Doro (album)
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| Studio album by Doro Pesch | ||||
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May 28, 1990 |
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1990 |
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| Label (s) | Vertigo / Mercury Records | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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43:38 |
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Gene Simmons , Tommy Thayer, Pat Regan |
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Studio (s) |
Fortress Recorders ( Los Angeles ) |
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Doro is the first music album that the former singer of the Warlock group , Doro Pesch , released entirely under her own name in 1990. It was created by Gene Simmons produced , which is also on the songwriting of some titles was involved. The album contained several cover versions . The first limited edition of the record edition contained a poster with the cover motif; the album was also sold as a picture disc .
background
Pesch had released the album Force Majeure in 1989, the first edition of which was released under the name Doro, but the cover had been provided with a sticker with the inscription “+ Warlock”. The band members were Tommy Henriksen (bass), Jon Devin (guitars) and Bobby Rondinelli (drums); Due to the cover design and the explicit use of the singer's name, however, the impression arose that the group was only the appendix for Doro Pesch.
Doro's manager, Alex Grob, had originally envisaged that Mike Chapman would produce the next album, but he was unable to accept this contract due to other obligations. Eventually Grob got in touch with Simmons, and although he had only recently recorded a new album with his band Kiss , he accepted. Simmons took his job seriously, including showing Jon Devin how to play the guitar parts of individual pieces. Bobby Rondinelli had probably figured out a chance at the producer's post, or at least had the hope of becoming a co-producer on the album, but Simmons wouldn't let that happen. So the band fell apart at the beginning of the recordings, which took place in the Fortress Studio in Los Angeles.
Since they no longer had their own band, numerous well-known and lesser-known American musicians came into play, with whom the album was recorded. Producer Simmons mostly relied on musicians with whom he had already worked himself, including Tommy Thayer from Black 'n Blue , whose albums Nasty Nasty and In Heat Simmons had produced. Thayer acted alongside Pat Regan, who had worked as a sound engineer for Kiss ( Hot in the Shade ), Silent Rage ( Don't Touch me There ), and Keel ( The Right to Rock ), also as the producer of the album, Regan also played keyboards . Also participating Lanny Cordola and Chuck Wright, the then both of the at Simmons Records under contract band House of Lords were members, took part in the recordings.
The songs were recorded on 16- and 24-track tapes, in 1990 this was technically a relapse into 1983. Pesch stated in an interview that Simmons had taken on the role of a singing teacher for her. She'd recorded some songs three or four times and thought she was done, and Simmons then showed her what else was wrong. They then went through the whole text word for word again until everything was correct. They would have worked on Mirage for days.
On Doro , the singer reinterpreted three tracks that had already been published by other musicians. On the one hand, it was the song I Had Too Much To Dream by The Electric Prunes , the original version of which was released in 1966 and reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and number 49 on the singles charts in the UK . Rock On, the second cover version included on the album, was written by Tommy Thayer and released in 1988 by Black 'n Blue on In Heat . Released in 1981 on Music from the Elder by Kiss and written by Gene Simmons, Only You is the last song not written for this album.
The song Unholy Love was released as a single , on the back was Broken . The maxi single also contained the songs Save My Soul (from the album Force Majeure ) and Make Time For Love (from the Warlock album Triumph and Agony ). Both single variants were released exclusively on vinyl. In the USA, however , Unholy Love was released as a promo single on CD and did not contain any other songs.
On April 22, 1990, the music video for Unholy Love was shot on Mono Lake . The director was Jeff Stein, who had also worked for Tom Petty and The Cars , and the cameraman was Michael Chapman ( The Lost Boys , Raging Bull ). The resulting film material was later edited together with black and white images and Super 8 material. Although the line-up of the new band has not yet been determined, the musicians EJ Curse (bass), Brian Jennings (guitar) and Anthony Fox (drums) were used for the video.
Doro was released on May 28, 1990 after five months of production.
Track list
- (4:42) Unholy Love (Phil Brown, Adam Mitchell)
- (4:04) I Had Too Much To Dream (Mantz, Tucker)
- (3:18) Rock On (Tommy Thayer, Jamie St. James, Gene Simmons)
- (4:21) Only You (Simmons)
- (5:22) I'll Be Holding On ( Will Jennings , Hans Zimmer )
- (5:15) Something Wicked This Way Comes (Simmons)
- (3:35) Rare Diamond (John Leonardo Lepore, Doro Pesch)
- (4:46) Broken (Karen Childs, Pesch)
- (4:14) Alive (Childs, Pesch)
- (4:01) Mirage (Simmons)
reception
Doro reached number 9 in the German album music charts , and number 22 in Switzerland. Despite being released in the USA, the album was not listed internationally.
The magazine Metal Hammer wrote in a review of the album in 1990 that it had “good prospects” of overcoming the gold hurdle that had already been overcome with Triumph and Agony , especially since the song material of the Düsseldorf-based artist had hardly any weak points. The album offered “straight metal attacks,” “worn heavy-blooded mid-tempo songs” and nice ballads, and “everything that makes up a broad hard rock spectrum” is represented. Pesch's voice has "audibly gained in expression." Titles such as I Had Too Much To Dream , I'll Be Holding On or the live hammer Rock On are "little pearls that encourage you to start the turntable again after hearing it for the first time". Doro had "undoubtedly made a considerable leap forward."
Trivia
2013 Pesch recorded the song Only You again. It was intended for use on the sampler A World With Heroes, a tribute album to mark the fortieth anniversary of Kiss.
Web links
Doro at Musik-Sammler.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry of the album at musik-sammler.de
- ↑ a b c d e Metal Hammer, issue 6/1990, page 12 ff.
- ↑ Booklet of the CD
- ↑ Entry on the single at musik-sammler.de
- ↑ Metal Hammer, issue 7/1990, page 28
- ↑ Metal Hammer, issue 7/1990, page 103
- ↑ Info on sleazeroxx.com , accessed on February 28, 2013