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''Cellarful of Noise'' is the debut studio album from 1980s pop-rock act Cellarful of Noise, a solo project of Mark Avsec. ==Background== In the mid-1980s, Donnie Iris and the Cruisers released the album ''No Muss...No Fuss''. By this point the band began to split into different directions. After the album, Avsec was free to dabble in his home studio and make demos for Iris. These songs were not planned to be used with any solo project.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MusicMight :: Artists :: CELLARFUL OF NOISE )〕 Avsec began work on these recordings during the winter of 1984, at his home in Twinsburg. This solo project was given the moniker Cellarful of Noise, which was based on the feelings Avsec got from doing recording in his basement. The 10 tracks chosen for the album were out of 40-50 songs Avsec had written, and was the first time he performed lead vocals. Avsec soon found himself in a deal with CBS Records to release his own solo album, and since the project had become more serious the Cruiser's former drummer Kevin Valentine got involved in the recording, to help produce the record. In an interview with Avsec in AOR Basement Issue #4 (April 1988), by Ian McIntosh, he revealed how the project came to be released by CBS: ''"I had some spare time and I was really just experimenting in my basement with an eight-track and some midi-equipment. My manager, Mike Belkin, shopped the tapes and CBS put it out, virtually as it was - although it was really just me messing around. Right after it came out, though, I wanted to get more serious about it and make a better sounding record."''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cellarful of Noise Interview )〕 In the Scene Magazine of August 1985, an interview with Avsec, by Rosemary O'Brien, revealed: ''"It's just a little hobby, I always like to be busy doing something. I've got an eight-track studio in my basement, and one day I was talking to Mike Belkin and I told him I'd like to try writing some songs. I didn't really feel like getting involved with another artist or anything like that. I've done a lot of that. I just felt I needed to be by myself. I wanted to be able to write lots of songs without having to try to write certain kinds of songs."'' Speaking of Kevin Valentine, he said: ''"Kevin's pretty talented in that area (). He has always been more than a drummer. He's got good ears and he knows what to play. He thinks of the record as a whole. I'm the artist working on the thing, and then he can come in there, and I really need his input and opinion. And he can co-produce the album, which is what happened. I basically did all the vocals, keys and bass. We weren't exactly dealing with state of the art equipment, but we got into the spirit."'' The other musician to work on the album was Alan Greene, who like Valentine, was part of the band The Innocents at the time. Avsec would later cover "Heartzone", a song from the band's 1985 album ''Livin' in the Street'', on the second Cellarful of Noise album.〔 The album's only single was "I'd Walk the Line", released in America via CBS and in the Netherlands via Epic Records.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cellarful Of Noise - I'd Walk The Line at Discogs )〕 The B-Side was the album track "Something Goin' On with Us".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cellarful Of Noise - I'd Walk The Line (Vinyl) at Discogs )〕 It was released on both 7" and 12" vinyl, with the latter version adding a third track; "Easier Said than Done", also from the album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cellarful Of Noise - I'd Walk The Line (Vinyl) at Discogs )〕 After releasing the eponymous debut album, Avsec said there were no plans for any live gigs to support the album, though a video was put forward as a possible option. This never came to fruition.〔 Avsec and Iris maintained that Donnie Iris and the Cruisers was still their main focus, and that they wanted to continue to release new albums with the band and its new line-up. The band returned to the studio in 1986 and recorded a new album titled Cruise Control; however, a lawsuit with the band's former label MCA resulted in the shelving of that album pending the resolution of the lawsuit. It still remains unreleased. With the HME label going out of business, the band became an unsigned act. Since the band had hit a road block, Avsec began work on the second Cellarful of Noise album, ''Magnificent Obsession''. He approached Iris to help on the project, and he provided lead vocals on a selection of tracks. Released in 1988, the album produced a moderately successful single, "Samantha (What You Gonna Do)", which reached #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 1988.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cellarful of Noise | Biography | AllMusic )〕 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「Cellarful of Noise (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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