Disturbing the Peace (album)

Disturbing the Peace is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Alcatrazz, and is the only one featuring Steve Vai on guitar. The album remained for 7 weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart, peaking at No. 145.[3]

Disturbing the Peace
Studio album by
Alcatrazz
ReleasedMarch 22, 1985
Recorded1984-1985
StudioCherokee Studios, Hollywood, California,
Skyline Studios, Topanga, California
GenreHeavy metal
Length41:21
LabelCapitol
ProducerEddie Kramer
Alcatrazz chronology
Live Sentence
(1984)		 Disturbing the Peace
(1985)		 Dangerous Games
(1986)
Singles from Disturbing the Peace
  1. "God Blessed Video" / "Wire and Wood"
    Released: 1985 (UK only)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal9/10[2]

The album was re-released in 2001 as Vol.02 of Steve Vai's The Secret Jewel Box and as a remastered, expanded version with a different cover in 2013 on Polish label Metal Mind.[4]

Track listing

All songs by Graham Bonnet and Steve Vai, except where noted.

Side one
  1. "God Blessed Video" - 3:30
  2. "Mercy" (Bonnet, Vai, Jimmy Waldo, Gary Shea, Jan Uvena) - 4:22
  3. "Will You Be Home Tonight" (Bonnet, Vai, Waldo) - 5:03
  4. "Wire and Wood" - 3:29
  5. "Desert Diamond" - 4:20
Side two
  1. "Stripper" - 3:52
  2. "Painted Lover" - 3:23
  3. "Lighter Shade of Green" [instrumental] (Vai) - 0:46
  4. "Sons and Lovers" - 3:37
  5. "Skyfire" - 3:54
  6. "Breaking the Heart of the City" - 4:59
2011 Expanded Edition Disc 2, previously unreleased live album

Recorded October 10, 1984, at Shinjuku Koseinenkin Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan

  1. "Opening" - 2:08
  2. "Breaking the Heart of the City" - 6:18
  3. "Jet to Jet" - 4:38
  4. "Skyfire" - 3:54
  5. "Sons and Lovers" - 3:03
  6. "Hiroshima Mon Amour" - 3:52
  7. "God Blessed Video" - 4:58
  8. "Will You Be Home Tonight" - 5:07
  9. "Kree Nakoorie" - 9:09
  10. "Since You've Been Gone" - 3:20
  11. "Painted Lover" - 3:40
  12. "Suffer Me" - 6:08
  13. "Stripper" - 3:56
  14. "Too Young to Die, Too Drunk to Live" - 4:46
  15. "Koujou No Tsuki (The Moon over the Lake)" - 2:01
  16. "Night Games" - 3:04
  17. "All Night Long" - 8:55

Personnel
Alcatrazz
Production
  • Eddie Kramer - producer, engineer, mixing at Cherokee Studios
  • John Begoshian, Paul Levy - engineers, mixing
  • Brian Leshon, Brian Scheuble, Mark Wilczak, Paul Lani, Ross Stien - assistant engineers
  • George Marino - mastering at Sterling Sound, New York
  • Ron Slenzak - photography

References
  1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Alcatrazz Disturbing the Peace review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2013-04-06.
  2. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  3. "Alcatrazz Chart History". Billboard.com. Billboard. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
  4. "ALCATRAZZ Reissues Due Out With Bonus Material". Bravewords.com. Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
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