Fair warning
Fair Warning is a German hard rock band that was founded in Hanover in 1990.
history
The band was founded by Zeno - bass player Ule W. Ritgen and V2 singer Tommy Heart . The guitarists were Helge Engelke and Andy Malecek, the drummer CC Behrens . In 1991 they released their first album called Fair Warning on WEA Records . In Japan it was subsequently recognized by the readers of BURRN! elected newcomer of the year. After touring Europe with Giant , they also performed in Japan, resulting in the live album Live in Japan , released in 1993 . In 1995, the self-produced album Rainmaker came out, of which, according to Ritgen, "140,000 or 150,000" were sold in Japan and which was voted album of the year by Aardshok magazine in the Netherlands . This was followed by the live albums Live at Home (1995), the last album before they switched to Gun Records , and Live and More (1998), as well as the two studio albums Go! (1997), which sold 100,000 copies in three days in Japan, and Four (2000) before the band broke up.
In 2005 the band members got together without Andy Malecek to record a fifth studio album called Brother's Keeper , which was released on Frontiers in 2006 . Then in 2009 Aura came out on Metal Heaven .
Discography
Studio albums
- 1992: Fair Warning ( WEA ; (1991) WEA Japan; (2006) Frontiers Records )
- 1995: Rainmaker ( WEA; (1997) WEA Japan (with the same songs but clearly varying tracklist); (2006) Frontiers Records)
- 1997: Go! ( GUN ; Zero Corp./Big Beat Management / (2000) Avalon; (1999) Frontiers Records)
- 2000: 4 ( Frontiers Records; Avalon; Hellion)
- 2006: Brother's Keeper ( Big Beat; (+ DVD) Marquee / Avalon (with the same songs but clearly varying tracklist); Frontiers Records)
- 2009: Aura ( Metal Heaven; (2-CD) Marquee / Avalon; Irond)
- 2013: Sundancer ( Steamhammer )
- 2016: Pimp Your Past ( Steamhammer; King Record)
Live albums
- 1993: Live in Japan (only )
- 1998: Live and More (CD2, contains studio recordings; Zero Corp. / (2000) Avalon / Marquee; Frontiers Records)
- 2010: Talking Ain't Enough - Fair Warning Live in Tokyo (3-CD; also with 2-DVD; Steamhammer)
- 2019: Two Nights to Remember (2019)
Compilations
- 1997: Early Warnings 92-95 (released only in Japan)
- 2001: A Decade of Fair Warning - Complete Best (released in Japan only)
- 2012: Best and More
- 2016: Pimp Your Past (contains only new recordings of selected songs from the albums Fair Warning , Rainmaker and Go! )
EPs
- 1993: In the Ghetto (released in Japan only)
- 1995: Live at Home (released in Japan only)
- 1996: Angels of Heaven (released only in Japan)
- 1997: Save Me (released in Japan only)
- 2002: Still I Believe (released in Japan only)
- 2006: Don't Keep Me Waiting (released in Japan only)
Singles
- 1992: Long Gone
- 1992: In the Ghetto
- 1992: When Love Fails
- 1993: Take Me up (Lisa's Song)
- 1995: Burning Heart (released only in Japan)
- 1995: The Heart of Summer
- 1995: Rain Song
- 2001: Heart on the Run (released in Japan only)
Promo EPs
- 1992: Fair Warning
- 1995: Rainmaker
Promo singles
- 1997: Follow My Heart
literature
- Matthias Blazek: The Lower Saxony Band Compendium 1963-2003 - Data and facts from 100 rock groups from Lower Saxony . Celle 2006, ISBN 3-00-018947-5 , p. 172.
Web links
- Sound carriers from Fair Warning in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fair Warning at Discogs (English)
- Fair Warning at Musik-Sammler.de
- Fair Warning at Allmusic (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c hardharderheavy.de ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2009 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. .
