World War III The Unreleased Demos Tracks: 01.Take it All the Way 02.Lion's Home 03.Anytime Anywhere 04.Animal Waltz 05.Fallen Angel 06.Who's The Greyman? 07.Bad Things Good 08.The Pink 09.Pleasure Dome 10.The Hunger Line up: Mandy Lion - Vocals Tracey G - Guitars Jimmy Bain - Bass Vinny Appice - Drums Record Label / Year of Release: The Spooky G 2000 Notes: Arden signed Mandy Lion immediately to a management contract after seeing his live performance. Then, within months, Lion was signed to Hollywood Records and with the help of Arden started auditioning celebrity players to create the line-up of the new World War III. The chosen line-up was Jimmy Bain (Rainbow, Dio), Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Dio), and Joe Floyd (Warrior). Unfortunately, at that time, Floyd was unable to fully give WWIII the attention that it required, due to Floyd just starting Silver Cloud Recording Studio. At that point, further auditioning took place for a few unknown players and Tracy G, an unknown at that time, was picked and made a name for himself by Lion choosing him to see if he could fill in for Floyd. In 1990 WWIII released their debut CD on the Hollywood Records label and soon thereafter WWIII began an extensive tour. They opened for famous bands like Iron Maiden and at times did the headlining themselves. WWIII toured huge arenas and many famous clubs such as the Whiskey A Go Go, in January 1991. They also made two music videos for "Love You to Death" and "Time for Terror", both of which were from their debut release. Things were going along smoothly even though changes would occur once and again. Vinny Appice was replaced with James Kottak (Scorpions, Kingdom Come). Later, Kottak was replaced by Mikkey Dee (Motörhead). Trouble and disaster came with the conniving schemes of Steve Jones, the A&R Director for WWIII, who tried to depict a false image on the band as Nazi's and this later caused label failure. Deeply hurt, betrayed and outraged with this harmful negative image of his band WWIII, Lion stood up for himself and his band member's rights. Fighting to not be portrayed in a negative light for what WWIII does not represent. As if this scheme wasn't enough for Lion, heavy friction and disagreements between band members began when he started a side project with George Lynch (Dokken, Lynchmob), on Elektra Records. These problems weighed heavily on Lion and eventually caused him to step back and put WWIII on hold. In 2000 Tracy G. released an album of WWIII demos that were in the vaults and in 2003 Lion resurrected the band with Joe Floyd (guitar, ex-Warrior), Ray Montez (bass) and Sledge (drums) for the When God Turns Away album.