Damn Yankes "Damn Yankees (2014 Reissue, Remastered, Rock Candy Collector's Edition Remastered & Reloaded, UK, Rock Candy Records, CANDY196)"

Damn Yankees is the self-titled debut album by the American hard rock supergroup Damn Yankees, released by Warner Bros. Records on March 13, 1990. It was certified double platinum in the US and featured such chart topping hits as "High Enough", "Come Again", and "Coming of Age".

The first single, "Coming of Age", a traditional guitar-driven song, gained heavy airplay on rock radio, reaching No. 60 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jack Blades, Ted Nugent, and Tommy Shaw.

1. "Coming of Age" 4:21
2. "Bad Reputation" 4:29
3. "Runaway" 4:02
4. "High Enough" 4:43
5. "Damn Yankees" 4:37
6. "Come Again" 5:38
7. "Mystified" 4:14
8. "Rock City" 4:28
9. "Tell Me How You Want It" 4:32
10. "Piledriver" 4:18
11. "Bonestripper (Single B-Side)" 4:33

Total length: 50:19

Recording information:

Ron Nevison – producer, engineer

Pre–production at Soundscape Studios, New York, Prairie Sun Recording Studios, Cotati and Blades Ranch, Sonoma County, California

Tucker Williamson, Franck Derner – assistance at Blades Ranch

John Aguto, Ed Goodreau, Bill Kennedy – assistant engineers at A&M Studios

Toby Wright, Jeff Poe – assistant engineers at Can-Am Recorders

John Kalodner – A&R

Damn Yankees "Don't Tread [Germany, Warner Bros. Records, 9362-45025-2]"

Damn Yankees were an American rock supergroup formed in New York City, in 1989. Consisting of singer/guitarist Tommy Shaw of Styx, singer/bassist Jack Blades of Night Ranger, guitarist Ted Nugent of the Amboy Dukes, and drummer Michael Cartellone (who would later join Lynyrd Skynyrd).

They are remembered for the songs "High Enough" and "Where You Goin' Now", both Top 40 hits in the early 1990s.

Don't Tread is the second and final studio album by the American hard rock supergroup Damn Yankees, released by Warner Bros. Records on August 11, 1992. It features their second highest charting single, the power ballad "Where You Goin' Now" which peaked at number 20. The album itself reached number 22 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jack Blades, Ted Nugent, and Tommy Shaw.

1. "Don't Tread on Me" 5:08
2. "Fifteen Minutes of Fame" 4:50
3. "Where You Goin' Now" 4:40
4. "Dirty Dog" 4:53
5. "Mister Please" 4:19
6. "Silence Is Broken" 5:03
7. "Firefly" 4:57
8. "Someone to Believe" 4:57
9. "This Side of Hell" 4:00
10. "Double Coyote" 4:44
11. "Uprising" 5:31

Total length: 53:02

Recording information:

Ron Nevison – producer, engineer

Craig Brock – assistant engineer

Andy Udoff – overdubs

Chris Lord-Alge – mixing

John Jackson – mixing assistant

Michael Ostin – executive producer

Various Artists "Dirty Rock Two (UK, Kenwest Music, KNEW CD737)"

Dirty Rock Two is a Heavy Metal compilation, released in 1994.

Tracklist:

1. Gillan Mutally Assured Destruction
2. Tygers Of Pan Tang Hellbound
3. Venom Rip Ride
4. Motörhead Ace Of Spades
5. Girlschool Race With The Devil
6. Meatloaf   Heroes
7. Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild
8. Juicy Lucy Who Do You Love
9. Black Sabbath  Paranoid
10. Uriah Heep Easy Livin'
11. Alice Cooper Freedom
12. Hanoi Rocks Up Around The Bend
13. Quiet Riot Metal Health
14. Samson Riding With The Angels
15. Nazareth   Bad Bad Boy
16. Ted Nugent  Cat Scratch Fever

Ted Nugent "Nugent (USA, Atlantic Records, 19365-2)"

Nugent is the seventh studio album by the American hard rock musician Ted Nugent. It was released in 1982 by Atlantic Records.

