BADGE
Badge June 20th, 2012
Tracklist:
1. Silver Woman
2. Something I Have Lost
3. Finding My Way
4. Cryin' Time
5. Natalia from the Volga
6. Traveler in Time
7. Blizzard
8. Drift Away
9. Driving Home
10. See Me Gone
11. Silver Woman (extended version)
*The songs ‘Crying Time’, ‘Drift Away’ and ‘Finding My Way’ were recorded in 1988 at Animal Tracks studio in Hull. The songs ‘See Me Gone’, ‘Natalya From The Volga’ and ‘Driving Home’ were never formally recorded in a studio. They were put down by the band as demo tapes in the guitarist’s home studio around 1984.
LINEUP:
Mike Cooper Bass
Rob Zipfel Drums, Percussion, Synthesizer, Vocals (backing)
Tony Dixon Guitars (lead), Guitars (acoustic)
Stu McLean Guitars (rhythm)
Graham Waudby Vocals
BADGE NAMED THEMSELVES AFTER THE CLASSIC CREAM SONG
The NWOBHM band Badge officially released only one single during their lifetime, the semi-successful single 'Silver Woman'. Unfortunately for them, nothing else was officially released, that is until this collection of leftover outtakes and demos was unearthed and produced by High Roller Records in 2012. I have read in several places on the internet that Silver Woman was one of the best songs ever released in the NWOBHM era...well I don't agree with that assessment at all. The song is OK, but I can think of dozens of tunes from the era that are WAY better. In fact, I think that Silver Woman is one of the weaker songs in this collection. Oh well, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, not that there's anything wrong with that. Nonetheless, this is a very good album - definitely worth a listen!
Vocalist Graham Waudby said in an article : "We supported Ethel The Frog at the Humberside Theatre in Hull. They spoke to us before the gig and told us not be nervous about supporting them! They never spoke to us after the gig because the audience wanted to hear more of Badge! We were also to be lined up with some tour supports with Judas Priest and Budgie at that time. Due to some immature fallouts within the band we lost our bass player, by the time we replaced him that one chance were the door opens for you had gone. Consequently we lost touch with Neat Records and never recorded again with them - a real shame. That still hurts me today!"
