{"id":1030,"date":"2011-06-21T23:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T23:06:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-21T23:06:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T23:06:29","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Bai Bang &#8211; Livin&#8217; my dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;Livin&#8217; my dream&#8221; is the new album from Swedish glam\/sleeze rockers Bai Bang.  The bands last album, 2009&#8217;s &#8221;Are you ready&#8221; was nominated as the best glam\/sleeze album at the Swedish metal awards and was also voted as the &#8221;Best all round party anthem album of the year&#8221; in the Australian magazine, The Rockpit.  As a result, the new album has a lot to live up to.  Happily I can report that the album exceeds expectations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Livin&#8217; my dream&#8221; is the bands seventh album  (sixth if you exclude the 2006 &#8221;best of&#8221; album).  The band were active from the late 1980&#8217;s through till 2001 when they released the &#8221;Attitude&#8221; album.  This was followed by several years of quiet before they started touring again in 2007 and released &#8221;Are you ready&#8221; in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Comments on a few of the tracks..<\/p>\n<p>The album gets off to a fast start &#8211; first track, &#8221;We&#8217;re united&#8221; skips any gentle intro and kicks straight in at full power with wailing guitars and pounding drums.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Livin&#8217; my dream&#8221; has some unusual guitar effects, particularly at the start, but this doesnt detract from a great song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Come on&#8221; has a great catchy chorus, and an early Bon Jovi feel.<\/p>\n<p>To sum the album up, great guitar work, great music, great vocals and fantastic songs.<\/p>\n<p>The album is full of classic 80&#8217;s rock music making this a really great album that should appeal to all fans of classic 80&#8217;s rock bands such as Bon Jovi, Ratt, LA Guns or Def Leppard.<\/p>\n<p>My only criticism is the length of the album &#8211; or rather the lack of it.  Coming in at a total running time of 35 minutes, this is a disappointingly short album.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Livin&#8217; my dream&#8221; is due for release on 27th July 2011 through AOR Heaven records<\/p>\n<p>Bai Bang are:<\/p>\n<p>Diddi Kastenholt \u2013 Vocals<br \/>\nPelle Eliaz \u2013 Lead Guitar<br \/>\nJoacim Sandin \u2013 Bass<br \/>\nJohnny Benson &#8211; Drums<\/p>\n<p>Track listing:<\/p>\n<p>1. We&#8217;re united<br \/>\n2. Livin&#8217; my dream<br \/>\n3. Come on<br \/>\n4. Rock on<br \/>\n5. Stay<br \/>\n6. Gonna have it all<br \/>\n7. Tonight<br \/>\n8. Rock it<br \/>\n9. Die for you<br \/>\n10. Put on her dress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;Livin&#8217; my dream&#8221; is the new album from Swedish glam\/sleeze rockers Bai Bang. The bands last album, 2009&#8217;s &#8221;Are you ready&#8221; was nominated as the best glam\/sleeze album at the Swedish metal awards and was also voted as the &#8221;Best all round party anthem album of the year&#8221; in the Australian magazine, The Rockpit. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}