Live for Tomorrow

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Live for Tomorrow
Marco Mendoza Live For Tomorrow front cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 6th 2007
Genre Hard rock
Length49:31
Label Frontiers Records
Producer Richie Kotzen

Live for Tomorrow is the first solo album by American hard rock bassist Marco Mendoza. It was produced and co-written by Richie Kotzen, who also recorded most of the guitar tracks and made several vocal appearances. The album also features many other famous rock musicians, such as Steve Lukather of Toto, Doug Aldrich and Tommy Aldridge of Whitesnake, Ted Nugent, Brian Tichy and others.

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

Marco Mendoza musician, songwriter

Marco Mendoza is an American rock musician who is the bass guitarist for The Dead Daisies and the reformed lineup of Thin Lizzy, and a former member of the Thin Lizzy spin-off Black Star Riders.

Richie Kotzen American guitarist, singer, and songwriter

Richard Dale "Richie" Kotzen, Jr. is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. Kotzen has a prolific solo career, with a back catalogue of more than twenty album releases, was a member of the glam-hard rock band Poison from 1991-1993, Mr. Big from 1999-2002, and since 2012 has been the frontman of the band The Winery Dogs. Kotzen was signed to California-based Shrapnel Records from 1989 until 1997.

Track listing

  1. "Not For Me"
  2. "Live For Tomorrow"
  3. "Lettin' Go"
  4. "Look Out For The Boys"
  5. "I Want You"
  6. "Your Touch"
  7. "Let The Sun Shine"
  8. "You Got Me"
  9. "In My Face"
  10. "Broken"
  11. "Still In Me"
  12. "Dance With Me"

Personnel

Steve Lukather guitarist

Steven Lee Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer, best known as a founding member of Toto. A prolific session musician, Lukather has recorded guitar tracks for more than 1,500 albums representing a broad array of artists and genres. He has also contributed to albums and hit singles as a songwriter, arranger and producer. Lukather was a prominent contributor to several studio albums by Michael Jackson, including Thriller, the best-selling album of all time. Lukather has released seven solo albums, the latest of which, Transition, was released in January 2013.

Doug Aldrich American musician

Doug Aldrich is a Los Angeles-based hard rock guitarist. He founded the band Burning Rain with Keith St. John in 1998 and has played previously with the bands Whitesnake, Dio, Lion, Hurricane, House of Lords, Bad Moon Rising and Revolution Saints. He is currently in the band The Dead Daisies. He has also released several solo albums. In 2015, Doug was touring as guitar player of former Deep Purple bassist and vocalist Glenn Hughes band. In early 2016 it was announced that he would be replacing Richard Fortus as guitarist of The Dead Daisies, as Fortus is leaving that band to perform with the Guns N' Roses reunion.

Ted Nugent American rock musician

Theodore Anthony Nugent is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and political activist. Nugent initially gained fame as the lead guitarist of the Amboy Dukes, a band formed in 1963 that played psychedelic rock and hard rock. After playing with the Amboy Dukes, he embarked on a solo career.

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