MICHAEL STANLEY BAND
''FOURTH AND TEN: RECORDED LIVE AT BLOSSOM MUSIC CENTER
1984
62:43
1 My Town 04:41
2 Someone Like You 07:01
3 Shut Up And Leave Me Alone 04:07
4 Fire In The Hole 05:48
5 In Between The Lines 05:49
6 Lover 05:47
7 Somewhere In The Night 04:57
8 He Can't Love You 04:35
9 In Between The Lines (Demo) 02:53
10 Night By Night (Demo) 04:13
11 And If You Love Her (Demo) 04:36
12 Hang Tough (Demo)
13 Spanish Nights (Demo) 04:38
Michael Stanley lead vocals, guitar
Michael Gismondi bass, sax
Tommy Dobeck drums, percussion
Danny Powers lead guitar, vocals
Kevin Raleigh lead and backing vocals, keyboards
Bob Pelander keyboards, vocals
REVIEW
By Official Site
1984 - "Fourth and Ten" - The band had actually started working on material for a studio album to shop around in an attempt to get a new record deal, when the decision was made to record their Tenth Anniversary shows at Blossom Music Center near Cleveland for a live album. August 15th and 16th saw two sellout crowds pack the Blossom grounds for the shows. The live album consisted of eight tracks, one of which, "Shut Up And Leave Me Alone" was one of the studio tracks they were working on and thus became the only unreleased track. Other tunes were "My Town", "Someone Like You", "Fire In The Hole", "In Between The Lines", "Lover" (with some fine crowd vocals), "Somewhere In The Night", and "He Can't Love You".
The album was released regionally on vinyl on "MSB Records", and was produced and arranged by the Michael Stanley Band. The eight original tracks from this album were split up as "bonus tracks" on the four EMI albums when they were re-issued on CD, and more recently, Line Level Music has re-issued "Fourth and Ten" in its entirety on CD. The CD now includes five bonus tracks, writer’s demos of four songs that ended up on the MSB album, and one un-released tune of Michael's.
BIOGRAPHY
By Bret Adams (AllMusic)
Cleveland native Michael Stanley became a regional phenomenon, but the singer/songwriter/guitarist and his Michael Stanley Band deserved more national success than they achieved. Stanley, whose real name is Michael Stanley Gee, played bass with the folk-rock group Silk in the late '60s. He then went solo and released two solo albums in the early '70s that fit right in with the "singer/songwriter" era. His talent attracted the likes of producer Bill Szymczyk and guest musicians Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren, and David Sanborn from the beginning. He formed the Michael Stanley Band (aka MSB) in 1975 and pursued a more straightforward rock direction. MSB recorded a string of albums through the late '70s and early '80s that were modest successes nationally but major hits in Ohio. In fact, the Michael Stanley Band was such a sensation at home that it still holds attendance records at major concert venues. 1980's Heartland was easily MSB's best album, and Stanley agrees. It included the hit single "He Can't Love You" (sung by vocalist/keyboardist Kevin Raleigh) and the minor hit "Lover" (sung by Stanley and featuring blistering saxophone by Clarence Clemons). MSB's second and last Top 40 hit was Stanley's anthem "My Town" in 1983. After recording for Epic, Arista, and EMI, MSB independently released two albums on their own before breaking up in 1987.
The Michael Stanley Band was a reliably consistent, meat-and-potatoes enterprise responsible for superb Midwestern rock & roll. Stanley went on to become a popular television and radio personality in Cleveland. He still regularly releases albums -- solo and the one-off group project the Ghost Poets -- and performs annual summer and New Year's Eve shows along with occasional acoustic dates; these concerts and albums both feature MSB alumni and other Cleveland musicians. Razor & Tie has reissued most of MSB's catalog and two excellent best-of collections on compact disc.
OFFICIAL SITE
''FOURTH AND TEN: RECORDED LIVE AT BLOSSOM MUSIC CENTER
1984
62:43
1 My Town 04:41
2 Someone Like You 07:01
3 Shut Up And Leave Me Alone 04:07
4 Fire In The Hole 05:48
5 In Between The Lines 05:49
6 Lover 05:47
7 Somewhere In The Night 04:57
8 He Can't Love You 04:35
9 In Between The Lines (Demo) 02:53
10 Night By Night (Demo) 04:13
11 And If You Love Her (Demo) 04:36
12 Hang Tough (Demo)
13 Spanish Nights (Demo) 04:38
Michael Stanley lead vocals, guitar
Michael Gismondi bass, sax
Tommy Dobeck drums, percussion
Danny Powers lead guitar, vocals
Kevin Raleigh lead and backing vocals, keyboards
Bob Pelander keyboards, vocals
REVIEW
By Official Site
1984 - "Fourth and Ten" - The band had actually started working on material for a studio album to shop around in an attempt to get a new record deal, when the decision was made to record their Tenth Anniversary shows at Blossom Music Center near Cleveland for a live album. August 15th and 16th saw two sellout crowds pack the Blossom grounds for the shows. The live album consisted of eight tracks, one of which, "Shut Up And Leave Me Alone" was one of the studio tracks they were working on and thus became the only unreleased track. Other tunes were "My Town", "Someone Like You", "Fire In The Hole", "In Between The Lines", "Lover" (with some fine crowd vocals), "Somewhere In The Night", and "He Can't Love You".
The album was released regionally on vinyl on "MSB Records", and was produced and arranged by the Michael Stanley Band. The eight original tracks from this album were split up as "bonus tracks" on the four EMI albums when they were re-issued on CD, and more recently, Line Level Music has re-issued "Fourth and Ten" in its entirety on CD. The CD now includes five bonus tracks, writer’s demos of four songs that ended up on the MSB album, and one un-released tune of Michael's.
BIOGRAPHY
By Bret Adams (AllMusic)
Cleveland native Michael Stanley became a regional phenomenon, but the singer/songwriter/guitarist and his Michael Stanley Band deserved more national success than they achieved. Stanley, whose real name is Michael Stanley Gee, played bass with the folk-rock group Silk in the late '60s. He then went solo and released two solo albums in the early '70s that fit right in with the "singer/songwriter" era. His talent attracted the likes of producer Bill Szymczyk and guest musicians Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren, and David Sanborn from the beginning. He formed the Michael Stanley Band (aka MSB) in 1975 and pursued a more straightforward rock direction. MSB recorded a string of albums through the late '70s and early '80s that were modest successes nationally but major hits in Ohio. In fact, the Michael Stanley Band was such a sensation at home that it still holds attendance records at major concert venues. 1980's Heartland was easily MSB's best album, and Stanley agrees. It included the hit single "He Can't Love You" (sung by vocalist/keyboardist Kevin Raleigh) and the minor hit "Lover" (sung by Stanley and featuring blistering saxophone by Clarence Clemons). MSB's second and last Top 40 hit was Stanley's anthem "My Town" in 1983. After recording for Epic, Arista, and EMI, MSB independently released two albums on their own before breaking up in 1987.
The Michael Stanley Band was a reliably consistent, meat-and-potatoes enterprise responsible for superb Midwestern rock & roll. Stanley went on to become a popular television and radio personality in Cleveland. He still regularly releases albums -- solo and the one-off group project the Ghost Poets -- and performs annual summer and New Year's Eve shows along with occasional acoustic dates; these concerts and albums both feature MSB alumni and other Cleveland musicians. Razor & Tie has reissued most of MSB's catalog and two excellent best-of collections on compact disc.
OFFICIAL SITE
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