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Baton Rouge were an American hard rock band, formed in 1986 in Pearl River, Louisiana. The band produced two albums and enjoyed limited success during the final part of the hair metal explosion in the early 1990s, before disbanding. All the band members went on to work with other hard rock recording artists and in particular vocalist and guitarist Kelly Keeling performed with Michael Schenker Group and Trans-Siberian Orchestra. == History == The group was originally composed by Lance Bulen (vocals), Kelly Keeling (guitars and keyboards), Keith Harrison (bass) and Harold Knappenberger III(drums). The group began their career under the name Voices, later changed to Cheetah, then to Meridian and finally to Baton Rouge, because of the similar name of the band Melidian.〔 The band relocated to Los Angeles in 1987, experiencing changes of personnel and roles within the group.〔 Keeling assumed the role of frontman, Bulen passed on guitar, and two new members were recruited, bassist Bryan Scott and drummer Corky McClellan.〔 The band, still under the name Cheetah, signed to MCA Records and produced a demo and a song with Jack Ponti, before Scott departed and was replaced by Scott Bender. In 1989, after only six shows in Los Angeles clubs, Atlantic Records put the band under contract .〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Baton Rouge )〕 With the collaboration of the two songwriting members of the band Surgin’, Jack Ponti and Vic Pepe (the first had worked on the first album of Bon Jovi), Baton Rouge began rehearsing material for their first album.〔 Meanwhile in 1989, Keeling, Bulen, and Ponti, contributed some songs for the album ''Point Blank'' of the German hard rock band Bonfire. The debut album of Baton Rouge, ''Shake Your Soul '', was published in 1990 with the production of Jack Ponti. The album saw the participation of several guest musicians, from drummer Frankie LaRocka of Company of Wolves and the band of John Waite, to Joey Franco, drummer of Good Rats and Twisted Sister, to Bobby Gordon and Randy Cantor on keyboards. The track "There Was a Time (The Storm)" was co-written with Jaime Kyle.〔 Keyboard player David Cremin, is credited in the album and is pictured on the back cover but he did not participate in the recordings.〔 ''Shake Your Soul '' peaked at No. 160 in the U.S. charts. Baton Rouge underwent a change of label and another change of formation for the recording of their second album, with the addition of former Keel guitarist Tony Palmucci in place of Cremin.〔 Their second album ''Lights Out on the Playground'' was released in 1991 and included the song "Desperate", written by Jack Ponti and also previously recorded by Babylon AD on their album with the same name.〔 The album did not enter the American charts and was a commercial failure. Keeling was very unsatisfied with the music Baton Rouge had been playing and of the band itself, so when he received the offer to enter in Blue Murder, a group founded by guitarist John Sykes (Tygers of Pan Tang, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake), he accepted the proposal. Consequently, Baton Rouge disbanded in 1991.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baton Rouge (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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