San Francisco’s Y&T were one of the greatest hard rock bands of the late 70s and 80s thanks to albums such as Earthshaker and Black Tiger and songs like Rescue Me and Summertime Girls, but their reputation as a hard rock powerhouse was never matched by their sales. In 2005, frontman Dave Meniketti sat down with Classic Rock to look back over the career of one of rock’s greatest but unluckiest bands.
Let’s be honest: most reunions suck. All too often thrown together through desperation, minus key personnel, regroupings usually fail to recapture the spirit and quality of the original incarnations. When San Francisco hard rockers Y&T, on the other hand, toured the UK in the summer of 2005 – the first time in 22 years they’d played these shores – their powerhouse live shows easily matching the performances of yesteryear.
