【Melodic Rock/AOR】Fake I.D. - The Thunder (1980s Unreleased Demo)~Emily's rare collection
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- 【Pls look at the top comment first】The sound quality of this song is not good, because this song is a quite rare but valuable demo, even it is an unreleased demo, written in 1980s by Barlow & Minto, a classic songwriting team, consisting of Pamela Moore Barlow and Janet Morrison Minto. This songwriting team started in early 1980s in Marin County, California. Before that, Janet had worked with and been married to the notable Northern Irish rock icon, Van Morrison in his earliest days as a solo artist, but eventually, they divorced in 1973. Pamela had fronted several popular bands in the San Diego area. While recording a demo for one of the groups they started, Janet met and later married to engineer-producer Chris Minto while Pamela had married to Bruce Barlow, a founding member of Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen. So this is the origin of Barlow & Minto. When the two couples were re-located to Los Angeles, Janet Minto and Pamela Barlow had become immersed in writing songs professionally.
Two ladies formed this creative team with masterpieces one after another. Their most impressive works were those aor gems, accomplished during 1980s. Some were written for Swedish rock legend Alien, some were produced for a past underrated group, called "Fake I.D." . It can be considered that this precious demo "Thunder" was written and recorded for and under the name of Fake I.D., a five-piece aor band, behind which there was a strong studio and produce team, including Barlow and Minto.
About Fake I.D., such a powerful voice is from an underrated but absolutely awesome vocal artist, Gene Miller. This band features Gene Miller on lead vocals, Pamela Moore Barlow and Janet Morrison Minto on backing vocals, Bruce Barlow on bass, Chris Minto on remixing and engineering with Janet Morrison Minto. Generally, Fake I.D. released only one album titled "Dreaming Ezekiel" in 1997 with all the songs written by Barlow & Minto. Actually, they had more hidden tracks which were never released and just recorded as demos like this flaming song, even one of the best from the bottom of my heart.
Speaking of Gene Miller, apart from his role as the lead vocalist of Fake I.D., he used to work with several artists such as Gregg Rolie, Richard Marx, Peter Cetera, Bryan Duncan and Bonnie Tyler as the backing vocalist. As a solo artist, Gene Miller has been dedicated to lots of soundtracks, especially those 1980s and 1990s films with classic aor themes. He can perfectly deal with rocking tunes and pure pop ballads. For most young people, he acted the singing voice of adult Kovu in "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride" with Liz Callaway (Kiara). Gene Miller performed this song "The Thunder", one of my favourite demos, in his early years during 1980s. Though the accurate recording year was unknown, the killer treble voice of Gene Miller truly displayed his art of singing as a mighty and marvelous rock vocalist.
Check out the studio album "Dreaming Ezekiel (1997)" of Fake I.D. and hear some of the tracks performed by both Gene Miller and Alien and written by talented ladies Barlow & Minto. It's hard to tell which version is the real original one of the song "Go Easy", Alien or Fake I.D., known by most rock fans as Alien's early masterpiece written by two ladies, because the releasing year of Alien's version is much earlier. If I'm not mistaken, the original recording and producing year of "Dreaming Ezekiel (1997)" by Fake I.D. is around 1989. But one thing can be sure that another track "I'm A Fighter" included in Alien's "Eternity (2014)" album is an absolute 1980s single which Barlow & Minto wrote for Fake I.D. before. Even long time ago, it was once performed by Mark Free as an unreleased brilliant demo.
"The Thunder" was included in the unreleased demo album of Fake I.D., titled "Second Coming". It is the second track from the album. From its title, it is easy to know this album was accomplished after their official studio album "Dreaming Ezekiel", which was recorded in 1989 as I memtioned before. But each of the accurate year respectively is unknown. Anyway, both of them bring the sense of nostalgia, true 1980s gems as they sound like. Also, it was included in the unreleased demo collections of Barlow & Minto with 22 works altogether, which contains most of the songs respectively from the two albums of Fake I.D., "Dreaming Ezekiel" and "Second Coming", except for a few individual tracks. For most aor lovers, I trust the works from Fake I.D. are welcome and they deserve all thumbs up even the demos, because they're precious and should never be forgotten. Cherish for good and make them alive.
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Hello Emily, in your great knowledge of 80's rock hidden gems, could you please share your expertise on this recording attributed to Steve Perry by the person who uploaded it: ruclips.net/video/QpapkTysld8/видео.html ?
