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Alcatrazz Discography
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Artist...............: Alcatrazz
Genre................: Hard Rock
Source...............: NMR
Year.................: 1983-1998
Quality..............: 192kbps (Except where noted)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Covers...............: Front, Back
Information..........: Seperate nfo/sfv for each album
Tracklisting.........: See Full File List

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Albumlisting
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1983 - No Parole From Rock 'N' Roll
1984 - Live Sentence
1984 - Steve Vai's First Stage (bootleg) (256kbps)
1985 - Disturbing the peace (320kbps)
1986 - Dangerous Games
1998 - The Best Of Alcatrazz

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The band's initial line-up consisted of Graham Bonnet (lead vocals), Yngwie
Malmsteen (guitar), Gary Shea (bass), Jimmy Waldo (keyboards, vocals) and
Jan Uvena (drums, vocals). Shea And Waldo were previously members of the
group New England. Uvena had worked with Alice Cooper. Malmsteen had
been in the Swedish Prog-Metal band Silver Mountain and had recently come
to the US and joined the band Steeler for one album. Alcatrazz's material was
written by Bonnet and either Malmsteen or Vai, with Waldo co-writing on a
few select tracks. Shea dubbed the group "Alcatrazz".

The band's debut album "No Parole From Rock 'N' Roll" surfaced in late 1983
on Rocshire Records. MTV gave decent support to the lead single "Island In
The Sun" which showed a heavy Rainbow influence. Surprisingly, despite the
commercial nature of the song, it barely received any radio play. The album
still spent 18 weeks on the Billboard charts and peaked at #128. A second
video was released in 1984 for "Hiroshima Mon Amour" which became very
popular in Japan. Creative differences between Malmsteen and Bonnet
surfaced while on tour. Due to this and his admitted desire to begin a solo
career, Malmsteen quit in 1984 and formed his own band Rising Force who
signed with Polydor Records. Rochsire then put out "Live Sentence", a
concert recording from the recent tour of Japan. A live video concert was
also produced. Malmsteen tried to prevent the release of the album but
failed. Though the record had hideous sonic quality, the playing is electric. A
few Rainbow covers were thrown in, including the classic "Since You've Been
Gone". The album would reach #133 in the US. Waldo replaced Malmsteen
with Steve Vai, former Frank Zappa guitarist, despite resistance from Bonnet,
and the band signed with Capitol Records. The group worked on new material
and then headlined another tour of Japan which introduced Vai to the fans
and allowed them to play new material from the upcoming album. A concert
video was filmed from these dates.

Disturbing The Peace was released in the spring of 1985. The album was
produced by Eddie Kramer who had worked with Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix
and Triumph among others. "God Blessed Video" was the first single and
video, yet MTV barely played it. The album peaked at #145 and charted for a
solid 16 weeks, but Alcatrazz could never break out of their small following. A
tour had to be cut short due to financial problems. Steve Vai left in order to
join David Lee Roth's solo band in 1986 and the split was on good terms as it
was an offer Vai could not refuse. He was replaced by guitarist Danny
Johnson (ex-Axis and Rod Stewart), who recorded what would become
Alcatrazz's final studio album, "Dangerous Games", which was released in the
fall of 1986. "Dangerous Games" was a desperate attempt at selling out for
the Big 80's hit, but no such hit was forthcoming. The album was watered
down and featured nothing even remotely heavy on it. There were covers of
The Animals classic "It's My Life" (one of the only Rock oriented tunes) and
Marbles' "One Good Woman". Bonnet had been a member of Marbles in the
late 60's when they had this hit in the UK. The album failed to chart. Shortly
afterward, Johnson also quit to join the band Private Life. Disheartened by
an ever revolving door of guitarists, and dwindling album sales, they split up
in 1987. In 1998 the Renaissance label issued "The Best Of Alcatrazz" which
was a solid look back at the band's all-too brief career.

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