If memory serves, the recording of "Realized Fantasies" took a long time, to some degree the result of original producer (Rick Wake) not quite "getting" TNT's vision of their own musical direction. A subsequent and no doubt fairly expensive remix of the album courtesy of Gary Lyons further delayed the album's release, and possibly claimed a sizeable chunk of the promotional bu
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Agreed on your assessment of the same titled debut album from 1985, Aaron - it's much more straightforward AOR, enough so to even positively shock those who hated "Hot Child in the City"! ;-) ...Vocally, it kind of reminds me of the transition that Terry Brock went through in Strangeways between "Native Sons" to "Walk in the Fire", with the musical change however bei
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...and some of us live there, as it happens. We may be a small country on the other side of the big pond, but what happened would be devastating in a country of ANY size in peace time. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. The aftermath of July 22nd is still very much an active debate in various guises in the news here and will continue to be so for many years, I imagine. As for the events in M
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I saw this band - Norwegians, by the way - backing Glenn Hughes for a Deep Purple tribute show sometime after his "Soul Mover" release, from which they also did the title track. The musicianship was solid and the gig a pretty good one, too. If anything, Hughes' bass, which was constantly too loud in the mix, and a tendency to scream seemingly just because he still can, were my reservati
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Hey Fred! Thanks for clearing up the bit about Jaap Eggermont - his position as a producer makes more sense like that. I'm aware that Bert recorded some solo material in Dutch in the late '90s, but I didn't know that Mr. Eggermont was involved with that - thanks for sharing that piece of information! For whatever it's worth, I'm a big fan of Heerink's voice, but have put off investigat
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I've always liked the Vandenberg albums. I only discovered them when the "Best of" album came out in the late eighties - after the band's demise, in other words - but I've listened to their albums quite a bit, and still do occasionally. The self-titled debut will probably sound like a seventies release to many - a few of the toms drummer Jos Zoomer uses may be the only giveaway to su
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...Gav, among other things, said that it was Andrew's board and Andrew's call how he deals with stuff. When he exercises his rights as such, however, he "sounds like a child." ...Oh, and clearly any administrator decisions made by Andrew may still be criticized until the cows come home and then some? By the way, I wasn't aware that Andrew has made any claims that this internet forum
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With "Monster" looming in the not too distant future, here's a further, little Kiss-related newspiece (hope this hasn't been posted here previously): http://guitarsquid.com/posts/ex-kiss-guitarist-vinnie-vincent-ordered-to-fork-over-royalties-to-gene-simmons/11196/ While neither Mr. Cusano nor Mr. Simmons score highly on the sympathetic scale as personalities, I do hope Vinnie Vin
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The "Hear & Now" and "Creatures of Habit" CDs aren't available to me at the time of writing this, but the "Reach for the Sky" 2CD anthology confirms Godfrey Diamond's credit as co-producer on both albums - as does Billy Squier's official website. In the "Reach..." sleeve notes, Squier recalls struggling to come up with the material for the successor
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Godfrey Diamond co-produced both "Hear & Now" and "Creatures of Habit" with Billy Squier. They were released in that order - in 1989 and 1991 respectively.
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If memory serves, the album is based around a story that (Danish writer) Hans Christian Andersen stumbled upon during one of his many travels, but which is rather dark and/or controversial compared to the fairy tales he later became very famous for collecting and publishing. I don't remember how the actual album by Carisma sounded anymore, but I do recall being fascinated by the story behind i
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Hey Ted! Thank you very much for answering my questions - ...I can't tell you how much of a treat it is to get these insights into my favourite recordings of yesteryear! All the best of luck to you with your currents bands/projects, and keeping on playing it with power! Best regards, Geir :-)
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Hey Harald! To my knowledge, "Priceless" has yet to see an official release release on CD, although I have a vague recollection of Retrospect Records possibly saying they were going to rectify that. (My memory may be off here...) ...It's an excellent EP, though, and I'd love to hear the material properly remastered, as it sounded pretty good for the era. Also, I'd be curious to know i
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Hey Ted! I hope you don't mind answering a few more Prophet related questions now that you're on a roll regarding the subject... :-) Like Janne S., I'm a huge fan of the first Prophet album. To me, the self titled LP is an amazing amalgam of the good bits from the seventies (the tight musicianship and wonderful vocals) transplanted with a massive dose of energy straight into 1985, and sounding
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Steady on! While I'm sure most of us would agree that Darren Wharton should be entitled to royalties from his own songs of yesteryear, he doesn't actually own the rights to the original masters for "Out of the Silence," which is where the real problem lies. Universal Music or whoever administers the rights to A&M Records these days thus get to decide who is able to license "Out
