Artist: Statetrooper: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Statetrooper's discography: 2002 Year: 2002 Tracks: 10 The Calling Year: Tracks: 11 Statetrooper was the isthmus founded by vocalizer Gary Barden following his last judgment of dismissal from the Michael Schenker Group in late 1984 and, after a few fits and starts in damage of batting order, rounded extinct by other members of the lately disbanded Wildfire: guitarists Jeff Summers and Martin Bushell, bassist Jeff Brown, and drummer Bruce Bisland. Keyboardist Steve Glover provided the final piece of the puzzler as the band entered the studio for 1985's She Got the Look EP (on Neat Records), only a smattering of musical escort performances with Blue Öyster Cult and a BBC Friday Rock Show session were the only notable accomplishments sustaining Statetrooper's throughout 1986. By the time they at last received a new contract from FM Records the following year, it was alone to see their direction in haste compose and deliver little Joe mediocre new songs with miscellaneous old cuts and live tracks (including a distinctly desperate re-recording of MSG's "Armed and Ready") for what became the band's intelligibly underwhelming eponymous debut. Guitarist Bushell had long since at rest by nowadays, and though his transient switch by none other than former Thin Lizzy and Wild Horses guitarist Brian Robertson generated some much needful incontrovertible hoopla for Statetrooper, they would finally collapse scarcely a year later. Amazingly, Barden and party would later reconvene to record arguably their offset true album in 2004's The Calling -- released to rapt public indifference. |