Badlands. NM- Hard Rock Metal LP. Ray Gillen
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Badlands. Badlands. Atlantic Records(7 819966-4) 1989.
Born May 12, 1961, in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, singer Ray Gillen was without a doubt one of the best known unknowns to come out of the rock and roll world of the late 80's and 90's before his tragic and untimely death in December of 1993 at the age of 32. In a career that spanned nearly a decade, Ray found himself performing with some of the greatest names of rock, appearing with such bands and artists like Black Sabbath, Badlands, and George Lynch on a variety of stellar album releases and subsequent tours.
The advent of 1988 found Ray returning to America to begin the process of putting together a new band of his own. Ray was quick to contact former Rough Cutt/Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee, and together, along with Ray's former Sabbath bandmate, drummer Eric Singer, they began auditioning a series of bass players before finally settling on ex Steeler bassist, Greg Chaisson. With the line-up complete, and a deal in hand from Atlantic Records subsidiary, Titanium Records, the band, Badlands, went into the studio to record their self-titled debut, which was released to rave reviews in early 1989.
With their first single, "Dreams in the Dark", in heavy rotation on MTV, the band were out on the road in support of the Badlands album for much of the next year.
Rumors that Ray had contracted the AIDS virus had been floating about since 1990, but by the fall of 1993, there was little doubt that Ray was indeed afflicted with the dreaded disease, and on December 3, 1993, Ray ultimately succumbed to AIDS-related complications, dying at his home in New Jersey. Once the Atlantic Records found out that Ray was positive he was fired and their subsequent albums were not promoted. He was vilified in and out of the industry for touring knowing he had AIDS.
A memorial concert in tribute to Ray was organized by vocalist Glenn Hughes in February of 1994, and a number of rock luminaries including singer Sebastian Bach of Skid Row, former Mariah Carey guitarist, Paul Pescoe, and Glenn's own band, the recently reformed Trapeze, showed up to perform and pay homage to Ray's memory.
Conditions: Cover 9 or NM- high gloss cover, inner lyric sleeve//Record 9 or NM- black and shiny.
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