Terri Lane

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The Truth

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Released: Jan 1, 2004

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The Truth
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I'd Rather Be Your Lover
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Victim of Love
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Take Another Shot - duet with Ron Keel
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Jun 15, 2010 3:27 PM IMPORTANT NEWS UPDATE - CD Progress/T-Shirts and a Personal Message
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General Info

Genre: Blues / Classic Rock / Rock
Location Un
Profile Views: 46315
Last Login: 11/29/2012
Member Since 8/14/2006
Website terrilanerocks.com
Record Label HMG/Elm City Music (EMI)
Type of Label Major
Bio
This is the official Myspace page for blues-influenced rock recording artist Terri Lane. Thank you to everyone that is joining me here on my journey. The recordings featured here are the pre-production tracks for my forthcoming CD "The Truth". The first completed tracks for the CD are in the final mixing stages, and I am honored to have appearing as guest stars a few of my friends: Drummer Chris Slade (AC/DC, The Firm), Drummer Bobby "T" Torello (Thunderhead, Johnny Winter), Bassist Eric Klaastad (Trouble Tribe, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper), and Bassist Scott Spray (Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter). More guest stars will be appearing as the recording progresses through the rest of 2010 into 2011. You will soon get to hear a sneak preview of the first tracks from "The Truth", before they go to the mastering stage. As a treat, I have a special track here that is a duet I did with Ron Keel in 2004, which not make it on his first IronHorse CD. Instead, it appears on his special edition CD/DVD anthology release. "Take Another Shot" was recorded and produced by my long-time friend and incredible talent ..Mike Vescera.. (Yngwie Malmsteen, Loudness, MVP). Once in a while a singer appears from out of nowhere; a singer with a voice that blows you away; a rock singer who reminds us what rock is supposed to be about. Terri Lane is that singer. Terri was "discovered" at age 11, and began being classically trained. At age 15, she was awarded a music scholarship under the direction of famed director and composer Robert DeCormier, but shortly thereafter realized opera was not for her – and the real world of rock and roll became her domain. She became a veteran of the recording studio and the stage, with her background vocals gracing countless CDs over the years. If you are among the lucky ones who have seen her perform, then you know how she rips up a stage. But it's not only her powerful presence you remember – it's her VOICE – the most amazing set of pipes rock music has heard in a long time. And now Terri's got her own players and she's singing her own songs. This is true ROCK, with a healthy injection of blues that gives it soul. Full of grooves, attitude, passion and heart, Terri's music is honest, personal and real, just like her. Terri Lane is the new breed of American female rocker. Not just a face and a voice, but a compelling, bigger-than-life Artist and Performer. Don't miss the opportunity to see and hear Terri Lane. Join the people who already know that...TERRI LANE ROCKS! EXTENDED BIO At the age of three when her grandmother showed her how to play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' on the piano, Terri Lane knew that she loved music. From then on, anytime she visited her "Gram," Terri would run down to that old piano in the basement and start "banging out" melodies she'd heard on the radio. It didn't take long for her uncle to start calling her 'Schroeder'. And it didn't take long for Terri to start making up her own little songs. "I made my mom crazy constantly singing and dancing through the house.". By the time she was seven, she was being turned on to "...so many cool bands like the James Gang, Steppenwolf, Hendrix and of course the British invasion - Clapton, Zeppelin and Bad Company. But the one record that awakened the baby metalhead in me was Iron Butterfly's. I played that thing 'til it wore out. And then came Sabbath." The 70s were a very exciting time for new music and there was lots of it being played in Terri's house, "...but nobody else in the family was musical. I was the oddball." At eleven Terri started her first real training; "...voice lessons from this poor teacher who had all he could do just to keep me sitting down for more than five seconds. And I didn't want any part of folk songs. I wanted to ROCK!" When she turned fourteen, this same teacher, "...bless his soul," decided to give her a chance to perform a solo in the annual high school Spring concert. When the big night came, the auditorium was filled to capacity; more than nine hundred people. As she started her rendition of a familiar pop tune, Terri noticed a woman sitting in the front row smiling at her. Spontaneously, Terri took her hand and sang the song to the woman. When it was over, there was a standing ovation and our teenage future rocker burst into tears. This was a defining moment in Terri's life. "I was never the same after that night." Terri's incredible love affair with singing had begun. It was to become her greatest joy, but also her refuge during years of deep pain. It was Terri's hippie chick mom who first exposed her to all this great rock music, and Terri remembers feeling loved and appreciated by