Hope Ya Like It!

Been preparing some blogging in some spare moments of time, for a few days now. And, inspired by the AWESOME work & blogs out there, mainly the Time Traveller/New & Improved Live & Otherwise dudes GREAT effort, and the rareness and often unbelievable stuff popping up at Robots For Ronni, I'll go for a BIG one today... Guess there's something here for most of you. More to come. Have fun!

STORM

Great and very rare album. Fun & rockin' Queen inspired hard rockin' album from a female fronted great L.A. band. The Queen link are based on the very Brian May'ish guitar sound. Not a very good production, but smokin' delivered tracks. Their later album, also named Storm (1983) are good too, just not as fun as this one. :)))

Jeanette Chase - Lead Vocals
Lear Stevens - Lead Guitar
Ronni Hansen - Bass
David Devon - Drums

All keyboards and vocal harmonies by Storm

Storm - Storm. 1979.

Produced by Storm.

1. I Want You

2. Tell Me That You Love Me

3. What Do You Like

4. Game's Over

5. You Pity Me

6. Ain't That The Way

7. Wake Up

8. Young Young

9. Shoot On Sight

10. Hyperdrive

11. Machine Gun

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/49496315/Storm-Storm.rar

1994

What a coincidinky... I had these prepared for blogging, and just got a request. And a link to some of the tracks. Here they are, the full albums. After I uploaded these, I listened through'em again, and be warned, good sound, but a few jumps. I had forgot that, but it's better than nothing. And the albums are great. Anyway, I got the vinyls and I'll try to do better ripping when I find the time. I threw in the singer, Karen Lawrence's, later solo album as a bonus. Great stuff too! If you're into Heart and stuff like that. Good classic AOR, with a great female singer.

Karen Lawrence - Vocals

Steve Schiff - Guitar

Bill Rhodes - Bass

John Desautels - Drums

p2pnews.org:

Former lead vocalist with L.A. JETS and the more affectionately missed 1994, Karen Lawrence had dabbled with a New Wave direction in the early 80's, recording the 'Girl's Night Out' album for RCA in 1981 under the band name of KAREN LAWRENCE & THE PINZ.The recording of the album Karen roped in guitarist Fred Hostetler, bassist Leigh Foxx and drummer Mark Bourcet. Production duties were handled by Jack Douglas. In 1986 'Rip And Tear' found Karen returning to her Hard Rock roots. with an album very much in the mould created by 1994. Her former 1994 colleague Steve Schiff actually contributed guitar to 'Kiss From A Distance' on the album, which featured a band line up of guitarist / keyboardist Fred Hostetler, bassist Rick Wilson and drummer Gordon Gale. The album was produced by Eddie Leonetti

For more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Lawrence

It's great to see that she's still active, and you can even order some of her stuff from her myspace site: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=132975458

1994 - 1994. 1978.

Produced by Jack Douglas.

1. Once Again

2. Shoot To Kill

3. Sing To Me

4. Heleana

5. Bring It Home

6. Radio Zone

7. Hit The Hard Way

8. Read Up

9. Anastasia

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/49484935/1994-1994.rar

1994 - Please Stand By. 1979.

Produced by Eddie Leonetti & Jack Douglas.

1. Please Stand By...

2. Wait For Me

3. Don't Break It Up

4. Our Time Will Come

5. Wild In The Streets

6. Stop This Heartache

7. So Bad

8. Nerves Of Steel

9. Keep Ravin' On

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/49486993/1994-PleaseStandBy.rar

Karen Lawrence - Rip And Tear. 1986.

Produced by Eddie Leonetti.

1. Shoot For The Heart

2. Never Enough

3. What A Lovely Way To Go

4. Get It Up, Get It Right

5. Rip And Tear

6. Is This Love

7. Wild Heart

8. Kiss From A Distance

9. Out Of The Blue

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/49489239/KarenLawrence-RipAndTear.rar

SHAKIN' STREET

I guess this band & album don't need any more introduction. If needed, google it. Always loved it's rockin' rawness and da man Ross The Boss's axework in this french/american outfit from the late seventies/early eighties. I did a rip of this earlier, but turned out there was some errors on one track. So I did a new one, using my new equipment. I know it's out there anyway, but at least this is a better version than my previous one.

