Heaven and Hell Records Re-issue NEW YORK's 'Carry The Torch/Electric Thunder' first tim
singer/guitarist Jimmy Hansen who was at first apprehensive about doing anything with the material; stating, “that was then, this is now, life has moved on” As discouraging as this was, Jimmy still said “I will send you what have and you can do what you want with it”. From there we began to work on getting this best material we could gather together for this project having little to no help. What we received was a disc of including the 5-tracks from the ‘Carry the Torch’ EP lifted from vinyl and the ‘Electric Thunder’ sessions taken from the only known surviving tape of the sessions. Master tapes of both the EP and later sessions any longer exist lost to time. We then would track down several cassette versions of ‘Carry the Torch’ to be used as source material since it was the only option. As for the ‘Electric Thunder’ sessions (tracks 6-13); they had previously been restored by Hansen from a damaged bootlegged cassette found in the ruins of a burnt down house. Before obtaining this copy, Hensen himself did not even have the recordings. What is collected here is probably the best presentation of the NEW YORK material that will ever be released, restored and re-mastered by the best possible means in the effort to keep the music available so that it doesn’t one day disappear.
CD FEATURES: • First time ever officially on CD • Re-mastered from best possible sources • Plus ‘Electric Thunder’ demo Produced by Eric Carr • 12-page booklet with photos • Including complete lyrics & essay • Limited to 500 copies worldwide Includes unlimited streaming of Carry the Torch / Electric Thunder via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
NEW YORK : Carry the Torch / Electric Thunder
01. Let It Roll
02. Teas'r
03. Nobody like You
04. Nite Flyer
05. Death Wish
06. Go, Let's Go
07. I Brake 4 Fools
08. Shoot to Kill Track 8
09 Down on My Knees
10 Heart Of Stone
11. Head over Heels
12. Give and Take
13 Being Away
14. Don't Fall
15. Electric Thunder
New York is:
Jimmie Ennis — Vocals, Guitars
Freddy Foster — Bass, Vocals
Johnny ‘G’ Lover — Guitars, Vocals
Rikk Hanz — Drums
Michael Scott Mills – Drums
(Electric Thunder demo 1988)
Eric Carr drums on the song ‘Electric Thunder’
TRACKS: 1-5 taken from ‘Carry the Torch’ EP originally released 1984
Recorded at Reflection Studios, Charlotte, NC
TRACKS: 6-13 taken from ‘Electric Thunder’ demo 1988
Engineering by Paul Orofino
Produced by NEW YORK and Eric Carr
All songs written by NEW YORK
Tape restoration by Michael Scott Mills
Track 14-15: ‘Don’t Fall” & ‘Electric Thunder’
taken from a promotional CD compilation
Recorded at Millbrook Sound Studios in Millbrock, NY
Engineering by Paul Orofino
Produced by NEW YORK and Eric Carr
Songs written by NEW YORK
Additional writing credit; Eric Carr on ‘Electric Thunder’
Additional writing credit; Eric Carr on ‘Electric Thunder’
Lyrics to “Bein’ Away: adapted from a poem written by Holly J Noe
2018 Executive producers J. Golden & G. Shafer
Re-mastering by Jamie King at The Basement Studios NC in Winston Salem, NC
Layout design by Chris Ferguson
