After releasing their debut album Tribe Of Gypsies the previous year, JVC/Victor Entertainment was eager to issue a new product in anticipation of the band's 1997 tour of Japan with former Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson who also used ToG members Roy Z, Eddie Casillas, and David Ingraham as backing musicians in his solo band. As a result, the band came up with this mini-album consisting of 4 original songs and covers of I'm A Man, written by Steve Winwood and Jimmy Miller for the Spencer Davis Group's 1967 album of the same name, and Oh Well, written by Peter Green and first released on Fleetwood Mac's 1969 album Then Play On.
Roy Z and percussionist Doug Van Booven also cut a vastly different arrangement of Oh Well with former David Lee Roth rhythm section, bassist Billy Sheehan and drummer Greg Bissonette, and keyboardist Tommy Mandel for the Rattlesnake Guitar - The Music of Peter Green tribute album, released on Viceroy Records in 1995.
Musical guests on Nothing Lasts Forever include Downset vocalist Rey Oropeza, former Santana member Richard Baker, and keyboardist Greg Shultz (Driver, Joshua).
Track listing
Nothing Lasts Forever (4:29)
Gangland (4:24)
Turn Around (4:31)
I'm A Man (3:29)
Melena (3:57)
Oh Well (3:51)
Notes
Musicians
Roy Z: guitar, background vocals & percussion
Dean Ortega: lead vocals, acoustic guitars & percussion
Edward Casillas: bass guitar, vocals & percussion
Elvis Balladares: timbales & percussion
David Ingraham: drums & percussion
Guest Musicians
Doug Van Booven: congas, percussion & vocals
Richard Baker & Greg Shultz: keyboards
Rey Oropeza: rap on Gangland
Mario Quiroga & Linda Bahia: vocals on Melena
Production Credits Produced by Roy Z Co-produced by Shay Baby & Tribe of Gypsies Engineered by Joe Floyd, Shay Baby, Bill Cooper Mixed by Joe Floyd & Roy Z Recorded at Silver Cloud, Burbank, CA & American Recording, Woodland Hills, CA
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