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Reduced price due to cut out Guitarist Kane Roberts is best known for his tenure in Alice Cooper's band during the late 1980s but he also released two solo albums. Roberts is notable for his Rambo-like appearance and physique and his usage of an electric guitar shaped like a machine gun. Roberts played on Alice Cooper's Constrictor and Raise Your Fist and Yell and their respective tours. He is the man responsible for Alice's metal years in the late '80s as he co-wrote nearly every track from those albums. Just by being on stage, he was a part of the show with his huge physique and rocket shooting guitars. After Raise Your Fist, Roberts released his first solo album, Kane Roberts, at the height of 80s hair hokum, the only environment in which this slick slice-and-dice axe-fest could possibly prosper. But while his fellow backup brother from the Alice Cooper camp, Kip Winger, went on to considerable success, Roberts eponymous outing created nary a stir. Definitely not an essential recording, but a fun wad of dated craziness, the gargantuan guitarist's first is filled with fist-clenching, fuel-injected, shout-along choruses about hot-wired machines: some metal, but mostly female. Even the big mans razor-sharp riffs can't keep this cheese from curdling, as contributors like the aforementioned Winger, hard-hearted Alice himself who he co-wrote the track Full Pull with, and trivia question Robbie Dupree can't help the songwriting surpass the clever level established by titles like Rock Doll, Too Much (For Anyone to Touch), and the infectious Triple X. Some glam-like bits rise above briefly, but overall this deletion deserves its place in obscurity: impossible to hate, but easy to ignore. Sure, If This Is Heaven swings silly enough, but the Kane Roberts debut mostly demonstrates why poodle pop-metal must forever fight for props. Look, a listener can grow to like anything, but this is flat, corporate hair without the hits, so be careful how much you shell out for Kane Roberts. Track listing: 1. Rock Doll 2. Women on the Edge of Love 3. Triple X 4. Gorilla 5. Outlaw 6. If This Is Heaven 7. Out for Blood 8. Full Pull 9. Too Much (For Anyone to Touch) 10. Tears of Fire 11. A Strong Arm Needs a Stronger Heart