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2-show reconnection with fans pumps up '80s hard-rock heroes

TORA TORA CONCERT

Tora Tora's 20th anniversary concert starts at 10 tonight at Newby's, 539 S. Highland. Fiddleworms and Shaved also perform.

Tickets are $15; available at the door and online at newbysmemphis.com. For more information, call 452-8408.

When Memphis hard-rock heroes Tora Tora finally called it quits in the mid '90s, the band went out not with a bang, but with a whimper.

After two albums of soulful metal, the group was in the middle of recording its third record when it was hit by a double whammy: the commercial rise of grunge rock, which pushed Tora Tora's brand of bluesy, glammy rock down the charts, and the departure of the person who had been their champion at A&M Records. When A&M was sold to Universal Music Group, Tora Tora was dropped.

'When we went out for the last time in 1994, we didn't do a big send-off,' says the quartet's lead singer, Anthony Corder. 'We didn't realize it was going to be the last time we were going to play. We were thinking we were going to stick around for a while, hammering it out on the road.'

Tonight at Newby's on the Highland Strip, the members of Tora Tora will get to remedy that somewhat with the first of two reunion concerts this summer planned to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the band's major label deal.

In the late '80s and early '90s, Tora Tora was one of the biggest bands on the local scene. Its 1989 debut album, Surprise Attack, sold more than 200,000 and spawned the hit 'Walkin' Shoes' as well as such fondly remembered tracks as 'Phantom Rider.' The group's 1992 followup, Wild America, was a more ambitious, varied and mature record, featuring touches like the collaboration with the Memphis Horns, 'Dead Man's Hand.'

Wild America was less successful than its predecessor. The band's third record, Revolution Day, was never released. (As a treat for fans, Tora Tora has pressed a limited edition run of its debut EP To Rock To Roll with bonus tracks for sale at Saturday's show.)

After their record deal fell apart, the members of Tora Tora started to drift apart, with band members Patrick Francis (bass), Keith Douglas (guitar), and John Patterson (drums) all eventually settling into jobs outside of music.

Corder stuck with it, though. He formed a musical partnership with guitarist Hal McCormack (Survivor, Black Oak Arkansas), performing as a duo and as the roots-rock outfit Homemade Flavor. The fruit of their 10-year collaboration can be heard on the recently released compilation CD, Spiritual Warfare, available at CDFuse.com.

Corder also earned his master's degree from the University of Memphis and recently moved to Nashville, where he works as creative director at a music publishing company.

'When I moved up here and started working on the corporate side, I pretty much put my guitar down,' he says about his largely gig-less life. 'I love it. I'm on the creative side, working with songwriters every day.'

Over the years, the members of Tora Tora flirted many times with the idea of reuniting, managing only one impromptu gig, a fundraiser for an ill ex-crew member, at the Blue Monkey in Midtown the night before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The chance for a full-blown reunion came with the phenomenal success of Rocklahoma, the gathering of '80s metal bands in Pryor Creek, Okla., which drew 100,000 fans its first time out last year. With the event expanded this year to five days, Rocklahoma organizers contacted Tora Tora about playing the July12-15 festival.

'This was the perfect opportunity,' says Corder. 'We just wanted to give something back to the people we hadn't seen in a long time, the fans.'

Saturday's show at Newby's is both a shakedown run and a chance to reconnect with the friends and fans who helped Tora Tora get on the national stage. Corder has been driving down from Nashville periodically to rehearse with his old bandmates.

'I saw the guys last weekend, and soon as I walked into the room I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, I feel like I'm 18,' says Corder, whose once high, screeching voice is the one instrument that has mellowed. 'They sound like they're 18 playing through all their original equipment, but I definitely sound like someone in the 30s. So it sounds a little different, but basically it's the same. It's got that chemistry thing.'

With everyone in the band pursuing his own career and building his own family, Corder, himself the father of three, says not to expect the full-blown return of Tora Tora.

'We're not trying to do some kind of comeback or anything like that,' he says. 'This is really just a celebration of the time we got to spend together.'

Tora ToraOrigin, United StatesGenres,Years active1985–1994, 2008-presentLabels, FNA,MembersAnthony CorderKeith DouglasPatrick FrancisJohn PattersonTora Tora is an American band formed in, in 1985. 'Tora' means 'tiger' in Japanese and the name is a play on the code name for attack used by the Japanese Imperial Navy during their attack on, 'Tora, Tora, Tora'.