John Franck of AllMusic was dismissive of Nugent, commenting that although the record had "a strong start", things "quickly deteriorate[d]", describing the rest of the album as "mediocre [...] to the just plain awful."

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by Ted Nugent.

1. "No, No, No" 3:39
2. "Bound and Gagged" 4:34
3. "Habitual Offender" 3:09
4. "Fightin' Words" 3:59
5. "Good and Ready" 4:19
6. "Ebony" 4:26
7. "Don't Push Me" 2:34
8. "Can't Stop Me Now" 2:35
9. "We're Gonna Rock Tonight" 3:21
10. "Tailgunner" 7:03

David McCullough – assistant producer, mixing

Larry Brown – engineer, mixing

Al Hurschman, Dee Hurschman, Csaba Petocz, Mike Sanders, Tim Clark – assistant engineers

Bernie Grundman – mastering

Eric Conn – digital remastering

Recorded at Pasha Music House, Hollywood, California, February - April 1982

A² Studio, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 1982

Various Artists "Hear 'n Aid"

Hear 'n Aid was a one-time collaboration of various individual hard rock and heavy metal artists in 1985 to raise money for famine relief in Africa. According to Ronnie James Dio's MySpace profile, the project raised $1 million within a year.

While attending a 48-hour charity Radiothon at the radio station KLOS, Dio members Jimmy Bain and Vivian Campbell noticed that representation from hard rock or heavy metal stars was low. In light of the success of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and USA for Africa's "We Are the World", they forwarded an idea to Ronnie James Dio, also attending the Radiothon, and together decided to create a similar project exclusively built around artists from the hard rock/heavy metal scene. Together the three co-wrote the song "Stars."

The song was recorded on May 20 and 21, 1985 at the A&M Records Studio in Hollywood, California. The project included contributions from Ted Nugent, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tommy Aldridge and members of Dio, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Quiet Riot, Dokken, Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Queensrÿche, Blue Öyster Cult, Vanilla Fudge, Y&T, Rough Cutt, Giuffria, Journey, W.A.S.P. and Night Ranger as well as the parody band Spinal Tap. Lead vocals were shared between Ronnie James Dio, Rob Halford, Kevin DuBrow, Eric Bloom, Geoff Tate, Dave Meniketti, Don Dokken and Paul Shortino. Vivian Campbell, Carlos Cavazo, Buck Dharma, Brad Gillis, Craig Goldy, George Lynch, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Ojeda, and Neal Schon all added guitar solos. Iron Maiden's Dave Murray and Adrian Smith were in the middle of their 'World Slavery Tour' at the time and flew in to attend the main session. A documentary was shot of the recording process and released simultaneously.

"Stars" was released in both 7" and 12" single versions. A video documentary, Hear 'n Aid - The Sessions, was also released in VHS and Video8 formats. The project also released a compilation album headed by "Stars", and also including live tracks by Kiss, Motörhead, Dio, Accept, Rush and Scorpions, as well as studio recordings by Y&T and Jimi Hendrix. The single peaked at #26 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1986.

Dio had originally intended the song and album to be released shortly after its recording, but contractual issues with the different artists' record labels delayed the release until January 1, 1986, somewhat diminishing the impact of its release.


On 2 November 2011, Dio's widow Wendy announced that the song would be re-released. She told Rolling Stone: “I’m going to rerelease [Stars] because it only ever came out on vinyl and cassette. So it’ll come out on DVD and CD, I have loads of outtakes for the video”. In April 2015, Wendy Dio confirmed that a modern-day version of Hear 'n Aid was in the works to record a "new song" and released alongside the upcoming reissue of "Stars". She had stated that "legal stuff" was the cause of the reissue delay.