{"id":6528,"date":"2017-05-24T05:07:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/24\/mr-big-releases-new-music\/"},"modified":"2017-05-24T05:07:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:07:30","slug":"mr-big-releases-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2017\/05\/24\/mr-big-releases-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"MR. BIG releases new music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/15\/Billy_Sheehan_and_Paul_Gilbert_of_Mr._Big_%282016%29.jpg\/220px-Billy_Sheehan_and_Paul_Gilbert_of_Mr._Big_%282016%29.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"207\" height=\"280\" \/><br \/>Original members Eric Martin (lead vocals), Paul Gilbert (guitars), Billy Sheehan (bass) and Pat Torpey (drums) reunited with producer Kevin Elson (who was behind the boards for the band\u2019s 1989 self-titled debut, 1991\u2019s LEAN INTO IT and 1993\u2019s BUMP AHEAD) for an intensive six-day recording session in Los Angeles. While Torpey was unable to perform some of the songs on DEFYING GRAVITY due to a recent diagnosis of Parkinson&#8217;s disease, Matt Starr has been filling in for him on a majority of the album. Starr also been touring with the band for the past couple of years, with Torpey able to play a couple of songs at each stop.  <!--more-->  \u201cIt was great to get back in the studio with our original producer, Kevin Elson,\u201d says guitarist Paul Gilbert. \u201cKevin recorded all of our original classic albums from the \u201880s and \u201890s, and we immediately felt that magic chemistry with him on DEFYING GRAVITY. We basically played live in the studio. Over the years, we\u2019ve all had a chance to experiment with every recording technique possible, but it\u2019s still always the best just to play together as a band. Most of my guitar solos were tracked live with the band. I\u2019ve worked hard on my improvisation in the last few years, and it really paid off on this record\u2026both melodically, and on the face-melting stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DEFYING GRAVITY is the follow-up to 2014\u2019s THE STORIES WE COULD TELL, which Ultimate-Guitar.com described as \u201cAn exceptional offering of accelerated hard rock from one of the more dominant \u2018supergroups\u2019 of the late 1980s, MR. BIG return with a vengeance on THE STORIES WE COULD TELL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MR. BIG is gearing up for the launch their latest worldwide tour which starts May 31 in Milwaukee, WI at the Potowatami Casino. For all the latest tour dates, fans should check the band\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2017 is filling up quickly with tour dates all around the world,\u201d proclaims Gilbert. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to play the new songs, and of course our favorites from the old days like \u2018Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy\u2019 \u2018Just Take My Heart,\u2019 \u2018Green Tinted Sixties Mind,\u2019 \u2018Wild World,\u2019 and \u2018To Be With You.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Source: Frontiers Records<br \/>Image credit: <span class=\"mw-mmv-source-author\"><span class=\"mw-mmv-author\">Justin Higuchi<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original members Eric Martin (lead vocals), Paul Gilbert (guitars), Billy Sheehan (bass) and Pat Torpey&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528","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=6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}