Mark Reale
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Mark Reale is an American heavy metal guitarist best known for being the only constant original member in the band Riot
Mark was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955. He grew up listening to The Beatles
, Eric Clapton
, Michael Schenker
, Gary Moore
, Ritchie Blackmore
and lists George Harrison
as one of his greatest influences. After attending concerts by Ronnie Montrose
, Rick Derringer
and Edgar Winter
he decided to become a rock guitarist, forming the band Riot in 1975 who are still active today. Many music magazines and critics have called him one of the most underrated heavy metal guitarists ever.
Mark Reale has been the principal songwriter and main creative force behind Riot starting with the band's 1977 debut album Rock City
. The group's most acclaimed album was 1981's seminal Fire Down Under
, the last of three studio albums to feature original vocalist Guy Speranza. Other notable records include Restless Breed
(1982), the band's comeback album, Thundersteel
(1988), and its follow-up, The Privilege of Power
(1990). Riot's most recent album was Army of One
in 2006. Riot has toured all around the world and been a support act for major acts such as Kiss
, AC/DC
, Sammy Hagar
, Molly Hatchet
, and Rush
while maintaining a particularly strong fanbase in Japan
and Continental Europe
.
After Riot's temporary breakup following the Born In America
(1983) release, Reale formed a short-lived outfit named Narita with former members of S.A.Slayer
, including future Riot bassist Don Van Stavern. The band recorded a sole demo in 1984 before calling it quits. Reale decided to re-activate Riot which led to a new record deal with CBS Records
and the Thundersteel
album in 1988. In 1998, Reale co-founded the group Westworld
with vocalist Tony Harnell
of TNT
fame. Westworld released three studio albums and one live disc between 1999 and 2002.
Riot (band)
Riot is an American heavy metal band founded in New York City in 1975 by guitarist Mark Reale. Reaching a peak in popularity in the early 80s, the band has continued a long-running successful career....
Mark was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955. He grew up listening to The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
, Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
, Michael Schenker
Michael Schenker
Michael Schenker is a German rock guitarist, best known for his tenure in UFO, in addition to his solo band. He first rose to fame as a founding member of the Scorpions, then achieved fame in the mid 1970s as the lead guitar player for UFO. Since leaving UFO in 1978, he has been leading the...
, Gary Moore
Gary Moore
Robert William Gary Moore , better known simply as Gary Moore, was a Northern Irish musician from Belfast, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer....
, Ritchie Blackmore
Ritchie Blackmore
Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was known as one of the first guitarists to fuse Classical music elements with rock. He fronted his own band Rainbow after leaving Deep Purple where he was unhappy because his favourite musical style wasn't adequately...
and lists George Harrison
George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...
as one of his greatest influences. After attending concerts by Ronnie Montrose
Ronnie Montrose
Ronnie Montrose, is an Amercian rock guitarist who has headed his own bands as well as performing with a variety of musicians, including Sammy Hagar, Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison, The Beau Brummels, Boz Scaggs, Beaver & Krause, Gary Wright, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, Dan Hartman, Edgar...
, Rick Derringer
Rick Derringer
Rick Derringer is an American guitarist, vocalist, and entertainer.-1960s:When he was seventeen years old, his band The McCoys recorded "Hang on Sloopy" in the summer of 1965, which became the number one song in America before "Yesterday" by The Beatles knocked it out of the top spot. The song was...
and Edgar Winter
Edgar Winter
Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician. He is famous for being a multi-instrumentalist. He is a highly skilled keyboardist, saxophonist and percussionist. He often plays an instrument while singing. He was most successful in the 1970s with his band, The Edgar Winter Group, notably with their...
he decided to become a rock guitarist, forming the band Riot in 1975 who are still active today. Many music magazines and critics have called him one of the most underrated heavy metal guitarists ever.
Mark Reale has been the principal songwriter and main creative force behind Riot starting with the band's 1977 debut album Rock City
Rock City (Riot album)
Rock City is the name of the first studio album by New York City based heavy metal band Riot released in November 1977.It was first released independently by Fire Sign Records, run by the band's producers, Billy Arnell and Steve Loeb, who also owned the Greene Street Recording Studio, before the...
