BUGZY – Plan B… [previously unreleased – remastered tapes] (2017)

The reissue specialists at the Divebomb Records label have finally launched – remastered from the original tapes – “Plan B“, all the criminally unreleased recordings by BUGZY.
Who is Bugzy, you may ask? Probably one of the best AOR band you’ve never heard of.

The seeds of Bugzy were panted in the first half of the ’80s when 19-year-old guitarist / vocalist William “Bugsy” Boyer, keyboard player Franki Gorgo, and drummer Bob Kimmel crossed paths as members of a full-time, internationally touring cover band called Pentagon.
By 1985, Bob and Franki had struck out to create their own original material in an attempt to sell songs to a major artist or publishing company.

Initially still a member of Pentagon, Bugsy would join their sessions whenever his schedule allowed, but by 1988 the three had officially joined forces and fleshed out a lineup to begin performing live – “Bugzy” being the simple result of needing a name for their first gig.

Within a year, a short-lived production deal with producer Tony Bongiovi led the group to record a few tracks in New York City’s historic Power Station studio; and in 1990, a production / management deal with L.A. record producer John Ryan (Stan Bush, Styx) resulted in three years of nonstop work on new material with an assortment of session musicians.

Into the mid-’90s, with the help of hit record producer Chris Lord-Alge (21 Guns, Damn Yankees), BUGZY was courted by no less than three major labels — RCA, Polygram, and EMI — but the trio’s decade of hard work would shockingly fail to yield the release of one single piece of music… until now!

More than 20 years later, all these material finally see the light of day, 17 tracks of spectacularly catchy AOR / melodic hard rock culled from the band’s extensive personal archives, and graciously rescued from permanent obscurity.
Sure to delight die-hard fans of the genre, I can hear influences from Bad English in the awesome midtempo ‘Say A Prayer’ or ‘Shadow From The Light’, some Giant on ‘Young At Heart’, Survivor on ‘Piece Of The Puzzle’, Night ranger in ‘The Bigger The Heart’, and so on…

The audio quality is amazing and I keep scratching my head wondering why this material remained unreleased for so long…
Bugzy’s “Plan B” is A MUST HAVE little gem for all American ’80s AOR / Melodic Rock fans and collectors. Limited edition CD – only 500 units pressed worldwide.

01 – One Man
02 – Say A Prayer
03 – A Glimpse Of Paradise
04 – Your Love Leaves Me Cold
05 – Young At Heart
06 – Lies
07 – Don’t Ever Let Go
08 – Piece Of The Puzzle
09 – The Bigger The Heart
10 – Angel
11 – A Million Miles Away
12 – I Can’t Let Go
13 – Eyes Of Steel
14 – Shadow From The Light
15 – Easy Way Out
16 – Just Say Goodbye
17 – Secrets

William “Bugsy” Boyer – vocals, guitars
Franki Gorgo – keyboards, synths, backing vocals
Bob Kimmel – drums, backing vocals
and various session musicians

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