"In March 2017, the Graham Bonnet Band went to Japan for our first headline dates as GBB. We also did a full Alcatrazz set that same night featuring Gary Shea, which was released last year by Frontiers, titled “Parole Denied” and included a bonus album of some Alcatrazz rarities. For the GBB part of the show, we put together a great setlist covering the main eras of my career. It was a great night and this live album and video look fantastic...I’d say it’s the definitive Graham Bonnet Band live/video release. Great light show, visuals and sound. This was and is intended to be the companion piece to the Alcatrazz “Parole Denied” live release taken from the same night. As a bonus, we have included a revised studio version of the GBB song “The Crying Chair," says Graham Bonnet.
On March 16, 2017, the Graham Bonnet Band played a very special show in Tokyo, Japan. The set included songs from the band’s repertoire alongside a number of Rainbow, MSG, Impellitteri, and Bonnet solo classics. It was a unique setlist and show, a chance for fans in attendance to experience a number of hidden classics from Graham Bonnet’s repertoire that covers his 40+ year career in the rock ‘n roll business.
"Live In Tokyo 2017" can be considered an accompanying piece to last year’s “Parole Denied – Tokyo 2017” release from Alcatrazz. To refresh your memory, founding Alcatrazz members, Graham Bonnet (vocals), Jimmy Waldo (keyboards) and Gary Shea (bass), reunited after 33 years for a unique series of shows in Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo, Japan in March 2017, during Graham Bonnet Band's tour of Japan. Frontiers released footage from these shows last December. http://radi.al/AlcatrazzParoleDenied
Frontiers is thrilled to now have both performances from these two bands, both fronted by the iconic Graham Bonnet, available to fans for their listening and viewing pleasure!
Tracklist:
1. Eyes Of The World
2. California Air
3. S.O.S.
4. Night Games
5. Stand In Line
6. Into The Night
7. Love's No Friend
8. Dancer
9. Samurai
10. Desert Song
11. Rider
12. Since You've Been Gone
13. Assault Attack
14. All Night Long
15. Lost In Hollywood
16. The Crying Chair (Alternate Lyric Version)
Pre-order the CD/DVD or Digipak (audio only) here: http://radi.al/LiveInTokyo2017
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LINEUP
Graham Bonnet - Vocals
Conrado Pesinato - Guitar
Beth-Ami Heavenstone - Bass
Jimmy Waldo - Keyboards
Mark Benquchea - Drums
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Featuring original Alcatrazz members Graham Bonnet & Jimmy Waldo, plus new guitarist, the incredible Joe Stump, joined by Graham’s band mates from the Graham Bonnet Band: Beth-Ami Heavenstone & Mark Benquechea, we present the reformed Alcatrazz!
BAND BIO
Bonnet’s career has been a long and eventful one, having had his first hit in 1968 as one half of pop duo The Marbles, and in the 70s he was a solo singer in the Rod Stewart mould, with two number ones in Australia.
But it was with Rainbow that he became a rock force, his powerful, gritty voice on the album Down To Earth and its classic hit singles Since You Been Gone and All Night Long, and so it continued with his solo hit Night Games and albums with the Michael Schenker Group and Alcatrazz, the band that launched Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai.
There are few vocalists who have the pedigree of Graham Bonnet. His work in bands with Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen, as well as a respected solo artist, has made him one of the true greats of the genre.
He put out the successful solo album ‘Line-Up’ in 1981, featuring his single ‘Night Games’, before joining the Michael Schenker Group for 1982’s ‘Assault Attack’ album, he then formed Alcatrazz, working with Malmsteen for the band’s debut album ‘No Parole From Rock ‘N’ Roll’ (1983) and then with Vai on the second Alcatrazz record ‘Disturbing The Peace’ (’85).
Graham Bonnet described their sound as "The thinking man's heavy metal".
Alcatrazz will be touring and recording in 2019, 2020 and beyond performing the catalogue of Alcatrazz, plus Graham’s classic songs from his Rainbow, MSG, Impellitteri, Blackthorne & solo days!
DISCOGRAPHY
My Kingdom Come - (EP) 2015
The Book - 2016
Live...Here Comes the Night - (Live album) 2017
Meanwhile, Back in the Garage - 2018
Live in Tokyo 2017 - (Live album) 2019