Top 15 albums that should be considered classics(but for some reason aren't?!?!)

#6 Lillian Axe "Love and War"

Lillian Axe was, and is New Orleans' greatest contribution to hard rock music. Guitar god Stevie Blaze had his pick of some of the greatest musicians in the U.S.A., and he assembled this band in 1985. MCA records picked them up in 1987 as an experimental band. They released a self-titled album which had NO airplay, but was a masterpiece. "Love and War" was the album that was supposed to put them over the top, but rumor has it that one of the band members rejected advances by a male record company executive, and they were quickly thrown under the bus..which one, I'm not sure (check out the picture, and see if you can figure it out). They were ultimatley dropped by MCA Records.
Lillian Axe is still around, and quite frankly, my favorite album of theirs (and one of my favorites of all time) is "Poetic Justice", released after "Love and War" and LONG after the MCA incident. "True Believer" SHOULD be up there with "Here I Go Again" and "Wait" from White Lion, but unfortunately, the politics behind the scenes prohibited the song from even being promoted. A few stations such as our local metal station KBPI, gave it moderate airplay, but it never reached the mainstream market. I love every album from this band, but the one that stuck out in my mind as truly groundbreaking was "Love and War", which went out of print six months after it was released. The first and only video from this band was "Show A Little Love"- a great song, but quite frankly, as a regular viewer of "the Headbangers Ball", I never saw...here it is

Another would-be classic is "Dianna",which they still play live to this day, but as I mentioned earlier, they were pretty much black-listed. Here is the album version....
Here is an acoustic version of what SHOULD be a greatest hit..."True Believer"..

Stevie Blaze is one of the greatest guitarists in hard rock, rivaling John Petrucci of Dream Theater in his technical mastery...although this isn't the greatest version of the National Anthem I have have heard, I'm sorry.... this KILLS, Hendrix's version...