Wednesday, July 18, 2012

"Station A" back on the air after 30 years!

Fred Moss is probably the 1980s most under rated guitar phenom! If you were lucky enough to catch them in their "heyday" 1982-1987 Station A was in a word electrifying. Singer and Bass player Andy Pearce dropped off the radar. Fred Moss went off to play with "Steppenwolf" Bill, Jeff and Garth went off to be real adults. About a year ago Fred and Andy re-connected and started writing and recording together again. Fred is in Baltimore MD as an instructor at the musicians institute and first call session player with some of the New York jazz worlds luminaries. Andy Pearce has had a somewhat prolific solo career releasing albums and writing scores for independent film. His most noteworthy project was writing songs with Gary McGrath for the McGrath Project's Gold disc released in 2008. The new record by Andy and Fred: "Songs from Station A" for Dirty Rotten Sinner Music, features four staples of their 1980s live shows: "seeing is believing", "Alight", and a rare early version of "Can't Stand Loosing you". The standout of course being the Moss penned "I'm not ready". The disc closes with Fred and Andy on a couple of new numbers which belay a more mature duo. Highly recommend adding this to your "must have" 1980s play list! Tower Records and ITunes.