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I missed the sound sample... I'm guessing one of y'all snatched it and is able to email it to me? PLEASE send me a PM!

20+ years in the making. After all these years I really never thought it would happen. This is a BUY IT NOW the moment pre-orders can be taken.

Some dude named Steve Perry has a new release scheduled for October 5, 2018.

New song for sure. Very much the same as the last album. I like it a lot as I'm a 30+ year fan. If you're looking for "Ritual" this will not tickle your fancy. Notice the audience participation in the new song / video... from what I understand at least one old-school track (voted on by the audience) will be included on the new album. Something like that, anyway. I know one thing is for certain... Rob Daiker has his fingerprints all over DRN's new sound... and keyboards are NOT his primary talent... the dude can flat-out play the guitar!

I didn't listen to the new track... I've really only heard Kennedy when he did a Guitar Center acoustical thing with Slash a while back, and all I could think of was Shannon Hoon and his stupid bumblebee outfit

Kennedy seems like a good dude and all, but his voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Music reminds me of Blind Melon... and I HATED Blind Melon. "Hate" is actually sugar-coating my feeling toward the entire Grunge movement of the early '90's. What a paltry time that was for me (musically).

Slightly off-topic, but related. I saw TOTO last night here in Portland, and they were fantastic. Lukather is easily one of the most talented guitarists walking planet Earth.

"It's All About You" is an awesome track. Very Hardline-esque.

When did you track it down, Geoff? What I mean is, if you didn't discover this title until years after its initial release, there's no way it would knock your socks off. This is one you kind of "had to be there." When this CD was released it was pretty much all-Grunge / all-the -time, so finding a new release that was still holding on to a genre that was pretty much dead and buried was certainly something I gravitated toward. Places like this and labels like Frontiers (for instance) weren't around in 1992. That was a very dark time in my musical life

Hard to believe NAME OF THE ROSE is now more than 20 years old. That CD was so awesome and received so much play at my house back then. Different time / different place, I suppose.

Old photo of the entrance to Tower Records at Eastport Plaza. This is like walking directly back in time 25+ years. I even remember what part of the store I found the Roxy Blue CD

"Want Some?" was easily one of my favorite CD's in the 1992 time-frame. I remember specifically purchasing my copy at Tower Records at Eastport Plaza in Portland, Oregon late summer 1992. No idea how I remember such specific (and often useless) information, but I also purchased Angel City "Face To Face" on CD the same day. Roxy Blue "Want Some" / Hardline "Double Eclipse" / Def Leppard "Adrenalize" / Bon Jovi "Keep The Faith" / Bangalore Choir "On Target" / Electric Angels "ST" These are the discs that were in CONSTANT rotation in my system 1992 / 1993. Yes, certainly there were others, but I pretty much wore the aforementioned titles out! Getting back on-track to the topic at-hand... I don't hold-out enormous hope based on the "Different sound" comment, but Frontiers is a great label, so we'll see. I think more of a problem (for me, anyway), is it is no longer 1992, and I'm no longer a youthful 24 year-old looking to hang-on to the genre I knew and loved dating back to the early 1980's at a time when a "new" sound was taking over the airwaves.

I'm in on the EP... Through normal channels, I suspect? I've mentioned this before, but I have no problem mentioning it again... NEH gets all of my business for new releases. Yeah, I could probably save a dollar using amazon, but Mike has been nothing short of great the past 20 years or however long I've been buying from him. And no, I do not know him personally nor do I receive any discount for spreading the word... I'm just old school, and NEH is, too.

Absolutely love this band. The last album was brilliant... really looking forward to the new one.

Received my copy from NEH Records today....... Love it!

Been a Great White fan dating back to 1987, and I do love me some Mitch Malloy... But this combo just doesn't overwhelm me. Jack Russell is the only GW vocalist for me.

Awesome musician. Another example of an artist who would have been all over MTV and Circus Magazine had he broke in 1983 rather than 1993.

I saw them here in Portland last month and they hinted at a new project to include some re-recordings of early classics. They actually sold tickets for fans to attend recording sessions in NYC and Portland... I would loved to have attended, but my schedule didn't allow for it that particular Friday. Just happy these guys are back together and making music once again.

Thanks, Del. I try not to ramble-on terribly often, but don't mind when I think have at least a small piece of pertinent information that someone might deem interesting.

I'm good with track #2 as well. Gioeli sounds great.

I told my entire story regarding this release WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY back in the day on this site. These guys are from my neck of the woods and I purchased my first copy of the CD from a place called LOCALS ONLY back in the very early 1990's. Long story short, the "band" was really only the lead singer with some local hired guns to fill-out the roster, but that EP is one of my favorite BIG 80'S releases as well. I wish all indies lived up to the hype that this one does. I actually purchased about 6 or 7 sealed cassette tapes of Barely Legal when another local record store went out of business a while ago (For What It's Worth Records & Tapes). Dude brought out some deadstock stock that literally hadn't seen the light of day since the 1980's before he went OOB. In addition to the Hot Boy tapes, I got a bunch of LP's (including Bon Jovi - New Jersey) that still had the original price tags on them with dates. I should have bought WAY more stuff. True original releases. I "may" have one extra original CD of Barely Legal I'd be willing to trade. I'll take a look this weekend. SIDE NOTE... The place that YOUNG WILD & FREE video was shot was called STARRY NIGHT back in the day. It's now called ROSELAND. I cannot begin to tell you how many bands I've seen there over the years... Black N Blue, Satriani, Dan Reed Network, Whitesnake... the list is WAY too long. Heck, I bullshitted with Gene Simmons in that place once. My only regret regarding that place, passing on free tickets to see Motley Crue in November of 1983. I'd just seen them in San Diego with Def Leppard a couple months earlier and I didn't think they were going to be all that big or all that special. **** ME!

I actually like these tracks better than just about anything else uploaded on this site the past month or so (save for the Gioelli / Castronovo stuff). Yes, I was a huge KISS fan in 1978 as a 4th. grader. Can someone please help me find a copy of the UNORIGINALS CD? Thank you.

If you weren't already a fan of Treat, that song isn't going to sway you.

Listening to WILD IS THE NIGHT this very moment. Very 1989'esque. Kinda sounds like ST Skid Row meets Pretty Boy Floyd LBWET.

Chip is great live... I'm mean he still walks the walk and talks the talk on stage as though it were 1989 all over again (I haven't heard so much mention of cocaine since the 80's), but the band we all knew and loved from back then is pretty much a ghost as this point.