Soldier's Gun

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Soldier's Gun
Stage Dolls - Soldiers Gun.jpg
Studio album by
Released1985
RecordedFall 1984, Nidaros Studios, Trondheim, Norway
Genre Hard rock
Length34:00 min
Label PolyGram, 824 553-2
Producer Bjørn Nessjø
Stage Dolls chronology
Soldier's Gun
(1985)
Commandos
(1986)

Soldier's Gun is the first studio album by the Norwegian hard rock band Stage Dolls. The album was recorded in the fall of 1984 at Nidaros Studios in Trondheim, Norway with the same producer, Bjørn Nessjø, and engineer, Rune Nordahl, as fellow Trondheim hard-rockers TNT. The album was released in the early winter of 1985 after a successful nationwide tour in Norway supporting the same TNT. Soldier's Gun barely made it onto the Norwegian album chart (VG) for one week as number 20. The album sold in excess of 20,000 copies in Norway.

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Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with keyboards.

Stage Dolls Norwegian band

Stage Dolls is a Norwegian hard rock band based in Trondheim, Norway. In 1982, Erlend Antonsen and Terje Storli played at local clubs in and around Trondheim. In need of a guitarist they called on Torstein Flakne, who by then had finished playing in The Kids. Throughout the summer and fall of 1982 the newly formed band started rehearsing and playing shows in the region. The trio took the name Stage Dolls in January 1983. The first album, titled Soldier's Gun, was released in the early winter of 1985 after a successful nationwide tour in Norway supporting the Norwegian band TNT.

Track listing

  1. "Queen of Hearts" – 3:09
  2. "Soldier's Gun" – 4:04
  3. "Ten Tons" – 3:34
  4. "While the Bombs are Falling" – 2:30
  5. "Tonight" – 4:03
  6. "Left Foot Boogie" – 3:27
  7. "Way of the World" – 2:32
  8. "Red Rose" – 2:21
  9. "Photograph" – 4:40
  10. "Shout" – 3:41

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