DAMN YANKEES - USA

Damn Yankees - 1990 - Warner
Don't Tread - 1992 - Warner
Extended Versions - 2008 - Sony

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Members
Vocals
Rubicon, Night Ranger>>JACK BLADES>>Shaw/Blades, Night Ranger

Guitar
Amboy Dukes, Solo>>TED NUGENT>>Solo, Damnocracy - M.S. Funk, Styx, Solo>>TOMMY SHAW>>Shaw/Blades, Styx, Solo

Bass
Night Ranger>>JACK BLADES>>Shaw-Blades, Revolution Saints

Drums
Accept, Lynyrd Skynyrd>>MICHAEL CARTELLONE>>Accept, Lynyrd Skynyrd




History & Biography
The act was put together by producer John Kalodner who had worked with Ted Nugent as well. Nugent, a noted right-winger and gun fan, had his own solo project playing guitar and sometimes singing. Tommy Shaw came from the rock band Styx. Jack Blades came from Night Ranger and drummer Michael Cartellone came from Lynyrd Skynyrd (and worked with Ted Nugent as well). This collection of known musicians scored a double platinum hit in the USA with the debut album and a minor one with its second album. The band was later deemed not real and a mere project which prompted the label to issue a release defending the band's integrity. After much delay a new Damn Yankees album was announced for 2000 by Portrait, but the label dropped the band in that year and the announced date passed. The band did conduct a mini reunion when it played at Alice Cooper's Solid Rock Foundation in 2004. Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades recorded as the Shaw Blades duo. Extended Versions was a live album recorded in 1992.


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