Suncity Records - Feb. 22, 2009

[heavyharmonies]

 

Hello Everyone,

 

Massive news in this week and what a great way to start the new year, with another big coup for Suncity Records with the signing of the awesome American hard rock band, Jet Red.

 

As time has gone on, Suncity Records has grown in stature, allowing us to attract bigger and better acts. It's been about 2-3 years of on and off negotiations with the Jet Red boys and finally we have got them digging through the old studios, where these tracks were originally recorded. We stuck in there and we wound up hunting down the original masters and let me tell ya, they sound amazing!!

 

Most rockers will know Jet Red for their self-titled debut album released on Relativity/Sony Records in 1989. The debut offered some catchy and tasty tunes, but paper-thin production values prevented the band from major success. So, like any proud band when backed into a corner and up against a wall, Jet Red rebounded and came out swinging with their very own, self-produced second album titled Flight Plan. In the time between albums, Jet Red's brand of AOR/Hard Rock became quite unfashionable and therefore Relativity/Sony dropped the band resulting in Flight Plan being shelved for all this time.

 

Until this year, loyal fans have been eagerly awaiting a release date for the infamous second album, and I'm here to tell you - that 2009 is the year!! Recorded in 1991, the results of what Jet Red came up with in round two was quite jaw dropping!! It is no surprise at how talented Jet Red are in terms of song writing ability, but what really will knock owners of the debut out is the stellar production on the second album! It's quite evident that the boys really grew as a group in between albums and developed into an amazingly tight professional unit. One other thing that really stands out for me, is the newly improved guitar solos courtesy of Mr. Johnny Feikert - WOW!!

 

When listing to Flight Plan, the first thing that comes to mind is Winger's classic Heart Of The Young album. So if you dug Heart Of The Young, I have no doubt that Flight Plan will be a big hit in your CD collection. Flight Plan is a perfect fusion of guitar driven Hard Rock with just the right amount of Keyboards so that the music is still very rockin'!

 

A little known fact about Jet Red is that in the mid/late 80's when the boys were starting out, their original axe man was the GREAT Marty Friedman who went on to record with many great bands, but most notably became apart of the legendary Megadeth. Jet Red recorded a bunch of tunes back in the day with Marty before Dave Mustane poached him and they will be featured on Flight Plan as bonus tracks.

 

Flight Plan will include the full 11 tracks that were to be the second album plus 3 bonus tracks that Marty did with the band right at the start PLUS this package will include a bonus DVD of a killer live show that the boys did in San Jose in the early 90's. All that for the same price of US$18.00!!

 

Here is your chance to get a sneak peek of what Flight Plan is all about, featured here is the stunning track "I Surrender" taken from the soon be released Flight Plan. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

 

Sample: I Surrender

 

 

Last but not least, our hearts go out to all those affected by the devastating Victorian bushfires that have ravaged our beautiful state in the last couple of weeks. It has been Australia's worst ever natural disaster.

[Blue Charvel]

The sample was about 1 second long and sounded sort of like a foghorn. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that probably isn't what you intended...

 

Secondly, my thoughts are with all of you affected by the bushfires.

[metalmaniac777]

The sample was about 1 second long and sounded sort of like a foghorn. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that probably isn't what you intended...

Sample played fine for me. I personally didn't care for the song, but that's a whole 'nother matter.

[Dead Planet]

The sample was about 1 second long and sounded sort of like a foghorn. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that probably isn't what you intended...

Sample played fine for me. I personally didn't care for the song, but that's a whole 'nother matter.

 

 

I have the same problem playing Suncity samples....not sure what the trouble is but I don't have this problem with samples from other sites....

[Evil Rick]

The sample was about 1 second long and sounded sort of like a foghorn. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that probably isn't what you intended...

Sample played fine for me. I personally didn't care for the song, but that's a whole 'nother matter.

 

 

I have the same problem playing Suncity samples....not sure what the trouble is but I don't have this problem with samples from other sites....

I used to have the same problem. When the samples tried to play through the Quicktime plugin I would only get a 1 sec burst. I have since switched to Winamp and it works fine now.

[Dead Planet]

The sample was about 1 second long and sounded sort of like a foghorn. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that probably isn't what you intended...

Sample played fine for me. I personally didn't care for the song, but that's a whole 'nother matter.

 

 

I have the same problem playing Suncity samples....not sure what the trouble is but I don't have this problem with samples from other sites....

I used to have the same problem. When the samples tried to play through the Quicktime plugin I would only get a 1 sec burst. I have since switched to Winamp and it works fine now.

 

 

Nice to know....

[Geoff]

I got these songs ages ago in some trades and this is not a bad album. These guys were never really amazing, but a good band and a good CD. I hope to own this one day.

[JC_AOR]

I liked the debut, not mind blowing but pretty solid. Looking forward to geting this one.

[heavyharmonies]

Having the same problems here at work with the samples. In my case it's the fucking QuickTime plugin taking over all media in Firefox, despite my telling Firefox to use WMP for MP3 files.

 

I. Hate. Apple.

 

Just uninstalled Quicktime and now all is well with the sample.

 

Bastards.

[Jacob M.]

I have the first Jet Red release on tape. I can't really remember much about it. I think that it didn't really impress me too much. I need to give it another play when I get back to Oklahoma.

[heaven&hell]

I have the first Jet Red release on tape. I can't really remember much about it. I think that it didn't really impress me too much. I need to give it another play when I get back to Oklahoma.

 

I think it's pretty good album, nothing mind blowing but still pretty good IMO.

[Evil Rick]

I have the first Jet Red release on tape. I can't really remember much about it. I think that it didn't really impress me too much. I need to give it another play when I get back to Oklahoma.

 

I think it's pretty good album, nothing mind blowing but still pretty good IMO.

My thoughts exactly. Good album, not great. I like it enough that I'll be buying this one.