A little state of play on the debate in the comments regarding the identity of the singer on this video:
- 40 people think this is NOT Steve Perry, most placing this demo in the middle or late 1980s *(9 people suggested Gene Miller [Fake I.D.], hence my question here;* 3 thought of Mickey Thomas [Starship], 2 of Kevin Chalfant [The Storm], 2 of David Glen Eisley [Giuffria], and finally 2 others of Steve Augeri [Tall Stories / Journey]),
- 21 people think this IS Steve Perry (4 suggest it was before Journey [then without Jonathan Cain], 8 others think it is mid-1980s, so an abandoned Frontiers or Raised on Radio demo).
So far, no one has provided concrete evidence one way or the other.
Personally, I'd tend to agree with someone else comment written 6 years ago:
_"I don't think this is Steve Perry: the tone is very off, though the style is very close. IF it is, I'd say it's probably a "Raised on Radio" or "Against the Wall" outtake. It's definitely late 80s pop. It could also be a demo from The Storm's first album._
_I do know that it's definitely NOT pre-"Raised-on-Radio" Perry. This singer doesn't have the pitch range and clarity that Perry had prior to "Frontiers", and this synth style didn't come about until the mid-to-late 1980s. I also know that it couldn't have come from "Frontiers", since the music from that time had a richer and metal sound. Journey experimented A LOT from 1985 to 1986, with all kind of musical technology, leaving A LOT of stuff unfinished and unused, so again, IF this is Journey or Steve Perry, it had to have been recorded between 1985 and 1988; however, I think it's just a sound-alike."_
@@CyregO Hi, Les. I heard this song, that's perfect to me🥰 I left my comment, a very very long statement with some of my humble opinion. You can take a look. Actually, I have no knowledge of this song, but feel so excited to hear it. When the music kicks in, I know this is my loving treasure.
Amazing song. It’s nice to hear some of these demos come to light. Love this one a lot.
Hello, dear. Thank you for enjoying Barlow & Minto's epic work. They are great songwriters. Their songs are impeccable.💖🤗
Many demos hide real treasures inside, this Is the perfect example of it. I've enjoyed it a lot Emily, thanks!
One of my favourite demos from Gene Miller in his early years, an underrated vocal master, written by this female songwriting group. ❤️ This is a flaming song for flaming heart, though the sound quality is terrible.🤣
I remember about 7 years ago, finding this floating somewhere on the internet and its the best song i ever heard, plus this one song called Carry Me Away, idk if you heard it but it sounds so mellow, melodic and powerful
Great, dear. I heard some demos online written by the two ladies Barlow and Minto. So great their works are! Some of them were included in Fake I.D.'s 1997 record. BTW, who's the singer of "Carry Me Away"you mentioned?🙂
@@MelodicRockFeline thats really cool, iv heard songs from janet morrison minto the other day and they wete also good, oh and that song i mentioned Carry Me Away, well, i cant tell who sang it but my guess would be someone by the name of Rob Throwe
Also you seem nice and cool 🙂
An amazing rare song! Thank you Emily!!
Thank you, dear Nikitas. Ultra rare but pretty wonderful demo is sent for every extraordinary AORer.
Kick ass song!
Thank you, Tito. Flaming demo by amazing voice, this song was co-written by two ladies 🤘🔥
Super dear!
Thank you, Tracy. This is very rare but ultra marvelous. I have shared it with AORTime FB Group😋
I love this Song, Great Tune 🥰
Thank you, Werner, killer voice and flaming song for everlasting aorers.❤️🔥😀
Great song, great voice
Mighty voice of Gene Miller 💖
Amazing song and super performance of Lorraine Frisaura😉👍
Indeed, dear. Super song like a thunder hitting in our hearts.🙂
So true, she sings the song like a thunder, the voice is amazing
So this is not Gene Miller, as stated in the video? (unless I've misinterpreted the video's explanations)
@@CyregO It's hard to say. Some people say this song is sung by Gene Miller and some people think this is from mighty lady Lorraine Frisaura. I originally thought this was Lorraine Frisaura, because I am familiar with her voice, but several people told me this is Gene Miller recorded in 1990, not from Lorraine Frisaura. Both of them recorded songs with Barlow and Minto project and their voices sound very alike, so it's really hard to tell who sang the song. From Fake I.D's only official album in 1997, we can hear Gene Miller's singing, whose voice is like this. Actually, I personally still believe this is Lorraine Frisaura as my first reaction.
Thanks for your detailed answer, @@MelodicRockFeline. 😊
Your selection is pretty good.🙂👍
Thanks, dear 💖 I love this hidden track so much. This is two ladies's creation, truly awesome 😊
wow
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Good Evening My Dear Emily , How Are You?, Great 80's AOR
Hello, Omar. I am fine especially when receiving your greeting 😊. Have a good day! Thanks for supporting me all the way.
@@MelodicRockFeline You're Welcome my dear Emily