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Graham Bonnet Band: The Book
The Graham Bonnet Band is releasing a brand new album called The Book, It will be a double, with 11 new songs, and a bonus disc with 12 rerecorded classics, including 4 Rainbow tracks.
Disc 1
- Into The Night
- Welcome To My Home
- Earth’s Child (I Am Your Son)
- Rider
- Dead Man Walking
- Strangest Day
- The Dance
- Where Were You?
- The Book
- Everybody Wants To Go There
- California Air
Disc 2 (Re-Recorded Classics)
- Eyes Of The World
- All Night Long
- Lost In Hollywood
- Since You Been Gone
- Night Games
- S.O.S.
- Assault Attack
- Dancer
- Desert Song
- Island In The Sun
- Hiroshima Mon Amour
- God Blessed Video
- Will You Be Home Tonight
- Witchwood
- Stand In Line
- Here Comes The Night (Down Without A Fight)
The Book will be released on November 4th via Frontiers Records.
In November Graham Bonnet Band will also embark on a tour of Spain, UK and Ireland:
November
3 – Sala Chango – Madrid, Spain
4 – Sala Totem – Pamplona, Spain
5 – Sala Capitol – Santiago de Compostela, Spain
8 – Boston Music Room – London, UK
9 – River Rooms – Stourbridge, UK
10 – Warehouse 23 – Wakefield, UK
11 – Hard Rock Hell – Pwllheli, UK
12 – Club Academy – Manchester, UK
13 – Bannermans – Edinburgh, UK
15 – Diamonds – Doncaster, UK
16 – Think Tank – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
18 – Nerve Centre – Derry-Londonderry, UK
19 – Limelight 2 – Belfast, Ireland
20 – Monroes – Galway, Ireland
21 – Voodoo Lounge – Dublin, Ireland
22 – Fuel Rock Club – Cardiff, UK
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This looks to be a great offering. Pretty ballsy move re-recording some of these songs. There is going to be that… “OMG” crap from the bitchers if he doesn’t pull them off as in the original. Just look at the Whitesnake/Purple album. All that bashing. I look forward to the album and may the Nay Sayers weep….
Ch-BeerZ
September 6th, 2016 at 20:41Can’t wait to hear it. Good old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll from a legend… just as it should be. Smiles to ya!.
September 7th, 2016 at 03:04@1 Tracy,
Amen to that brother! :>
Peace,
September 7th, 2016 at 15:02Ted
Can’t wait to here Graham Bonnett and his lovely wifes band jam some old classics………Cheers!!!.
September 7th, 2016 at 16:15If Coverdale had issued The Purple Album as a bonus disc to an original studio album like Bonnet’s doing, as opposed to promoting it as a major Whitesnake release on its own, he may have retained credibility with a lot of fans. I enjoyed the rerecordings as an alternative but it did rankle me that he couldn’t release some newly written material as well.
September 7th, 2016 at 19:08Not even listed on Amazon.ca. ☹️
September 7th, 2016 at 22:31@1
What about Whitesnake covering themselves three times with two of them big hits, decades before the Purple album? 😀 Is that different when they do it in their prime, than decades later when they still never topped the originals in the process? I mean might as well do it when they actually can.(I’m currently hitting my highest notes David Coverdale comes to mind) But seriously I think Graham adding this as bonus material can’t hurt anything. It’s not like its the main course but some might think it is just that in disguise, because they can’t wrap their head around anything new.
September 8th, 2016 at 09:25Graham Bonnet makes me laugh. Is the bloke who stated he left Rainbow because there was no decent songs being written now reissuing. Obviously he has written classic material since those days unlike Blackmore who has only written tracks Perfect Strangers, Under the Gun, Strangeways, Fires at Midnight and many more.
Get writing Graham x
Thank you Ken
September 8th, 2016 at 13:44So, is the keyboard player David Coverdale’s younger brother, illegitimate American son or just his clone?
September 12th, 2016 at 03:24anyone knows when this album is coming out ??! I think I am missing something! November ??
September 14th, 2016 at 15:36And what about Grahams book I never heard of again while I enlisted to a pre ordering list years ago, several times to be sure…………
September 29th, 2016 at 19:53LRT @ 7;
If you are referring to the 80’s re-do’s such as Fool for Your Lovin’, Here I Go Again, etc., not quite the same issue. Coverdale pretty much was in his prime 30 years ago. Whitesnake got on and rode the Hair Band Wave along with MTV and got totally rediscovered and that catapulted them to World Wide Stardom. He launched a whole new band and for that era it fit and was extremely successful. As for the latest effort…. The Purple Album, well that actually confirms my point. As much as I like it due to the fact that I enjoy the totally revamped versions of those tunes, David himself is suffering from his lack of range and the “Nay Sayers” pounded him as usual. Bonnet is in the same realm. I am not saying he won’t be able to put out a good Covers Album. I am saying that it is a little risky due to fact that the Purple Related Critics are the majority of who will even know the album is released and they can be relentless in their bombardment of criticism. It isn’t like the 80’s Whitesnake days when there were tons of New Fans that loved them which over rode the constant criticism from the hard core purists that still cry about the newer versions of Whitesnake over the Old Codgers. So in short, I hope Bonnet is prepared for the good old Purists whom will tear down any note that isn’t carbon copy of the original….. they do it Coverdale, Gillan, and whoever else. Meanwhile they are putting out fantastic records but the FANS (I use that term loosely) are like Buzzards waiting to pick them apart.
Ch-BeerZ
October 1st, 2016 at 14:10