. The group's most acclaimed album was 1981's seminal Fire Down Under
Fire Down Under
Fire Down Under is the third album by New York City heavy metal band Riot, released in 1981. The song "Flashbacks" is dedicated to Neal Kay, the British DJ who supported heavy metal in the UK during the New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
, the last of three studio albums to feature original vocalist Guy Speranza. Other notable records include Restless Breed
Restless Breed
Restless Breed is the fourth album by heavy metal band Riot, and their first with vocalist Rhett Forrester, released in 1982. "When I Was Young" is an Eric Burdon and the Animals cover....
(1982), the band's comeback album, Thundersteel
Thundersteel
Thundersteel is Riot's sixth album, and their first with singer Tony Moore, released after coming back from a period of inactivity in the mid-80s. It was re-issued in 2003 by Collectables Records with slightly amended artwork...
(1988), and its follow-up, The Privilege of Power
The Privilege of Power
The Privilege of Power is Riot's seventh album, released in 1990. It was more experimental than their previous work, being an attempt at a concept album and also including a horn section on some of the tracks. "Racing with the Devil on a Spanish Highway" is an Al Di Meola cover. "Killer" is about...
(1990). Riot's most recent album was Army of One
Army of One (album)
Army of One is the thirteenth studio album by Riot. It was released on July 12, 2006. According to the official website, the album was recorded in 2003 and Mike DiMeo was effectively out of the band by the time it was released.-Track listing:...
in 2006. Riot has toured all around the world and been a support act for major acts such as Kiss
KISS (band)
Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...
, AC/DC
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
, Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar
Sam Roy "Sammy" Hagar , also known as The Red Rocker, is an American rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Also sings Country Music....
, Molly Hatchet
Molly Hatchet
Molly Hatchet is an American southern rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1975. They are widely known for their hit song "Flirtin' with Disaster" from the album of the same title. The band, founded by Dave Hlubek and Steve Holland, took its name from a prostitute who allegedly mutilated...
, and Rush
Rush (band)
Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...
while maintaining a particularly strong fanbase in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and Continental Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
After Riot's temporary breakup following the Born In America
Born in America
Born In America is Riot's fifth album, released in 1983. After getting dropped by Elektra Records the band signed with Canadian indie label Quality Records for what was to be the last record with Rhett Forrester on vocals...
(1983) release, Reale formed a short-lived outfit named Narita with former members of S.A.Slayer
S.A.Slayer
S.A.SLAYER, originally known simply as SLAYER, was an American heavy metal band formed in San Antonio, Texas in 1981 by the former Blitzkrieg guitar duo Robert "Bob Dog" Catlin and Art Villareal, bassist Don Van Stavern, drummer Dave McClain, and vocalist Chris Cronk...
, including future Riot bassist Don Van Stavern. The band recorded a sole demo in 1984 before calling it quits. Reale decided to re-activate Riot which led to a new record deal with CBS Records
CBS Records
CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...
and the Thundersteel
Thundersteel
Thundersteel is Riot's sixth album, and their first with singer Tony Moore, released after coming back from a period of inactivity in the mid-80s. It was re-issued in 2003 by Collectables Records with slightly amended artwork...
album in 1988. In 1998, Reale co-founded the group Westworld
Westworld (American band)
Westworld was an American hard rock band formed in 1998 by vocalist Tony Harnell and guitarist Mark Reale. They were later joined by bassist Bruno Ravel and drummer John O'Reilly and released their first album in 1999.-Band members:*Tony Harnell – vocals...
with vocalist Tony Harnell
Tony Harnell
Antony "Tony" Harnell is an American hard rock singer, best known for his work with the Norwegian hard rock band TNT....
of TNT
TNT (band)
TNT is a Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band from Trondheim, formed in 1982. The band has released twelve studio albums, three EPs and two live albums while going through numerous line-up changes since its formation...
fame. Westworld released three studio albums and one live disc between 1999 and 2002.
Discography
- Rock CityRock City (Riot album)Rock City is the name of the first studio album by New York City based heavy metal band Riot released in November 1977.It was first released independently by Fire Sign Records, run by the band's producers, Billy Arnell and Steve Loeb, who also owned the Greene Street Recording Studio, before the...
(1977) - NaritaNarita (album)Narita is the second album by the New York City heavy metal band Riot.This album was actually released only in Japan and available only as an import in the USA until it was finally released in the states about 5 months later in October, 1979. It became out of print in the late 80's and was only...
