Album: Rock 'N' Roll Enforcers
Year: 1980
Style: Power Pop, New Wave
Similar Bands: Cars, A's
"One-Word" Review:Keyboard Heavy Dancy Hard Power Wave
Based Out Of: Pittsburgh, PA
Label: Precision, CBS
Cover, Record, Promo Photo, PR Bio
Back, Record, PR Bio
Rock 'N' Roll Enforcers (1980)- Modern Love 3:18 (Single)
- Head On Collision 3:50 (Single)
- Remote Control 3:35
- Illegal 3:45
- Johnny Too Bad 3:40 (Slickers Cover) /
- Peter Gunn Theme 2:21 (Henry Mancini cover, Single)
- Shiver & Shake 3:23 (Single)
- Take Out Service 3:20
- Cold Sweat 3:47 (James Brown Cover)
- I Can't Believe It 3:16
Members & Other Bands:
- Bob Clearmountain - Producer, Recording, Mixing (Bowie, Springsteen, Stones, Pretenders)
- Tom Cossie - Exec. Producer
- James Farber - Asst. Engineer
- Raymond Willhard - Asst. Engineer
- Lucy Laurie - Asst. Engineer
- Jason Corsaro - Asst. Engineer
- Ed Evans - Tech Assistant
- Ira Kemp - Tech Assistant
- Mark Betts - Tech Assistant
- Malcolm Pollack - Tech Assistant
- Gregory Mann - Asst Engineer
- John Palermo - Asst. Engineer
- Walt Seng - Photography
- Frank Czuri - Vox, Piano, (Jaggerz, Diamond Reo, Solid Gold, Skyliners, Igniters, Medallions, Von'Ls, Jimmy Mack & Music Factory, Friends, Hollywood, Laurels, Dancing in the Street, Keith Sparbanie and the Soft Parade, Joey G, IronCity Houserockers Joe Grushecky, Brick Alley Band)
- Warren King - Guitar (Diamond Reo, James King, Usual Suspects, Keith Sparbanie & the Soft Parade, Norman Nardinin & the Tigers, Midnight Creepers, Mystic Knights of the Sea, Noble Thin Man Watts, Joey G, Ernie lancaster, Iron City Houserockers, Floyd Miles & Friends, Chicago Bob Nelson, Screaming Iguanas of Love, Smokehouse, Eric Culberson, Sonny Rhodes, Roy Roberts, Kenny Neal, Junior Markham, Lour Pride, Joe Grushecky, Sharkweek, JJ Burner )
- Ronald "Byrd" Foster - Drummer, Vox, (Roy Buchanan, Bon Ton Roulet, Friends, Iron City Houserockers, Jimmy Mack & the Music Factory, Keith Sparbanie & the Soft Parade, Skin & Bones, Sweet Lightnin', Igniters, Midnight Creepers, Mystic Knights of the Sea, Joey G, Norman Nardini, Floyd Miles & Friends, Noble Thin Man Watts, Dr Hector & Groove Injectors, Roy Roberts, Chizmo Charles, John Harrison, Joe Grushecky, Skin & Bone, Brick Alley Band, Philip Harris, Screaming Iguanas of Love, Ace Moreland, Smokehouse, Chicago Bob Nelson, Eric Culberson, Sonny Rhodes, Lou Pride, Barry Rapp, Galloway & Kelliher)
- Dennis Takos - Keys, Vox
- Michael Pella - Bass, Vox (BE Taylor Band)
- Cathi Capiola - Writer
Album Review: Hailing from Pittsburgh, this five piece band plays new wave power pop with a bit of a harder rock edge. Typical bouncy new wave + heavy on the keys makes this band a very catchy pop outfit with the undercover cold war espionage/enforcer theme, perhaps exemplified in their honorary cover of the private eye Peter Gunn theme. They had a record deal before they even played a show, thanks to contacts gained from Czuri and King's prior bands. They were right in time for the MTV age, and had a music video (medley of Peter Gunn, Remote Control, Illegal, directed by fellow Pittsburgh native, George Romero) run on the initial 1981 broadcast at spot #40. While Takos, Foster and King have all passed away from cancer, Czuri has performed with a variation of the band as recent as 2019.
Stand Out Track: Illegal, Head-On Collision
Links:
Czuri Wiki
Pitts Music Takos Obit
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