Year : 1990/1993 (AOR Boulevard Records Limited Edition 2025)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , AOR , Hair Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 67 mb
Bio:
Melodic hard rock band from Lakewood, Ohio.Formed as Tilt by George Chapman and Bob Woodruff after the end of George's couple-year stint singing for Cleveland Hard Rock band Spoyld. The band released 2 demos in 1989, before Bob left in November 1989, after what would be Tilts final show on November 11th, co-headlining with Kidd Wicked at Spanky's (Painesville, Ohio). George and Tony would actually both quickly join Kidd Wicked after this, and played their first show with them only 6 days later in the 17th. By January 1990 they had decided to change their style to a keyboard-driven one, recruiting keyboardist Mike Briggs and changed their name to Max Panic. After "Welcome to the Big Time" they again went through some lineup and style changes, becoming less "mainstream" and focusing more on technical writing, aiming to develope a heavier sound that couldn't be placed into any existing mold or genre. They recruited guitarist/keyboardist Ken Barber from Cleveland Hard Rock band Dia Pason in November 1991, and on January 31st 1992 they played a show with Vanadium drummer John Carr filling in, and announced they were taking a 3 month break from shows to begin demo-ing the material for a 12 song debut album. However, these plans would be delayed by the final departure of drummer Tony Santoro, leading to Max Panic trading drummers with Kidd Wicked in April 1992. Tony Santoro went back to Kidd Wicked and Max Panic recruited their drummer Johnny "Fresh" Fedevich. This was the time that they announced beginning actually recording material for the debut album. However, the album ended up never coming to be, with them only releasing 2 of the songs on a Promotional Demo, and returning to the live circuit with their newest member, their previous fill-in, Vanadium drummer John Carr. Their big return show, and Carr's debut, took place on Friday, September 25th at the Phantasy Nightclub in Cleveland, with opening acts Steel Carnival and Heavens Rain. They continued recording again in March and April 1993, recording new drums for some 1992 tracks and recording more totally new tracks, putting them together and completing the EP "RIGHT!". The new tape was released at a show at The Grog Shop (with opening act Mosquitomite) on August 7th, 1993. Like the release of "Welcome to the Big Time", "RIGHT!" was released the week after Max Panic got a full-page featured article in Cleveland's Scene Entertainment Weekly, the article/interview (and local news section of the same issue) announcing the release party concert. They continued to play frequently after this, until October 24th 1993, when they would play their last show ever, at Draft House Concert Hall (in Akron, Ohio, with opening act In Fear of Roses). They went on hiatus soon after, but eventually disband early into 1994.On July 12th, 1991 the band released the first issue of their Local Hard Rock & Heavy Metal zine The Panic Press, at a release party at Flash's in Cleveland (with opening acts Valentino and Fatal Charm). All members of the band as well as some friends and fellow musicians contributed with regular columns, reviews, and various one-off articles on other genres of music, politics, the local Metal/Hard Rock scenes in Cleveland and Los Angeles, and a range of other topics, plus promotion for local music shops, artists, and radio stations, zines etc. The zine was in print for at least 4 issues, possibly more.Max Panic also ran their own official Hotline, and fan club called the "Max Mob". Card-carrying "Max Mobbers" were granted free access to most Max Panic shows, something the band secured at the Ohio venues they frequented, and many others, around Ohio, Indiana, and even The Cat Club in New York City.
Album:
MAX PANIC are one of the many hard rock / hairspray hidden jewels that the U.S. scene of the late 1980s produced. The formation from Cleveland released two EP cassettes in 1990 and 1993, although the band unfortunately succumbed to the emerging musical trends of the time from 1992 onwards.As part of their ‘Collectors Series‘ AOR Blvd Records specialists are releasing for the first time on CD limited to 500 copies, remastered versions of MAX PANIC’s songs from the group’s vaults. Titled “Day Will Come“, this is the Volume 6 from the series.For fans of Lynch Mob, Blue Murder and House Of Lords, songs such as ‘Day Will Come’, “Ground Zero’ and ‘Welcome To The Big Time are a real treat.
Line Up:
George Chapman - Guitar, Vocals (lead) (1988-1989), Bass, Vocals (lead) (1990-1994) - See also: ex-Tilt, ex-Kidd Wicked, ex-Spoyld
Jeff Johnston - Guitars (1989, 1990-1994) - See also: ex-Tilt, ex-Outta the Blue
Tony Santoro - Drums (1988-1989, 1990-1991) - See also: ex-Tilt, ex-Kidd Wicked
Mike Briggs - Keyboards (1990-1991)
+ another members:
John Carr - Drums (1992-1994) - See also: ex-Vanadium, ex-SixSixSix, ex-Shovel
Johnny Fresh - Drums (1992) - See also: ex-Kidd Wicked, ex-The Szuter's
Ken Barber - Keyboards (1991-1994) - See also: ex-Dia Pason
Tracklist:
01. Day Will Come
02. Ground Zero
03. Every Time
04. Big Trouble
05. Mad Engine
06. Welcome to the Big Time
07. Splinter
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