His guitar work throughout this album is exceptional. Lets go ahead and put it out there, Vito kicks ass. It is a screaming opener and Vito’s guitar work is exceptional. The album opens with a classic 80’s sounding song called “Hungry”. It also reached #11 on the Billboard charts and it stayed on the charts for a full year…pretty impressive. The album went on to sell over 2 million copies in the U.S. How many albums do you know where none of the hits were not on Side One? I can’t think of any off the top of my head. The album produced four singles which strangely enough all come from Side Two. They put together a stand-out album in a year full of stand out albums from Def Leppard, Guns ‘N Roses and Whitesnake. Mike Tramp and Vito Bratta did all the song writing and their connection together was at their strongest on this album. The band consisted of the following members: That means BIG HAIR!! Did White Lion have it…uh…YES… ‘Pride’ came out in 1987 slap dab in the middle of the Hair Band explosion. Since “My First Time” is supposed to be the first time I discover a band and it is not on their debut album, then ‘Pride’ worked. They actually had an album prior called ‘Fight to Survive’ that never amounted to anything. Little did I know at the time that ‘Pride’ was not their debut album.
It sounds interesting and got me to thinking about his old band White Lion. I recently read an article on Mike Tramp that said he was releasing a limited edition box set called “This and That” which would contain 5 CDs and 1 DVD of previously unreleased material as well as some new tracks.
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