PLANET P: Promotional CD rare PROMO 1st press + Ruby (extra CD only track). Ex-Rainbow. Check hit single “Why Me” and “Static” + a video review

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PLANET P: S/T PROMO Ultra Limited Edition Pressing + Promotional copy CD. In mint condition.

Tony Carey (ex-Rainbow) is a talented songwriter. Amazing artwork!
Contains the classic hit single “Why Me?”

Planet P Project – [tony carey/x-rainbow] 84 , Geffen [PROMO CD GEFD-4000]
Static 4:04
King for a day 3:57
I won’t wake up 3:46
Top of the world 4:34
Armageddon 4:20
Why me? 4:06
Power Tools 3:59
Send it in a letter 3:52
Adam and Eve 3:36
Only you and me 3:22
+ Ruby 4:00 (extra track only on this CD)

Tony Carey (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals), Helmut Bibl (guitar), Johan Daansen (guitar), Peter Hauke (percussion, drums), Fritz Matzka (percussion, drums), Robert Musenbichler (guitar), Hartmut Pfannmuller (percussion, drums), David Porter Thomas (vocals), Eddie Taylor (saxophone), Reinhard Besser (guitar), Helmut Bibl (guitar), Shane Dempsey (synthesizer), Roderich Gold (synthesizer), Koen VanBaal (guitar, drums, keyboards), Tom Leonhardt (guitar, drums, keyboards)]

+ a video review

or those that never heard this , you are in for a real treat. especially if you are into spacey sci-fi rock , with lots of keys, layers & mood shifting imagery.
it doesn’t get much better than this.

Back in the 1980s, Tony Carey had enough musical and lyrical ideas in him that he split his output into two different outlets. Songs about individuals and stories at a personal level were released under his own name, while songs about societies and technology issues were released under the name “Planet P Project”. This album was the first one for the PPP, released on Geffen records. There were a few spacey music videos which got a fair amount of airplay on MTV, back in the early days of MTV when it still had something to do with “music”. there was a video for “Static” which got some video-play, but the video that most people will remember was one for “Why Me?”.
“Static” is a song that views a world after some major man-made disaster, generally believed to be a nuclear war but never specifically mentioned as such. With lyrics such as: “But you can’t believe it, where did all the people go? A finger on the button — static on the radio”. Its a wistful song of loss and tragedy on a grand scale.
I have always liked the song “King for a Day”, which talks about those people with a insatiable thirst for power and writing their name in history. “Build me a castle, and throw a parade. Put my name in stone, so the words won’t fade. Start a religion, and name it for me. Build me a city, and give me the key! I’m king for a day, and can do no wrong…”. But in some ways it is also a commentary on the societies who *WANT* to crown their own kings for a day, one king after another.
Another interesting song is “Armageddon”, which in some ways is a revisiting of the end-of-world theme from “Static”. to me this song is about the major failing of modern society’s success with technology. While we keep making tremendous strides in technology, societies are still hell bent on destroying each other (or themselves, for that matter). The main line from the song is simply, “Armageddon, oh no. Armageddon — you came too soon”. Mankind might have the brainpower to solve all of its problems, but not the willpower.
“Why Me?” is the song that got the most airplay. Its about an astronaut being launched on a very long-term space mission. With lines like: “Thinking about the girl I left behind — Houston can you hear me, or have I lost my mind? Why Me? Why Me?”, and “The last guy to be here was never heard from again — he won’t be back this way until 2010 !! !”.
That gives you a basic idea of the lyrical theme of the album. Its a theme that resonated well back in the early 1980s, but it also works quite well in this post-9/11 world. The cold war may have faded away, but societies as a whole still face (and generate!) the same old problems.
Many people like to label this under progressive music, but to my mind that isn’t quite right. The *theme* is obviously similar to what Pink Floyd might write on a bleak day, and Tony Carey does also have a great talent for writing and performing music. And it is a “concept album”, which one might expect from progressive music. But each of the songs here is more like a pop song. They may have much better instrumental work than 98% of pop songs, but they are still short memorable songs. They have a standard structure of verses and a chorus, and each one can stand by itself. You don’t need to listen to the whole album for any of these songs to make sense. Admittedly, the lyrics are not “sweet pop happy bubblegum” themes, but it seems a bit wrong (to me) to think of this as a progressive album. But I can understand why people say that. The instrumental work here is excellent, and he has the right voice for singing these themes.

5.0 out of 5 stars An Album So Proud Full Of Noises And Crowds
Tony Carey celebrated one of his biggest hits in Germany in 1989 with Room With A View, an excerpt from the soundtrack album for the TV movie “Wild West Inclusive”. After modest beginnings with his band Blessings, the native Californian landed in the middle of the seventies as a keyboard player at Rainbow, with whom he completed the successful album “Rising” in 1976 and went on tour several times. After leaving Rainbow, Carey moved to Germany in 1978, becoming co-owner of a recording studio and spending a lot of time working on a solo career, which in the following years released a number of records under his own name and under the pseudonym Planet P Project. While the self-titled records stylistically presented more personal pop / rock, the project served as a vehicle for more experimental, more progressive pieces.

The present album, which was released by Geffen in 1983 and produced by Peter Hauke ​​(a fact that was happily hushed up later due to some disputes). You can hear science-fiction / space-driven, very melodic songs that garnished with Carey’s expressive voice and many sound effects, skilfully bridging the gap between the typical keyboard-heavy sound of the early 80s and the mainstream rock of the era. It succeeds in keeping up the qualitative level on album length, which, in my opinion, the debut album of Planet P Project, even more than the successor (the equally hearkening, but less compact rock opera “Pink World”) to one of the insider tips for friends of melodic Eighties Music makes. Personal favorites include Static, Armageddon, King For A Day, and Send It In A Letter, with the most well-known piece probably being the US hit single “Why Me?” might be, which was also played on MTV like times.

5.0 out of 5 stars
The  is a must! Great music. I am glad that I ordered this! I absolutely recommend it !!!!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars class album.  “Why Me?” (Tony Carey) is of course well known. All other songs are at least the same quality.

5.0 out of 5 starsAn old classic,
Planet P Project, or in person Tony Carey, former Rainbow keyboarder,
is here. A respectable work from. Of course, who does not know the song “Why me?”

Good to have the disc from the 80’s now

5.0 out of 5 stars Hear it loud – back to the 80’s
The flattery voice of Toney Carey paired with bombastic rock of the 80s. Very successful, but certainly a matter of taste. So far, I have not figured out why the disc just does not get boring, though it’s certainly not a virtuoso work.

5.0 out of 5 stars I’ve been waiting for this for a long time
Anyone who knows Rainbow knows Tony Carey. The first few years he has clearly shaped the sound. Like all musicians around Ritchie Blackmore, he was unable to cope with the ego of the guitarist and left.
Years later, after his first successes as a soloist, he founded the project in a loose composition.
From the past at Rainbow no trace. Everything Carey does from now on is more likely to be attributed to pop rock. But the good. Even the records under his name sound like the project.
Why me, is the Project’s most famous song.