Fortune - Fortune (1985) (Gypsy Rock Records Edition 2004)

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Fortune - Fortune (1985) (Gypsy Rock Records Edition 2004)

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Fortune - Fortune (1985) (Gypsy Rock Records Edition 2004)

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Year : 1985 (Gypsy Rock Records Edition 2004)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , AOR
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 128 mb


Bio:

Fortune is a 1980s melodic rock band that had a number of minor hits in the early 1980s including "Airwaves" from The Last American Virgin movie soundtrack and from their second 1985 album release including: "Stacy," "Dearborn Station," and "Thrill of it All." The Fortune Band began in the late 70's when brothers Richard Fortune on guitar and Mick Fortune on drums decided to join together and form a band. The first Fortune self-titled album was released on Warner Bros in 1978 with follow-up WB singles releases including a cover of funk group The Undisputed Truth's "Squeeze Me, Tease Me" and the original song "Saddle The Wind". In the early 80's, keyboardist Ray Barrett and bassist David de Leon (formerly Stanley Clarke's touring support bassist) teamed up with the brothers, and the band began its move more toward the pop rock style of the time. This phase of the band capped with a show at Aloha Stadium Summer Blowout 1981, opening for Heart and Blue Oyster Cult. The band began to receive some national attention with the 1982 Columbia Records/CBS Inc. release of "Airwaves" on The Last American Virgin motion picture soundtrack. The movie is considered by many to be a cult classic of the time and the soundtrack proved to be a memorable compendium of 1980s radio hits with Fortune sharing the bill with bands such as U2, Journey, Blondie, REO Speedwagon and the Police.As Fortune began to gain momentum, the core of the band, Richard, Mick and David, decided to take their music more mainstream and that some adjustment in personnel was now necessary to move in that direction. By Fall of 1982, the band had recruited keyboardist Roger Scott Craig. Craig had formerly played with Liverpool Express, a British-based group known in Europe and South America. By end of 1982, Fortune's singer (Richard's wife, Colleen Fortune) had left the band and was replaced by vocalist Larry Greene.The band began writing all new songs, to which Roger and Larry contributed significantly. Over the next two years, Fortune spent much of their time in the studio recording demos for CBS records and performing live gigs in clubs around Los Angeles, also opening a stadium show in Hawaii. Unfortunately, the band was unable to get traction during this time and eventually disbanded in 1984. In 1985, Camel/MCA Records came on the scene and offered to release a Fortune album. The band regrouped with Bobby Birch on bass. Greene and Craig had been collaboratively songwriting and landed most of their songs on this second 1985 Fortune album. The album was released, and was believed to have achieved significant sales in Europe and Japan. During this period, Camel/MCA had under-marketed and understated album sales to the band. While well received by the public, the band itself received virtually no revenue or recognition from the album. Camel Records shortly thereafter unexpectedly declared bankruptcy for undisclosed reasons and refused to give up the masters of the album, making an album re-release almost impossible. Fortune disbanded a second time. The band regrouped again in 2006 as a power trio with original Fortune band members Richard Fortune on vocals/guitar, Mick Fortune on drums/vocals and Dave de Leon on bass/vocals. The band went back into the studio in mid-2008 to record new songs with plans in the works to release a new FORTUNE album.In 2016 it was disclosed that Fortune would appear at the three-day Rockingham 2016 melodic/hard rock festival, held in Nottingham, United Kingdom. Fortune appeared on Sunday 23 October, fourth in a seven-act line-up headlined by Kevin Chalfant.In February 2017 it was announced that Fortune would appear at Rockingham Festival 2017, this to be held at Nottingham Trent University, UK, between 20 and 22 October 2017, the band scheduled to appear on Saturday 21st.

Album:

20th Anniversary Edition Including 3 new bonus tracks.Creators of one of the greatest / most revered AOR albums in history, FORTUNE.FORTUNE's origins can be traced back to the late 70s, when the Fortune brothers - Richard on guitar and Mick on drums - founded their band. Led at the time by singer Colleen Fortune - the guitarist's wife - Fortune released a self-titled album on Warner in 1978. Irish-born keyboardist Roger Scott Craig (ex-LIVERPOOL EXPRESS) and singer Larry Greene - who would later join HARLAN CAGE - didn't arrive until 1982, shortly after the band's first hit with ‘Airwaves’, recorded under the name Fortune Band for the soundtrack to the film ‘The Last American Virgin’. Nothing concrete happened until 1984, when the band broke up, only to be reborn just over a year later, motivated by a new contract on the Camel label.Craig and Greene then took matters into their own hands and wrote almost all the tracks on what was to become the Los Angeles band's only album in this incarnation. A serious lack of promotion and the bankruptcy of the label meant that for a long time this record was impossible to find (especially as Camel refused to return the masters of the album, making it impossible to reissue), but much sought-after in the small world of AOR. The gap was filled on the twentieth anniversary of the album's release, in 2005, when the band finally found a way to reissue it on their own, complete with three (dispensable) bonus tracks.As the updated photo of the band inside the booklet attests, a lot of water had passed under the bridge since 1985, and when you listen to this record again today, the first obstacle to overcome is the sound. The production by Kevin Beamish (REO SPEEDWAGON) has aged badly: there's a lot of reverb, and Larry Greene's - already ethereal - vocals often seem a little muffled by the music. There are some good songs on the album, though, with catchy choruses (98° In The Shade) and a fairly emphatic AOR style (‘Thrill Of It All’, ‘Smoke From A Gun’, ‘Bad Blood’, etc.), sometimes even theatricalised in a way vaguely reminiscent of STYX (certain passages on ‘Dearborn Station’ or the opening of the very good ‘Stormy Love’, which is reminiscent of GOWAN's solo albums). So this record has lost none of its charm in thirty years. As for considering it an AOR must-have, I don't think so.

Line Up:

L.A. Greene - Vocals , Guitar
Richard Fortune - Guitar
Bobby Birch - Bass, Saxophone
Mick Fortune - Drums
Roger Scott Craig - Keyboards

+ Percussion [Additional] – Jimmy Hunter(tracks: 5)

Production:

Mixed At – Richard Fortune Studios
Remastered At – MTP Studios, Burbank, CA
Pressed By – CD Video Manufacturing – CDR0409337
Arranged By – Roger Scott Craig
Art Direction – Vartan (4)
Design – Ilene Weingard
Design [Art], Layout – Jody Levitan
Engineer – Bruce Barris, Kevin Beamish
Engineer [Additional] – Marc Greene, Richard Fortune
Illustration – Shusei Nagaoka
Management – Allen Mostow
Photography By – Jim Hagopian
Photography By [Additional] – Allen Mostow
Producer – Kevin Beamish (tracks: 1 to 10), Roger Scott Craig (tracks: 11 to 13)
Programmed By [Additional Synthesizer] – Marc Greene, Steffen Presley
Remastered By [Engineer] – Mike Turner
Written-By – L.A. Greene, Richard Fortune (tracks: 6, 9, 12, 13), Roger Scott Craig (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 13)

Tracklist:

01. Thrill of It All 4:20
02. Smoke from a Gun 4:12
03. Stacy 4:07
04. Bad Blood 3:21
05. Dearborn Station 4:52
06. Lonely Hunter 4:30
07. Deep in the Heart of the Night 4:14
08. Stormy Love 3:58
09. Out on the Streets 3:39
10. 98 in the Shade 4:25
11. Home Free 4:19 (Bonus Track)
12. Breakin' Down The Door 4:56 (Bonus Track)
13. Heart Of Stone 3:41 (Bonus Track)


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