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Stryper 2010/11

Heaven & Hell from the forthcoming Stryper "Covering" Album. Listen to the Track. Very cool drums!!

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GOTTHARD'S SINGER STEVE LEE DIES IN MOTORBIKE ACCIDENT:
Sad, tragic and heartbreaking news has just broken - Steve Lee, the hugely respected voice of Swiss hard rock heroes Gotthard has been killed in a motorbike accident in California. There is no press release or official statement as of yet, but there will be in the hours to follow. News will be updated ASAP.

Swiss news reports: www.blick.ch/people/schweiz/steve-lee-schon-wieder-horror-crash-158008

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Streets were formed in late 1982 or early 1983 by then former Kansas vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter Steve Walsh, who left that band partly or mainly because he couldn't relate to Kerry Lofgren’s increasingly more religious lyrics. Walsh's lyrics about more street level things, like love and lust and 'lonely streets' were a nice contrast to Lofgren’s more serious, philosophical and religious lyrics, and musically his songs were in a more straight forward and less progressive rock vein than Lofgren’s.

It was (is?) no surprise then that Walsh's songs on Street/1st were both a continuation and an update of what he wrote in Kansas, yet the sound is noticeably different, with much more emphasis on guitars and with less adventurous and more straight forward 4/4 drumming and bright, colorful and very 80's sounding keyboards and synthesizers. And the more simple, down to earth lyrics and music may also account for the band's name. Even though you have Steve Walsh's distinctive high tenor singing voice, this sounds almost nothing like Kansas...which is not necessarily a bad thing. The change in sound also had to do with the fact that Walsh was now writing music for a quartet, where in Kansas he had to write songs for a sextet and for much more instruments. For those who were disappointed at how different this sounded than Kansas, it should be noted that even Kansas weren't sounding like their old selves around this time. It may also be worth pointing out that both Streets/1st and Kansas/Drastic Measures, released the same year, were produced and engineered by Neil Kernon.

Joining Steve Walsh in Streets was/were drummer Tim Gehrt( who played on Walsh's Schemer Dreamer album), ex-City Boy guitarist Mike Slamer and bassist Billy Greer, who would join Steve when he re-formed Kansas a few years later.


The songs are:
If Love Should Go (4:07) Walsh-Slamer
 
Move On (3:48) Walsh
One Way Street (4:48) Walsh
Lonely Woman's Cry (5:35) Walsh
Everything Is Changing (3:09) Walsh
Cold Hearted Woman (3:20) Conn
So Far Away (3:53) Walsh
Blue Town (3:29) Walsh-Slamer-Gehrt-Greer
Fire (5:08) Walsh-Slamer-Gehrt
 
Do I like this as much as Kansas? No, not really. Walsh could still hit them impossibly high notes, though with not as much ease as he used to and his voice was starting to take on a tougher and more gravely edge. The songs don't have as much depth and variety as Kansas songs did...an acoustic guitar and/or piano led ballad would have sounded out of place here, but would have given the album some much needed variety....and the production, while very heavy on guitars, is noticeably thin, due to the bass guitar being buried in the mix. And, take away Walsh's distinctive singing voice and this could have been any other generic, 80's hard rock/pop group (Loverboy and Kiss during their hair pop/metal years in the late 80's comes to mind).

Still, you can't have everything (where would you put it?) and the album does have it's share of likable songs on it. And if this is a commercial and radio friendly sounding album, it is so in good ways. If Love Should Go, One Way Street, Everything is Changing and Cold Hearted Woman all have catchy, sing-alongable choruses and verses, memorable, catchy and tough guitar riffs and some very well played guitar solos (by Mike Slamer, who really plays his wump off on the entire album) and incredible singing, as do a few of the lesser songs like Blue Town, Move On (maybe too much synthesizer on this one) and So Far Away, though not as much obviously. I also like the vocal harmonies by Billy Greer on the chorus for If Love Should Go. Everything is Changing has my favorite lyric on the album, with the opening line " My world is changing I won't put up a fight, my microwaves are making love in the night...".
The most complex pieces are the two longest, Lonely Woman's Cry and Fire. The latter is also the most progressive piece and has the longest instrumental section, during which Greer and Walsh get a chance to show off on their respective musical instruments. While I think Fire may be the most interesting song musically, it unfortunately has the worst vocal performance on the album, with Walsh really overdoing it on the higher notes and trying too hard to sound neat...a trend that unfortunately would continue and get even worse in the future as his voice would gradually deteriorate.
I'm glad that the name Kansas was not chosen for this band, not just because it was still being used at the time, but also because I don't think I would accept this as a Kansas album. Taken on it's own terms, though, I find this to be a rather enjoyable, if lightweight, album. I would say it may be my favorite thing that Steve Walsh did outside of Kansas, and I prefer it to the rather forgettable second and last album by Streets, Crimes In Mind and almost everything by the re-formed Kansas of 1986 and beyond (the exception is 2000's wonderful Somewhere To Elsewhere, which Walsh sang on, but was written exclusively by Kerry Livgren).

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Most rock historians would agree the pinnacle of THIN LIZZY's commercial success was in 1983, followed by the band's premature demise, as they played their last gig in September of 1984. Just two years later, the world was shocked when singer/bassist and founding member Phil Lynott passed away at the age of 36.
24 years have passed, the world has changed, but the amazing body of work that is THIN LIZZY still retains all of its vibrancy and influence.

A new lineup has formed to take LIZZY's music to a whole new generation of music fans. Led by alumni Scott Gorham, Brian Downey and Darren Wharton (all of whom played in THIN LIZZY with Phil Lynott) the stellar lineup is completed by DEF LEPPARD's Vivian Campbell (guitar), bassist Marco Mendoza (WHITESNAKE, TED NUGENT) and THE ALMIGHTY's Ricky Warwick on vocals and guitar.
Alongside the new lineup, Universal Music has committed to a series of re-issue, deluxe and special releases of classic THIN LIZZY material over the next 18 months. More details to follow.
THIN LIZZY has confirmed a 2011 Germany tour.

