M- LP: HERESY "At the Door" RARE ORIG US PROG STEVE VAI

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Info about the band from the Heresy page on a member's site:

"At The Door was Heresy's first album. Recorded in 1985 at Don Casale and Metro Gnome studios and produced by Heresy. This album represents years of working and playing together as a band. Heresy formed around 1972, so they had lots of songs by 1985. "We picked what we thought were the best songs we had at the time, Hungry Spiders being my personal favorite..." explains Tony Garone, singer of the band, "and recorded them on 24 tracks. These songs were written largely by Scott and I, although a great deal of input and arrangement came from the other members of the band. We were very pleased with the results. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun recording this album, and perhaps because it was our first release, it retains a certain innocence and nostalgia for us all."

The incredible Steve Vai is a guest guitarist on this album, and transforms the song "London 1941" into a fiery epic. The photograph on the album cover is from a trip Scott Harris took to England. It is a wall surrounding the Tower of London, (which can be seen through the bars of the doorway) apparently, it is at this wall that heretics were tortured. BTW, the group's message is a musical one, not a political/religious one, so don't get any ideas...that would be "heresy". 

Musicians:
Tony Garone - lead vocals, 6 and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars
Scott Harris - vocals, keyboards (piano, organ, orchestron, Mirage DX-7, Memory Moog
John Sergio - bass guitar, electric guitar, flute, voices
Chris Camilleri - vocals, drums, tambourine, flute, tamboura
Ed Clark - lead electric guitar

with the kind assistance of...
...Steve Vai - electric guitar on London 1941 and Wasted Moments
...Billy Brown (Island) - electric guitar on Love Sleep
released on Toll House Records

For most of it's existence, Heresy has performed/written/recorded music in the style of 70's progressive rock era (King Crimson,Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull etc.) however, to pigeonhole or categorize them would be unfair and inaccurate, as their music has many surprising twists to it. 

In addition to recording material, Heresy also plays at the annual Jethro Tull convention typically held in the north east where they perform their interpretation of music by that band.

"At age 11, upon discovering Led Zeppelin, my world came to a complete halt. I shared Led Zeppelin with my friends but they weren't particularly interested, so I stopped hanging out with them for awhile. When I hooked up with them again, they had all gotten into listening to a wide variety of bands, and Led Zeppelin was only one of them. I'd never even heard of bands like Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, Queen, etc., etc.

Three houses up the street lived one of my best friends, John Sergio. He was a little older than me and was deeply into music, especially all kinds of rock. John Sergio was the catalyst for my true musical awakening. He knew all the happening bands and had their records too. He was a HUGE Jethro Tull fan. John played bass, but had started out on guitar.

I remember on one occasion, John was playing "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull on guitar, and I thought it was amazing that there was somebody in my town, right on my block, who could actually play a song by Jethro Tull on guitar. Stunned, I said to him, "You must be the best guitar player around." And he said, "If you think I'm good, you should see my guitar teacher, Joe Satriani!"

Well, as most of you know, I did.

John was the bass player in the first real band I was ever in, called Circus. We jammed constantly. I have some interesting early tapes from those days that really scrape the bottom of the basement floor. Someday they might be fed out in tidbits to the more pathologically famished Vai scavengers out there. You know who you are.

Nearly a decade later, in the mid-'80s, John put together a band called Heresy. Heresy played some meticulously executed progressive rock music. John has always been a fine musician with great ears and excellent taste in music. He invited me to do a few solos on the Heresy record. It was a fun reunion with an old friend."

HERESY "At the Door" 1985
Toll House Records TOLL 101 - Original US Private Pressing
Cover/Record M-(inshrinkwrap)/M-

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