About this product

Product Identifiers

Record LabelCD Baby, Cdb

UPC0797734163117

eBay Product ID (ePID)28046043880

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2009

GenreRock

ArtistTora Tora

Release TitleBefore & after

Dimensions

Item Height0.38 in

Item Weight0.19 lb

Item Length5.69 in

Item Width5.12 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks10

Number of Discs1

TracksWasted Love [From the Indie Release to Rock to Roll], To Rock to Roll [From the Indie Release to Rock to Roll], Time on the Edge [From the Indie Release to Rock to Roll], Phantom Rider [From the Indie Release to Rock to Roll], Love's a Bitch [From the Indie Release to Rock to Roll], Walkin' Shoes [Original Version], That's Not the Way Love's Supposed to Be, Something's Got to Give, Blue Tommorw, Better to Have Loved Than Lost

NotesTora Tora - Before & After - is a 'New' Collection of 'Old' Recordings. Before & After is comprised of 10 tracks . The first 5 tracks are from the 'VERY LIMITED' cassette-only release of To Rock To Roll. (See the original album art on the inside of this album). The sixth track is the very original recorded version of Walkin' Shoes which would eventually wind up on Surprise Attack and be a stand out track and video. The remaining four tracks are demos that were written for the unreleased third album and never turned into A&M records. Here's your chance to see how Tora Tora was progressing as the music industry was taking a very new direction. Onde again, FnA Records went in and cleaned up a lot of the stray noises that can occur when recording demos...and the outcome is an extremely listenable project. On top of that, the listener gets to hear some AMAZING Tora Tora tunes that were never available anywhere else until now. Be sure to check out the other rare recordings being released through FnA Records on Tora Tora. In trying to stay with the hugely succesful album cover of the bomber girl that donned the Surprise Attack album cover, FnA Records has recruited some of the top artists to design it's artwork for the new Tora Tora releases. Tora Tora started out as a local hard rock 'garage' band formed in Memphis, TN in 1985. They eventually won a 'Battle Of The Bands' which earned them some studio time. This would eventually lead to the release of an independent (and very limited cassette only release) of an EP entitled To Rock To Roll. The songs 'Phantom Rider' and 'Love's A Bitch' received extensive airplay on local radio station Rock 98 which then lead to the band signing with A&M Records. For A&M records they recorded their debut album Surprise Attack in 1989. This album peaked on Billboard's Top 200 at #47. The single 'Dancing With A Gypsy' was on the soundtrack for the film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure later that year. In 1992, their second album, Wild America, was released. Although only reaching #134 on the Billboard charts, it was a more mature step at songwriting. Currently, the band gets together approximately two times a year and plays a full force live show. In 2009, they signed exclusively with FnA Records to release 3 albums of material.