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Mad Max
Here We Are


Tracks:

1. Caravan
2. Where The Winds Blow
3. Here We Are
4. Higher And Higher
5. Down To Babylon
6. Love Walks Lonely
7. Stop One Minute
8. How Deep
9. Don't Talk It Over
10. All Of My Heart
11. Mad Gone Blind
12. Keep You Alive
13. High On Wheels
14. Say Goodbye To Hollywood

Line up:

Roland Bergmann - Bass, Backing Vocals
Axel Kruse - Drums
Jürgen Breforth - Guitar
Michael Voss - Vocals, Guitar

Guest musicians:

Pearl – Lead Vocals
Jan Loechel – Guitars
Martin Huch – Pedal Steel
Mark Schulman – Drums
Don Airey - Keyboards (track 2)

Record Label / Year of Release:

A-Minor Records 2008

Notes:

Germany’s Mad Max can trace its twenty-five year history to the early eighties when it was founded by guitarist Juergen Breforth. Hitting the scene in 1982 with its full length self-titled debut, Mad Max recruited vocalist Michael Voss in addition to signing with Roadrunner Records and recording its sophomore effort Rollin Thunder two years later. The group proceeded to solidify its classic line up with the additions of bassist Roland Bergmann and drummer Axel Kruse prior to putting out the Roadrunner follow up releases Stormchild (1985) and Night Of Passions (1987). The departure of Voss in 1989, however, put Mad Max on hold indefinitely.

Reuniting after a ten year hiatus with Never Say Never in 1999, Mad Max maintained the momentum by signing to AOR Heaven and releasing Night Of White Rock and EP In White (both 2006) and White Sands (2007). Here We Are, the bands most recent offering from 2008, was recorded to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary by enlisting the songwriting skills of many of their colleagues in the music business. The end result is a work in which Joe Lynn Turner (track 1), Michael Schenker, Oz Fox, Jeff Scott Soto, Ken Tamplin, Axel Rudi Pell, David Readman and others join forces with Mad Max to compose the majority of its tracks.

Of the albums fourteen songs you will find one all Mad Max composition and thirteen in which the guests in question either write (or co-write) the music. Voss and company help out on lyrics.