Year : 1991 (AOR Heaven Classix Remastered 2013)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 134 mb
Bio:
Bai Bang - one of the most powerful rock acts from Sweden - features talented and dynamic rockers.Since the band started in the late 80s the Bai Bang members have spent a lot of time together on their tours all over Europe, Canada, Japan and USA.The new album “Are You Ready” was released in May 2009 and was nominated for the best sleaze/glam album in Sweden and it was voted as “The Best all round party anthem album of the year” in the Australian magazine The Rockpit.In between tours Bai Bang are currently writing new songs for the 7th upcoming album that’s going to be released later this year.Back in 2005 the band released a “Best Of” from the albums: Enemy Lines, Cop To Con, Ridin’ High and Attitude.Bai Bang have been touring with bands like: Alice Cooper, LA Guns, Dio, Ratt, Pretty Maids and Union among others and have done many headline tours as well.The band have been playing at festivals like: Sweden Rock Festival, Wacken Open Air and Rocklahoma.
Album:
Founded in the second half of the ’80s, BAI BANG still is one of the best Melodic Hard rock band coming out of Sweden. Arguably, their best record is their second effort appeared in 1991, the irresistible “Cop To Con” now being remastered and reissued by AOR Heaven on their ‘AOR Heaven Classix‘ series with a bonus track.Despite the band’s quality, Bai Bang aren’t usually mentioned alongside their Swedish contemporaries Treat, Dalton, Bad Habit and others. Maybe it’s because their first album ‘Enemy Lines’ was a rather hideous and poppy one, and it took them a few years to come up with a strong follow-up in the form of “Cop To Con”.Including 10 Melodic Hard Rock catchy bombs inspired by the sound & style of Jani Lane’s Warrant and Poison but with an unmistakable Scandi flavor, “Cop To Con” rocks.There’s hook-laden gems like title track “Cop To Con”, “Answer”, the very Warrant-like “Arrow” and the highly harmonized “Run To The End”, all adorned with keyboards.The AORish “Hearts On Fire” is one of my favorites, together with the mid-tempo semi-ballad “Love Is Strong” where the band recall their countrymen Talk Of The Town.AOR Heaven has respected the original artwork – the album was first published by German label Jaguar – later modified for the American version and again for the Japanese.Digitally remastered by Chris Lyne, “Cop To Con +1 AOR Heaven Classix” was released strictly limited to 500 copies and has become quite scarce and hard to find.
Line Up:
Joacim Sandin - Bass, Back Vocals
Diddi Kastenholt - Vocals
Pelle Eliaz - Guitar, Back Vocals
Jonas Langebro - Drums
Past members
Martyn Karlsson : Keyboard
Pontus Norgren : Guitar [2000] Great King Rat, Humanimal, The Poodles, Talisman
Mille Wendel : Drums
Eric Kalle Mansson : Guitar
Claas Wallin : Bass
Mikkie Nielsen : Guitar, Back Vocals Nasty Idols
Tracklist:
01. Cop To Con
02. Answer
03. Arrow
04. Neat Time
05. Run To The End
06. Adrenalin
07. Heart's On Fire
08. Strange Request
09. Code To Your Heart
10. Love Is Strong
11. Hot Love (Bonus Track)
+ Video "Run To The End" (Live Video)
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