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eBand - Richard and the Young Lions
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Signed up: 23 Aug 2008 11:10 AM

Location: New Jersey
Members: Richard Tepp - Rest In Peace,Fred Randall - Bass Guitar / vocals, The Twig - Drums/vocals, Lou Vlahakes - Lead Guitar / 12 string Guitar / vocals, Mike Fornatale - Guitar/Vocals, Rick Robinson - Vox Continental Organ/Vocals, Shelly Riff - Vox Continental
Genre: Garage Rock
Influences: Rolling Stones, Beatles
Label: Wicked Cool Records
Website: richardandtheyounglions.com
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Richard and the Young Lions had a regional hit called 'Open Up Your Door' back in 1966 that peaked nationally at number 70 on Cashbox for 6 weeks. A combination of bad luck, a complete overhaul of members, and ineffective management caused a song that had the potential to be great to waffle in mediocre-dom..

Eventually the band faded away.

Thirty years later, 'Open Up Your Door' appeared on a garage-rock box-set called 'Nuggets' and a series of coincidences brought everyone in the band back together to give success another go despite being in their 50's.

The re-formed band found the familiar struggles, but eventually worked to put together an album of new original songs.

There is a documentary available on DVD of the history of the band called Out of Our Dens: The Richard and the Young Lions Story Soonafter the album & documentary were completed, the lead singer 'Richard' passed away.

Pick up your copy at Lantern-Media.com or on Amazon.com

See IMDB Listing and feel free to vote for it if you have an IMDB account (hint hint)

Quicktime Movie Trailer (Hi-Qual, larger file) here

Realtime Movie Trailer (Lo-Qual, smaller file) here

Richard and the Young Lions