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| 540.1 |  | DUCK::PERKINSP | Positive Mental Octopus | Tue Apr 09 1991 11:37 | 16 | 
|  |     The album's not out yet...at least not in the UK.
    
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    CONTRABAND - a one off all-star US hard rock project release their
    album through Impact/EMI on May 6th.
    
    Band features:	Michael Schenker, Tracii Guns, Boby Blotzer,
    			Share Pedersen and Richard Black.
    
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| 540.2 | a li'l error | KIRKTN::IGOLDIE | The Incendiary Preacher | Wed Apr 10 1991 05:44 | 6 | 
|  |     re-1
      Michael Schenker is German
    
    
    
    
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| 540.3 |  | DUCK::PERKINSP | Positive Mental Octopus | Wed Apr 10 1991 05:58 | 4 | 
|  |     
    Good grief, you're a bit picky today!  PMT?!?  8^)
    
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| 540.4 | ;^) | NEEPS::IRVINE | young enough not to choose it | Wed Apr 10 1991 08:10 | 7 | 
|  |     YEAH!!!
    
    SO F****** WHAT!!!!!!!!
    
    %^P
    
    
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| 540.5 | .....FIRST SINGLE | JUMBLY::BURGESS |  | Wed Apr 10 1991 22:08 | 8 | 
|  | The first single that Contraband will release is:
ALL THE WAY FROM MEMPHIS
Written by Ian Hunter, it first appeared on the classic Mott the Hoople
LP of 1973 "Mott".  At that time Hunter was frontman for the band.
Anyway, while I'm here, is there any other notes on Schenker or his old band UFO?
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| 540.6 | nightshift!..it really screws you up. | MASALA::IGOLDIE | The Incendiary Preacher | Fri Apr 12 1991 15:24 | 9 | 
|  |     re.3
    I'M NOT PICKY I JUST GET A BIT CRAZY ON A NIGHTSHIFT AND SHOUT!!
    
    
    
                                     I feel better now %^)
    
    
                                              Staynz
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| 540.7 | got a lot to say 2 day | FREEBE::REAUME | ears open for chainlift music! | Tue Apr 16 1991 10:03 | 24 | 
|  |     
      I caught the Contraband interview on MTV last week (actually it was
    Schenker and Blotzer) and they played the "All the Way from Memphis"
    clip. Altogether a nice remake. Haven't heard anything else from the
    release, but it looks like it's more promising than some of the 
    previous super-group/one-shot projects. Schenker and Guns are a weird
    combo for dual guitarists, but it seems from the video like they pull
    it off! I have to admit right off that Schenker is one of my all-time
    biggest guitar influences. He's extremely melodic and fluid. His tone
    is one the most axemen would kill for (I know Buck, it's a Marshall!)
      From what I understand most of this release it gonna be covers with
    a few originals mixed in - I think I'm gonna pick this up when I find
    it. 
      A couple of super-group/guitar hero groups that didn't sit well with 
    me:
    
    			The Firm - didn't live up to their potential
    				   (Paul Rodgers new band, the Law,
    				    SUX 2)
    
    			GTR      - Steve Howe (How can you be so
    				   inconsistent!) Hackett hacks on GTR!
    
    						my $.02 -kaBOOM- 
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| 540.8 |  | BUSY::LABOUNTY_FIS | Sufferin' since suffrage | Tue Apr 16 1991 10:24 | 7 | 
|  |     
    	I heard "All the Way from Memphis" on the HBB, and I like it.
    
    	Schenker wails!!  Blows Traci Guns away, and I like Traci.
    
    							GTI
    
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| 540.9 | only jokin' | MASALA::IGOLDIE | The Incendiary Preacher | Tue Apr 16 1991 16:56 | 8 | 
|  |     Schenker is a personal favourite guitar dude of mine,so I would be 
    bias,anyway what kind of name for a guy is Traci 8)
    
    
    
    
    
                                        Staynz
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| 540.10 | Loved the guitars. | RAVEN1::KROBINSON | I'm just a media trained parasite. | Thu Apr 18 1991 07:45 | 4 | 
|  |       I finally heard "All the Way From Memphis" on the rad-dio last night.
    I thought it kicked. This will definitly be one I'll pick up.
    					The KER
    
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| 540.11 | Contraband | PHOBIA::FERRIS | Schizoid Embolism no doubt... | Wed May 08 1991 09:41 | 18 | 
|  |     
    
      Since there is no topic yet, I'll start one. I bought the CD
    last weekend. Its got some intresting tunes on it. There are a
    couple of ballads on there that I'm not too crazy about but for
    the most part it really rocks.
     I bought it mostly because I've always been a fan of MS. For all
    of you fans of his, this is a must for you he plays exellent as
    usual. I like all the covers on the CD also. There is a great cover
    from Bowie's Spiders From Mars album, Mott The Hoople's All The Way
    From Memphis, and another old rock n' roll tune that I believe was
    also covered by Stray Cats.
     I must admit I don't know too much about the other members of the
    band, I know who they are but not alot about the groups they are
    from. They make a very tight and great sounding straight forward
    rock and roll band. I give it a thumbs up.
                                                   mike
                         
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