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BLUE THUNDER :

Contact : Mr.THUNDER@BLUE-THUNDER.net -management@BLUE-THUNDER.net - info@BLUE-THUNDER.net - BLUE.THUNDERdome@aon.at - http://www.blue-thunder.net

1 What's the story of your band?

Blue Thunder was formed in February 1992 by Hannes Hofer und Anton Konrath (both Ex- Dirty Hawk). Because of various personal problems Dirty Hawk was split. Mainly finding a new line up was the new trouble then, but the usual "hiring & firing" led to a new basser - Wolfgang Dorfmeister - and Barbara Staud on keyboards. Finally former "Dirty Hawk" frontman Helmut -"Animal" - Huspenina filled the vocal spot. Various excellent live gigs (e.g. Rockhaus Vienna, Art&Fun Factory, ...) were played and also studiodates were booked for Dec. 92. But luck didn`t seem to be on the bands paylist - and so these studiodates had to be cancelled a few weeks later after shouter Helmut died in a car-accident in November 92. Despite of the tragic the band knew that the whole thing had to go on. Again vocalists were asked to audition and finally Tom Raisinger got the job and filled the spot perfectly. With him in front of the mic a 3-track demo was recorded which sold out within weeks. The band also supported and shared stage with various international acts like Victory, Accept, Mental Hippie Blood, Mark Wood, Kingdom Come, Magnum, Gamma Ray, Steve Lukather, Saxon, UFO ....... and was featured in local musicmagazines "Austria CREATIV" and "Rennbahnexpress". Blue Thunder also got 76 out of 100 points for the debut CD in Asian "BURRN - magazine" Fate recently struck again when our longtime manager and friend "Gerhard Staud" died unexpectedly after heavy heartsurgery because of a heartattack. It seemed that he was recorvering, but ... and so the management is done by the band itself again.

2 What are your influences?

This is a hard one - since there are so many bands we should give credit for their influence on our/my musical development and "education". You defenitely have to name all the greats in the buisness like Ronnie James DIO, Judas Priest, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Dokken & Lynchmob, John SYKES, Y. Malmsteen, Savatage, Stratovarius, Queensryche ... but also all our german colleges and friends like Victory, Accept, UDO, Rage, Running Wild, Gammy Ray, Sinner, Helloween ... were our heroes when we musically grew up and still are.

3 How do you define your style ?

It´s really difficult to speak of a band´s style in our days. We don´t claim that we´ve invented the whole thing new - we just play what we really like and feel. We speak of "power-groove-metal" since this seems to describe best what we´re doing. Beautiful melody lines combined with groovy or power rhythms. Especially the newer songs like Deceiver, Heaven denied and the ones that we didn´t put on that promoCD are "power-grooves".

4 You're unsigned . Do you search for record companies? & so what are your conditions?

Yes we´re unsigned, and of course we´re looking for companies. We´ve been offered too many bad "major"-deals. What´s a major deal when you can do all the work on your own again ? It´s actually very simple - we just want to be able to take care of the music in an environment we can work within, without having to think of how we can raise the money for it. We did these two albums completely on our own - I mean nobody gave us finacial help. I guess this is especially hard in a country like ours where we don´t have the buisness background for this kind of music. When we talk of conditions there´s this one thing we´ve been fighting for all the years:"LIVE AND LET LIVE"

5 Tell us more about the recording of your album?

The debut CD was recorded at "Soudhouse Studio" (Recorded and mixed by Georg RINDER; produced by the band and Georg Rinder; released at a Viennese label "Weltmusik Wien" distributed worldwide by "Maple Leaf Records" - Germany) Blue Thunder wouldn´t exist today without Georg´s help. He was the one that supported and encouraged us from the first demo-tape on up till now. The promoCD is a different story: We actually wanted to record some of the newer songs just to take a closer look at the arrangements. So we hooked up an Adat machine with our live gear in our drummer`s basement. We started out with the "Road of thousand tears" and "Deceiver" but after we´ve recorded the basic tracks to "Heaven denied" we knew that this would defenitely not end up as a demo. So we added "She" and "The Wall". For all the vocal parts we booked Georg´s Soundhouse Studio and finished it there.

