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Leader of Two Fires Kevin Chalfant's is
one of the most important
Melodic
Hard Rock vocalists. Back in 1981 he
reached # 11 in the Billboard
single
charts with the song "Megaforce" and
the group 707. In 1983 he recorded
the
album "Heart On The Line" with the
pop group Steel Breeze that was
released
in Europe in 1996! In 1985 he
formed VU with former Journey bassist
Ross
Valory, The Who keyboardist Tim
Gorman, Tubes drummer Prairie Prince
and
Alice Cooper guitarist Stef Burns
and Frontiers Records finally
released
their album in 2000! In 1991, Kevin
and Gregg Rolie (former Santana
/Journey
singer and keyboardist) formed the
group The Storm, with bassist Ross
Valory
(Journey), world-class drummer
Steve Smith (Journey, etc., etc.) and
guitarist Josh Ramos (CBS group Le
Mans). Two of the songs on this
fantastic
album climbed into the top most
requested songs of 1992. They followed
that
released with "Eye of The
Storm", another very good album. Kevin
released
"Running With The Wind"
his first solo album in 1997. He then teamed up
with
former band mate Josh
Ramos, on guitar and created Two Fires. The
band's
debut album was
released in June 2000 and was received really well by
the
buying public and
the press. Now Two Fires are back with the second
album,
which in my
opinion is way better than the way to polite and soft
debut.
This is
melodic rock in the vein of %The Storm (surprise!), Foreigner,
Journey,
Boston, and Bryan Adams. Maybe one of the reasons for the
great
progress
and improvement is the he songwriting contributions of Jim
Peterik
(Cinderella, Sammy Hagar, Survivor, 38 Special, etc.) in
"Ignition",
"More
Than a Mystery", "I See Red", "This Night", "The
Man I Want To Be" and
the
ballad "What The Whole World Needs To Know".
Musicians on the album
include
Jeff Jacobs (Foreigner) on keyboards, Rick
Powell on bass, Atma Anur
(Steve
Perry, Vicious Rumors, Tony McAlpine) on
drums and Alby Odum on rhythm
guitars. Note that there are 10 listed songs in
the album, but the
unlisted
song in the end is probably my favoured one.
Interestingly enough the
style
is totally different and very reminiscent of
old Santana (thus really,
really cool). The only thing that I think that
could have been better
is the
production. I could have liked a bit more
punchy production. Maybe next
time
then? Good
album.invest.
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1. Ignition 2. Somewhere Far |
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Away 3. More Than a Mystery 4. You're Bringing Me Down |
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5. I'm Falling 6. I See Red 7. This Night 8. The Man |
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I Want To Be 9. I Will Remember You 10. What The Whole World |
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Needs To Know 11. Rhythm Of The World (hidden track) |
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