Year : 1979 (Rock Candy Remastered 2009)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Canada
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video
Size : 145 mb
Info:
Teaze is a Canadian hard rock band formed in Windsor, Ontario in 1975. The band released four studio albums and a live album recorded in Japan.They were discovered by Mel Shaw who produced a bunch of demos with the band to help them launch their career. The band and Shaw loved the songs so much that they decided to turn it in a full album.This LP was released with Force One Records, a division of London Records.Aquarius years: Bob Rags,Terry Flood, Donald Tarlton aka Donald K. Donald, and Aquarius Records discovered and signed Teaze with Aquarius Records They first seen the group at the famed RPM convention in Toronto Canada. The group was then purchased from Force One Records, Mel Shaw and then personal manager Stan Witcher..Their only hit single had been released with this label on their second album, On The Loose. It was a slow ballad called Sweet Misery.In 1977, they moved to Montreal and starting touring all over US and Canada without getting much visibility. Their big-break happened in Sept. of 1978, when they toured in Japan for ten days. The reception was so favorable that they recorded a live album there: Tour Of Japan.When they came back to their new adopted hometown, they met Myles Goodwyn, leader of the band April Wine who was signed with Aquarius Records since the very beginning. Goodwyn produced One Night Stands. The result of that album was a lot more serious than their firsts two releases. It consequentially ended up being their only U.S./worldwide release on Capitol/Aquarius Records. They also toured all around the world to spread their popularity without a lot of success. Body Shots, the last record recorded by Teaze was produced by Nick Blagona who some attribute a major factor in the demise of the band.As a consequence the last album "Body Shots" did not produce any hits, Brian Danter left the group to pursue his life long religious calling, Aquarius Records and the band failed to find a suitable replacement. Aquarius Records lost interest in the band and decided to break the contract. The band split-up at that time.Aftermath:Myles Goodwyn produced two best-of compilations after Teaze's break-up. Those albums also been released by Aquarius.[6] One of these album, A Taste Of Teaze became their best seller.The song Heartless World from the album One Nights Stands was featured in the 2014 Icelandic movie Málmhaus (aka Metalhead).The song Heartless World was also featured in a movie called "Twists of Terror" starring Donald Sutherland.
Album:
The most successful album from Canadians TEAZE brilliantly remastered by Rock Candy Records including a bonus track.Despite their origin, Teaze's sound always was quite 'American' often compared with the likes of Aerosmith, Angel and Cheap Trick. Born in the mid-Seventies, the band made an immediate impact in, of all places, Japan, where their explosive riffs, poptastic hooks, colourful glad rags and no holds barred on-stage energy immediately elevated them to stardom.Buoyed by this success, the band continued to consolidate their Canadian presence before scoring a much coveted Stateside deal with Capitol Records."One Night Stands" was their debut for the label in the US, and for this debarkation into the biggest market in the world Teaze spiced their original hard rock attack with high doses of melody, even AORish at places.Produced to maximum effect by April Wine main-man Myles Goodwin with a slick, super polished sound and loaded with prime time guitar-driven anthems such as ‘Back In Action’, ‘Red Hot Ready’ or 'Reach Out' the album did it pretty well in the first weeks of its release.There's also a fine rocker in 'Through the Years', but my favorite from the record are the highly melodic and bordering AOR numbers 'Boy's Night Out,' a hedonistic anthem with few equals, and the catchy 'Heartless World,' which pretty much encapsulates the essence of the band.This Rock Candy remaster include as bonus track the nice midtempo semi-ballad 'Loose Change', a song only appeared in the Canadian version of the album, which for the US release was replaced with 'Stay Here', also featured into this reissue."One Night Stands" had all of the right ingredients to make it a hit, but, despite this, the timing was just not right. Disco music was dominating the charts, new wave was becoming the current rage, and punk rock was rearing its ugly head.The music world in general was in turmoil, and this type of commercial styled melodic hard rock was some kind relegated, causing the album to become a commercial failure.A shame, because "One Night Stands" is a great record in all aspects and Teaze an act that should have received more recognition.So, this Rock Candy Records remaster is a more than welcomed reissue to re-discover this little pearl which deservedly achieved a cult status over the years.
Line-Up:
Brian Danter - lead vocals, bass guitar, Moog bass pedals
Marc Bradac - lead and slide guitar, background vocals
Chuck Price - guitar, background vocals
Mike Kozak - drums, percussion
Tracklist:
01. Back in Action
02. Young and Reckless
03. Heartless World
04. Boys Night Out
05. Through the Years
06. Reach Out
07. Stay Here
08. Red Hot Ready
09. Touch the Wind
10. Loose Change (Bonus Track)
+ Video "Heartless World" (Official Video)
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