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JOSHUA
line up: Rob Rock (vocals)
Joshua Perahia (guitar)
Greg Schulz (keyboards)
Emil Lech (bass)
Joseph James (drums)
Joshua Perahia is a guitarist/composer with Greek ancestors. He starts his
carreer in all kinds of local bands in Los Angeles (in progressive rock band
Blind Alley, among others). After he has listened to music of Michael Schenker
and Ritchie Blackmore, he starts his own hardrock-band. The band is called
Joshua, his brother Leon becomes manager and the first gig is opening for Bette
Midler(!). After this, they are mainly headliner, with support acts like Motley
Crue, Ratt and Quiet Riot, but due to the many line up-changes they never make
it beyond local fame. This doesn't change after the release of their first
mini-LP in 1982, "The Hand is quicker than the Eye". A title matching Joshua's
guitarplay. Besides this, the songs are good too: melodic, symphonic and heavy,
with the fenomenal 4-octave voice of Stephen Fontaine in the front. It takes
till 1985, before the band releases it's first real album: "Surrender", with
on vocals nobody else but Jeff Fenholt, who played Jesus in the
Broadway-version of Jesus Christ Superstar and was for a short while singing in
Black Sabbath. This record, also released in Europe in '86, is better produced
than the mini-LP and the band is more tight. The guitarplay is again amazing,
but Jeff Fenholt's vocals are the absolute top. However, Fenholt doesn't want
to be a permanent band-member (he's now only singing gospels, after a period of
being addicted to drugs). So the band goes, with a new frontman, Gregory
Valasco, and a train-ticket (the full backline goes with them on the train),
touring through Europe. During that tour they meet Dieter Dierks, producer of
the Scorpions, who starts working with them on a new album. On this new album,
Gregory Valasco is replaced by Bob Rock (M.A.R.S.-project of MacAlpine and
Impelliteri). Also gone is Ken Tamplin, who founds his own band Shout.
albums: The Hand is quicker than the Eye (Olympic '82, mini-LP)
Surrender (Polydor '86)
Intense Defense (RCA '88)
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