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  2. Angelica

    in Christian Rock and Metal

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    Here you go guys..... here's the lowdown on Rob Rock's involvement with Angelica:

     

    http://www.angelfire.com/yt/robrock/angelica.html

     

    "Angelica" (CD09061) was recorded on June-July 1989, release in 1989 under Intense Records, a division of Frontline Music Group. Produced by Dennis Cameron. Vocal production by Ken Tamplin. Recorded at The Mixing Lab A. Engineered by Dave Jahnsen and Eric Kibby. Mixed by Dave Jahnsen. Mastered by John Matousek.

     

    Here are the personal thoughts of Dennis Cameron about "Angelica":

    "Angelica started as a vision that I had for an ideal band full of believer musicians. The experience making the first album was to be the "Awakening" for me both as a musician and as a professional. Here's a lesson that I hope any readers can learn from.

     

    The first Angelica album was recorded in Costa Mesa, California with the starting line-up of: Andy Lyon, Scott Ernest, Bob Pallen and myself. The finishing line-up for the album was a little different . . . While in the pre-production stage of making the first album, Andy Lyon, the vocalist (more likely from a lack of experience on all our parts) chose to view the the opportunity to prepare for recording with less enthusiasm than the rest of the band. The result being that after a couple of days of having Ken Tamplin push him in his performance (as Ken was hired to produce the vocals on the album) that the singer "burned out".

     

    At this point, (as humbling as it is to say) we were in need of a singer to salvage the (what was now being refered to as the Dennis Cameron) project. We now needed to find someone to finish out the album. Ken had suggested two replacements, Bob Carlisle or Rob Rock. Having once been a proud owner and fan of the Driver album (Rudy Sarzo, Tommy Aldridge, Tony MacAlpine and Rob Rock) Rob was the easy pick of the two to best suite the music style. At the time of recording, Rob was in the process of regrouping a new version of Driver and was rehearsing and recording with them as well as doing the session work for Angelica. What a trooper he was! I can remember Rob coming to the sessions with this big red swollen throat saying that he had just come from Driver rehearsals and that he was pumped and ready. Not withholding, Rob would assume his best Iron Maiden pose in the vocal booth and trek on with our sessions.

     

    Rob's voice was in a higher range than Andy's, which meant that some of the vocal melodies had to be reworked to fit his voice. For example, the original version of "Shine On Me" melody started on a major 3rd, but was transposed to the 5th for Rob. We finished the album a couple of weeks late due to all the mayhem and I returned home (Ontario, Canada) wondering how I was going to continue with this band under these circumstances."

     

    Source: Dennis Cameron's interview in Christian Metal Resource and The Official Dennis Cameron website

     

     

     

    Track Listing:

    1. There's Only One Hero (Cameron/Lyon)

    2. Are You Satisfied (Cameron/Lyon)

    3. I Believe (Cameron/Lyon)

    4. Danger Zone (Cameron/Lyon)

    5. Shine On Me (Cameron/Lyon)

    6. Only A Man (Cameron/Lyon)

    7. One Step at a Time (Cameron)

    8. Will I Ever Learn (Cameron)

    9. Take Me (Cameron/Lyon)

    10. Ahh! (Cameron)

    11. S.O.S (Cameron/Lyon)

    12. Face to Face (Cameron)*

     

    All Songs © 1989 Broken Songs (ASCAP)

  13. TNT returns with "A Farewell To Arms"

    in AOR and Hard Rock

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    Band : TNT

    Album : A Farewell To Arms

    Type : Studio

    Release Date : 2010-12-15

    Label : Spitfire / Avalon / Marquee

    Country : Norway

    Genre(s) : Melodic/Heavy Metal

     

    Tony Mills : Vocals

    Ronni Le Tekr©ª : Guitar

    Victor Borge : Bass

    Morten "Diesel" Dahl : Drums

    Dag Stokke : Keyboards

     

    1. Engine

    2. Refugee

    3. Ship In The Night

    4. Take It Like A Man - Woman!

    5. Come

    6. Barracuda

    7. A Signature On A Demon's Self-Portrait

    8. Don't Misunderstand Me

    9. A Farewell To Arms

    10. Someone Else

    11. God Natt, Marie

    12. Not Only Lonely (bonus track for Japan)

     

    Sleaze Roxx review:

     

    With the release of "A Farewell To Arms", their third album with the current lineup, TNT returns to their roots. The music is more hard edged than on the last few albums, and the truth is you'll have to go all the way back to 1984's "Knights Of The New Thunder" to find the band so heavy. "A Farewell To Arms" will be released by Metal Heaven Records -- www.metalheaven.net -- on January 21, 2011.

     

    TNT was formed in Norway back in 1982, and the band released its eponymous debut album the following year. After some changes in the line up the classic "Knights Of The New Thunder" were released in the fall of 1984, by a band now consisting of extremely talented guitar player Ronni Le Tekro, drummer Diesel Dahl, American singer Tony Harnell, and bass player Morty Black.

     

    Throughout the eighties the band released the melodic hard rock gems "Tell No Tales" and "Intuition", while building a fan base in Europe, America, and especially in Japan where "Intuition" became a hit. In the early nineties the band broke up, but TNT returned with a couple of more alternative hard rock albums later in the decade, before disappearing again. At the turn of the millennium TNT slowly began to rise once more, and came back with full force when "My Religion" was released to rave reviews in 2004. The band then started to fall apart, and as bass players changed at a rapid pace, singer Harnell left the band in 2006 to be replaced by Tony Mills.

     

    Diesel Dahl and Ronni Le Tekro were by now the core of TNT, and in Victor Borge (ex Jack In The Box, Autopulver) they found a permanent bass player. When Tony Mills entered the scene TNT was finally a complete unit again, and released "The New Territory" in 2007. TNT have been touring extensively in Norway ever since, and at the same time been working on new music. This resulted in "Atlantis".

     

    "A Farewell To Arms" was produced by Tekro at his Studio Studio, and the songs are mainly written by Tekro and Mills. It still hasn't been an easy road for the band: just as the new album was finished Mills suffered a heart attack at Oslo's main airport, but quick response from the airports paramedics saved the singer's life. With the combination of Ronni's powerful riffs and great melodies TNT will once again please their fans with a catchy piece like "Don't Misunderstand Me", the groovy "Engine", more heavy stuff like "A Farewell To Arms" and "Take It Like A Man - Woman!", or a ballad like "God Natt, Marie".

  14. What commercials annoy you?

    in Exquisite Entropy

    Posted

    I cannot stand the damn "Happy Honda Days" commercial with that horrendously horrible Vampire Weekend song "Holiday". A friend told me the song "Holiday" is a war song and has nothing to do with Christmas. Could there be a more annoying singer/song in the world?? I want to put my foot through the TV when it comes on!

     

    So what TV commercials annoy you?

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