(1979) - Fire Down UnderFire Down UnderFire Down Under is the third album by New York City heavy metal band Riot, released in 1981. The song "Flashbacks" is dedicated to Neal Kay, the British DJ who supported heavy metal in the UK during the New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
(1981) - Restless BreedRestless BreedRestless Breed is the fourth album by heavy metal band Riot, and their first with vocalist Rhett Forrester, released in 1982. "When I Was Young" is an Eric Burdon and the Animals cover....
(1982) - Born In AmericaBorn in AmericaBorn In America is Riot's fifth album, released in 1983. After getting dropped by Elektra Records the band signed with Canadian indie label Quality Records for what was to be the last record with Rhett Forrester on vocals...
(1983) - ThundersteelThundersteelThundersteel is Riot's sixth album, and their first with singer Tony Moore, released after coming back from a period of inactivity in the mid-80s. It was re-issued in 2003 by Collectables Records with slightly amended artwork...
(1988) - The Privilege of PowerThe Privilege of PowerThe Privilege of Power is Riot's seventh album, released in 1990. It was more experimental than their previous work, being an attempt at a concept album and also including a horn section on some of the tracks. "Racing with the Devil on a Spanish Highway" is an Al Di Meola cover. "Killer" is about...
(1990) - NightbreakerNightbreakerNightbreaker is Riot's eighth studio album. It was the band's first with vocalist Mike DiMeo as well as the studio debut with guitarist Mike Flyntz and bassist Pete Perez....
(1993) - The Brethren of the Long House (1996)
- IrishmoreInishmore (album)Inishmore is Riot's tenth studio album. It was released on January 27, 1998. The album is based on conceptual sagas of Celtic & Irish myths.-Track listing:#"Black Water" - 2:42#"Angel Eyes" - 4:27...
(1998) - Shine OnShine On (Riot album)Shine On is Riot's third live album, released in 1998 by Metal Blade Records.-Track listing:#"Black Water" - 1:47#"Angel Eyes" - 4:26#"Soldier" - 4:51#"The Man" - 4:05#"Kings Are Falling" - 4:33#"Kings Are Falling" - 4:19#"Swords and Tequila" - 3:24...
Live In Japan (1998) - Sons of SocietySons of SocietySons of Society is Riot's eleventh studio album. It was released on September 7, 1999.-Track listing:#"Snake Charmer" - 1:04#"On the Wings of Life" - 4:36#"Sons of Society" - 4:26...
(1999) - Through the StormThrough the Storm (Riot album)Through the Storm is the twelfth studio album by Riot. It was released on August 26, 2002.-Track listing:#"Turn the Tables" - 5:21#"Lost Inside This World" - 4:44...
(2002) - Army of OneArmy of One (album)Army of One is the thirteenth studio album by Riot. It was released on July 12, 2006. According to the official website, the album was recorded in 2003 and Mike DiMeo was effectively out of the band by the time it was released.-Track listing:...
(2006) - Immortal Soul (2011)
with WESTWORLD
- WestworldWestworld (Westworld album)Westworld is the debut album by the hard rock group Westworld.-Track listing:All songs written by Tony Harnell/Mark Reale.# "Illusions" – 5:07# "I Belong" – 2:57# "Pigeon Hole" – 4:07# "Heart Song" – 5:29# "Little Voices" – 4:29...
(1999) - SkinSkin (Westworld album)-Track listing:All songs written by Tony Harnell/Mark Reale except where noted.# "Skin" – 4:40# "Ice Queen" – 5:07# "Uneasy" – 5:18# "Limbo" – 6:55# "Black Shadow Symphony" – 5:22# "Tomorrow's Yesterday" – 3:47# "Out There" – 4:54...
(2000) - Live... In the FleshLive... In the FleshLive... In the Flesh is the first live album by the hard rock group Westworld. The album was recorded on May 19th, 2001 at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, New York.-Track listing:All songs written by Tony Harnell/Mark Reale except where noted....
(2001) - CyberdreamsCyberdreams (album)Cyberdreams is the third studio album by the hard rock group Westworld.-Track listing:# "Cyberdreamer" – 5:50# "When I Come Home" – 4:49...
(2002)