IMPELLITTERI: Stand in Line tape cassette RARE 1988 Music For Nations MFN. Graham Bonnet (Rainbow, MSG, Alcatrazz), Pat Torpey (Mr. Big). Check video and audio

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Impellitteri ‎– Stand In Line
Label: Music For Nations ‎– TMFN 87
Format: Tape
Country: UK
Released: 1988
Genre: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Tracklist
A1 Stand In Line
Written-By – Chris Impellitteri, Graham Bonnet
4:33
A2 Since You’ve Been Gone
Written-By – Russel Ballard*
3:58
A3 Secret Lover
Written-By – Chris Impellitteri, Graham Bonnet
3:27
A4 Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Written-By – E.Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen
5:21
B1 Tonight I Fly
Written-By – Chris Impellitteri, Graham Bonnet
3:50
B2 White And Perfect
Written-By – Chris Impellitteri, Chuck Wright, Graham Bonnet, Pat Torpey
4:22
B3 Leviathan
Written-By – Chris Impellitteri, Chuck Wright, Graham Bonnet, Pat Torpey
3:52
B4 Goodnight And Goodbye
Written-By – Chris Impellitteri, Graham Bonnet
3:12
B5 Playing With Fire
Written-By – Chris Impellitteri
2:39
Total length: 36 minutes

Personnel:
Chris Impellitteri: guitar, production
Graham Bonnet: vocals
Phil Wolfe: keyboard
Pat Torpey: drums [Mr. Big, The Knack, David Lee Roth Band]
Chuck Wright bass (except track 2) [Quiet Riot (1985 1987), House of Lords (1988 1990), Giuffria]
Randy Rand bass (track 2)

Bill Freesh engineering, mixing
Mikey Davis engineering
Brian Jenkins engineering
Paul Winger engineering
Bob Ludwig mastering
Cliff Cultreri executive production

Year Chart Position
1988 Billboard 200 91

Check all samples:  www.allmusic.com/album/stand-in-line-mw0000195571

Here comes cult hero Graham Bonnet, this time with new age axe-god Chris Impellitteri. Given Bonnets history in Rainbow, MSG, and Alcatrazz, the supreme screamer is no doubt used to standing behind fretboard fireworks. But the best moments on Stand in Line occur when the man with the iron lungs steps up to the mike: the title track is a searing shot straight out of the Bonnet canon, the sweaty “Secret Lover” sends lyrics and guitar spiralling heavenward until an all-too-abrupt fade, “Tonight I Fly” features a cascading chorus of Hollywood heartbreak that only great Bonnet could deliver, and the James Dean metal of “Goodnight and Goodbye” makes for a wild ride. On the downside slides one of too many versions of “Since You’ve Been Gone,” the Russ Ballard winner which Bonnet got right the first time (he also drops a nod to “Lost in Hollywood,” a different dazzler from Rainbows dynamite Down to Earth). Obviously, Impellitteri’s running the show, but he almost runs the record into the ground with two excessive and useless instrumentals; the dilute update of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is unnecessary and an affront to the guitar whizs demographic inasmuch as his blatant attempt to one-up Ritchie Blackmore destroyed this discs commercial chances. Impellitteri also emulates another of Bonnets axe alter egos, Yngwie Malmsteen, by obliterating decent riffs with excessive ornamentation. Plus, the mix is a bit shrill and hollowed-out, a common plague on ’80s production. Yet, these are minor gripes exacerbated but ultimately overshadowed by the greatness of the talent involved. When Stand in Line works, it rules.