Straight Ahead
Studio album by
Greg Sage
Released1985
GenrePunk rock
Length39:33
LabelRestless Records
ProducerGreg Sage
Greg Sage chronology
Straight Ahead
(1985)		 Best of the Wipers and Greg Sage
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
MusicHound Rock3.5/5[2]

Straight Ahead is the debut solo album of Wipers frontman Greg Sage.[3] It was released in 1985.[4] Half the album consists of just Sage accompanied by his acoustic guitar.[5]

J Mascis covered "On the Run" on his 1996 solo album, Martin + Me. Ryan Adams covered the title track at the Xponential show on 26 July 2014.

Sage said of this album, "After I recorded Over The Edge, I had $5,000 invested into that record. The record company went bankrupt, so they took the money and started a new label. We got screwed and I had no way of paying back the debt, so that was the end of The Wipers. I was out in the Mohave desert and I wrote a bunch of songs on the acoustic guitar, I fixed a tape recorder for somebody. An eight track recorder, so I got to use it for a month as a fee for fixing it, I guess. I just recorded those songs. Then one day someone called from a record label, a guy that used to work for the label that screwed us, and he said "I feel sorry for you guys" and I told him that I didn't have any Wipers stuff for him and that The Wipers didn't exist anymore. Anyway, the label, licensed Straight Ahead, a live record, some old tapes and basically got me out of debt for Over The Edge. If I never recorded those songs, Over The Edge would've been The Wipers' last record."[6]

Track listing

All songs written by Greg Sage:

  1. "Straight Ahead" - 4:12
  2. "Soul's Tongue" - 2:45
  3. "Blue Cowboy" - 3:10
  4. "Your Empathy" - 2:58
  5. "The Illusion Fades" - 2:37
  6. "Seems So Clear" - 1:35
  7. "On the Run" - 2:12
  8. "Astro Cloud" - 4:08
  9. "Lost in Space" - 3:25
  10. "Let It Go" - 3:08
  11. "World Without Fear" - 5:05
  12. "Keep on Keepin' On" - 4:22

References

  1. ↑ "Straight Ahead - Greg Sage | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  2. ↑ Rabid, Jack (1996). "Wipers". In Graff, Gary (ed.). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (1st ed.). Visible Ink Press. pp. 737–38. ISBN 978-0-7876-1037-1.
  3. ↑ Guides (Firm), Rough (November 9, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781858284576 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Dominic, Serene (May 4, 2000). "The Wipers' Clean Slate". Phoenix New Times.
  5. ↑ "TrouserPress.com :: Wipers". www.trouserpress.com.
  6. ↑ "Greg Sage of Zeno Studios and The Wipers". tapeop.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.



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