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Temple of Blood
Metal is in my blood
Number of posts: 3682
Age: 37
Registration date: 2007-03-30
 |  Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:03 pm | |
| | Alex Dee Rokket wrote: | | Nico wrote: | | S.D. wrote: | | Thin Lizzy SHOULDN'T be active with that name, but at least there are a couple of original members involved. RIOT was Mark (at least post 1984) so the name should be retired. |
Agreed 100%, Mark was the only one who played on every album. |
The only way I see that the band's legacy will be carried on is if the current / past members create a project of their own and mix original material with Riot songs live. I think this would be an interesting move forward, I would like to see Tony Moore start up his own metal band / project or whatever. |
Tony Moore had that other project with the other guitarist from RIOT and it didn't seem to get much traction. It was self-released and rarely discussed AFAIK.
Continuing under the name RIOT (although wrong in a way) would give them the most exposure to their music, which will probably still be very good. Did Mark even write much of the new highly-acclaimed album? I don't think he played guitar on it.
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S.D.
Administrator
Number of posts: 12392
Age: 41
Registration date: 2008-07-12
| | Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:05 pm | |
| | James B. wrote: | | S.D. wrote: | I have never known what happened to the rest of the original band; Guy Sperenza, Sandy Slavin, Rick Ventura and Kip Leming.
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Guy Sperenza is deceased |
That's a shame, both him and Rhett Forrester...and now Mark. Think I'll jam Narita this evening in tribute.
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S.D.
Administrator
Number of posts: 12392
Age: 41
Registration date: 2008-07-12
| | Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:08 pm | |
| | Temple of Blood wrote: | Did Mark even write much of the new highly-acclaimed album? I don't think he played guitar on it.
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All songs composed by "Riot" (so the whole band would get equal rights).
In one of the press releases Mark is mentioned as the "lead guitarist" in the band, so I'm assuming he does play on the album?
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Temple of Blood
Metal is in my blood
Number of posts: 3682
Age: 37
Registration date: 2007-03-30
| | Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:11 pm | |
| I thought Tony in a recent interview said the other guitarist ended up recording all the tracks. Not sure if he wrote them all. I was surprised when I read it. Maybe it was because Mark has been ill.
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S.D.
Administrator
Number of posts: 12392
Age: 41
Registration date: 2008-07-12
| | Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:34 pm | |
| I found that interview with Tony Moore, here's the section about Mark's involvement.
So is it Mike playing both guitars on this and Mark just producing, or is it Mark and Mike together with Mike doing most of the writing?
Mark was involved in the writing end up-front on a bunch of the tunes. He played some rhythm guitars and played a couple of solos, but he pretty much let Mike play on this one because Mike just has tremendous energy and a really good relationship with our engineer, Bruno Ravel from Danger Danger, who mixed and mastered the whole album. He had this incredible task of just taking all these audio files from five different studios and turning them into an album that sounded coherent, and he did an amazing job. But yeah, it’s all Mike on this. He wrote and arranged, I’d say, 90 percent of the guitars and played about 90 percent of them. It’s really his moment, and it was great just listening to that stuff develop.
So it appears that Mark wasn't involved except as producer/writer.
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brokentulsa
Metal student
Number of posts: 178
Age: 45
Registration date: 2011-11-23
| | Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:51 pm | |
| Check this out. i am glad to hear that Mark was a Christian.
http://www.markreale.com/ |
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exact33
The King
Number of posts: 15608
Age: 38
Registration date: 2007-02-10
| | Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:57 am | |
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nevermore
Metal is Forever
Number of posts: 5658
Age: 42
Registration date: 2007-09-16
| | Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:42 am | |
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speed101
Metal graduate
Number of posts: 416
Age: 40
Registration date: 2011-01-05
| | Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:20 pm | |
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mr.electric39
Heart of Metal
Number of posts: 1481
Age: 44
Registration date: 2007-02-24
| | Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:14 am | |
| | S.D. wrote: | | James B. wrote: | | S.D. wrote: | I have never known what happened to the rest of the original band; Guy Sperenza, Sandy Slavin, Rick Ventura and Kip Leming.
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Guy Sperenza is deceased |
That's a shame, both him and Rhett Forrester...and now Mark. Think I'll jam Narita this evening in tribute.
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Guy Speranza became a believer after leaving RIOT. He died several years ago, the cause eludes me at the moment... There was a tribute site to him and I remember seeing that his daughter wrote Guy was very quiet about his time in Riot....
By the way the 1983 EP with Rhett Forester is absolutely essential... those live versions are STELLAR! I haven't heard it in years and would love to find it on vinyl as I don't think its ever been released on CD...
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7thSaviour
Heart of Metal
Number of posts: 2199
Age: 40
Registration date: 2007-04-13
| | Subject: Re: Mark Reale has died Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:01 pm | |
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