Fire

There are three bands that have used this name:

#1 Fire. Not many psychedelic bands emerged from Hounslow. Fire were the 1966 exception, loaded up with songs for a concept album. "THE MAGIC SHOEMAKER" has moments of originality and true psychedelia as in the passage linking "Reason For Everything" and "Only A Dream" as well as touches of pop and R&B.

The recent upsurge of interest in psychedelic music led Fire to reform for two historic concerts on 30th November and 1st December, 2007, at The Windlesham Theatre in Surrey, England. The band, which consisted of the three original members: Dave Lambert (lead vocals; guitar), Dick Dufall (backing vocals, bass guitar) and Bob Voice (backing vocals, drums) played "THE MAGIC SHOEMAKER" album in its entirety, an ambition never previously fulfilled due to frustrations encountered within the music industry. Fire also played classics including "FATHER'S NAME IS DAD" and "TREACLE TOFFEE WORLD".

A live Fire CD recording from the Windlesham concerts is expected during early/mid 2008, with the possibility of a DVD also under consideration. In the meantime, several amateur videoclips of Fire performing at Windlesham may be found at Youtube.com -search for "Magic Shoemaker".

#2 Fire (Band). Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band best known for its multitalented leader Ville Kujala.

#3 Croatia (ex Yugoslavia) heavy psychedelic/hard rock band active in first half of 70s. For the purposes of playing and recording they were relocated to Holland, Netherlands. Discography includes one only long-play and one single. Members were: Jura Havidić - guitar, Miljenko Balić - bass, Emil Vugrinec - drums

#4 Melodic Hard Rock Heavy Rock

Jessie Galante - vocals; Michael Guy - guitars; Tom Rucci - bass; Doug Allen - keyboards; Jackie Ramos - drums

A great band, 'tis a pity they never kicked on because they certainly had the goods when their flame was flickering brightly. They were the LA based quintet Fire. In essence, the musical vehicle for Buffalo born and bred female powerhouse Jessie Galante, who moved out to LA in search of that big break. Prior to this, she had fronted a local Buffalo outfit called Actor, who were on the verge of inking a deal with A&M. Unfortunately that fell apart due to the sterling efforts of their brain-dead management company who obviously couldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. In the interim, Jessie moved temporarily to the HM metropolis of Alabama (!) where the yokel locals persuaded her she might have a better chance of plying her trade in Los Angeles before she got run of town by a lynch-mob of Vince Gill fans!

So, upon her arrival in L.A, not only did she score herself some half-decent musos to join her, but her manager was one Ray Brown (responsible for holding the stud-encrusted hands of Judas Priest, Motley Crue and Bon Jovi), while the evergreen Michael Wagener (Dokken, Accept etc) came onboard to produce their showcase demo. The band were often called to undertake showcase gigs for the major labels, and on the strength of this their only recorded demo, they should have been a compulsory signing then and there! We're not talking some second rate Heart ripoff here, this was classy LA metal leaning more towards melodic rock. The band also included ex Shark Island pairing Mike Guy and Tom Rucci, and with their combined musical and songwriting fusing with Galante's, a virtual witches brew of melodic metal was to unfold. With Brown and Wagener onside, it couldn't be anything else but. Fire - King of Thieves (Demo) 1987