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Romero’s Backbone

Ronnie Romero was a guest on The Rock ‘n’ Blues Experience podcast on the occasion of his second solo album Backbone.

A TL;DR extract from the above:

Playlist of the Ronnie’s new album for your listening perusal:

By the by, track #5 Hideaway was penned for Romero by Russ Ballard.

Thanks to Tim C for the heads-up.

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Posted by Nick on Friday, October 31st, 2025, filed under News. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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5 Comments to “Romero’s Backbone”:

  1. 1
    MK44 says:

    Unfortunately for Ronnie, the backing musicians are not up to par with him. Also nothing exciting about he songs IMHO.

    November 1st, 2025 at 21:50
  2. 2
    MK44 says:

    *the songs 🙂

    November 1st, 2025 at 21:51
  3. 3
    Uwe Hornung says:

    My wife guffawed while I listened to this: “That slow gallop, now let me think where have I heard that before? Is this comparatively recent – like from 1980?” 🤣

    This music is so incongruously old-fashioned it makes Showaddywaddy in the late 70s seem like the cutting edge precursors of something new – after all they were back then only two (not four!) decades behind the times! 😂

    https://youtu.be/tVptktQvDMU

    I have a distinct memory though that back then they were perceived as a nostalgia gimmick outfit not to be taken quite serious.

    But of course you can’t compare the two. 😑

    November 2nd, 2025 at 14:48
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    Fla76 says:

    Romero is a good singer, but unfortunately there is nothing to like about his very posed singing style that almost seems fake.

    I’m sorry to say this because he’s good, but compared to technically “established” singers (certainly not Gillan, Coverdale, Plant, and many others), but for example Dio, Dickinson, Steve Lee, John Goeli and even Doogie White, the good Romero is anonymous like many other singers of metal bands or metal cover bands.

    November 3rd, 2025 at 23:49
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    Uwe Hornung says:

    When I hear him speak his mother tongue

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uzBiNCdWOo8

    I can imagine how much more natural and agile he would be singing in Spanish. It‘s a beautiful language you can rock in too.

    https://youtu.be/NZATfMkU_xc

    There is a whole Latin American and Iberian rock market waiting for him yet here he wastes his talent doing archaic Dio and Freddie Mercury impersonations.

    November 4th, 2025 at 21:45

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