Push Comes to Shove

In the Dark is the 12th studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded in one week in January 1987, and originally released on July 6, 1987. In the Dark was the band's first album in six years, and its first studio album since 1980's Go to Heaven. It became unexpectedly popular, achieving double platinum certification in the U.S. It reached #6 on the Billboard 200 chart, the Grateful Dead's only top ten album. The peppy "Touch of Grey" peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's only top forty single; it also became a frequently played music video on MTV. "Hell in a Bucket" and "Throwing Stones" (for which videos were also made) also achieved significant album-oriented rock radio airplay.

It seems like just yesterday that I discovered Jackyl on MTV performing on the bed of as 18 wheeler’s trailer on the music video of “I Stand Alone.” I remember thinking “Wow, that’s a catchy tune.” The band issued the video as a visual protest to K-Mart’s ‘unwillingness’ to stock the band’s 1992 Geffen Records issued ‘self-titled’ debut album. Frontman Jesse James Dupree and [brothers] guitarist Jeff Worley and drummer Chris Worley have gone through a few line-up changes but they have endured. Bassist Roman Glick (Brother Cane, Slave To The System) is the ‘new guy’ in the band, though he’s been in the line-up for about 15 years at this point.

And again VH's David Lee Roth era… For these 2015 Remastered Releases, Van Halen enlisted the help of mastering enginer Chris Bellman, who remastered the original albums for Bernie Grundman Studios, Hollywood, CA. The remasters have been cut straight from the original quarter-inch tapes.

From 1974 until 1985, Van Halen consisted of Eddie Van Halen; Eddie's brother, drummer Alex Van Halen; vocalist David Lee Roth; and bassist Michael Anthony. Upon its release, the band's self-titled debut album reached No. 19 on the Billboard pop music charts. By the early 1980s, Van Halen was one of the most successful rock acts of the time. The album 1984 was a hit; its lead single, "Jump", is the band's only U.S. number one single to date and was internationally known. For this Hi-Res release (2013) were used transfers from the original EQ production analog tapes.