Sunday, May 10, 2020

HEART - Alone 7'' 1987

The title track is what I called Schnulze and the reason for buying the single was the flip, a terrific live version of 'Barracuda', recorded at NHK Hall in Tokyo, June 1986. I heard the song first back in the Seventies on a terrible compilation tape with lots of disco shit but this energy drink got stuck. A bissi info: Heart started in Seattle 1967 as "The Army". Founding members were Don (vocals/lead guitar/keyboard), Roger (guitar), Steve (bass) and Ray (drums). Changed name to White Heart, then to Hocus Pocus shortly before Ann Wilson's joining in 1970, then finally to Heart in 1972. Nancy Wilson joined after sitting in and auditioning in 1974. The group played numerous shows around their new home in Vancouver, and they recorded a demo tape with the assistance of producer Mike Flicker and session-guitarist and keyboard player, Howard Leese. Hannah and Johnstone had left by this time, and soon after Leese became a full-time member. Flicker produced the band's first five albums. This team recorded the debut album, Dreamboat Annie, @ Can-Base Studios in Vancouver (later known as Mushroom Studios). Mike Derosier eventually joined Heart as full-time drummer. Some of the same Canadian investors who had backed the studio also backed a separate company Mushroom Records, which was managed by Shelly Siegel. Drummers Duris Maxwell, Dave Wilson, Kat Hendrikse, and M. Derosier, keyboardist Rob Deans, and bassist Brian Newcombe were among those who also played on the sessions for the album. The album was picked up by Siegel and sold 30.000 copies in Canada in its first few months. Siegel soon released the album in the US, where, helped by two hit singles in 1976 ("Crazy On You" & "Magic Man", which reached numbers 35 and nine, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100), it reached number seven in the Billboard 200. It eventually sold over one million copies.” Nothing more to report, more in www. - Enjoy the grades!




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