TORA TORA – Revolution Day [unreleased 3rd album / FNA Records remastered]

“Revolution Day” features material that TORA TORA was working on for the follow-up to their 1992’s second album ‘Wild America’ when the influx of grunge led to Tora Tora being cast aside as has-beens and “Revolution Day” itself being shelved.
It would take nearly two decades for this album to finally get released CD, thanks to FNA Records and Tora Tora providing the original tapes. All has been mastered to current equipment, and production sound is excellent.

1993-94 was a strange time for ’80s born hard rock bands — the majority of groups discovered how Dinosaurs must have felt as they also became extinct while a few others stumbled over their own feet in an attempt to stay current during a musical climate that had abruptly made them irrelevant.
Tora Tora fit into the first category, but not before working on “Revolution Day” — an album that was the logical continuation of the sounds being explored on the previous ‘Wild America’.

From the opening Zeppelin-esque intro of the title track “Revolution Day”, you almost know right out of the gate that you are about to hear something special, and it only gets better. This track should have been a blazing hot tune on the radio back in ’94.
Staying true to the original hard rock concept are numbers like the straight-ahead heavy hitter “Mississippi Voodoo Child”, “Little Texas” and “Out Of The Storm”.

On the lighter side are “Candle And The Stone” and the exceptional “Shelter For The Rain” — the later rivals “Mississippi Voodoo Child” as the best track on the CD — while expanding the horizons a bit is the thumping horn infused number “Memphis Soul”.

“Revolution Day” was professionally recorded and produced, but never released. You can call it a change in the rock music scene, or label restructuring, but what ever reason fits, “Revolution Day” was shelved. It is a crying shame, as music this good should not have been under wraps for so long.
Inferior and partial copies of the recordings have been floating around the Internet for years, much to the dismay of the band.

If you have one of those shoddy bootleg copies of that has been circulating across the net for years, you really owe it to yourself to hear the songs of “Revolution Day” recorded / mastered in all of their glory. This is way the CD was meant to be heard.
HIGHLY Recommended

01 – Revolution Day
02 – Mississippi Voodoo Child
03 – Candle And The Stone
04 – Blues Come Home To You
05 – Time And The Tide
06 – Shelter From The Rain
07 – Living A World Away
08 – Rescue Me
09 – Little Texas
10 – Memphis Soul
11 – Me & You
12 – Out Of The Storm

Anthony Corder – Vocals
Keith Douglas – Guitar
Patrick Francis – Bass
John Patterson – Drums

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