April 29, 1994 ISSUE #372 6 95 708 Stokes Road Medford , N.J. 08055 Tnp PRIORITY loa l 'Vet Sprocket F4LL DOWN TRIPLE AC E j tt-A MEAN WHILE A LTERNATIVE PICK GIRLS & BOYS HARD H ITTER> Stompbox NO WOODS Another classic album is the result of 5,18 Omaha. NE 5,19 Moline, IL 5/21 Minneapolis. MN 5/22 Ames, IA 5,24 Denver, CO the collaboration between founding 5/25 Park City, UT 5/27 Vancouver, BC 5/28 George. WA 5/29 Salem, OR 5/21 Reno, NV Traffic members Steve Winwood and 6/1 Concord, CA 6/3 Sacramento,CA 6/4 Mountain View, CA 6/E San Diego. CA 6/7 Anaheim. CA 6-11 Los Angeles, CA Jim Capaldi. On tour all sum mer! 6/12 Santa Barbara. CA 6/14 Los Angeles. CA 6/16 San Bernadino. CA 6/17 Phoenix, AZ 6/18 Albuquerque, NM Produced by Steve Win wood, 6,20 Oklahoma City. OK 621 Houston,TX 6/22 Dallas, TX 624-26 Las Vegas, NV 6/28 Birmingham, AL 629 Memphis. TN assiste d by Jim Capaldi. 6/30 Pensacola, FL 72 Tampa, FL 7/3-4 Atlanta. GA 716 Jacksonville. FL 7/8-9 Miami, FL traffic • far from home 711 0 Orlando, FL 7,12 Raleigh. NC 7,13 Charlotte,NC 7,15 St. Louis. MO *7,16-17 Washington. DC 7,18 Indianapolis, IN 100% Locked at Triple A 7i2-0 Grand Rapids, MI 7/22 Kansas City, MO Over 160 Hard Reporters *7/23-24 Chicago, IL 7/26 Detroit, MI Hard Hundred 9-7* 7/28 Cuyahoga Falls, OH *7/29 Columbus. OH Triple A 6-5* 7/21 Saratoga. NY 8/2 Toronto. ONT BDS Debut18 *8/3-4 E. Rutherford, NJ 8/E Old Orchard, ME 8/7 Scranton. PA Also featuring 8/11-12 Mansfield, MA "Far From Home", 8/13-14 Philadelphia. PA "Nowhere Is Their Freedom", 8/17 Montreal, QUE and "Mozambique". 8/19 Hartford.CT 820 Atlantic, NJ 821 Richmond. VA 8124 Louisville, KY 826 Cincinnati, OH 8.27 Milwaukee, WI 8.28 Chicago, IL Featuring "Here Comes A Man" 8.'30 Pittsburg, PA 8!31 Syracuse, NY 911 Columbia, MD In Studio April 26! \i/liatl.i to One 93 Stowe, VT debuts May 7! Rockline May 9! The 914 TBA 9,7-9 New York, NY Late Show With David Letterman 910-11 IBA May 13! Unistar June 17 Manage ment/Ron W eisner Entertain ment with The Grateful Dead! ©1994 Virgin Records Ltd. Top PRioRiry -rood TkE WET SpRockEi, "Fall Dowo," Columbio The band that named itself after something in a Monty Python skit is I back with a new album named after a character in the novel "Don Ouixote." The hard-rocking "Fall Down" is the debut single from Dulcinea, coming out in late May, the first new album from this California quartet in three years. May we refresh your memory about their 1991 platinum LP Fear? "All I Want" spent an amazing 23 weeks on the Hard Hundred, while "Walk On The Ocean" was on the HH for 15 weeks. (The pro-CD for "Fall Down" includes these tracks if you need your memory refreshed.) Now, the band says Fear was too "manicured," so they've gone back to the basics to create more of a "live" album. The plaintive vocals on "Fall Down" com- bine with the band's energetic sound to provide a tempting teaser of the band's new straight-ahead rock & roll approach. 11wil Acts To Follow ramoffie, "HERE C OMES A MAN, REA! W hi n, "Sail A way, h"P TR ick, "YOU'RE All n Ol SCACAS, "SOME Vi1 411 John Barleycorn's proba- CZOO New hair, a new logo CI Worm Do," WB What C lutigE," VillqiN This is a bly dead by now, but here comes a and a new approach for this veteran a cheap trick. The cynical among radically different version from the new "Man" to demonstrate that Traffic band. They've gone back to their us were ready to dismiss the band album track that's already been a hit is as heavy as ever "Here Comes A roots (we mean the music, not the 'coz they've been playing together at AAA radio. Yeah, the one that Man" goes 9 to 7* on the Hard hair) in the style of Bob Seger and for 17 years. So, what does this went 7-3* on the AM chart this Hundred and ranks number three in the Eagles, going for a mostly quartet do? They take the first week. "Some Change" goes 65-50* conversions with 17 stations getting acoustic approach, and using old track from Woke UD With A on this weeks' Hard Hundred The into the fast lane. And Traffic goes Top guitars and amps to create a sound Monster and get to the Top 20 on time, sound and mix is different for 5 at AAA with a 6-5" move. There are that also includes