RIOT "ROCK CITY" 1977 FIRE-SIGN RECORDS 1st PRESS NM/EX RARE OOP METAL LP

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THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED.

ARTISTS: RIOT

TITLE: “ROCK CITY”

TRACK LISTING: SEE PHOTO'S & BELOW

A1

Desperation

2:43

A2

Warrior

3:50

A3

Rock City

3:27

A4

Overdrive

4:10

B1

Angel

3:36

B2

Tokyo Rose

4:19

B3

Heart Of Fire

3:00

B4

Gypsy Queen

3:55

B5

This Is What I Get

4:12

Companies, etc.

• Published By – Bandora Music Publishing

• Produced For – Anacrusis Music

• Recorded At – Big Apple Recording Studios

• Copyright (c) – Fire Sign Records, Ltd.

• Manufactured By – Fire Sign Records, Ltd.

Credits

• Art Direction – Marcia Loeb

• Bass – Jimmy Iommi

• Cover – Steven Weiss

• Drums, Percussion – Peter Bitelli

• Guitar – L.A. Kouvaris

• Guitar, Vocals – Mark Reale

• Photography By [Black & White] – Doug Mathewson

• Producer – Billy Arnell (tracks: A2 to A4, B2 to B5), Richard "On The Rocks" Alexander* (tracks: A1, A2, B1), Steve Loeb (tracks: A2 to A4, B2 to B5)

• Recorded By, Mixed By [Mixing Engineer] – Tom "The Max" Duffy*

• Vocals, Percussion – Guy Speranza

Notes

All songs published by Bandora Music Publishing Co. a division of Sun Bear Corp.

All songs produced for Anacrusis Music Inc.

Recorded at The Big Apple Recording Studio, 112 Green Street, New York City - November 1976-June 1977.

© 1977 Fire Sign Records, Ltd.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side 1 etched): FSA 87001AS - 2 A

• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side 2 etched): FSA 87001B - 2 A
  

LABEL: FIRE-SIGN RECORDS (SELF RELEASED)

CAT.#: FSA87001

YEAR: 1977

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX/NM-CONDITION. BOTH LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.. VISUALLY NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. NO SCUFFS, BLEMS, LINES, VISIBLE SCRATCHES. VISUALLY THE RECORD LOOKS NEAR NEW. THE SONGS PLAY SUPER CLEAN! SONGS SOUND GREAT.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN EX/EX- CONDITION. NICE STRAIT EDGES, NO WRITING, TEARS, WRINKLES, CREASES. THERE IS A SMALL “CREASE” IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER OF THE JACKET (SEE PHOTO) NM OTHERWISE.

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. THEIR FIRST ALBUM!

MORE INFO ON THE ARTISTS/RELEASE:

Riot V, formerly known as Riot until 2012, is an American hard rock band founded in New York City in 1975 by guitarist Mark Reale. Reaching a peak in popularity in the early 80s, the band has continued a long-running successful career.

Riot has toured with AC/DC, Molly Hatchet, Sammy Hagar, Kiss, Vandenberg, Black Sabbath and Rush among others.

Riot's sound initially started out as straightforward heavy metal, but since their 1988 release Thundersteel their musical direction has been more along the lines of power metal.

In 2013, Riot V, a new iteration of the band, was launched by the surviving members, after the passing of founding member and band leader Mark Reale.

The group usually uses a baby seal face as a logo on its album covers.

Early years (1975–1983)[edit]

Riot was formed in 1975 in New York City, New York when Kon-Tiki guitarist Mark Reale and drummer Peter Bitelli recruited bassist Phil Feit and vocalist Guy Speranza. The line up recorded a four-track demo, which they hoped would be included in a proposed compilation of new rock bands. While waiting for the project to get off the ground, they added Steve Costello on keyboards.

Reale took the various demos to New York-based producers Billy Arnell and Steve Loeb, who also owned Greene Street Recording Studio and the independent label Fire-Sign Records. Arnell & Loeb turned down the compilation proposal but signed Riot. The band added second guitarist Louie Kouvaris, replaced Feit with Jimmy Iommi with both bass players recording its debut album, Rock City. After a promising start and support slots with AC/DC and Molly Hatchet, the band were unable to maintain momentum, and were on the verge of breaking up for good by 1979.

In that year however, the new wave of British heavy metal broke mainstream, and the band came to the attention of influential DJ Neal Kay who spread the word about them in Britain. British fans bought imported copies of Rock City which was recorded and produced by Arnell and Loeb and released on their Fire Sign Records. Encouraged, Arnell & Loeb, now Riot's managers, recorded the band's new album Narita. In the course of recording, Kouvaris was replaced by roadie Rick Ventura .

Subsequent to a successful support of Sammy Hagar on his US Texas tour, Capitol Records offered Riot a worldwide deal for Narita, mostly to support Hagar. Capitol and Hagar needed a harder, younger edge to associate with him, so Riot was chosen if they agreed to support Hagar on his UK tour. Hagar and Riot had a successful tour, but Riot was dropped by Capitol as soon as they were finished promoting Hagar.

Arnell and Loeb spent the remaining Capitol Records advance, while retaining important indie FM radio promotions to promote the last Riot album. Arnell and Loeb put the album on as many radio stations around the country as possible, thus raising the radio profile enough to where Capitol picked up their option for another record, which led to Riot's biggest selling album, Fire Down Under.

When the record was completed some months later, Capitol turned the record down calling it "commercially unacceptable" which put the band in contractual limbo. Capitol refused to release the band from contract. A campaign was organized and financed by producers Arnell & Loeb, with fans around the world. Fans picketed the offices of EMI Records, especially in the U.K. Finally, Elektra Records reached an agreement with Capitol Vice President Rupert Perry and immediately released Fire Down Under, which then soared into the Billboard Top 100 chart.

Rock City is the name of the first studio album by New York City based heavy metal band Riot released in November 1977.

It was first released independently by Fire Sign Records, run by the band's producers, Billy Arnell and Steve Loeb, who also owned the Greene Street Recording Studio, before the album was picked up for wider distribution by Canada's Attic Records and by VIctor Entertainment in Japan. Vinyl copies of Rock City can be differentiated by the color that frames the front cover artwork. The original Fire Sign pressing is framed in white; later editions are framed in black or lack this feature altogether.

American label Metal Blade Records re-issued the album on CD in early 1993 and again in 2015.

Rock City is the only Riot album to feature writing and recording contributions by original bassist Phil Feit who went on to join acts such as Billy Idol, playing on his hits Hot in the City and White Wedding, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and Adam Bomb, where he briefly crossed paths with another Riot member, drummer Sandy Slavin. 

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