Slam (album)
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| Studio album by the Dan Reed Network | ||||
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Publication |
October 1989 / October 25, 2019 |
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admission |
Spring 1989 |
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| Label (s) | Mercury Records | |||
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Title (number) |
13 |
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running time |
62:21 |
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Studio (s) |
Skyline, power station |
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Slam is the second studio album by the American band Dan Reed Network .
Emergence
Def Leppard's managers Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch offered the band the role of opening act for the last part of Def Leppard's Hysteria tour in the USA, if the group would switch to their management company Q-Prime in return . The band was initially reluctant to fire their manager, Bill Graham , but in early 1989 they signed a management contract with Q-Prime.
The group recorded Slam at Skyline Studios and Power Station Studios. The album was produced by Nile Rodgers , who managed to capture the live sound of the group, creating a more authentic Dan Reed Network album than the debut album called Dan Reed Network . In addition to the titles published on the album, the band also recorded the song Let There Be No More Walls Between Us , which, however, did not fit into the context of slam and was therefore not released.
The album pushed the success of the band in Europe (and reached, inter alia, number three in the list of Album of the Year by British magazine Kerrang and number 66 in the UK charts); in the US, sales were not that good. The album only peaked at number 160 on the Billboard charts (November 11, 1989) and stayed on the Billboard 200 for six weeks.
The singles Make It Easy (USA) and Tiger In A Dress (Europe) were first released in 1989 , followed by Come Back Baby and Rainbow Child in 1990 .
From 18 May to 25 August 1990, the band was as the opening act of the Urban Jungle - tour of the Rolling Stones . On the occasion, she released the newly recorded song Stardate in 1990 , which reached number 39 on the British singles chart. During this tour, Dan Reed Network played alongside the band Gun at 45 Rolling Stones concerts.
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 . An anniversary tour is to take place in December 2019, at whose concerts the band will play all the songs on the album live.
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Slam reached number 160 in the album charts in the USA , 66 in Great Britain and 50 in Germany.
Musikexpress wrote about the album, “In the CD age, customer-friendly running times of over 60 minutes, even on vinyl, are generally welcome. But the quintet "stretch" wafer-thin ballad food for over seven minutes "and thus ensure" plenty of filler. " Slam comes in general, " produced by Nile Rodgers a little more polished than the predecessor of Bruce Fairbairn, simply with too much moderate mainstream rock " . Even “when things get a little harder and more interesting” and with Cruise Together , Doin 'The Love Thing or Seven Sisters Road a “bridge is built between black and white stylistic devices”, “it cannot be denied that Living Color is ultimately this thing more consistently and convincingly ”.
tour
In the winter of 1989 the group toured as opening act for Bon Jovi on their tour of the album New Jersey . When the Rolling Stones went on the Urban Jungle Tour in 1990, their first tour in ten years, they selected Dan Reed Network to support the act.
Track list
- 3:46 - Make It Easy
- 4:42 - Slam
- 5:26 - Tiger in a Dress
- 4:50 - Rainbow Child
- 5:28 - Doin 'the Love Thing
- 7:13 - Stronger Than Steel
- 4:58 - Cruise Together
- 3:49 - Under My Skin
- 4:37 - Lover
- 4:07 - I'm Lonely, Please Stay
- 4:32 - Come back baby
- 4:26 - All My Lovin '
- 4:27 am - Seven Sisters Road
All songs are written by the Dan Reed Network.
advertising
Slam was promoted to journalists and record dealers in the UK with a promotional kit that consisted of a labeled box containing the following:
- 50 ml tequila
- 113 ml dry ginger ale
- bottle opener
- Glass
- Recipe for Tequila Slammer
- Quotes from reviews of the album (from Q Magazine, Sounds , Metal Force and Kerrang )
- Audiocassette Excerpts from Slam with four titles: Come Back, Baby (Edit); I'm Lonely, Please Stay; Under my Skin and Rainbow Child
In Germany, journalists received from the record company a wooden meat mallet with the band logo and album title engraved on it.