Hi friends. For those who don't know me, I am a recording engineer/musician from Brazil, 33 years old. I would like to know what happened to the following groups/musicians listed below. They did lots of success in Brazil with one or 2 songs and I have never heard of them again.
also, if any of you were somehwat involved with thir production, please share with us some o your experiences.
so, here it goes:
1) SWEET ( heard some stuff from a reunion at early 90's with a different singer)
2) BTO
3) BREAD
4) Gap Bad
5) Change ( Luther Vandross. )
6) SOS BAND
7) NAzareth
8) Liverool Express
9) Boney M
10)Focus
11) Ten Years after
12) Delegation
13) The whishpers
14) Slade
15) Devo
16) La Bionda
17) Imagination
18) Toto ( coming back, right?)
19) GTR
20) Phenomena
21) Grand Funk
22) Gentle Giant
23) Ratt
24) House of Lords
25) Firehouse
26) Winger
27) Danger Danger
28) Ezo
29) Shalamar
30) Universal Robot Band
31) Tavares
32) Hot Chocolate
33) Lea Roberts
34) Michael Quatro
Thanks
:p
Comments
Funny you should mention Firehouse right after Great White. The
Funny you should mention Firehouse right after Great White. The '80s seem to be making a big nostagia comeback here in the States. Great White just played a show in Rhode Island that burned down a club and killed almost 100 people. They had pyrotechnic effects that set some soundproofing foam on fire and the club was gone within like 3 minutes. Not sure who's at fault yet but it would seem that the band as well as the club management share some culpability.
I don't think that many of those bands you mention are "hard" rock. We call them Hair bands here - c'ept for VH, Van Halen had some "hair" in their act, but they'd been around long enough to kind of skirt that and be a little more credible.
If I never hear another 1988-style guitar solo that's all high and shrieking, it'll be too soon. Grew up in the 80's, they sucked, I'm jaded - there was some good music though.
Dan Roth
Otitis Media
The Gap Band. Many of them are from here in Tulsa. There is a
The Gap Band. Many of them are from here in Tulsa. There is a version of it still going. A few members have been producing younger talent around here.
Kip Winger built a project studio, and was featured in EQ years ago. He did release a couple of albums that were more acoustic rock than anything. He was doing this big 80's metal band tour. I didn't go.
Ratt. the lead singer quit years ago. they reunited and he quit again. They called Jamie
Rowe from the Christian band Guardian. He turned them down. They got a wannabe to sing. I did sound for thme on a one-off, and they are complete ass-holes! they act like they are still on top of the 18-yr old daughter world.
I'm glad they are balbing, fat and talentless.
Mark Farner became a Christian and so he tours with and without GFR. GFR is still going at it in clubs/theaters, etc.
Firehouse has had some personnel changes. they changed their style a bit and last year released their indie CD. They still play live.
Toto are still alive and (somewhat) kickin'. The lineup has b
Toto are still alive and (somewhat) kickin'.
The lineup has been stable for a while:
Steve Lukather, David Paich, Mike Porcaro, Bobby Kimball (the early singer came back) and Simon Phillips on drums. They have churned out albums pretty regularly since Kingdom of desire, although some of them were not released in the US.
There was Tambu, XX (earlier material that never made it on an album - some good stuff), Mindfields (some great stuff IMHO), Livefields (Mindfields live) and Through the Looking glass (a very recent cover album with a nice version of "When my guitar gently weeps"). They still fill stadiums in Europe but enthusiasm in the US is dim. Saw them at "Slims" in San Francisco a couple of years ago. Great gig but way too loud. They brought the stadium equipment to the club gig. I think my ears are still buzzing (and that's not even a joke) :( .
MisterBlue.
Focus is cool, have you ever tried to fugure out the Hammond par
Focus is cool, have you ever tried to fugure out the Hammond part of "Sylvia"?
Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman are both very great talents, unfortunately they have characters that don't "fit" very well.
Jan is famous for making strong statements and he can be very funny.
He once said about Thijs on TV: that guy is so great, he has grown above his own hair. :eek:
Another cool thing Jan did was on a very huge music show on Dutch TV, called "Grand Gala Du Disque". Jan was about to perform a solo guitar piece. He is sitting on that enormous stage all alone, looks around him, thinking something like: I feel I'm in the wrong place here.
So he makes a couple of strokes on his guitar, stands up, says "sorry", and away he went backstage. What a cool guy!!
Peace, Han
http://www.musicsogood.com/janakkerman/focus_dvd.htm http://w
http://www.musicsogood.com/janakkerman/focus_dvd.htm
http://www.officialfocushomepage.nl/focusband.htm
I always Focus were the best band going. Thijs van Leer is currently touring (as is Jan Akkerman - solo) with a new Focus. There is also a DVD now available. See above links!!
Cheers
Nod