Badlands (band)
| Badlands | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| founding | 1988 |
| resolution | 1993 |
| Last occupation | |
| Ray Gillen | |
| Jake E. Lee | |
| Greg Chaisson | |
| Jeff Martin (1990-1993) | |
| former members | |
Drums |
Eric Singer (1988-1992) |
Badlands was one in 1988 by the former Black Sabbath - singer Ray Gillen and guitarist Jake E. Lee founded hard rock band.
history
Ray Gillen had been the singer of Black Sabbath for a short time. He had in 1986 after five concerts of the tour for the album Seventh Star Glenn Hughes replaced and sung for the rest of the tour, before he was invited by Tony Iommi to become a permanent member of the group. He recorded the album The Eternal Idol with the band , but was released before release. His vocal tracks have been removed and re-recorded by the new Black Sabbath singer Tony Martin . They didn't appear until a deluxe version of the album was released in 2010, which included a second CD of the original recordings.
Jake E. Lee was a founding member of Ratt and joined Rough Cutt in 1982 . He succeeded Brad Gillis in Ozzy Osbourne's band a year later and recorded the albums Bark at the Moon and The Ultimate Sin with Osbourne before leaving the group in 1987. When Gillen tried to contact him, he initially did not react, but later a meeting took place.
To this meeting, Gillen brought drummer Eric Singer , who had recorded the albums Seventh Star and The Eternal Idol after a stint as a tour drummer for Lita Ford with Black Sabbath , but had left the group after recording The Eternal Idol . Bassist Greg Chaisson completed the quartet, which began recording his first album, Badlands , in 1988 . The result was an “atmospheric, blues-oriented record with unmistakable Led Zeppelin , Bad Company and Grand Funk influences”, which the group breathed new life into “with their enthusiasm for playing and passionate compositions”. The band went on a tour that they had to end again after three months because Gillen fell ill with pneumonia and a hospital stay was necessary. After his recovery, the record company Atlantic Records refused to support a new tour and instead requested another album.
In early 1990, the group separated from Eric Singer and replaced him with Jeff Martin, the former singer of the group Racer X , who was also an excellent drummer. Martin had played with Chaisson before, namely in the bands Surgical Steel and St. Michael. Voodoo Highway , the group's second album , released in 1991, was produced by Jake E. Lee. That same year rumors leaked that Ray Gillen was seriously ill. Atlantic Records withdrew all support from the group; the band organized the next tour of the USA at their own expense. In the summer of 1992 the group lost their record deal with Atlantic.
The group nevertheless began songwriting for a third album and produced a 10-song demo tape at the Goodnight LA studios . During this time, Gillen's relationship with the rest of the group became more and more tense, and eventually they split up. An already booked tour through England and Wales wanted to perform the band with singer Debbie Holliday as a replacement for Ray Gillen; however, the English promoter demanded that Gillen sing. The singer therefore returned to the group and went on tour with them.
Badlands broke up in early 1993. Ray Gillen died of complications from AIDS on December 1 of that year in New York ; he had kept the disease a secret from the other musicians in his band to the last. The album recorded with him in 1992 was released posthumously in 1998 under the title Dusk .
Discography
- 1989: Badlands
- 1991: Voodoo Highway
- 1993: Dusk