RGG March 2017 - p.14
“Fight Another Day” marks the return of one of
the most infectious and gifted bands to come out
in the Melodic Rock World in the second part of
the 80’s.
The new album was recorded primarily in the
home town of members of DRN, Portland,
Oregon, while most of the writing process took
place in Dan Reed's private studio in Prague in
the Czech Republic, where Reed currently
resides with his family. Demos were sent back
and forth between Derek Shulman (A&R for
Frontiers), Brion James, Melvin Brannon Jr. and
Rob Daiker, making notes and refining the songs
over great distances via the internet.
This process was not unlike when DRN
composed songs back in the late 80's and early
90's as Dan Reed used to demo out songs on
his Akai 12 track machine and bring the songs
into rehearsals where the band members would
then arrange and flesh out the band’s classic
'funk rock' sound.After the tracking was
completed, band’s keyboardist Rob Daiker went
to work editing and mixing each track alongside
Shulman and Reed, sending mixes back and
forth, making notes and shaping and molding the
album to best represent what DRN sounds like
currently, while paying respect to what brought
the band to the world's attention back in the late
80's.
Fight Another Day" UK Tour 2017
