Runnin Through The Night - American Noise
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Cleveland Ohio's own American Noise! It's what you have been waiting for! This is the official video put out by Planet Records in 1980 way before MTV!
Craig Balzer, Bruce Balzer, Tommy Rich, Greg Holt, George Sipl and Jerry Moran.
2023 Still listening to American Noise 🇺🇲 🤘👊🐓
Saw them all over Cleveland….bought the album right away, saw them more, smoked cigarettes with drummer at the Band Box….and still listening here in 2024…..man they were everything right about rock music.
Mr Craig Balzer recorded this for me on cassette after I called him from Chicago and asked if there was a way I could find this album because mine was over worn. He sent it to me with his signature and a real appreciative note. That was in 1986. In my mind, one of the best rock albums ever. 2021, Back in Cleveland and still appreciating American Noise. RIP Craig, Thank you American Noise. A fan for life !
Greg Holt lived across the street from me in Aurora!
Wow, I don't remember this song from back in the day. I just recently heard Michael Stanley playing it on WNCX and absolutely had to fInd out who this is. This song is an 'effing JAM!!!!!!!!!! This is real rock and roll. AMAZING!!!!!!
excellent, yup the Cleveland connection, remember that well, thanx Polly
great band....saw them quite often in the early 80's
Saw then as much as me and my friends could - I remember going to New Philly and Massillon to see them! They were THE BEST Cleveland band in the 80's. I never understood why they didn't make it big, but maybe too much success would have ruined them.
Polly, thanks for sharing and please do post more. Sorry to hear that Craig has passed....
I remember seeing the song in regular rotation on Pop Clips. 16 years old then!
I was around 12. The Police “Walking on the Moon.” Wall of Voodoo, M Pop Muzik...seems like a lifetime ago.
I admit, I saw them quite a few times...The Cleveland Connection, the Landing Pad in Strongsville and even when they opened for Breathless at The Agora. When they were "on" they were really good. They were never the same after they lost Tommy to Donnie Iris.
This brings back such fond memories.......thanks for posting!
needed a fix this morning missin these guys and the clev music sceane and family r.vargo
This was one of the first videos I remember seeing. It was on a program called Video Concert Hall. This was a year or so before MTV and I think the program aired on the USA network. They played this band, Shoes from Zion, IL, and a bunch of other great bands. Thanks for finding and posting this - I was beginning to think I imagined them.
Love this band! Used to watch them on PBS in Illinois . Seemed like they played it on a original 12" laser disc on some weekly show
TY TY Great times!
So very cool, Polly. Thanks so much for posting. I loved American Noise so much. I still have an autographed copy of the album in my music room!
I do believe this band was once named 747...they always opened up doing a great cover of the Who's Babba O'Reilly.
I recall having several conversations with Greg regarding the success of the band in the early 80s. I may have also spoken with Polly, Craig's then girlfriend and later wife, on the subject. This was my theory then. Had the Noise's album dropped anytime prior to '77, they would've achieved similar status as other Midwestern bands that became perennial concert draws, like Cheap Trick, Styx and REO Speedwagon. By the time the album dropped the musical landscape had drastically changed, due to the edginess of punk, post-punk and New Wave. Bands like The Who, Mott the Hoople and the Kinks, who were obvious influences, were all way past their prime or defunct. Perhaps if AM had taken cues from The Cars or The Romantics they would've been able to profitably tour and make records for as long as they wanted to. Just my two cents.
Mind you, none of this is written to throw shade. I totally enjoyed the record and their live shows. Just always wondered why they didn't do the things that could've increased their chances to become a far
bigger act. Really, I wanted to see a Cleveland band (that I knew) blow up.
Saw this video on a show called Popclips in 1980. Was told later it was hosted by Howie Mandel.
Yep! Before MTV!Saw it too.
sounds a lot like April Wine..pretty cool!
@akisxxy
What this is, is a band that, if you listen closely, is moving at about 100 M.P.H. and change and actually relating a story that is a hell of a lot more edgy than half of the posturing tripe that passes for rock and roll lately. Genres are for focus groups. Not writers. This may seem a bit tame now, but I can tell you that live, this band could part the hair of the first 40 rows and when they hit the stage it was "1, 2, 3, FAW!" and... gone daddy-o. Not a speck of cereal.
I was there so many times live and it was not only funner than snot, it was kick ass every time….i still hear the sound of C Balzers fender twin melting my face cause I would always be very full of beer and always standing up front center with buddies….I smoked more cigarettes with Tommy in clubs around town than some people smoke their whole life….im glad im still alive to remember that
Anyone have lyrics for this?
Classic
What ever happened to Greg Holt
he's around, doing his own thing.
This is awesome but it is A.O.R or rock n roll ?
It's music. : )
So very cool, Polly. Thanks so much for posting. I loved American Noise so much. I still have an autographed copy of the album in my music room!