Tom Petty : Under The Covers (The Songs He Didn't Write)

 

SO YOU WANT TO BE

A ROCK N ROLL STAR ?

THEN LISTEN NOW 

TO WHAT I SAY

JUST GET AN ELECTRIC GUITAR

THEN TAKE SOME TIME

AND LEARN HOW TO PLAY

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band : The Distance

WHEN NOTHIN' COMES EASY

OLD NIGHTMARES ARE REAL

UNTIL YOU'VE BEEN BESIDE A MAN

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW HE FEELS

ONCE INSIDE A WOMAN'S HEART

A MAN MUST KEEP HIS HEAD

HEAVEN OPENS UP THE DOOR

WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD

Jim Croce: I Got A Name

I'VE GOT A NAME

AND I CARRY IT WITH ME

LIKE MY DADDY DID

BUT I'M LIVING 

THE DREAM

THAT HE KEPT  HID

Ray Gillen : Badlands / Demos For Black Sabbath

 Raymond Arthur Gillen

 (May 12, 1959 – December 1, 1993)

 was an 

American rock singer.

 He is best known 

for his work with

 Badlands,

 in addition to 

his stint with

 Black Sabbath 

in the mid-1980s 

and recording most 

of the vocals on

 Phenomena's

Dream Runner album.

Early life

Gillen 

was born on 

May 12, 1959

in New York, 

but was raised in 

Cliffside Park, 

New Jersey. 

He was an only child 

and started singing 

while in high school. 

He played the 

New Jersey club circuit 

with various bands,

 including club bands 

Quest 

(1978–80), 

the punk rock influenced

 F-66 

(1980–81), 

Savage, 

and, 

most notably, 

Vendetta and Harlette.

 In 1985, 

he joined 

Bobby Rondinelli's 

band, 

Rondinelli.

Career

In 1986, 

Black Sabbath 

started touring for the 

Seventh Star album

 when after only a few shows, 

singer 

Glenn Hughes 

got into a fist-fight

 and lost his voice due 

to the related sinus 

and throat injuries. 

Gillen was offered the job 

to replace Hughes. 

After finishing the 

Seventh Star tour, 

Black Sabbath 

recorded their next album

 The Eternal Idol 

with Gillen.

 However, 

due to mix of 

financial burden, 

writing difficulty 

(Bob Daisley was recruited for writing)

 (as Gillen turned out to be not much of a composer),

 mismanagement and miscommunication

 that plagued the band, 

Gillen and Black Sabbath

 drummer

 Eric Singer 

quit before the album 

was ever released. 

Gillen was eventually replaced 

by Tony Martin, 

and the vocal track

 of 

The Eternal Idol 

was hurriedly re recorded

note-for-note 

with Martin 

before the album 

was finally released in 1987.

 However, 

demo versions of 

The Eternal Idol

 featuring Gillen

 do exist on

 the bootleg circuit 

and on the 

2010 deluxe 

Eternal Idol 

re-release.

 Also, 

in an interview 

Martin revealed that

 the sinister laugh

 heard on the track 

Nightmare 

is in fact 

Gillen's voice. 

The album was 

re-released on 

November 1, 2010,

 in Europe in a

 2-disc expanded set

 including a bonus disc 

with Gillen's recording.

During the time of the 

Seventh Star tour, 

Gillen was asked by 

project director 

and co-producer

 Wilfried F. Rimensberger

 to join

 Mel Galley's 

Phenomena 

for the recording 

of the album 

Dream Runner, 

which features vocals

 from Glenn Hughes, 

John Wetton

 and Max Bacon. 

He recorded 4 tracks. 

Gillen is also featured in 

Phenomena's

 'Did it all for Love' 

music video 

although he 

was not involved

 in the actual recording

 of that song.

After the

 Phenomena recordings, 

Gillen joined 

John Sykes 

previously with

 Whitesnake, 

Thin Lizzy 

and a different band 

called 

Badlands

with the intention to 

form a new band 

Blue Murder. 

Gillen sang demos

 but parted company

 when Sykes decided

 to handle 

vocals himself.

Gillen then contacted 

Jake E. Lee

 (former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist) 

to form a band. 

In 1988,

 Gillen formed 

Badlands 

with Lee 

and recruited his friend 

Eric Singer 

with whom

 he had played 

in Black Sabbath.

 Gillen recorded 

two albums 

(Badlands and Voodoo Highway)

 with Badlands 

and the band toured

 from 1989 until 1992.

 In 1998 

a third album

 (Dusk) 

was released from a 

collection of demos recorded

 1992–1993. 

They enjoyed moderate 

commercial success 

with their first two albums, 

but tensions between 

its band members, 

as well as problems 

with both management 

and their label 

Atlantic Records, 

hastened the band's demise. 

Gillen was briefly

 replaced by 

John West 

and Badlands 

dissolved soon afterwards. 

Their third album 

Dusk, 

which is made up 

of demos

 recorded shortly before 

Gillen's dismissal 

from the band,

 was released

 posthumously 

in 1998.

