How well do you know your 1984 albums?

[Seshmeister]

So to recap and give you an even bigger picture clue.




1) It came out in 1984
2) It made the Billboard top 30
3) The guitarist went on to work with Dave Lee Roth
4) The band was named after one of the members but not the singer.
5) It was not a soundtrack album
6) It's not that great.

Surely someone can get it from that...?

[twonabomber]

Only thing I can come up with is Craig Goldy and Giuffria.

That cover is from the re-issue! The original is just black and white.

[Fairwrning]

Only thing I can come up with is Craig Goldy and Giuffria.

That cover is from the re-issue!

I actually have that lp..trying to remember the single without cheating..

[twonabomber]

I remember two songs. Video of one.

[Seshmeister]

Only thing I can come up with is Craig Goldy and Giuffria.

That cover is from the re-issue! The original is just black and white.

Finally we have a winner!

[Fairwrning]

I didnt cheat..Call to your heart

[Seshmeister]

So you guys even had the album and didn't get it?

[twonabomber]

I don't have it but I knew of them. Call To The Heart is on Sirius Hair Nation all the time, and that's the video I remembered.

Giuffria was the one band I thought of that was a last name but I looked up the album and kept finding just the black and white cover. Today I saw the one with the red on it.

[vaijuju]

Only thing I can come up with is Craig Goldy and Giuffria.

That cover is from the re-issue! The original is just black and white.

never heared this ! never heared these names, more informations , please!

[twonabomber]

Is your Google broken?

[Seshmeister]

http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/craig_goldy_of_dio/

Songfacts: You also wrote a song with David Lee Roth ("Lady Luck" from A Little Ain't Enough).

Craig: Yeah. He was a great guy. It actually came from a failure, which often happens. Me and David Isley from Giuffria were working on a project, and Geffen Records had given us some money to go into the studio. We wrote some songs and then they passed on it, so I sent those songs to Warner Brothers to see if maybe one of these songs might be used for another project or band, and it sat around for a couple of years.

Next thing I know I get a call from David Lee Roth at my home. He goes, "Hey, Dave Roth here. Is this Craig? Hey, I liked your shit, man. Can we do some more? Have you got any more?" I'm like, "Yeah, I've got tons of stuff." "What about Wednesday?" It was Monday. I go, "Yeah." I didn't have anything. [Laughs] So I just scrambled. I went and bought his solo albums. I think mine was the third. And so I didn't duplicate. Because some guys, you never know, you accidentally do something similar and they'll, you know. So I made sure that none of the stuff he did with Steve Vai or any of that stuff was similar. Not putting myself in the same category as Steve Vai, just didn't want to accidentally reproduce something that he's already done.

So I came up with a couple of cool riffs, and then showed up at his house with Bob Ezrin, who worked with everybody. But at the time it was the Pink Floyd thing that got me [Ezrin co-produced Pink Floyd's The Wall]. I was like, "Wow, David Lee Roth and Bob Ezrin!"

I was playing him some stuff and he stops the tape and he goes, "That's cool, man, that's great. Let's do that." So he would have me come to his house and play the ideas, and his band would be there and they'd learn my stuff and rehearse it for him to record. We wrote a bunch of songs and I thought what he did was really smart. He wrote about 25 songs and then recorded each and every one of them, demoed them off. That's one other hurdle that a lot of people miss, is that you write a great song, and then when you record it, something happens, and it doesn't come out as special as you think it's going to for whatever reason. So he got that process out of the way: whatever rose to the top, he used, regardless. I thought that was really smart. I'm sure a lot of people do that, but I didn't know that process at the time, and I was just going through my thing at the time learning all those songs and stuff.

So we spent some time together. We became kind of friends, and he'd invite me out to do stuff and we'd hang out at his house afterwards and talk. He was a great guy, and he was very polite and very funny. He was definitely "David Lee Roth." That was not a cartoon character he created for his stage presence. That was just who he was. But he was very smart and caring behind the scenes.

[vaijuju]

thanks sehsmeister ! I'm not at my home! does Craig is credited on the CD with dave ?

[cadaverdog]

I would have never got that. Never heard of them or him or it. I don't think it's cheating to search for an album cover if you have no idea who's album it is. If you've never seen it there's no way you're going to figure it out if you don't.

[Seshmeister]

thanks sehsmeister ! I'm not at my home! does Craig is credited on the CD with dave ?

Yes he gets a co-writing credit on that one song.

[cadaverdog]

You sure that's not a bunch of long haired dudes lip syncing a Survivor tune?