some nice har- the Hard Hundred in just two this version, with new harps and a total of 158 stations on the track now, monies. So, nix the hair band image weeks and stay there for another guitars. The track features the and a dozen just came on board this you associate with the Once Bitten four weeks. The unmitigated gall. Sultan of Suaves blues-y sound as week — KJOT, KSEZ KSFX, WKLC, era. Now we're talking about a band What a cheap trick. Then again, well as the guitar-playing that drew WKOZ WNCD, WNOR, WTKX and that can attract upper demos for AAA that's what we expect from Cheap attention to him in the Steve Miller WXRT Programmers clearly welcome stations, at the same time they're Trick. Now we're dealing with the Band back IP the 1970s. This is the return of a classic band whose saving the atmosphere by using less song the fans want from the Sc,aggs' first album in five years, sound hasn't fallen out of fashion over hair spray. "Mother fucker, "Woke Up" album. "We're getting and the title track is already on 67 the years. "This great song encom- Incredible. It's the best thing they've calls for another Cheap Trick stations, with 13 new adds this passes every signature sound Traffic done in a long time," J. Nagarya at track," says Pam Landry at WPLR. week including WGIR, WLVO, ever had," says Jack Mitchell at WIBA. WKDF "The first few albums were This mid-tempo track debuts at WNEW, WPDH, WPYX and WRDU. "Not dated at all. Refreshing and original and unique. On this one, 100" on the Hard Hundred and There are top-five phones at WHPT updated." "It's a big release," says Riki Jack's melody lines are different." will no doubt climb as the band and WNCS, and Heavy airplay at a Hofberg at WMMR, who's playing Great White have just hit the road, goes on a summer tour and the total of 24 stations. KFOG, KMTT, "Here Comes A Man" five times a day. playing places like Dallas where they video for this track gets exposure. WMMM, WMVY, WNCS and WRLT "This is a real return," says Mike can play five nights before a thou- Seven stations are on this song up Scaggs' rotation this week. 'Boz Luoma at WIZN. "Good Steve sand folks each night. COR stations already, with four stations (KJKJ, is scream/n in our mornings," says Winwood. Each time hear it, hear might get distracted by the live disc, KORC, WDHA and WPLR) coming Jim Kailas of KSOY. "The prefect Traffic. Nice woodwinds, great ele- recorded in Anaheim, that accompa- in this week. There's already record for the upper demos." ments." (Does he really mean "Nice nies the Sail Away album - which, by heavy play at KIBZ. KSEZ's Tim Harrison says "I think Winwoods"?) This thing is gonna be the way, includes their interpretation AOR needs a song like this. It fits huge," predicts Don Nordella of of Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna all demos and has a fresh sound WNCD. "I dig it in a big way." Traffic Leave You." The seven-song live It's really working for us." "Boz is is already getting Top Five phones at a disc is being included as a freebie back with the blues," says Michael dozen stations. Check out Traffic on with the 10-song LP, being offered at Cross of KJKJ. the Letterman show on May 13. Now a special price. Adds in the past that the album's in your hands, do week include K4 TI KBER, KOMP check out "Nowhere Is There and KSOY. Freedom", the instrumental TI S WEEK'S AOR REVIEWS RESUME ON PAGE "Mozambique" and the title track. 8 BILL HARD EDITOR/PUBLISHER DAVID MORRELL M ARKETING DIRECTOR COLLIE HARD CO MPTROLLER THO MAS PETERS CREATIVE DIRECTOR KIM DIPIETRO EDITORIAL ASSISTANT SPIRO PHAN OS ALTERNATIVE EDITOR JODIE FABRICUS ASSISTANT METAL EDITOR LISA RIEGEL ASSOCIATE EDITOR JOE HILGER DESIGN /PRODUCTION KELLI SNIVELY EDITORIAL ASSISTANT HOLLY M cCOR MACK HARD ROCK EDITOR KEN SUBRA MANIAN EXEC . DATA SYSTEMS Editorial Assistants: Bill Albano Rob Laucks Published Weekly Earl Gardner by 609-654-7272 (VOICE) Contributing Editors: The Hard Report, Inc. 609-654-6852 (FAX) Mike Cooper Jonathan Wright 708 Stokes Road Jesse Nash Medford, NJ 08055 odnr,41in 21'\I. and opinion , im• not tito-'' "I . TIP • Itil)orl or H MI n(11 I el• o vrog lit' il ¡Ju n o H-,ion.