NEWS UPDATE : July 2025
July 18 : LYN
CHRISTOPHER - 2025 vinyl LP and CD remastered reissue
From :
Real Gone Music
On September 12, Real Gone Music will release
a remastered reissue of
LYN CHRISTOPHER's self-titled 1973 album
on vinyl LP and CD.
 LYN
CHRISTOPHER's
1973 record is one of the most sought-after collector’s items of its
era. Why? Well, first of all, Lyn Christopher’s self-titled release
on the Paramount label is a really fine album, a beguiling blend of
pop and R&B sounds featuring the artist’s winsome vocals backed by
some of New York’s finest studio cats, like guitarist Hugh
McCracken, Blood Sweat & Tears multi-instrumentalist Lou Marini Jr.,
and future Back Street Crawler keyboardist Mike Montgomery. And
“Take Me with You,” the penultimate song on the album, has been
sampled by Mobb Deep’s Havoc, LL Cool J, 50 Cent, The Game, and,
memorably, by the Smut Peddlers on their 2001 underground classic
“One by One.” But there is another very big reason why original
copies of Lyn Christopher command a king’s ransom (and no, it’s not
because it’s never been reissued in any format). If you know who
Chaim Witz and Stanley
Eisen are, then you probably already know the answer. That’s
right…this album marks the first appearance on record of
Gene Simmons
and
Paul Stanley
of KISS! They sing background
vocals
on two tracks, “Celebrate II” and “Weddin’”; and supposedly that’s
Peter Criss
doing handclaps. What’s more, this album introduced legendary
engineer Eddie Kramer—who, though unbilled, was engineering the
sessions—to Simmons and Stanley, who were still calling their band
WICKED LESTER.
Kramer then produced the five-song demo that got KISS signed to
Casablanca, and the rest, as they say, is history! We at Real Gone
are thrilled to FINALLY be reissuing this fabled album on CD and
light blue vinyl, remastered by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision and
complete with liner notes by Bill Kopp that set the stage. A real
slice of pop music history that you gotta hear! |
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July 11 :
Bruce Kulick guests on Saints Crossing album 'Unknown Destination'
From
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Kiss Related Recordings
On July 11, Saints Crossing released
their new album Unknown Destination. Bruce Kulick appears on four
tracks, with Twisted Sister's Eddie Ojeda featured on two other
tracks.
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