Year : 1984 (Unidisc Music Records Edition 2001)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Melodic Hair Metal
Country : Canada
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 80 mb
Bio:
Reckless was hard rock band, active from 1978 to 1986 in Ottawa that released a self-titled album on Harvest in 1980.Four years later, a revised line-up issued the album Heart of Steel on Heavy Metal America.After performing shows all across Canada, in 1980 the band signed to the Hollywood based record label 'Harvest'.The band's original line-up featured Steve Madden on guitar, with Jan Melan on vocals, Gene Stout on bass and Gil Roberts on drums. Shortly after signing to 'Harvest', their debut album 'Reckless' was released that same year. The brilliant guitar work of Madden, and the quirky vocal delivery of Melanson created a form of commercial Glam Metal that looked for a moment to be a smash hit. Sadly the album received mixed reviews and poor album sales, leading them to leave the record label shortly after the album's release. The band then began searching for a new label, eventually signing to local label 'Quality Records'. The band then recorded their second album entitled 'Heart of Steel' in 1985 and was released in the UK by Heavy Metal Records, who received exclusive license for the album in that country. By this point the band had undergone a few line-up changes, and the new line-up featured Doug Adams on vocals, Todd Pilon on bass, Steve Wayne Lederman on drums along with original member guitarist Steve Madden.Sadly despite another strong effort with the stylish guitar work than even Eddie Van Halen would be proud of, this album also received mixed reviews and poor sales, and soon after the band faded from existence.Our one damned album was released on both sides of the Atlantic (not the record label...the water!) and manifested itself in a number of incarnations. My absolute favorite was the picture disc. It used the exact same photos as the regular issue LP used, the exact same pretty-boy snapshots that were forced into service on the CD reissue! If they were the EXACT SAME shots as on the regular release, then what was the advantage of buying the bloody picture disc? Was it for people that preferred not to be bothered with the added hassle of having a cardboard sleeve on their LP? The company that reissued the CD for tax purposes hired a Photoshop artist to add in the apropos rusted sawblades!"Heart Of Steel" was also available in compact music cassette form. My only regret was that we never had the LP released on 8-track cartridge. We were in format limbo - too late for 8-tracks, and too early for CDs. "Hot 'n' Ready", the soundtrack for our big-budget video that saw rotation on MuchMucous' "Power Hour" was released on a 7" radio-edit 45rpm single. We also released a "radio stations only" 12" record that had explanations for the various songs on the LP rendered by assorted and sundry members of the band. A couple of Madden's explanations are included on the "Drivin' You Madden" page. Anyhow, time went marching on, and the internal band-battles came to a head, so management ganged up on Madoonski and kicked him out of his own band!After Madden was stripped of his duties and of his band name, Reckless hired a keyboardist named Bob, and we went into pre-production for another LP (CDs still hadn't been invented yet. ~Wheez~,~ wheez~, *cough*..*cough*.) Our resulting efforts were quickly rejected by our management, who by that time couldn't figure out how to skim any more money off of us. We almost pressed the record ourselves, except that management had all of our money, and we only had a four-track basement recording. (The bootleg CD version was pressed in very limited quantities in Roumania, eventually. Watch eBay for it.) We chose a picture for the cover, with "Like A Thief In The Night" being the working title. Brian wanted to call it "Raccoon Fucker" ("..it's a play on words! People think it's about someone who fucks raccoons, but actually it's about a raccoon that fucks!") Bob, still dispondant over his break-up with his girlfriend, wanted to call the LP "Trace", as a sort of dedication. Brian beat the crap out of him.
Album:
There was and still are many metal-related bands called RECKLESS. This one hails from Ontario, Canada, and formed in in 1978. After performing shows all across Canada, in 1980 the band signed to the Hollywood based record label ‘Harvest’. The band’s original line-up featured Steve Madden on guitar, with female Jan Melan on vocals, Gene Stout on bass and Gil Roberts on drums.Shortly after signing to ‘Harvest’, their debut album ‘Reckless’ was released that same year. The brilliant guitar work of Madden, and the quirky vocal delivery of Melanson created a form of catchy commercial melodic rock / proto glam metal.But circa 1983, Madden completely reinvented the band, and as only original member, assembled a new line up (two members came from Witchkiller, who released an excellent four song EP called Day Of The Saxons in 1984 on Metal Blade Records) to join the glam metal explosion.The result is ”Heart Of Steel”, released December 1984, and the style (and the looks) was absolutely L.A. influenced, similar to Dokken, Keel, Steeler, Axe, etc. This is fun, typical 1983-1985 glam metal with great guitar work and some catchy songs to boot such as Need You Next To Me, Shadows Of You, Hot And Ready, the atmospheric midtempo Feel The Fire, the mysterious Only After Dark, and the AORish Don’t Walk Away.
Line Up:
Douglas Lang Adams - Vocals (lead), Guitars (1983-1987) - See also: ex-Aceíum, ex-Witchkiller
Steve Madden - Guitars, Vocals (backing) (1978-1987) - See also: The Prime Rockers, ex-Marshal Law
Todd Pilon - Bass (1983-1987) - See also: ex-Witchkiller
Steven Wayne Lederman - Drums (1983-1987) - See also: ex-Aceíum
+ guest:
Ross Munro - synthesizer, vocoder, vocals, producer
Production:
Design [Logo Design] – D. L. Adams
Executive-Producer – Backstage Productions International
Management [Direction, Personal Management] – Steve Thompson
Mastered By – Tim Young
Photography By – Pat Harburn
Producer, Synthesizer [Additional], Vocoder [Additional], Vocals [Additional] – Ross Munro
Recorded By [Additional Recording], Mixed By [Remix] – Ed Stone (tracks 1)
Recorded By [Assistant], Mixed By [Assistant] – Noel Golden
Recorded By, Mixed By – Hugh Cooper
Written-By – Douglas Lang Adams (tracks: B2, B4), Steve Madden
Tracklist:
01. Hot And Ready
02. Heart Of Steel
03. Drivin’ You Mad
04. Feel The Fire
05. Need You Next To Me
06. In The Night
07. Only After Dark
08. Shadows Of You
09. Don’t Walk Away
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