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...Less than 10 minutes after posting the above, I happened to stumble upon a picture of Aina and a biography via this link (courtesy of the new, Norwegian rock centre/museum, Rockheim): http://www.rockheim.no/mediateket/norsk-pop-og-rockleksikon/aina/ It's in Norwegian, but the very last sentence actually states that the intro to the "Living in a Boy's World" album is a recording made
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I can't resist chiming in on the Aina Olsen album intro thread from further down, but I've taken the liberty of bumping it up by before it disappears off into the older messages section. Anyway, I played a couple of my colleagues the intro today, and whereas none of them could identify which song is sung briefly in the intro, one of them swore he'd heard the melody before, but with different lyr
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The Feeling are currently recording their third album. Sessions are well underway with some songs nearing the mixing stage, while tracking has only just commenced with others. Bob Ezrin is acting as co-producer, by the way - I find that bodes well! While their second album "Join With Us" certainly was less immediate than their debut, there are a few tracks that melodic rock fans may ju
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Stuart, I do believe you're spot on in terms of your suspicions with regards to the majority of the material featuring Jeff Pollard on "AOR Live." I've also debated this particular CD with a friend of mine who posts here more often than I do, and he'd long since come to the same conclusion, as well. Anyway, I can't recall where and when I saw this, but I'm pretty sure someone in the Le
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I was present at Rick's Oslo show, as well. ...Absolutely brilliant gig, and yes - that energy of Rick's is nothing less than astounding, not to mention highly entertaining to behold! His band - Matt Bissonette - bass/vocals; George Bernhardt - guitars/vocals; Derek Hilland - keys/vocals; Rodger Carter - drums - is also really solid, and I have to say Bernhardt in particular impressed me. He h
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As pointed out in the other thread on the subject, Tony Harnell and Joe Lynn Turner collaborated on the harmonies and background vocals for TNT's "Intuition." A few years ago, one of them, possibly Turner, commented on the fact that they had had a real blast recording those vocals - cutting tracks during the day, and hitting Trondheim fairly heavy by night! Good times were had by all in
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Frazzle Batt, I agree that "One Way Ticket to Hell ... and Back" sounds better than "Red Light Fever." Personally, I find the drums are a little dull sonically - beyond that, I don't have a problem with the production and/or mix. I would furthermore argue that it's a well-arranged record with good performances from Justin Hawkins, with Pete Rinaldi being the band member whose
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...Whereas I wouldn't really applaud certain profile and image decisions made by Justin & co, I find "Red Light Fever" to be a good, solid rock album. The falsetto aspect as well as the occasional musical left-field-isms will forever find Justin Hawkins at a love and hate crossroads with music listeners, a fact rather profoundly demonstrated in this forum's rather predictable abilit
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> I had this lined upready to go with Angelmilk Records.....then everything went to hell :( ...VERY sorry to hear that it didn't work out this time around, Andrew! "Wait For Night" is truly overdue for release on CD. It sounds extraordinarily good for its day (and way ahead of its time!), and a professional remaster has mouthwatering potential, to put it mildly! Oh, and how about t
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...Kudos to Andy and Andrew for sourcing many bonus tracks for the at long last official release of Alias' second album in the first place. It's a shame that 80 minutes isn't enough to house them all, but perhaps ditching BOTH "Call Me" and "Who Do You Think You Are?" could be a solution? These two tracks are in reality first album left-overs and would have been a nice touch o
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This is somewhat off topic, but I can't help but remark that this is still one of the daftest monickers for a band that I've ever come across - weren't these guys from New Jersey? In fact, THAT's a band name that would have made sense... No opinions on the band's music, bar the observation that many people seemed to like their debut at the time. As for recording budgets, it thankfully takes less
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...Supposedly, Hot Leg's debut album will be out in the first quarter of 2009. A couple of free MP3's have been offered to those willing to enter the band's mailing list - the track "Trojan Guitar" is currently the one available as such. (Go to http://teamhotleg.com/freebies) As for tour activities, Hot Leg will be support act to Extreme on three gigs just over the weekend - details he
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Hey Rocker X! The re-issue is already out here in Norway and there are no additional tracks on it beyond the original eleven, I'm afraid. It's a great initiative on Sony/BMG's part, though - hopefully, the initial 15 titles in "Norsk paa nytt" series will be successful enough to generate further re-issues. Geir :-)
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Rocknut! The "Night of the Crime" + "A More Perfect Union" double CD came courtesy of Reborn Classics, I believe - also home to the bizarre 2-for-1 coupling of "Fierce Heart" and New England's "Walking Wild". Both of these are bootlegs, and of distinctively inferior quality compared to the official CD issue of "An Even More Perdect Union". Also w
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Hey all again! My source regarding Stephen Clifford's departure from Icon prior to the release of "Night of the Crime" is the Rock Candy re-release of said album and the information contained in the booklet for that CD. Clifford announced that he was leaving with immediate effect on July 3rd 1985, according to Derek Oliver's sleeve notes, whereas "Night of the Crime" was rele
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