The actual origin of the band name was more likely a reference to the song of the same name recorded by Van Halen on their 1980 release. In a 1989 Headbanger's Ball interview with singer Anthony Corder and bassist Patrick Francis, they said that a friend of the band came up with a list of 60 to 70 different names for their band, and they picked the name Tora Tora because it stood out to them the most. They mentioned in the same interview that the original name of the band had been 'Free Beer'. Contents.History Tora Tora started out as a local garage band then eventually got studio time when they won a local contest.

Following this, the band recorded To Rock To Roll as an independent. After its release the songs 'Phantom Rider' and 'Love's A Bitch' received extensive airplay on local radio station Rock 98.

After signing with, they recorded their debut album Surprise! Attack in 1989. This album peaked on 's Top 200 at No. 47 and featured the singles 'Walkin' Shoes' and 'Guilty.' The single 'Dancing With a Gypsy' was on the soundtrack for the film later that year.

Tora Tora was the first Band from Memphis, Tennessee, to have a music video, “Walkin’ Shoes” on MTV.In 1992, their second album, Wild America, was released. It only achieved No. 134 on the Billboard charts and it did not sell as well, but, it was a more mature step at songwriting.A third album, Revolution Day, was recorded in 1994, but it was never released due to label restructuring. After missing the due date, the band folded.In 2008, all four original band members reunited to do several performances. One was a sold out performance at Newby's, a local club in Memphis, to celebrate their 20th anniversary of receiving their. After the show, a record was sold to fans which included songs from their first two albums and material slated for their unreleased Revolution Day album.

The album was titled The Warehouse. 20 Years Later. The second occurred during. The band played another reunion show at on March 7, 2009, in Memphis.At the end of 2009, Tora Tora signed with the based FNA Records and released three albums. Before & After, Bombs Away: The Unreleased Surprise Attack Recordings, and Miss B. Haven': The Unreleased Wild America Recordings.On February 28, 2011, FNA Records in conjunction with the band decided after 17 years since the completion of their third album, which was shelved indefinitely at the time due to label complications, to release their 'lost album' Revolution Day.

Anthony Corder stated about the Revolution Day Sessions:The Revolution Day project was an interesting time for TORA TORA. It was the '93-'94 era, we were overlapping the last embers of our Wild America dates, rehearsing ideas for the new project, growing from our touring experiences, and experimenting with recording techniques. We relocated our rehearsal space to a warehouse over by the Memphis airport, and tried to stay focused on pre-production. We were pulling together ideas from handheld cassette recorders, scribbled napkins, & 8 track recordings we made on the bus or hotel rooms. I think we were more comfortable with our creative spirits, more confident in our ideas and our approach to songwriting. All of us contributed on the former projects, but everyone was struggling for the third project to keep the TORA identity, and go somewhere new at the same time. We definitely had moments of anxiety and frustration but it was all well worth it once we locked down the tunes.

We were joined by The Memphis Horns as well as Susan Marshall and Stacy Plunk adding back-up vocals on two tracks. The Revolution sessions were some of our most memorable escapades, and had us back at home in Ardent, hanging with Molly's LaCasita crew, and me personally closing down most Midtown establishments.In 2017, the band was approached by Frontiers about doing a proper new studio album and they enthusiastically jumped at the opportunity. The resulting new album, “Bastards Of Beale,” brings back the magic of the band’s blues-rooted hard rock sound that gained them a loyal following in the first place. Always a far cry from their more polished peers and more spiritually connected to blue collar hard rock, the band’s return picks up where they left off while not sounding even the slightest big dated.Lineup. Anthony Corder -, acoustic guitar. Keith Douglas -, backing vocals. Patrick Francis -, backing vocals.

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John Patterson -Discography Albums. (1989) No. 47 US. (1992) No. 132 US Billboard 200.

(2011). Bastards of Beale (2019)EP. To Rock to Roll (1987)Singles. 'Walkin' Shoes' (1990) No. 86 US. 'Guilty'. 'Phantom Rider'.

'Walkin' Shoes'. 'Amnesia'. 'Dead Man's Hand'. 'Faith Healer'Compilations. Revolution Day (1994/2011) (recorded in 1994, Previously unreleased - released on February 28, 2011 by FNA Records). Before & After (2009) FNA Records.

Bombs Away: The Unreleased Surprise Attack Recordings (2009) FNA Records. Miss B.

Haven': The Unreleased Wild America Recordings (2010) FNA RecordsReferences.