TYKETTO – Shine [Japanese edition remastered] *Rare* **HQ exclusive**
Here’s another request: the only available remastered version of TYKETTO‘s third album, the underrated “Shine” featuring ex- Tall Stories and future Journey lead vocalist Steve Augeri.
This is the Japanese edition appeared a year after the European, and it was tweaked with a ’90s-type’ of remastering, which works great. A quite rare CD pressing nowadays
By the first half of the Nineties, Melodic Rock was out of fashion, especially in America. But Tyketto, without a recording label and all, continued as band. However Danny Vaughn had to take care of his ailing wife, and by the end of 1994 left the band.
The rest of the boys recruited Steve Augeri (from the AOR outfit Tall Stories) to fill Danny’s shoes and “Shine” (1995) was the result (Steve would later fill the void of Steve Perry in Journey for several years).
“Shine” is a stupendous album, and what I like the most of is that Tyketto don’t want to sound like ‘Tyketto-Vaughn’. And Augeri shows his credentials with tons of personality.
The album indeed ‘Shine’ taking the listener to sunny, boisterous vista, combining compositions slashed and liberated by surgical steel power chords, with softer, heartening moments built of clear acoustic guitar for miles, all produced crisp perfection…

