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Category: V.A.M.P.

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VAMP – The Rich Don’t Rock [2CD remastered Deluxe Edition including 2nd unreleased album]

One of you requested this Divebomb Records reissue of VAMP‘s “The Rich Don’t Rock [2CD remastered Deluxe Edition]“, out of print now with remaining copies being sold for over €150. The album has been made available again by Bad Reputation Records, but here you have as extra Vamp’s second unreleased album ‘One Smack Killer’.
Munich Melodic Hard Rockers VAMP were another sad example for the way music industry works. Signed by Atlantic Records they released in 1989 the cracking “The Rich Don’t Rock” album produced by Tony Platt (Foreigner) stuffed to the rafters with arena-ready choruses, hooky guitars and soaring ballsy vocals.
CD 1 contains the original album remastered plus 3 bonus: the impossible to find VAMP first EP (only 12” vinyl) featuring noticeable – yet killer – different versions of “The Rich Don’t Rock”, “Why” and “Shout”.
And CD 2… 15 awesome previously unreleased tracks: 8 songs recorded for their unreleased sophomore album “One Smack Killer” and 7 The Rich Don’t Rock demos including their 1986 demo under the name ROXX which is what got them signed.
All these stuff was professionally recorded with great production, first class sound…

REMASTER / UNRELEASED / V.A.M.P.

V.A.M.P. – Telephone Love Affair [Digitally Remastered + bonus] (2021) HQ

Alongside the Harlot album, Metallic Blue Records are releasing today as well all the ’80s recordings from V.A.M.P. – the name originally used by Harlot – all digitally remastered and officially on CD for the first time, under the title “Telephone Love Affair“.
V.A.M.P. was founded in 1986 and after intense gigs they wrote an album’s worth of songs. In 1988, the band gained interest from Atlantic Records, but they already had a melodic hard rock band into their roster called VAMP.
So A&R and managers told V.A.M.P. if they wanted to have a better chance of signing a deal, they should change their name. The band complied and changed their name to HARLOT, but it was too late and Atlantic was no longer interested.
V.A.M.P. was much more LA glammy melodic hard rock than HARLOT, with some of Cinderella, Britny Fox, early Poison, etc to their sound. All the material the band recorded 1988-90 is comprised here, surprisingly very good in sound quality for an unsigned band…