Molly Hatchet - Find Somebody New

Following the 1984 release of "The Deed is Done" many southern rock fans felt they had seen and heard the last of Molly Hatchet. With the monumental shift ("collapse" might be a better word) that had taken place in the country's musical tastes in the mid 1980's it appeared the days of southern rock and those bands purveying the sound had come to an end.....and thus it appeared the axe wielding ol' girl had spun her last set of tunes. But five years later (1989) Hatchet fans received a pleasant surprise when Hatchet released a new album titled "Lightning Strikes Twice" on the SPV label. Unfortunately this album would not be the second round of lightning for the boys from Jax but would, in fact, be the last legitimate album bearing the name Molly Hatchet. The album is notable in Hatchet lore for being the last album on which Danny Joe Brown appeared. It also, unfortunately, marked the debut of guitarist Bobby Ingram who would later buy the Molly Hatchet name and continue to tour under that moniker even though no original band members remained with the band following Lightning Strikes Twice. The song presented here is "Find Somebody New".

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• Danny Joe Brown
• Molly Hatchet
• Molly Hatchet Final Album
• Molly Hatchet Original Band
• Lightning Strikes Twice

[Kizales]

Is this Danny Joe Brown singing?

[WVFreebyrd]

@Kizales Yes, this is Danny Joe Brown singing. This song is from the last album he appeared on "Lightning Strikes Twice". Somehow we got into a discussion above about the album Devils Canyon which was the first album which did not have DJB on vocals.

[mizzouborn]

Even though he's mentioned, Danny Joe didn't do anything on Devil's Canyon. I know for a fact.

This album is very weak....this was the debut album on Capital (not SPV) and the record company had too much say in what they recorded.

BTW, Dave has been back in the band for about 5 yrs.

[WVFreebyrd]

@mizzouborn Correct on Danny Joe not actually singing on Devil's Canyon. I just hadn't taken the time to respond to snuffereet.  I did notice Hlubek is now playing with the band but from what I've seen (and admittedly I have seen very little of the current band as I'm not a big fan of it [as you probably noticed from my post]) it doesn't look like he's playing much lead. Sad really, MH could have been much more but several things prevented that from happening. Thanks for your input and comments.

[noteworker1971]

Weak album or opposite, i love this one! Imho, this LP / CD has lovely songs. And great guitar work of Bobby Ingram made it more valuable.

[1962jbk]

Everyone has an opinion, and that's cool. BUT, if you really listen to this CD, and compare it to the other shit that was out there in the late '80s, this record rocks. As for Bobby buying the band's name and continuing in a different version, well, Hatchet isn't at all different from 90% of all the other classic rock bands out there. Hlubek had an opportunity to buy the name and declined. Thanks Bobby for carrying on the music. Last time I checked, Skynyrd had only one original member,

[utahan15]

it is but not all tracks posted, some of their cd s are obscure, hard to understand as hatchet is in the same league AS skynard, tight, loud and survived the test of time and the deaths of danny jo and axe slinger duane, step on it duane! rip

[faentausa]

@mizzouborn This is great album. The other shit is the shit. Top100 albums of all time!

[mizzouborn]

There are a lot of people who don't like the current MH line-up. I personally know every member of the current line-up and they're all terrific guys and great musicians. People want to original line-up and to be honest I would love to see the original six back together w/Danny Joe singing but that can never happen, even if they all were alive and healthy.

There is really only 2 things that killed the original line-up: bad management & excesses by the band members, mostly the second one.