The Prince of Hair-Rock
Dan Reed Network - Dan Reed Network [MERH 123 UK 1988 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] A little bit of a guilty pleasure on a Saturday morning. Does listening to hair-rock make you feel dirty? Do you feel that you are betraying your own musical upbringing by actually enjoying something which totally goes against your personal musical principles? If so please read on.... Portland Oregon's Dan Reed Network were in reality let down by the hair-rock 'phenomena' in the mid-late eighties, when their label Mercury Records decided to pour all their extensive resources into Def Leppard's Hysteria album which suffered from poor initial sales and needed a sugar-coated restart. Consequently, the promotional budget was diverted to the Sheffield band and away from Reed's full screen funk-rock. Bon Jovi's producer Bruce Fairbairn was employed to add the polish on what is a very well constructed record, which at times could be easily mistaken for a Prince album. If you don't know ...