Dan Reed Network (album)
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1987 / October 25, 2019 |
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1987 |
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12 |
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50:16 |
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Dan Reed Network is the debut album by the American band Dan Reed Network , released in the winter of 1987 .
Emergence
The group recorded the EP Breathless in 1986 . Some time later, the then keyboardist, Rick DiGiarllonado, was replaced by Blake Sakamoto, and the group began a series of gigs that attracted attention. German-born concert promoter Bill Graham saw the band at Club Key Largo in their hometown of Portland and took over management of the group. He made Derek Shulman , who was then Vice President at Polygram , aware of the band. Shulman brokered a record deal with Mercury Records , a subsidiary of PolyGram.
Dan Reed Network was recorded at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver , Canada . The producer was the studio owner, Bruce Fairbairn . At this point in time, Fairbairn could look back on his greatest successes to date: he had produced the Bon Jovi album Slippery When Wet the previous year and had received 12 platinum awards ; in the current year he had already produced the Aerosmith album Permanent Vacation , which had received five platinum awards. The producer contributed a trumpet solo to the song Baby Don't Fade .
The introduction to the title Rock You All Night Long contained part of the song Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City , which was written by Dan Walsh and Michael Price and recorded in 1978 by Whitesnake for the album Trouble . For the album, the band recorded a total of twelve tracks, none of which was on the Breathless EP.
The lack of promotion for the album hindered a resounding success in the USA (# 95 on the Billboard Hot 100 ). Def Leppards Hysteria did not achieve the sales figures that Mercury / Polygram had hoped for and the label therefore withdrew support from newer artists in order to concentrate on re-establishing the British rock band on the American market.
In Germany, the titles Tamin 'the Wild Nights, Ritual , and Get to You were released as singles .
On October 25, 2019, Universal Music re-released the album on CD and vinyl. It had been remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios . The vinyl edition consisted of two records in a gatefold cover .
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Dan Reed Network was released in the winter of 1987 and received mostly positive reviews. Among other things, it received four stars from Rolling Stone Magazine, which was not so easily convincing . The critics largely praised the group's ability to combine elements of heavy funk with rock and pop and a production that was radio-friendly for the time.
Musikexpress magazine wrote that the album was “a tailor-made prelude: The playful, twisted entry World Has A Heart Too and the powerful marching Get To You ” immediately defined Reed's system of coordinates: power and variety, pure pleasure in sound, coupled with the musical Joke and technical arrangement finesse. ”The band understands“ also with majestically swinging ballads ( Tamin 'The Wild Nights ), ”but“ remains their real domain of heavily spotted hard rock, which he likes again here with “Forgot To Make Her Mine” from the textbook “will be pre-practiced. “The absolute bombshell of the album” is “the smash hit” ritual , which “can easily be compared to single hits like Jump by Van Halen or Bon Jovis Runaway ”. Producer Fairbairn knows "how to deal with the brute song potential excellently," let "the massive drums stand far in front," dose "the keyboards almost always right" and give "Dan Reed enough leeway," grant "his voice erotic timbre and presence. "However," it can hardly be overheard that Dan Reed still lacks the necessary staying power for the really big hit ", which is" rather negative "on the second side of the record. The newcomer reaches, lyrically and musically, "sometimes too deeply into the big box of clichés" and threatens to "starve from the vehemently started sprinter to the tired long-distance rider".
Audio magazine wrote: “The perfect synthesis of funk, hard rock and more. The black and white newcomer band from Oregon rushes off as if Prince or Van Halen were after them. With the funky, rappy, playful songs “World Has a Heart Too” and “Get to You” nobody stops. Absolutely chart-suspect: the rocking «ritual». ” The album also made it into the annual top list of the magazine Musikexpress , where it came in 16th. The first single was ritual disengaged, the song cracked the Billboard Top 40 (No. 38 on May 7, 1988) and ran on MTV US on heavy rotation . The song stayed in the Hot 100 for a total of eleven weeks.
Manifestations
Dan Reed Network was released on record, compact cassette and CD. The vinyl album contained a dust cover that was printed with full thank you notes, production notes, and song information and photos. The CD edition only contained the essential information about contributors.
Cover versions
In 1997 a sampler was released in Australia with the title A Bouquet of Barbed Wire , on which the gothic rock band Meridian was represented with the network hit Ritual . Also in 2004 guitarist Neil Zaza released his version of Forgot To Make Her Mine on his album Melodica . This instrumental recording was made around 2001 and was made with Blake Sakamoto, Daniel Pred, Brion James and Melvin Brannon. Unfortunately, Neil Zaza didn't manage to win Dan Reed for a spoken intro ( "Hey Neil, gimme some of that guitar" , which was also used on the original song). Rob Daiker, who still works with Dan Reed and is co-producer of his album Coming Up For Air , was also involved in the recording .
Track list
- 1:17 - World Has a Heart Too (Dan Reed)
- 4:18 - Get to You (Dan Reed)
- 4:31 - ritual (Dan Reed)
- 4:06 - Forgot to Make Her Mine (Dan Reed)
- 4:12 - Tamin 'the Wild Nights (Dan Reed)
- 4:33 - I'm So Sorry (Dan Reed)
- 5:41 - Resurrect (Dan Reed)
- 4:55 - Baby Don't Fade (Dan Reed)
- 3:40 - Human (Dan Reed)
- 4:35 - Halfway Around the World (Dan Reed)
- 5:43 - Rock You All Night Long (D. Frank, M. Murphy, Dan Reed)
- 2:45 - Tatiana (Dan Reed)
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- ↑ a b Liner-Notes of the first edition (vinyl)
- ↑ Charts US
- ↑ Musikexpress, issue 06/1988, page 96
- ↑ Poplist.de
- ^ Billboard Chart History for the debut album
- ^ A Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Heartland, HL06, 1997
- ^ Neil Zaza, Melodica, Melodik Records, 2004.
- ↑ Information on the Forgot To Make Her Mine cover on sevensistersroad ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Interview with Neil Zaza on the cover of Forgot To Make Her Mine (PDF; 67 kB) ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Dan Reed Network at Allmusic (English)