Sunday, October 06, 2013
City Girl 3:28
(Here Comes That) Hurt Again 4:05
Gonna Find Me A Girl Tonight 2:48
Lovers In Love 3:42
Wild Eyes 5:15
Suspicions 4:16
Where's That Feelin' 4:56
Hot Streets 4:12
Let Down Easy 3:34
I Never Believed 5:20
Carmine Appice - Drums
Roy Bittan - Keyboards, Vocals
Rick Derringer - Guitar
Anton Fig - Drums
Stephen Geyer - Guitar, Vocals
Lequeint Jobe - Bass
Chris Mancini - Synthesizer, Guitar, Vocals
Jeff Porcaro - Drums
Mike Porcaro - Bass
Waddy Wachtel - Guitar
This is a real underrated album in the AOR scene. Not many AOR fans realise how good this album is and not many AOR publishing magazines have wrote about it, so a review in our magazine is necessary. I can’t tell much about CHRIS MANCINI, because I don’t have any information about him. He is probably a New Yorker from Italian origin.
On his only (?) LP release ‘No strings’ from 1983 on the major recordlabel Atlantic Records, Chris proves to be an excellent AOR performer. Besides, he sings and wrote all the 10 songs himself, he also plays guitar and synthesizer. Still the list of additional musicians on the LP is huge and impressive. On drums appear Carmine Appice ((KING KOBRA), Jeff Porcaro (TOTO) and Anton Fig (SPIDER).
On guitar are RICK DERRINGER, Stephen Geyer and Waddy Wachtel (STEVE PERRY). Mike Porcaro (TOTO) and Lequint Jobe appear on bass. Roy Bittan (BON JOVI/Bruce Springsteen), who also played keyboards on the LP, produced the album. If you get the help of such musicians then you can’t go wrong.
The 10 songs on the LP are all very impressive and from a very high class. The LP is up there with the classic AOR releases of DAVID ROBERTS, BERNIE LABARGE or STAN MEISSNER. The album opens with “City girl”, a great laid back AOR song that is sounding like DWAYNE FORD. Next up is “(Here comes that) Hurt again”, a nice poprocker like DWIGHT TWILLEY.
mp3 320 Vinyl Rip
