Dusk (Badlands album)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	9/10[2]
Rock Hard	8.0/10[3]

Dusk is the third and final studio album by the band

After leaving Badlands and moving back to the East Coast, vocalist Ray Gillen joined New York-based all-star band Sun Red Sun, which he named after the Badlands song.

Album notes

In an interview on the Racer X website, drummer Jeff Martin talked about the making of Dusk: "Dusk, or the tunes put on the album, were intended as demos for the next Badlands album after Voodoo Highway. We had worked up that group of tunes at rehearsals at Mates in North Hollywood two months before recording them at Goodnight L.A by a friend of Ray's, Shay Baby. It's all 24-track full studio recording, but we did it all in less than 6 to 8 hours. We put the mics up, made sure they worked and Go!"^[4]

"We recorded them primarily for Atlantic Records to hear and give us a budget for the full recording of the same tunes, if they liked what we had. They did not like the direction of the songs, for whatever the reason. Some months later we were dropped from Atlantic. At the time we were happy with that outcome and so was the management, being that Atlantic was not doing anything for us anyway. We shopped new prospects. Almost every song was one-take recordings. I remember having floor tom mic problems where we stopped to fix it, then re-started a song. But all in all, one takes. Even some endings were a little funky on my end, but Jake just flagged it off and we go to the next tune. I think Jake is the only one who did not make one mistake... if he did I did not hear it. Ray had about 50% of his lyrics together. The rest were what he called Jib-A-Jab. He would put a word or two on the front of a line and rest were all vowels. He was amazing at it, and most folks never could tell the difference. He would come up with his melody line by Jib-A-Jabbing. I think he had a harder time finding lyrics that fit his Jabbing, due to the timing and the percussive hooks he would come up with while scatting along. Nothing on Dusk was fixed, that Ray did, obviously due to his passing before the putting together of the tracks. For him to sound like what you hear on the album one take each tune, still amazes me to no end. He was one you could say had true talent, pitch and tone."^[4]

Track listing

Personnel

Badlands

• Ray Gillen – lead vocals
• Jake E. Lee – guitar, engineering repairs
• Greg Chaisson – bass, engineering repairs
• Jeff Martin – drums

Production

• Shay Baby – engineer
• Matt Thorne – engineering repairs at MT Studios, Burbank, California
• William Cooke – mastering at Abbey Mastering, Chatsworth, California

References