Year : 1980 (Rock Candy Remastered 2012)
Style : Hard Rock , Melodic Rock
Country : Canada
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 152 mb
Bio:
Streetheart is a Canadian rock band, from Winnipeg, Manitoba that got its start in Regina, Saskatchewan. Their best known songs include "Action", "Hollywood", "Teenage Rage", "One More Time", "Tin Soldier" (Small Faces Cover), "Here Comes the Night" (Van Morrison Cover), "What Kind of Love is This", and their cover of the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb".Keyboard player Daryl Gutheil and bassist Spider (Ken Sinnaeve) formed a band called Witness Incorporated in Regina, and then relocated to Winnipeg, where singer Kenny Shields joined the band.[1] After renaming the band Witness, the group finally became Streetheart when guitarist Paul Dean and drummer Matt Frenette joined in 1977. The band released Meanwhile Back in Paris the following year and Under Heaven over Hell in 1979, after which Frenette dropped out to join Dean in Loverboy. John Hannah played guitars on Under Heaven Over Hell (1979), Quicksand Shoes (1980), and Drugstore Dancer (1980). In 1980, Streetheart won the Juno Award for "Most Promising Group of the Year".Arguably, Streetheart's most popular single was a 1979 disco-hybrid cover version of "Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones (an early Streetheart influence). Streetheart's version achieved gold single status in Canada. The extended live version is notable for its blazing bass solo, performed by Spider Sinnaeve.For the next four years they released a string of albums: Quicksand Shoes (1980),Drugstore Dancer (1980), Action: Best of Streetheart (1981), the self-titled Streetheart (1982), Dancing with Danger (1983), and the double live album Live After Dark (1983). Record sales earned them six gold albums and four platinum albums in Canada. The band broke up in 1983, after which a collection of unreleased songs called Buried Treasures was issued in 1984.Frehley's Comet recorded their own version of "Dancing with Danger" for their 1988 album, Second Sighting. In 1991, Hardline recorded their own version of the Streetheart song "Hot Cherie" for their 1992 album, Double Eclipse.At the peak of their career, Streetheart toured with several rock bands. Canadian bands included Chilliwack, Rush, Toronto, Harlequin, Max Webster, Aldo Nova, April Wine, Headpins; American bands included Sammy Hagar, Styx, Kansas, Blue Öyster Cult. They also toured with AC/DC.Streetheart received a Juno Award, two Ampex Golden Reel awards, a Chimo Award from Music Express Magazine, and were voted the most popular Canadian act at the Peoples' Choice Awards. In 2003, Streetheart was inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame.In 2008, the band released a 2 CD retrospective collection titled ...Read All About It - The Hits/Anthology. The band continues to tour and often plays shows in its native Winnipeg.
Album:
Whilst they're probably one of the lesser known Canadian bands of the '70s and '80s, Winnipeg-based STREETHEART had a string of gold & platinum records in their homeland, charting with all six of their studio albums, a double live offering and a posthumous collection of outtakes, as well as numerous hit singles.However, as far as most non-Canadians are concerned their claims to fame will be that founding guitarist Paul Dean and drummer Matt Frenette went on to form Loverboy and a later line-up originally wrote and recorded Hardline's signature tune 'Hot Cherie' back in 1982,strangely opting not to include it on the album it was recorded for.Originally issued in 1980, "Drugstore Dancer" was Streetheart’s fourth album and the first with the AORish sound that would made Canadian bands famous during the decade.So as Streetheart’s records were so hard to track down on CD for many years, Rock Candy Records did a wonderful remaster treatment to this very good LP.Featuring the Mk III line-up of guitarist John Hannah and drummer Herb Ego alongside mainstays Kenny Shields (vocals), Daryl Gutheil (keyboards) and Ken 'Spider' Sinnaeve (bass), "Drugstore Dancer" was a very upbeat rock album in reply to the more laid-back previous LP.As a result songs like 'Go To Hell', 'Trouble', 'You're Gonna Crash' and the title-track are some of the most direct, catchy melodic rockers the band ever recorded, built around gritty guitar parts, inventive keyboard fills, interesting rhythms and Shields' trademark vocal tone.In Canada Shields was a big star with a classy style, which fitted perfectly with Streetheart's quirky direction on this album – if you can imagine Loverboy and The Babys jamming some Cheap Trick tunes then you wouldn't be that far off.There's more catchy tunes like 'Teenage Rage', 'Sold Out' and their version of 'Tin Soldier' are positively infectious, each given extra dimensions by the amazing bass playing of 'Spider' Sinnaeve, a legend of the Canadian scene and the 'go to' guy used on many albums by artists like Helix and Lee Aaron.Sinnaeve would later go on to join Red Rider and The Guess Who, and has been member of Loverboy since 2001 still in the band nowadays.Rockier and more focussed than their previous outing, with "Drugstore Dancer" Streetheart's switch from WEA to the Capitol label certainly paid dividends propelling the record to platinum status and securing their place in the Canadian rock and roll hall of fame.This is the first time that "Drugstore Dancer" has been officially released on CD remastered from the original tapes. The Rock Candy 24-bit treatment is really warm, capturing the original vinyl-LP sound updated to modern equipment.
Line Up:
Kenny Shields - lead vocals, percussion
John Hannah - guitars, backing vocals
Daryl Gutheil - keyboards, backing vocals
Ken 'Spider' Sinnaeve - bass, backing vocals
Herb Ego - drums
Tracklist:
01. Drugstore Dancer
02. Teenage Rage
03. Nobody Like You
04. Go To Hell
05. You're Gonna Crash
06. Tin Soldier
07. Trouble
08. Sold Out
09. Let Me Go
+ Video "Trouble" (Live Video)
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