her, but her mother also had a long struggle with alcohol and drug demons which translated into years of horrific abuse for Terri. Thanks to a perceptive guidance counselor who alerted authorities, Terri was finally removed from her hostile home at age fifteen. Some of the emotional scars will always remain, but by the time her mom died, the two had made peace and Terri now holds only love and forgiveness in her heart, and wishes her mom could be here to celebrate her achievements as an artist and as a human being. The next several years brought a new voice teacher and music director into the picture. He became Terri's mentor, encouraging her to develop her talent and expand her horizons. She was asked to become a member of Connecticut's esteemed All-State Choir after she earned uncommonly high scores during her audition. By graduation Terri had earned a music scholarship to the University of Connecticut, but her desire to be a rock singer prompted her to walk away from it after a short time. "I was young, but tired of singing what other people wanted me to sing, so during the next year I joined my first rock band, started performing in musical theater and did my first studio gig." Her hard work during high school resulted in a three and a half octave range, which has strengthened even more over the years. For more than ten years Terri worked on the live stage and in the studio, gaining valuable knowledge and seasoning her voice. She wanted to start writing her own music too, so she began collaborating with anyone she could find. "That part wasn't easy," she recalls, "and it still isn't. When you're a female musician trying to find good people to write and play with, you are not always taken seriously. But I'm tenacious as hell and ultimately I did find talented and professional creative partners to work with." Terri's whole life has been centered in music. "It has been my life's breath. Through the worst of times there has been a song to sustain me." Terri believes a higher power has given her a gift and that she has a message to bring to the world. "Like many before who have suffered, I survived it all and became a better, stronger person...Now that I am in total control of my career, I want to be sure that I not only entertain people and bring smiles to their faces, but also serve as an inspiration if I can, a source of strength for those who may need it. And I want to have a damn good time doing it all. After the dues I've paid, I think I deserve a little fun." Rock on Terri! A bit more personal in Terri's words...I'm all about the positive, my energy, the whole lot. I'm a Libra, my birthday's October 1, and my mum taught me all about sex, drugs and rock & roll. I also had a couple of other younger relatives who had the greatest record collection and I began to the "road to knowing" very early on. MEMORIES OF NOTE: When I saw my first Grammy awards, Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand were singing "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" and I turned to my mom and said "I wanna do that!" As a kid I had a pretty good allowance, and when I bought my first KISS record (Rock and Roll Over) I was the only girl in my school to have one, or to even know who KISS was (as far as I knew anyway). Listened to that and spontaneously combusted. Of course, seeing them was the true understanding many years later. The first time I heard Black Sabbath I was ten and with my older brother and he was tripping on acid. I think girls were supposed to be playing with dolls or something at that time in their lives. Age 12 mom brought home 'Dark Side of the Moon' and we sat there and didn't move or talk through the whole thing. We were both totally freaked out. Age 14 when I had that first solo performance, that was the moment my soul was born. The journey continues...I hope it takes me to you...
Members
Chris Bickley (Guitar/Backing Vocals) Various other musicians on bass/drums/backing vocals including Scott Spray (Johnny Winter), Bobby "T" Torello (Thunderhead, Johnny Winter), Chris Slade (AC/DC, The Firm) and Eric Klaastad (Trouble Tribe, Cindy Lauper).
Influences
Paul Rodgers/Bad Company/The Firm, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, The Black Crowes, The Beatles, Joe Walsh, KISS, AC/DC, Tina and Barbra, Three Dog Night, Muddy Waters, Steve Marriott, Rod Stewart, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, Ray Charles, Beethoven (have you ever listened to his 9th Symphony in its entirety?), Karma, the Truth.<p> FAVORITE GUITARISTS: Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh, Randy Rhoads, Reb Beach, Eric Clapton, Jake E. Lee, Brian May, Ian Moore, Dave Mustaine, Angus Young, Richie Sambora, John Sykes, Adrian Vandenberg, Zakk Wylde, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Dann Huff, Joe Perry, Ace Frehley, Jimi Hendrix, Yngwie Malmsteen, Vivian Campbell, Gary Moore, Peter Frampton, Darrell "Dime" Abbott, B.B. King, David Gilmour, Johnny Winter, Les Paul, Andy Timmons, Jerry Cantrell.<p> FAVORITE BASSISTS: Tony Franklin, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Billy Sheehan, Geddy Lee, Scott Spray, Steve Harris, Paul McCartney, Mike Inez, Sting.<p> FAVORITE DRUMMERS: John/Jason Bonham, Chris Slade, Neil Peart, Cozy Powell, Randy Castillo, Keith Moon, Tommy Aldridge, Eric Carr, Tommy Lee, Rod Morgenstein, Sean Kinney, Phil Collins, Bobby "T" Torello, Don Henley, Michael Lee, Charlie Watts, Mitch Mitchell.<p>
Sounds Like
70s raw and groovin'...think Tina Turner meets Aerosmith from the early days, or a cross between Bad Company and AC/DC.