Friday, May 27, 2011

MR. BIG

 Mr. Big combined two popular musical trends of the rock scene in the 1980s: a particular brand of hard rock focus on melodies and listener-friendly choruses, and impressive technical skills when called fragmentation seeds for the group were sown when bass player Billy Sheehan (considered one of the best bassists of rock often form the basis corresponding to guitarist Eddie Van Halen) left David Lee Roth's solo band in 1988, almost immediately after his exit Sheehan began piecing together a new outfit with the help of Mike Varney from Shrapnel Records, a label that specialized in the shredding genre band consisted Shrapnel artist and former Racer X guitarist Paul Gilbert, Pat Torpey on drums and singer Eric Martin, who had a number of album releasesin the 1980s with his Eric Martin Band In 1989 the newly formed quartet had already inked a recording contract with Atlantic results in the emission of a self-titled debut the same year, despite causing a buzz amongst musicians on the album does not crossover to a mainstream rock audience state side, but Mr. Big was an immediate smash success overseas in Japan

The band's breakthrough came with their second album, Lean in IT during the 1991 drill two ballads that established the band as a commercial success: "To Be With You" and "Just Take My Heart" as well as rock songs which remained as staples of their live for many years to come as "Green-Tinted Sixties Mind" Other releases followed Bump Before 1993 and Hey Man in 1996, but the band never replicated its earlier suillgång on U.S. marketaden in Japan on the other hand, they continued to sell out tours resulted in a number of live versions for the Japanese market during their entire career (from Raw Like Sushi 1990 to Mr. Big in Japan 2002) Paul Gilbert left the band in 1997 to pursue a solo career and Finally, reform Racer X, Richie Kotz another Shrapnel artist and former guitarist for Poison came in to take on guitar duties also contributes occasional vocals, two studio albums released by this lineup: Get Over It in 2000 and Actual Size in 2001 which contained the single "Shine" used in the anime Hellsing Tensions in the band between Billy Sheehan and the other members, in particular, Eric Martin, led to the band's demise - contractual obligations for yet another Japanese tour were fulfilled in the formof a "farewell tour" of several million record selling band disbanded in 2002 many years since their last hit in the U.S. while enjoying great popularity in Japan


In February 2009, as a result of fan demand, and even after several meetings in recent years as gradually took the group back together again, Eric Martin, Pat Torpey, Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan finally announced its decision to reunite announcement was marked with celebration and excitement among fans worldwide, especially in Japan band members themselves are very happy to be together again as friends and to perform once again for fans all over the world, their first tour in Japan in June 2009

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