{"id":14668,"date":"2021-02-13T09:41:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T09:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=14668"},"modified":"2021-02-13T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T09:41:24","slug":"cult-aor-band-valentine-release-new-single-sandy-through-20th-century-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2021\/02\/13\/cult-aor-band-valentine-release-new-single-sandy-through-20th-century-music\/","title":{"rendered":"CULT AOR BAND VALENTINE RELEASE NEW SINGLE, \u201cSANDY\u201d THROUGH 20th CENTURY MUSIC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York City early 90s AOR heroes VALENTINE led by one of the most loved voices in music, courtesy of Hugo Valenti, have released \u201c<em>Sandy<\/em>,\u201d the first single from their upcoming collection\u00a0Demos from the Attic\u00a0and it can be downloaded from\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/headfirstentertainment.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5d272dbf95d3f2dbf046d6b5f&amp;id=6f8a1eb751&amp;e=da0e615c95\">here<\/a>.<br><br>The\u00a0Demos from the Attic\u00a0collection comes two decades after the quartet\u2019s much loved debut surfaced on Giant \/ Reprise Records in 1990.\u00a0 Recording began after the touring cycle for that record was completed and continued throughout 1991. Guitarist Adam Holland explains, \u201cWe bought an 8-track recorder, a small console and some speakers, and\u00a0start\u00a0putting together the demos for the next record. We produced and mixed them all ourselves in Neil&#8217;s parent&#8217;s basement and my parent&#8217;s basement. We recorded so many ideas because we didn\u2019t know which\u00a0ones would go the distance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The band members weren\u2019t even aware that between them they had so much available material.\u00a0 Bassist Gerard Zappa says, \u201c&#8221;When the label approached us about this idea, I had already moved houses and I had packed crates of cassettes and DAT tapes. But I had stored a lot of them at my sister&#8217;s. I had to ask her to rummage through the crates as I was in a different city. I had to explain the difference between a regular cassette and a DAT so she knew what she was looking for. \u00a0It was due to her patience and persistence that I was able to dust off so many songs that we are proud of to this day.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the future of the band, they will continue to reunite for the occasional show every now and again \u2013 as they did last year for a very special occasion alongside their friends in Night Ranger, Danger Danger and Trixter &#8211; with no \u201cbig plans\u201d on the cards.\u00a0 But, according to keyboardist Craig Pullman, \u201ceven though we do not play as the band\u00a0Valentine we are all still close.\u00a0 And as you know, Gerard, Adam and I still play together with the Steve Augeri Band. As for Valentine. anything is possible given the right circumstances.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valentine_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valentine_1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valentine_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valentine_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valentine_1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/headfirstentertainment.com\/\">https:\/\/headfirstentertainment.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City early 90s AOR heroes VALENTINE led by one of the most loved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[128,1484],"class_list":["post-14668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-aor","tag-valentine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14671,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668\/revisions\/14671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}