Don't tread
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1992 |
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Don't Tread is the second and so far last studio album by the American supergroup Damn Yankees , released in 1992 .
background
In 1989 Jack Blades ( bass ; Night Ranger), Tommy Shaw ( vocals , guitar ; Styx ), Ted Nugent (guitar) and Michael Cartellone ( drums ; Lynyrd Skynyrd ) formed the band "Damn Yankees". In 1990 they released the album Damn Yankees , which had reached number 13 on the US album charts after the release of the third single , High Enough , and which reached double platinum status in 1994 for more than 2 million units sold in the US.
In 1992, the group began with the producer Ron Nevison, who had also produced the debut album, with the recordings for the follow-up album. A total of four tracks were released as singles, namely Don't Tread on Me , Mister Please , Where You Goin 'Now and Silence is Broken . Only Where You Goin 'Now and Silence is Broken could reach the Billboard Hot 100 .
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The magazine Audio wrote about the album that there is “no more hearty hard rock package without a soft encore” , with this album “› Where You Goin 'Now ‹has what it takes to be a ballad train number” . The musicians involved guaranteed "a crisp tour de force without inflated muscles, rich sound that is not possible just by turning the volume control" . The album is "a compact package."
In his review for the German magazine Rock Hard , Thomas Kupfer wrote that the album continued “the tradition of the debut,” there was “a lot of kitsch again, that is, American mainstream of the typical variety,” but even the titles in question were “still to come better than the compositions of so many other self-proclaimed heroes. “ Kupfer awarded 8.5 out of a possible 10 points and rated the album better than his editorial colleague Wolfgang Schäfer had done on the commercially successful previous album.
Don't Tread was awarded a gold record on October 20, 1992 in the USA .
Track list
all titles written by Shaw, Nugent, Blades
- Don't Tread On Me - 5:08
- Fifteen Minutes of Fame - 4:50
- Where You Goin 'Now - 4:40
- Dirty Dog - 4:53
- Mister Please - 4:19
- Silence Is Broken - 5:03
- Firefly - 4:57
- Someone to Believe - 4:57
- This Side of Hell - 4:00
- Double Coyote - 4:44
- Uprising - 5:31
Web links
Don't Tread at Allmusic . Retrieved July 20, 2011.