Johnny Lima - Made In California (2003)

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Artist : Johnny Lima
Country : USA
Release : Made In California
Year : 2003
Genre : Hard Rock
File Type : mp3 320

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Johnny's back! Well, he never really went away, he just took a hell of a long time to get this new album finished. This is his third and is the follow up to the much acclaimed Shine On album, released in 1999.
Has it been worth the wait? Of course it has! This album isn't perfect, but it is his best album to date and will please his patient fans completely and with any luck, will open him up to some more new fans.
Mr. Lima is supremely talented, playing most of the albums parts himself, as well as writing, mixing and producing it himself. Due to his painstaking desire to get everything perfectly aligned, the album at no stage sounds like a one man band. This is a big sound, big production and big classic melodic hard rock! If only all artists took as much time to make sure things were perfect. Mind you, let's do it a little quicker next time Johnny?
Made In California takes up exactly where Shine On left off ? more fired up, American stadium rock, with a couple of sentimental lighters-in-the-air rock ballads to round out the album.
The production is more complex, but the songs remain pretty simple. It's easily accessible stuff for fans of the classic melodic rock sound.

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Johnny Lima - Version 1.2 (2005)

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Artist : Johnny Lima
Country : USA
Release : Version 1.2
Year : 2005
Genre : Hard Rock
File Type : mp3 320

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Johnny Lima is one of the good guys of melodic rock. He's also a portrayer of one of the very purest forms of the genre. Johnny is melodic rock and his Jovi-esque style has won him a lot of fans.
With a new album only coming every couple of years or so, one could understand some frustration from fans that Johnny's new album is a re-recording of his out of print 1996 self-titled debut.
But Version 1.2 is quite an improvement on the original (to say the least) and having heard the result I can understand Johnny's perfectionist tendencies nagging at him to correct the errors he saw in that original album.
The hair might be a lot shorter now, but the attitude and the energy is every bit as good as the 1996 release. Sonically speaking, Version 1.2 is miles ahead of the original.
The clarity is much clearer, the vocals are more powerful, and the sound of the instruments is so crisp and clear compared with the sometimes muddy debut.

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