Black vinyl with insert. Limited 200 copies

Finally released, the unreleased Solomon Kane recordings.Solomon Kane was Mike Coates, from the American based Asia andWhite Wing, with female singer Deb Marquart. Expect epicprogressive pomp metal of the highest caliber. The demise of Asawas a tumultuous one. Almost immediately after Armed To The Teethwas released it was announced over the NBC newswire that a Europeansupergroup was forming and was calling itself ASIA. Negotiationsbegan with lawyers from both camps and culminated in Brian Lane,manager of Yes and the new band, flying to Rapid City to see ourAsia. We had been told that the European Asia?had negotiated withat least seven other North American Asias and that they hadpurchased the name from all of these bands. I personally heardBrian Lane’s attorney read off the trademark numbers from all thosebands over the phone and then Lane posed an offer: $5000 cash (wehad asked for $100,000 or back-up in a global tour) and that hewould take me and our band manager, Michael Chambers, to meet withfour major labels on the west coast. We felt powerless at thispoint so we acquiesced. However, months went by with no word fromMr. Lane, and then during that same period our exclusive trademarkownership arrived in the mail. We contacted Lane and told him thecontract with his folks was null and void-fraudulent. We spent thenext two years touring relentlessly as Solomon Kane striving togenerate capital for the battle with their attorneys to get thecase tried in the US and hopefully in our jurisdiction. Shortlyafter Armed To The Teeth was released Larry Galbraith (voice andguitar) had quit the band. His was a very difficult role toreplace–an outstanding talent with an incredible range. The rest ofthe band, Michael English, Doug Johnson, and myself were all fromAsia. At the time, Mike Chambers was co-owner of a bar in RapidCity called the Barbarian and it served as our center ofoperations. We practiced in an adjacent space that previously hadbeen a marina shop. At night we would go next door to the Barbarianto listen to singers in all the bands that passed through. Afterwitnessing one particular band who had a female lead singer wehuddled together and considered shifting paradigms. We set up anaudition with Deb Marquart and it seemed like perhaps we had foundour singer. Michael English played bass and sang much of the leadvocal work, so a complement to his sound -a strong female vocalist-seemed viable. Deb had been in more of a contemporary Pop band, sowhen we first talked i was pretty skeptical. She had never reallyeven heard Ian Gillan or Ronnie James Dio. So, one night I left herat my house with a stack of records and I left. When I returned herface was ashen and I thought, well . . . this isn’t going tohappen. But much to her credit she accepted the gig. At first wetried to do material more in her wheelhouse, e.g. Heart,Rossington-Collins, Smith, Jefferson Airplane, but she soonlaunched into Rainbow, AC/DC, Black Sabbath (Dio), Zeppelin, and myoriginals. And she could wail! Deb also learned basic keyboardskills which added greatly to our band trio sound. We traveled witha sound man, a light man, a very large sound system, full stagelighting, full stage gear, and band–all in a large, black truck.So, the overhead was pretty high and the schedule was intense. Wewould go out for four to six weeks and then return home to play theBarbarian. In early 83 when we returned home, Mike English informedus he was leaving the band. Doug gave his notice as well. I wasdevastated. I was coming up on my 30th birthday and this was all Ihad ever done. By this time I was madly in love with Deb. I’llnever forget the day the truck pulled out to take her back toMoorhead, Minnesota. I just died. Within months i left Rapid Cityto be with her. When I got to Moorhead I immediately startedteaching guitar. Then that fall I enrolled at Moorhead StateUniversity and was soon teaching for them as well. They had a newmusic industry program so I felt that maybe I had found my place.Deb had her old job back as a secretary/router at a big equipment(Crane) company. She had been appearing as a lounge singer for awhile and then in a band (the Debonaires). The following year wegot married. I had lots of band offers but nothing of the qualityof ASIA/Solomon Kane so I just focused on school and teaching. TheMSU facility had been building a recording studio, but nobodyreally knew how to run it let alone wire it all up. So I spentseveral years overseeing that operation (in no small part withMitch Gallagher now of Sweetwater Sound). And as we got it up andrunning I began to record my guitar method book -Chase the Dragon(my master’s thesis)- and the Solomon Kane songs I had written. Itaught at MSU from 1984 – 1995 and was constantly recording. Thefollowing songs were recorded in that humble little 8-track studiowith me performing all the instrumental parts and Deb singingeverything. In truth, most of the Solomon Kane originals werewritten during Asia’s final year. So I have always thought of thiscollection as Asia III. (Mike Coates). Fans of American Legend,Lordian Guard, Heart and Kansas should check this out.

Track list:
1. Die By The Sword
2. Don’t Tell Me
3. Gypsy Queen
4. The Assassin
5. God Save Rock And Roll
6. The Hungarian Rhapsody
7. A Tribute To Clapton

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