THIN LIZZY 2010 is:

Scott Gorham - Guitar
Brian Downey - Drums
Darren Wharton - Keyboards
Vivian Campbell - Guitar
Marco Mendoza - Bass Guitar
Ricky Warwick - Lead Vocals / Guitar

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Golden Earring - Cut. After spending much of the late '70s and the early '80s as a cult band, Golden Earring returned to an international level of popularity in 1982 with the hit single (and popular MTV attraction) "Twilight Zone." This song and seven others are featured on Cut, a solid album that found Golden Earring starting to deviate from the pop/rock formula they perfect on No Promises...No Debts and Prisoner of the Night. Like those albums, Cut works its way through a series of guitar-based rock songs built on strong hooks. However, the band allows themselves to instrumentally stretch out a bit on some of the songs this time out. The most notable example is the midsection of "Twilight Zone," where George Kooymans lays out an exploratory series of guitar solos that build to crescendo over the taut bassline provided by Rinus Gerritsen. The other songs on Cut aren't as tightly crafted and hook-laden as those on the last few albums, but there are still plenty of strong tracks: "Baby Dynamite" is a power ballad about a fame-seeking girl that is built on a nicely harmonized chorus and "Lost and Found" is a strong mid-tempo rumination on the end of a relationship that boasts an impassioned yet subtle vocal performance from Barry Hay.
However, the best non-"Twilight Zone" track on the album is the least typical: "The Devil Made Me Do It" is a witty, fast-paced pop-rocker about love gone bad built on an eccentric but effective combination of mock-gospel call and response vocals and an energetic horn section. Some of the tracks fall short of the mark ("Future" runs a decent riff into the ground by failing to develop it in an interesting way), but the album contains enough strong tracks to make it worth a listen for the Golden Earring fan.

- Rinus Gerritsen / bass, keyboard
- Barry Hay / flute, Vocals
- George Kooymans / guitar, vocals
- Cesar Zuiderwijk / drums
- Robert Jan Stips / synthesizer

1.The Devil Made Me Do It (3:25)
2. Future (5:25)
3. Baby Dynamite (5:15)
4. Last of the Mohicans (4:09)
5. Lost and Found (4:00)
 
6. Twilight Zone (7:58)
7. Chargin' Up My Batteries (4:17)
8. Secrets (4:04)

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Wild Horses was formed in the summer of 1978 by ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson and ex-Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain. At an early stage the line-up featured former Stone The Crows and Wings guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and former Small Faces drummer Kenney Jones, but eventually stabilised with the addition of drummer Clive Edwards (ex-Pat Travers, Uli Roth) and guitarist/keyboardist Neil Carter (ex-Wilder, Gilbert O'Sullivan). This line-up recorded the Trevor Rabin-produced The First Album in 1980, released by EMI who signed the band after their 1979 Reading Festival appearance.
Auf diesem Festival sah ich die Band und war sofort von dem Sound überzeugt, der mich an Thin Lizzy erinnerte. Nicht zuletzt wegen dem genialen Gitarren Spiel von Brian Robertson. Die erste CD war dann schlicht gesagt der Hammer. Sehr gut arrangierte Songs die einem wie bei Lizzy im Gehörgang blieben. Tolles Album für Freunde des Gitarren Rock. Mein Fav ist und bleibt Reservation. Unbedingt antesten und kaufen. Für mich ein Milestone. ******(6)

Carter left the band in August 1980 after the band's UK tour with Ted Nugent in order to join UFO and later Gary Moore. His replacement was guitarist John Lockton (ex-The Next Band, Red Alert) whose first appearance was on the band's Japanese tour in the autumn of 1980 followed by the release of the Stand Your Ground album in the spring of 1981.

In June 1981, Robertson and Edwards both left Wild Horses in the wake of the band's Paris Theatre show in London. Robertson teamed up with Motorhead a year later and recorded Another Perfect Day in 1983, before moving on to join fellow Scotsman Frankie Miller on the Dancing In The Rain album in 1986. Edwards continued with a number of different acts, including Bernie Marsden's S.O.S., Grand Prix, and Lionheart.

Bain assembled a new Wild Horses line-up featuring Lockton, former Lautrec stepfather and son team, Reuben (vocals) and Laurence Archer (guitar), and The Def Leppard E.P. credited drummer Frank Noon. The Archers and Noon left only months later and went on to form their own band, Stampede, and Wild Horses ceased to exist, with Bain joining his former Rainbow bandmate Ronnie James Dio in Dio, while Lockton became a member of German hard rockers Victory.

Wild Horses members Laurence Archer and Clive Edwards were part of the UFO line-up that recorded the High Stakes & Dangerous Men and Lights Out In Tokyo albums in the early 1990s, before spending time in Medicine Head.

Both The First Album and Stand Your Ground were re-issued on CD in Japan and Europe in the 1990s; the latest set of re-issues came on 26 May 2009 through UK-based Krescendo Records. (Wikipedia)

Learn more about Wild Horses at Facebook …hosted by Lee Jones > Hello Lee :)
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Jimmy Bain - bass/vocals
Brian Robertson - guitar/vocals
Neil Carter -guitar/keyboards
Clive Edwards - drums

1. Reservation
 
2. Face Down
3. Blackmail
4. Flyaway
5. Dealer
6. Street Girl
7. No Strings Attached
8. Criminal Tendencies
9. Nights On The Town
10. Woman
11. Rocky Mountain Way
12. Saturday Night

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