{"id":849,"date":"2011-07-27T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T16:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/07\/27\/greg-kihn-releases-three-disc-digital-anthology-box-set-kihnplete-post-beserkley-records\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T16:36:28","slug":"greg-kihn-releases-three-disc-digital-anthology-box-set-kihnplete-post-beserkley-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/07\/27\/greg-kihn-releases-three-disc-digital-anthology-box-set-kihnplete-post-beserkley-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Kihn Releases Three-disc Digital Anthology Box Set; Kihnplete (Post Beserkley Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prthatrocks.com\/jpgs\/gregkihn\/gregkihn_mic250.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"108\" height=\"149\" \/><br \/>Greg Kihn is proud to announce the release of a three-disc, all digital anthology box set, entitled Kihnplete (Post Beserkley Records).\u00a0 Kihnplete is a fascinating retrospective of Greg Kihn\u2019s vast body of work from the post Beserkley Records era, 1985 to the present.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Existing diehard and new fans will want this compilation as an essential addition for any classic rock music collection.\u00a0 Kihnplete features multiple versions of some of Greg\u2019s best known songs, with varied musical personnel, as well as songs that have been out of print for years, cool live recordings that have never seen the light of day and some songs from Greg\u2019s two solo acoustic CD\u2019s recorded in his hometown of Baltimore in the early 90\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Disc One features 17 studio recordings, including <strong><em>Jeopardy<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>The Break Up Song<\/em><\/strong>, both of which are rerecorded and remastered, as well as <strong><em>Love and Rock &amp; Roll<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Little Red Book<\/em><\/strong>, and <strong><em>Another Girl\/Another Planet<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Disc Two features 14 acoustic tracks, including <strong><em>I Don\u2019t Know What to Believe In<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Anastasia<\/em><\/strong>, and <strong><em>Thunder Road<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Disc Three is 15 searing live tracks, including Greg\u2019s biggest hits, as well as <strong><em>Lucky<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Reunited<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Happy Man<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Testify<\/em><\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n<p>Fans will relish the treasure trove of musical surprises from the incredible musicianship on all tracks.\u00a0 What most Rock Fans don\u2019t know is Greg Kihn recorded and performed with some of the best musicians over his illustrious 35-year career.\u00a0 Before breaking big with his own solo career, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.satriani.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Joe Satriani<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/em> was the <strong><em>Greg Kihn Band\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> lead guitarist during the Post Beserkley Records era 1985 to 1987.\u00a0 Fans of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.satriani.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Satch<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/em>, as he\u2019s affectionately referred to, will find eleven incredibly rare, hard-to-find studio and live tracks featuring the guitar prodigy. <\/p>\n<p>Other musicians appearing throughoutthe 46 tracks that comprise Kihnplete (Post Beserkley Records) include Eddie Money\/Tina Turner guitarist; Jimmy Lyon, Phil Spector saxophone legend: Steve \u201cTeenage\u201d Douglas, and Jerry Garcia Band\/Craig Chaquico keyboardist; Ozzie Ahlers.\u00a0 Greg Kihn Band members include Jefferson Starship\/The Who keyboardist; Tim Gorman. guitarist; Greg Douglass (Steve Miller Band), bassist; Steve Wright, drummers; Dave Danza (Eddie Money), and Doug Carlson, as well as Greg\u2019s son, guitarist extraordinaire; Ry Kihn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe road to Rock and Roll Heaven is paved with the bleached skulls of guys like me,\u201d states Greg.\u00a0 But Greg\u2019s skull is far from a memorialized cobblestone randomly placed somewhere along the many miles of Rock and Roll Heaven Road.\u00a0 Greg Kihn, whose brain is very active in that skull of his, survives and thrives as the San Francisco Bay Area\u2019s #1 FM reigning Radio Morning Man, exceeding 16-years on Classic Rock KFOX 102.1 San Francisco\/98.5 San Jose \u2013 the fourth largest radio market in America. He&#8217;s also a prolific novelist, and consistent concert draw who attracts tens of thousands of fans from all over the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Greg has a screenplay in development for a new cable series about how the mafia ran the music industry in New York City during the early 1960&#8217;s, described as a cross between &#8220;The Sopranos-Meets Almost Famous.&#8221;\u00a0 Entitled &#8220;45 RPM,&#8221; the program could be on a major cable network in late 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Order Kihnplete (Post Beserkley Records), released through Riot Media\/Records, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkihn.com\">http:\/\/www.gregkihn.com<\/a> or through iTunes (<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.gregkihn.com\">http:\/\/itunes.gregkihn.com<\/a>) or Amazon.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.gregkihn.com\">http:\/\/amazon.gregkihn.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Source: PR that rocks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Kihn is proud to announce the release of a three-disc, all digital anthology box&#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-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}