TOWER CITY – All Or Nothing (own CD)

And here’s the second and final TOWER CITY album under this moniker. “All Or Nothing” is as impressive as the band’s debut, again with talented Mike Slamer involved. The CD has become pretty hard to find, and here’s some dubious rips floating the web, so here’s our own discs full with art.

It was hard for a Melodic Rock band at the second half of the ’90s. even more in America.
Ohio based TOWER CITY struggled to get their music published, and needed the help of a German record label fo it. For this, their second album they faced even more trouble: while recording “All Or Nothing” the studio facility caught fire.
They didn’t give up, and while on a couple of tracks here you can hear some production issues, they sent the tapes to Europe anyway to meet the label’s deadline and get the album released.

“All Or Nothing” is much more mature than TOWER CITY’s debut, and in a good way. While the first album was more AOR / elegant in terms of sound, this second disc is more rocking, direct.
What hasn’t changed is the band’s talent to write some awesome songs.

Again there’s Mike Slamer involved in arrangements and songwriting on terrific numbers such as “Two Sides of Love”, “Fire with Fire” & “I Won’t Surrender” – the latter two are also featured on Steelhouse Lane’s debut album ‘Metallic Blue’.
‘Hungry’ is another personal favorite, the best song Def Leppard never wrote in the ’90s, including harmonies / backing vocals in the vein of Johnny Lima or early Bon Jovi.

Forget the horrible album cover; htat is the only bad thing on “All Or Nothing”. This CD is packed with killer melodic (hard) rock songs, great musicianship, pristine vocals / harmonies and catchy hooks.
TOWER CITY kept the genre’s flame alive during the dark years for melodious rock, so thanks guys for this marvelous “All Or Nothing”
HIGHLY Recommended

01 – Hot Water
02 – Hungry
03 – Fire With Fire
04 – In These Arms
05 – Two Sides Of Love
06 – All Or Nothing
07 – No Regrets
08 – Another Brother
09 – I Won’t Surrender
10 – Rush
11 – Stockholm
12 – I Just Wanna Be The One
Hidden Track:
13 – I Won’t Surrender (Acoustic Mix)

Larry Saltis – lead vocals, guitar
Heath Saltis – drums, keyboards, background vocals
T.P. Weiner – bass, background vocals
Mike Slamer – additional guitar, co-writing, arrangements, producer

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