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Fire and Grace

A Man's Home Is His Castle ...

Year released: 2017 Label: Escape Records

A lot of Fire - not as much Grace

Track List

01. The Wheel
3:39
02. Good Life
4:09
03. Uncertain
6:34
04. I'll Have Some Of That
4:43
05. Fire and Grace
3:26
06. Raise Your Glass
3:24
07. Time
4:38
08. Real Thing
4:33
09. Reason to Walk Away
4:38
10. Fast Forward to Last Night
3:13
11. Change of Heart
4:21
12. The Same
4:02
13. You Are The Heroes
4:27

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Metal Mark Garcia says ...

This trio has members that worked on famous names as GTR, 3, BOSTON, and Sammy Hagar, between others, so these guys know the way to create a very good set of songs. And “Fire and Grace” is filled with excellent accessible melodies, amazing instrumental and vocal parts, with everything working as it must. The technical level is not exaggerated, using sobriety as a strong basis. And their music is that old and good form of Melodic Hard Rock/AOR that can conquer the listeners easily. Yes, the same old formula, but using a personal insight. The songs of “Fire and Grace” are all with a very good audio quality. Everything can be heard and understood without problems, but in some parts, the musical weight becomes evident (as can be heard on “I’ll Have Some of That”), so everything went well on the studio. Their secret resides on the organic set of tunes used for each musical instrument. All the songs of the album are great, but “Don’t Stop the Wheel Turning” with its charming melodies (and guitars), the accessible energy with its Pop Rock appeal (especially during the chorus) of “Good Life”, the nasty silky touch of “I’ll Have Some of That” and of “Fire and Grace”, the charming Pop keyboards and guitars arrangements of “Time”, the catchy ambiance of “Reason to Walk Away” (if you stay stopped during it, you’re not alive), the sad bluesy touch on “Change of Heart”, and the mix between some aggressive subjective touch with very good harmonies of “You Are the Heroes” (very good work from bass guitar and drums) are the arrows that will pierce into the listeners’ hearts.

Credits & Liner Notes

Musicians

Robert Berry – Lead vocals and bass guitar
David Lauser – Drums and backing vocals
Gary Pihl – Guitar and backing vocals

Credits

Arranged By – the band
Mastered By – PF
Producer – Robert Berry

Notes

Recorded and mixed at Soundtek Studio
Campbell, California
Cover photo – Dave Lepori

Press Reviews

This trio has members that worked on famous names as GTR, 3, BOSTON, and Sammy Hagar, between others, so these guys know the way to create a very good set of songs. And “Fire and Grace” is filled with excellent accessible melodies, amazing instrumental and vocal parts, with everything working as it must. The technical level is not exaggerated, using sobriety as a strong basis. And their music is that old and good form of Melodic Hard Rock/AOR that can conquer the listeners easily. Yes, the same old formula, but using a personal insight. The songs of “Fire and Grace” are all with a very good audio quality. Everything can be heard and understood without problems, but in some parts, the musical weight becomes evident (as can be heard on “I’ll Have Some of That”), so everything went well on the studio. Their secret resides on the organic set of tunes used for each musical instrument. All the songs of the album are great, but “Don’t Stop the Wheel Turning” with its charming melodies (and guitars), the accessible energy with its Pop Rock appeal (especially during the chorus) of “Good Life”, the nasty silky touch of “I’ll Have Some of That” and of “Fire and Grace”, the charming Pop keyboards and guitars arrangements of “Time”, the catchy ambiance of “Reason to Walk Away” (if you stay stopped during it, you’re not alive), the sad bluesy touch on “Change of Heart”, and the mix between some aggressive subjective touch with very good harmonies of “You Are the Heroes” (very good work from bass guitar and drums) are the arrows that will pierce into the listeners’ hearts.
Metal Temple Review
Here we have three guys who have been in the scene long enough to really know their way around, and have absolutely nothing to prove to anyone, so can go out and have a blast and that is exactly what they did here. It sounds like a full band having fun in the studio, ... This [ Alliance: Fire and Grace] is sheer class and fun from start to finish. It is polished, but not to excess, while there are hooks all over the place, as one would expect from three musicians who have been at the top of the game for so very long. It is hard to pick a favourite so I’m not going to bother. If you enjoy American melodic commercial rock then this is essential, nothing less.
House of Prog
Fredda Gordon: You’ve worked with Boston for a long time with huge success and so many hits. Is it hard to carve a space out for yourself separate from that? Gary: That’s why I’m doing this other project Alliance. You probably know some of my history. I joined Sammy Hagar’s band in ’77. Then when Sammy got the call from Van Halen in ’85, I got the call from Tom Scholz to work on the Third Stage album and then that tour, and then after that tour was over Tom came to the band and said “Now, its going to take a few years to work on the next Boston album so if anybody has any solo projects you want to do, now is the time to do it.” That’s when I called my old buddies from Sammy’s band, Dave Lauser on drums and Alan Fitzgerald on keys. Geffen Records had tried to introduce us to Robert Berry when Sammy was about to leave for Van Halen. Sammy had always said “Geez, you guys are a great band, you need some other singer. Plug him in and keep going.” To that end, Geffen had put us in touch with Robert, but I got the call from Boston so had to leave and we kind of went our separate ways at that point. When Tom said “go ahead, do whatever you want,” I thought that was my opportunity to .....
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