Y&T (originally known as Yesterday & Today) is an American rock band formed in 1974. The band released two studio albums on London Records as Yesterday & Today in the 1970s, before shortening their name to Y&T and releasing several albums on A&M Records beginning in 1981, as well as albums on Geffen Records, Avex Records, and others. They have been declared influences by many bands from Motley Crue to Metallica. While they have gone through many lineup changes the core member is Dave Meniketti. The most famous lineup was Dave Meniketti – lead guitar, lead vocals.. Joey Alves – rhythm guitar, backing vocals..Phil Kennemore – bass guitar, backing vocals...Leonard Haze – drums, backing vocals.
http://www.meniketti.com/index.html
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First album up...Yesterday & Today

Animal Woman
25 Hours A Day
Game Playing Woman
Come On Over
My Heart Plays Too
Earthshaker
Fast Ladies (Very Slow Gin)
Alcohol
Beautiful Dreamer

Awesome album that started it all. This album was recorded on London Records and released in 1976. Personal favorite on this album would be "Beautiful Dreamer".

Seeing that a thread on this band was started I pulled this disc out of my archives and get it a fresh spin.

I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed the disc. Musically Yesterday and Today were mining from a similar field as Sammy Hagar was doing during this era.

Y & T's metal was purely a working class rockers band, nothing fancy, just straight ahead hard rock.

Fav song on this disc are 'Game Playing Woman' which has a Led Zep breakdown. As a matter fact through out the album Led Zep's influence come thru on the songs, thankfully not enough to make you consider them a Led Zep tribute act but its there in the grooves.

Very good disc that was going against the grain of what everyone else was doing at that time,

Cool! Glad you started this thread topic!
I only discovered Y&T much later (in my teens) when "Mean Streak""Summertime Girls" was released, but heard about the weight of this band in the Bay Area.

Being that Sammy had moved from So. Calif. to the Bay Area before joining Montrose and then this band being from the Bay Area (Livermore, Calif) There had been some animosity between Dave and Sammy, both have similar voices and play lead guitar.

I enjoy this album and like Manny really dig on "Game Playing Woman" Leonard is really under-rated on the drums. Thunderfoot is an adequate moniker.

Leonard Haze is an awesome drummer!!!!!! Nice to see a thread on this great Bay Area band.

I didn't get into them until they started playing stuff from Black Tiger on KSJO/KOME. I don't spin this first one one much but I will pull this out and listen to it again.

Struck Down is the second studio album by American hard rock/heavy metal band Yesterday and Today, released in 1978. It was one of the last rock albums to be released by London Records.

Struck Down
Pleasure In My Heart
Road
Nasty Sadie
Dreams Of Egypt
Tried To Show You
I'm Lost
Stargazer

I have this album on vinyl and wish I could find it cheap on CD. I have not played in eons because I no longer have a working turn table, but I do remember loving this album and felt it was better album then debut, especially when it came to the production of this disc.

Sadly 1978 was not a good year to be a newish metal band, so straight to the cut out bin this album went.

Just so everyone knows all these albums are available at Y&T's website for a good price.
http://store.meniketti.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=25

"Dreams of Egypt" is a really cool song!

My old best friend in High School had this on vinyl. He also had one wall in his room painted with the Y&T logo.

I am of the opinion that this second lp is better than the debut. This band and April Wine had a way of letting you know they could rock hard. Yet, that wasn't all that they did.

Perfectly amazing band and a darn great thread too! Thanks for the effort and the chatter about this great band.

Just saw them over the summer and Dave still sounds and plays like he's 25.

next up is Earthshaker. This was an "earthshaking" album for sure that really changed everything. It was released in 1981 and was the first album with the shortened name of simply Y&T.

"Hungry for Rock"
"Dirty Girl"
"Shake it Loose"
"Squeeze"
"Rescue Me"
"Young and Tough"
"Hurricane"
"Let Me Go"
"Knock You Out"
"I Believe in You"

Wow, I love this album. It is my second favorite Y&T album ( mean streak being by favorite)

They upped the bar on this one dramatically


The guitar tone really changed the dynamics and I believe that I saw them this year (1981) w/out realizing it was Yesterday & Today.

Great album, still play it alot !

This album I do not own or ever have, will have to change that one of these days

This is the first of the of the awesome trilogy of albums that would kick ass in the beginning of the 80s!!!!! I love this album.......... "I'm gonna knock you out............."!!!

Earthshaker is the first album where they really hit their stride. This one and the next two are the cream of the crop.

Earthshaker was where I came into the band. Really good album all the way through. I've never heard the 2 that preceded it save for a song or 2 here and there.