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Rail Arrival (1980)

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Rail - Arrival
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Artist...............: Rail
Album................: Arrival
Genre................: Hard Rock
Source...............: NMR
Year.................: 1980
Ripper...............: NMR
Codec................: LAME
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........:

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Tracklisting
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1. (00:02:14) Rail - Hello
2. (00:03:40) Rail - Yes I Am
3. (00:04:13) Rail - Cheater
4. (00:03:30) Rail - Backseat Lovers
5. (00:03:56) Rail - Gangbusters
6. (00:03:36) Rail - Make Me
7. (00:04:23) Rail - Bandit
8. (00:07:16) Rail - Sirens
9. (00:04:22) Rail - Seasons Of Change
10. (00:05:34) Rail - Forever Yours
11. (00:04:51) Rail - The Wizard
12. (00:03:28) Rail - Two Fisted Night
13. (00:03:02) Rail - Rockin' You
14. (00:02:48) Rail - My Lovin' Is With You
15. (00:04:14) Rail - You've Got A Lot To Live
16. (00:04:22) Rail - Gangbusters (Live)

Playing Time.........: 01:05:28
Total Size...........: 149.87 MB

NFO generated on.....: 7/24/2008 2:47:22 PM


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The origins of RAIL go back to the post-Woodstock year of 1970, a year that
saw the debuts of both Black Sabbath AND The Partridge Family. Starting out
in Leo Dodd's music class at Highland Junior High School in Bellevue,
Washington is drummer Kelly Nobles, who puts a small ad in the school
newspaper asking "anyone who wishes to start a band to meet in Conference
Room B."

Showing up is guitarist/singer Terry James Young, a transplanted San
Franciscan who had already played in his first band in the sixth grade. A
friend of Terry's -- Andy Baldwin -- comes to practice with him one day. Kelly
has an extra guitar and offers it to Andy. They formed the original nucleus of
what became Rail & Company. Within two years Terry had switched to bass
and a guy from Andy's stage band class named Rick Knotts has stepped in to
do a contracted New Year's Eve show. The final piece had come together.

Graduation from Interlake High School (in Bellevue, Washington) brings the
band to a crossroad. Was it off to college or follow their dreams of rock
stardom? They decide to play that summer to see what comes of it. Booking
their own shows, Kelly receives a call from the owner of the local Flying 'J'
Ranch who needs a band for a party he's throwing. In appreciation he let
RAIL promote and play "concerts" at the ranch. One such party attracted
over 700 revelers, which also attracted the police. The crowd was so big that
the cops got back in their cars and left, as RAIL would document in their first
single "Rockin' You": "There was fifteen kegs and the night was young,
hundreds of people rockin' and havin' fun". The word was out: Rail &
Company rocks!

College is then permanently averted when Craig Cooke of UNICAM Booking
Agency signed the band. The next few years Rail & Company would learn
their craft playing every junior high and high school in Washington State,
spreading word of their awesome show. For a while they even added a front
man to the lineup, friend Chris Kinkade who brought a glittery, theatrical
element to their hard rock sound before leaving to become an actor.
Keyboardist Randy Miller, who would light his hands on fire while playing, was
another member for a few years before going to Chiropractic College.

After releasing their first single, which led to them being chosen as the
lead-off track on Seattle radio station KYYX's compilation "Seattle Grown" LP,
Rail & Company sell out two nights in a row at Seattle's 3,000-seat
Paramount Theatre -- a feat never accomplished before by an unsigned
band. Guitarist Rick Knotts has said that these shows were the most thrilling
he's ever played. That year RAIL & COMPANY would be voted by the
listeners of Seattle rock radio station KZOK as "Seattle's Best Local Band" for
their first of three times. They are soon being tapped as an opening act for
major acts coming through town like Blue Oyster Cult, Nazareth, and Heart.

Riding a sweeping wave of popularity, the band dropped the "& Company"
from their name (since most people call them RAIL anyway), and signed with
local sound system manufacturer Charlie Kester for what is referred to as the
"suit" era. During the time of The Cars and other radio-friendly rock, Kester's
leadership had RAIL cutting their hair short, dressing up in three-piece velvet
suits, and writing poppier songs. This new direction did not "wear" well with
the band or their fans and was soon shelved. Their natural rebellion over
being led in a direction contrary to their harder rock impulses became the
incentive for the song "Make Me", one of the heaviest songs ever written by
RAIL.

A positive development of their "suit" period came when Kester introduced
the band to Michael Fisher, known for his work producing Heart, of which his
brother Roger was the lead guitarist. Michael took the band under his wing
and for two years helped RAIL arrange and produce their songs in his home
studio in nearby pre-Microsoft Redmond, Washington. Fisher even brought in
then-girlfriend Ann Wilson to sing backup on a session.

In 1980, three-quarters into completing the recording, RAIL was offered a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open for Van Halen's Women and Children
First tour. Once on the road, Van Halen became huge fans of RAIL and
extended their stay through the entire U.S. for a total of 47 shows. (At one
sound check, Van Halen saw Rail watching and started playing Rail's song
"Bandit". An exciting validation of their tour mates from the mighty Van
Halen.)

Rail was asked to continue onto Van Halen's European tour, but instead came
home and committed themselves to finishing their album.

ARRIVAL was released at the end of 1980 on Dynasty Records, their own
label. Having already proven themselves on a national tour without a record,
RAIL hit the road again and subsequently sold over 200,000 copies of
ARRIVAL, watching as their song "Hello" was added to radio playlists all over
the Pacific Northwest.

The high water mark for RAIL came in 1983 when their personal manager
Maria Cooper submitted a video of "Hello" (against the band's wishes) for an
MTV contest called the "Basement Tapes". Unsigned rock groups would
compete with their videos with viewers calling in to vote on their favorite.
RAIL's reservations about being thrust into the cattle call quickly evaporated
when out of 40,000 videos submitted worldwide, "Hello" wins the preliminary
rounds and eventually the Grand Prize of a recording contract with EMI
Records.

That recording contract yielded the 4-song EP, eponomously titled "RAIL"
produced by Night Ranger producer Pat Glasser. Included on the EP were
two songs made into videos -- "1-2-3-4" and "Fantasy". This was followed up
a year later by the self-produced "RAIL THREE". These two releases have
been combined into one big Special Edition CD named "Adio", a salutation to
the fans given nightly by Terry at the conclusion of their show.

Now, twenty years later, RAIL has re-released Special Editions of these
landmark albums, packed with bonus tracks and special enhance CD content
with videos, interviews and much more. These compilations have been
released as a tribute to all their great fans, friends and family who supported
the band for those exciting early years.

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