6 You've just released a mCD. Is it available for all metal fans or is it just to promotion?

This is what we´re working out right now. Actually we decided to only use it for promotional purposes but who knows we might release it and/or do another brand new full production. This all depends on the companies we´re talking to right now. It´s all possible !

7 What are your projects for 1999?

We plan to shoot a video to "Heaven denied" in the near future and also work on new material for the next "full" CD.

8 Do you search for distributors? What are your wholesales prices & where have they to order your albums?

Distributors´ enquiries are welcome - anybody who´s interested to join the CLAN and to distribute our CDs, merchandise ...and promote BLUE THUNDER in his country can email us. I´m sure we can work out a deal.

9 For those that want to order it, what's the price?

Everybody else can place his orders on a COD basis over e-mail too.

10 You released a cover of The Wall? Why do you make this particular choice ?

The Wall has always been the last song of our live set and so many fans have asked us to capture this live feeling and so we decided to record it too.

11 - You played it heavier. But do you make some other arrangements?

This is how BLUE THUNDER interprets it - there are no other versions.

12 Is it a real live version?

We didn´t have the time and money to hire a recording mobile or cut some live sequences and so we "improvised" with some studio magic.

13 I compare you to bands like Vandenplas, because of your musical approach & evolution between the 2 recordings. But you describe yourself as a power metal band. What's the main difference between a band like Vandenplas & yours?

I have to admit that I´m not familiar with Vandenplas but I´m defenitely going to buy their last CD - I promise ! anyway - So many things have happened between the first album and the promoCD - we had some differences with our frontman - Tom - which worked out fine. Then our longtime manager - Gerhard - who was also Barbara´s (keys) dad died unexpectedly after heartsurgery because of a heartattack and finally we all also musically developed - it´s hard to describe it´s the way we feel or felt at this point.

14 A last word?

First of all thanx a lot Laurent not only for giving us the opportunity to present us at your homepage but for promoting metal in general ! Keep it up - we all count on you ! Greetings and also a big thanx to all our fans that supported us through the years ! C-ya on stage ! Thanx also to our road- and technical crew - they mostly worked for us without getting any money - you guys rule ! And another thanx to Horst LANGER, Edmund ENGL and Beate AUSFLUG of german tubeamp manufacturer ENGL. I´m proud to endorse ENGL amps (http://www.engl-amps.com) since these guys do the hell of a job and if it ever may come to any kind of success they´ll have their share - thanx. You can take everything I own but you can't take away my dream - till I die DRY YOUR EYES BELIEVE IN ALL YOUR DREAMS YOU`VE WALKED THROUGH SO MUCH PAIN ON A ROAD OF THOUSAND TEARS
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Torrent #352260 Blue Thunder - 1988-10-08 (Trout, Bogert, Ward) Bogarts, Long Beach Aud (edited) Shades of Cactus, BBA
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Description I checked off blues because of Walter.
Here is a very Cactus, BBA influence. TIM,
but Walter wails!
This musta been a fun night.


Blue Thunder
Bogart's
Long Beach, CA.
1988-10-08

Audience recording

Lineage: unknown

Set List:

01 Goin' Down
02 Evil
03 Help Me
04 Serves You Right To Suffer
05 Feel So Bad
06 Sitting On Top Of The World
07 Rock Me (tape flip)
08 Tell The Truth
09 Cold Cold Feelin'
10 Good Enough To Eat
11 Lucille

Walter Trout - guitar, vocals
Danny "Mongo" Abrams - keys
Tim Bogert - bass, vocals
Bill Ward - drums

Edit Notes:
-azimuth aligned
-b side had ~ -2 db gain
-removed 60 Hz hum
-reduced pops, clicks
-brought out bottom end & Walter's guitar a bit

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original info & some covers added
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