica. Seagal reportedly also flew to Jamaica to record with Lady Saw and members of the Marley family. But what came as no surprise was how the album fared on the US Billboard 200. This baffling world-music-meets-blues hybrid missed the charts completely… except in France where it reached #42. Several of the songs would then appear on the soundtrack to his 2005 film Into the Sun… including Girl It’s Alright and Don’t You Cry.
In April 2006, Seagal followed this up with his 2nd blues-rock record, Mojo Priest, and took the material on a concert tour. AllMusic would later give it 1.5 stars out of 5. Which may be a little generous. The review said that Seagal's guitar playing "rarely rises above bar band pedigree," and that the music "takes itself so seriously that it borders on delusional excess.” If anyone’s listened all the way through either of these albums I’d be interested to know your thoughts. Because that’s a lot further than I got.
Next at #9, another action star, but one with a much better resume. Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense. Its Bruce Willis…
