BRYAN ADAMS – War Machine / Rock And Roll Hell [7” single] (2024) HQ *0dayrox Exclusive*

Welcome back. Yeah, welcome Bryan. After many years of mainstream pop, BRYAN ADAMS is returning to his roots. C’mon, this excellent Canadian musician has written / co-written some of the most awesome rock n’ roll / hard rock songs of the ’80s for the likes of KISS, Ted Nugent, Loverboy to Tina Turner, 38 Special, Joe Cocker, etc. His first solo albums are also rockin’ catchy.
You can’t forget where you come from. Adams didn’t.
Now with his new, own label Bad Records, BRYAN ADAMS is releasing a 7” two-track vinyl single. A physical single in 2024? Yeah. And the best part of it is the music contained.
We have here Adams’ own versions of the 2 songs he co-wrote in 1982 with Gene Simmons and recorded by KISS for their album ‘Creatures of the Night’ – War Machine / Rock And Roll Hell – and both rocks!

In 1982, Bryan Adams had one of his first big forays into rock songwriting and barely looked back. Adams and his long-time partner Jim Vallance, along with KISS’ Gene Simmons, penned the chanter “Rock and Roll Hell,” as well as closing track “War Machine” for one of the legendary rockers’ most iconic albums; ‘Creatures of the Night’.

Bryan comments: “To commemorate the first release on Bad Records, here are two songs I co-wrote when I was a 22 year old struggling songwriter.
I got a call out of the blue from producer Michael James Jackson to see if I would like to write for KISS, which I was thrilled to do, and these are a couple of the songs that were the result, written with both Gene Simmons and Jim Vallance.

While sitting with the band, Gene played me this fantastic bass riff, which ended up being the backbone of ‘War Machine’. I was trying to think of a theme that could possibly match the riff and came up with the title. Seeing as the other song we’d written was about hell, War was the obvious theme to coincide with it.

“‘Rock and Roll Hell’ was actually Jim’s song that had been released a few years earlier with Bachman Turner Overdrive, and I suggested, that we re-write it for KISS. It’s incredible to think these themes are unfortunately still playing out for real in the world today, but I’m very grateful to the KISS guys for giving me the chance back then.”

Now 2024 Adams delivers his own versions, and we love ’em.
Highly Recommended

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A side: War Machine
B side: Rock And Roll Hell

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