Open (Gotthard album)
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Open is the fourth studio album released by the hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Gotthard
Gotthard (band)
Gotthard is a Swiss hard rock/heavy metal band founded in Lugano by Steve Lee and Leo Leoni. Their last eleven albums have all reached number 1 in the Swiss album charts, making them one of the most successful Swiss acts ever....

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Track listing

All songs written by Steve Lee/Leo Leoni/Chris von Rohr except where noted.
  1. "Free and Alive" – 4:23
  2. "Vision" – 3:57 (Steve Lee/Mandy Meyer/Chris von Rohr)
  3. "Got to Be Love" – 4:15
  4. "Let It Rain" – 4:36
  5. "Blackberry Way
    Blackberry Way
    "Blackberry Way" is a single by The Move.Written by Roy Wood and produced by Jimmy Miller, "Blackberry Way" was a bleak counterpoint to the sunny psychedelia of earlier recordings. It nevertheless became the band's most successful single reaching #1 on the UK singles chart. Richard Tandy who would...

    " – 3:40 (Roy Wood
    Roy Wood
    Roy Adrian Wood is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and Wizzard. As a songwriter, he contributed a number of hits to the repertoire of these bands.-Career:Wood...

    )
  6. "You" – 4:20 (Steve Lee/Mandy Meyer/Chris von Rohr)
  7. "Cheat & Hide" – 3:56
  8. "Want You In" – 3:20 (Steve Lee/Mandy Meyer)
  9. "Tell No Lies" – 3:45
  10. "Back to You" – 4:00
  11. "Best Time" – 4:17
  12. "Hey Jimi" – 3:44
  13. "Peace of Mind" – 2:55

Asian version (BMG AVCB-66072) adds the following
  1. "Mad Love" – 2:58
    • Track 5 originally recorded by The Move
      The Move
      The Move, from Birmingham, England, were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s. They scored nine Top 20 UK singles in five years, but were among the most popular British bands not to find any success in the United States....

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Personnel

  • Steve Lee
    Steve Lee (Gotthard singer)
    Steve Lee was a Swiss musician and vocalist, best known as the vocalist of the band Gotthard.-Biography:In 1979, The first public concert at the Aula Magna of Lugano-Trevano with the band named Cromo Steve Lee (August 5, 1963 – October 5, 2010) was a Swiss musician and vocalist, best known as the...

     – vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Leo Leoni – guitar
    Guitar
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    s and vocals
  • Mandy Meyer – guitars
  • Marc Lynn – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Hena Habegger – drums
    Drum kit
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Guests:
  • Andy Pupato – percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Max Lasser – slide guitar
    Slide guitar
    Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...

    , steel guitar
    Steel guitar
    Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...

     and dobro
    Dobro
    Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...

  • H. P. Bruggermann – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

     and Hammond organ
    Hammond organ
    The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...


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