Eddie & The Cruisers - 1992 - Live And In Concert VBR KindMetalRG

Description

Styles:

* Rock & Roll
* Heartland Rock
* Bar Band
* Pop/Rock

Artist:

John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band



Album:

Live And In Concert



Tracks:

1. (00:36:41) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - Voice of America's Sons
2. (00:03:57) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - Where the Action Is
3. (00:04:05) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - On the Dark Side
4. (00:37:33) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - Small Town Girl
5. (00:04:12) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - Dixieland
6. (00:37:57) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - Tough All Over
7. (00:03:53) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - Wild Summer Nights
8. (00:33:10) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - Some Like It Hot
9. (00:06:19) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - Tender Years
10. (00:04:11) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - C-I-T-Y

Playing Time.........: 02:51:58
Total Size...........: 80.61 MB

NFO generated on.....: 10/24/2006 7:11:05 AM

Rating:

4 of 10

Release Date:

May 22, 1992

Label:

RCA

Bitrate:

* VBR

File format:

* mp3

Formed In:

Narrangansett, RI

Bio:

Arguably the quintessential one-shot band of all time, Cafferty and company (who, back in the early '70s, were simply a hack New England bar band) had their 15 minutes of fame courtesy of a ridiculously overwrought 1983 film called Eddie and the Cruisers (starring Michael Pare). The movie dealt with the suspicious death of a fictional singer/songwriter, modeled on a conflation of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, who had made the transition from smart rock & roller to serious artist. Seems as though Eddie had recorded a brilliant but unreleased album that fused Chuck Berry-style rock & roll with French Symbolist poetry. A record way ahead of its time, the master tapes of The Dark Side went missing, right around the time of Eddie's "death." Needing a band to supply music for the film, the producers used the Springsteen-ish sounding Cafferty and his clock-punching backup band. With the Springsteen-ish single "On the Dark Side" paving the way, Cafferty led, arguably, the most anonymous band with a hit record in the history of rock & roll. With the movie doing reasonably well in theaters and extremely well on video, sales of Cafferty's album -- which, ironically, had been out for months before the band's involvement with Eddie and the Cruisers and barely caused a murmur -- skyrocketed. But, as the movie faded from the public consciousness, so did Cafferty's imitation of Springsteen.

Additional Artist Information:

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See Also

*


Influenced By

* Bruce Springsteen
* Bob Seger
* The Rolling Stones
* John Fogerty

Tracker:

Azureus