Fabienne Shine - Lead vocal

Ross 'The Boss' Funicello - Lead Guitar

Eric Lewy - Rhythm Guitar

Mike Winter - Bass

Jean-Lou Kalinowski - Drums

Shakin' Street - Shakin' Street. 1980.

Produced by Sandy Pearlman.

1. No Compromise

2. Solid As A Rock

3. No Time To Loose

4. Soul Dealer

5. Susie Wong

6. Every Man, Every Woman Is A Star

7. Generation X

8. So Fine

9. I Want To Box You

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/49511970/Shakin_Street-Shakin_Street.rar

And as a BONUS, their very rare first album from 1978, 'Vampire Rock'. Searched for years and years after a copy of this album. I never found it, but I managed, with great help from a good friend and his contacts (thanks PeSt!), to get it, but one track is missing. Track 6 (Yesterday's Paper). Anyone out there with a complete rip?? Anyway, now you can hear it! The track 'No Time To Lose' from their later to come, great album 'Shakin' Street', are there too... No Ross The Boss on this one, but as a first hard to get album, I feared much worse. Not a great production, but quite likeable. You might never have heard Shakin' Street, and in that case, I recommend their 1980 album, or you might have looked for this album for years without any luck. Anyway, grab it now!

Shakin' Street - Vampire Rock. 1978.

01 - Vampire Rock

02 - Where Are You Babe

03 - Love Song

04 - Living With A Dealer

05 - No Time To Lose

07 - Celebration 2000

08 - Blues Is The Same

09 - Speedy Lady

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/49499899/Shakin_Street-VampireRock.rar

UPDATE: A CD rip of the whole album, incl. track 6.

A BIG thank you to Nils Tibor!

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/49803115/Shakin_Street.rar.html

NEON ROSE

Great stuff, a bit prog, but more than enough guitars to make it a minor classic swedish hard rock band of great importance for future swedish hard rock releases, my guess. A bit Zep, a bit Rush, a whole lotta good work. If you haven't heard'em, please do so, you might like'em. This is the first of three album that they released.

Neon Rose - A Dream Of Glory And Pride. 1974.

1. Sensation

2. A Picture Of Me

3. Love Rock

4. Primo

5. Let's Go And Get That Boy

6. Julia's Dream

7. A Dream Of Glory And Pride

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/49357231/NeonRose-ADreamofGloryandPride.rar

UGLY DUCKLINGS

And now for something completely different. Way old. Talking the 60's. Musically NOT a band I normally would've blogged here. (This is NOT the Hip-Hop group!) It's not exactly hard rock or AOR either, in fact FAR from it. But a more punk'ish/garage thing, leaning more towards New York Dolls (they even had an album (cd?) called 'Too Much Too Soon', guess it was released way before the
N.Y.Dolls?) and a David Johansen/Jagger'ish vocal. But that's my lack of references to this kinda music talkin', I'm more into clean'n'classic hard rock/AOR stuff. The reason I blog it here are what so ever obvious; it's canadian, it's very rare and it's a request. I like makin' ppl happy :)) And ever since Angel covered 'Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore', I've liked that
track. It's here too... Try it if you want, but you're warned.

Ugly Ducklings - Ugly Ducklings.

01 - Just In Case You Wonder

02 - I Wish You Would

03 - Eat Out My Heart

04 - Gaslight

05 - My Little Read Book

06 - Keep Your Big Mouth Shut

07 - Nothin'

08 - 10 Thirty Train

09 - I Need Your Love

10 - She Ain't Used To Me

11 - Rimb Nugget

12 - I Can Tell

13 - Epilogue

14 - I Know What To Say

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/49334505/UglyDucklings-UglyDucklings.rar

Puh! Now I need a rest. Hope ya like it... if you do, please tell me. ;)