Following his split from 

Badlands, 

Gillen stayed in L.A. 

and was involved with 

two projects. 

He joined forces 

with drummer

 Randy Castillo 

and

 Iggy Pop band members

 Whitey Kirst 

and Craig Pike 

under the name

 Cockfight. 

He also joined

 the band 

Terriff, 

led by guitarist 

Joe Holmes, 

fresh off his stint with

 David Lee Roth 

on the 

A Little Ain't Enough tour. 

Gillen rehearsed

 with the group

 for several months 

before moving back

 to his native New York. 

He also went to

 form the band 

Sun Red Sun 

with old friends.

Illness and Death

In 1993,

 Wilfried F. Rimensberger 

was planning a remake 

of his first 

Metal Hammer Loreley Festival 

but this time specifically 

to stage

 Phenomena's 

first ever 

live performance, 

with Gillen on vocals. 

It was going to be the 

launch event for

 a series of concerts 

across Europe 

in 1994. 

Gillen called

 from New York 

and told Rimensberger

 in Munich 

that he had to

 bow out because 

he was too ill 

to perform.

Gillen died from an 

AIDS-related disease

 in a New York hospital 

on 

December 1, 1993. 

He first showed symptoms 

of the disease around 1990, 

and according to his

 Badlands bandmate

 Jake E. Lee, 

"in between the first 

and the second record, 

he started getting really thin 

and didn't look 

quite as healthy". 

Lee also claimed that 

he had not been aware of 

Gillen's 

diagnosis with AIDS 

until a meeting with

 then-Badlands manager 

Paul O'Neill, 

who threatened to tell 

Atlantic Records 

about Gillen's illness

 if he was fired

 by the band.

 Gillen reportedly denied it, 

saying to Lee,

 "Well, it's not true, 

so fuck him.

 Fire him.

" Lee concluded,

 "So we did fire him. 

And he did tell 

Atlantic Records that. 

And we got kind of screwed 

on the second record

 because of it.

 They wouldn't even give us

 tour-support money at all...but, yeah, 

Paul O'Neill 

fucked us on that."

Gillen was survived by a daughter, 

Ashley

 (born July 1984). 

He is buried at 

Fairview Cemetery 

in Fairview, New Jersey.

He was ranked at 100 

on Hit Parader's Top 

100 Metal Vocalists

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Janis Joplin : Six Sides of Janis (Expanded Edition)

YOU SAY THAT IT'S OVER, BABY

YOU SAY THAT IT'S OVER, DEAR

STILL YOU HANG AROUND ME, COME ON

WON'T YOU 

MOVE OVER

 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience : Axis : Bold As Love

WHEN I'M SAD,

SHE COMES TO ME

WITH A THOUSAND SMILES,

SHE GIVES TO ME FREE

The Byrds : Never Before

WHEN YOU TOUCH DOWN

YOU'LL FIND THAT

IT'S STRANGER THAN KNOWN

The Rolling Stones : On Air (Deluxe Edition)

 On Air 

 is a live album by

 The Rolling Stones

 released on 

December, 1st 2017.

The standard versions 

of the album contain

 18 live 

and

 studio recordings

 of the band 

aired on the BBC

 in 1963–1965. 

The Doors : Legacy: The Absolute Best

 John Paul Densmore 

(born December 1, 1944)

 is an American musician.

 He is best known as

 the drummer of 

the rock band 

the Doors 

and as such is

 a member of the

 Rock and Roll 

Hall of Fame.

He appeared on 

every recording made 

by the band,

 with drumming 

inspired by

 jazz

 and world music 

as much as by 

rock and roll. 

The many honors 

he shares with

 the other Doors 

include a Grammy Award 

for lifetime achievement 

and a star on the 

Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Densmore is also noted for his 

veto of attempts by the other

 two Doors members,

 in the wake of singer

 Jim Morrison's 1971 death,

 to accept offers

 to license the rights

 to various Doors songs

 for commercial purposes 

as well as his objections

 to their use in the 

21st century of the Doors name

 and logo. 

Densmore's lengthy court battles

 to gain compliance 

with his veto,

 based on a 1960s

 contract requiring 

unanimity among

 Doors members

 to use the band's

 name or music, 

ended with victory

 for him 

and his allies

 in the Morrison estate.

Densmore has also worked in

 the performing arts

 as a dancer 

and actor 

and written successfully

 as both a playwright 

and the author 

of two books 

on the topic 

of the Doors

 and a third book, 

The Seekers 

(2020),

 about a selection

 of notable people 

he has worked with

 and encountered.

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AC/DC : TNT

SEE ME RIDE OUT 
OF THE SUNSET
ON YOUR COLOR TV SCREEN
OUT FOR
ALL I CAN GET
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

George Harrison & Eric Clapton and His Band : Live In Yokohama Japan 12/01/91

 Some Different Covers 

I DON'T KNOW WHY

NOBODY TOLD YOU

HOW TO UNFOLD 

YOUR LOVE

I DON'T KNOW HOW

SOMEONE CONTROLLED YOU

THEY BOUGHT AND SOLD YOU