Y&T “Down For The Count” /LP/

The eighth full-length studio album by legendary American Soft Metal band.
It is the first Y&T studio album to feature a different line-up since their debut album, with Jimmy DeGrasso replacing Leonard Haze on drums after he left the band in 1986.
The band used outside co-writers on many songs for the album. Taylor Rhodes has written hits for Aerosmith and Celine Dion and produced and wrote on an album by Glam Metal band Kix, the song "Temptation" is credited to Kennemore along with Megadeth and Savatage guitarist Al Pitrelli and Danger Danger bass player Bruno Ravel, while Robert White Johnson who cowrote "Eyes of A Stranger" with Rhodes also wrote songs for Celine Dion and Doro among many others.
30 000 albums were pressed with the track titled "Boys Night Out" instead of "L.A. Rocks." This was due to the song title chosen for that song that came from Jesse Harms (Sammy Hagar's keyboardist at the time), who was working with Dave Meneketti at the time, but when Geffen released a Sammy Hagar album using the actual song written by Harms, "Boys Night Out" Y&T was forced to change the title on the insistence of David Geffen.
The album peaked at #78 on the Billboard 200.
Geffen Records/Warner Bros. Records Inc./WEA Musik GmbH, 1987 (924 142-1). Made in Germany. First press. Used (cover/disc): VG/EX.


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Contagious 3:19
2. L.A. Rocks 4:37
3. Temptation 4:22
4. The Kid Goes Crazy 4:14
5. Fight for Your Life 4:47

Side 2
1. Armed And Dangerous 4:17
2. Rhythm Or Not 5:05
3. Bodily Harm 3:31
4. Eyes of A Stranger 4:37
5. I'll Cry for You 2:33

Total playing time: 41:49 min.

The first live album by legendary American Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band.
The album also introducing a new studio song, "Summertime Girls". The live material on the album was recorded at various venues in Greater London in early 1985, and during April 5–6, 1985, at the Keystone club in Palo Alto, California. The Keystone songs, "Go For the Throat" and "Open Fire", were recorded by Guy Charbonneau in Le Mobile, a mobile recording studio. All the live tracks were remixed at A&M Studios. The song "Summertime Girls" is a studio recording, produced and engineered separately by Kevin Beamish at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys.
"Open Fire" spent 17 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at Number 70. "Summertime Girls" Single became the band's biggest hit, peaking at Number 16 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart. The song also appeared on the band's next proper studio album, "Down For The Count", which was released in November 1985. Despite this, "Open Fire" would go on to become a one of the hardest to find albums by the band.
A&M Records/PGP RTB (2223040). Made in Yugoslavia. First press. Used (cover/disc): EX/NM-


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Open Fire 4:26
2. Go For The Throat 4:51
3. 25 Hours A Day 4:21
4. Rescue Me 5:54

Side 2
5. Summertime Girls (Studio Version) 3:29
6. Forever 5:55
7. Barroom Boogie 4:34
8. I Believe In You 8:05

Total playing time: 41:35 min.