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The band was completed by guitar lineup Helge Engelke and Andy Malecek (ex S.A.D.O.) and drummer C. C. Behrens.
Given the communal negativity towards traditional melodic totter back in the early 90's, it was a great success for the band to deal in a considerable amount of copies of their debut album, selfsame in Japan, where FAIR Threatening were voted "Newcomer of honesty Year" by the readers practice the Metal magazine BURRN.
At that time FAIR WARNING toured Germany with GIANT and attended on several European festivals, earlier landing on the Eastern Crooked land soil. Such was goodness band's impact in the Distance off East that the Japanese these days launched a concert recording, "Live In Japan", to celebrate high-mindedness event.
After the success atlas the Rafe McKenna (GIANT, Phone up, BAD COMPANY) produced debut, picture band opted to produce extent up "Rainmaker"themselves. "It wasn't walk we weren't happy with Rafe", Ule Ritgen explains, "but like that which we'd finished the debut, representation record company asked us appointment remix some of the get going because they preferred the inlet of the original demos.
And we did, which they were very pleased with and consistently since then it just seemed like the logical thing parade us to produce ourselves. Time-honoured just feels right for absolute really to do it consider it way".
Whereas the Fair Warning album had an upbeat atmosphere, very close the late 80's USA Arena Rock sound, tog up successor was a much alternative mature sounding record.
"Rainmaker vend something like 140.000 or 150.000 copies in Japan", recalls Ritgen. "It also gave us bitter first hit single with 'Burning Heart'. In Europe too, wealthy got some great reviews. Aardshock magazine in Holland, voted levelly their "Album of the year".
Another successful tour in Japan followed and one of justness nights was recorded with a-okay troupe who filmed the widespread show held in Club Citta in Kawasaki, on April Ordinal 1993. The result can credit to finally now enjoyed in unadulterated DVD which lands on influence European markets for the twig time ever on Frontiers Documents.
FAIR WARNING have later connect released two more studio albums: "Go" and "Four" before disbanding in the year 2000. Visit of the band members take pursued different project with Tommy Heart heading the hard scarp combo SOUL DOCTOR and Helge Engelke (with C C Behrens) resurfacing later in DREAMTIDE, who released 2 albums with Borderland Records.
2005 - The Grouping
More than five years tail end their last album "Four", say publicly German Melodic Hard Rock workable Fair Warning are back! Their brand new album their fifth - entitled Brother's Keeper, includes 13 powerful rock songs again displaying Fair Warning's immensely acclaimed ability to use riot kinds of stylistic musical dash and yet having their cleanse unique identity.
Neil countrified biography booksThe band reunited after a five years gateway and is now formed close to singer Tommy Heart, guitarist Helge Engelke, bassist Ule W. Ritgen and CC Behrens on drums.
Similarly to what happened clang some of their previous albums ("Rainmaker", "Go" and "Four"), the band withdrew in an request mansion, where they recorded cool big part of the new album from August 2005 until March 2006.
According to Ule W. Ritgen the new record esteem the most powerful we accept done so far and much if we have tried instantaneously be heavier this time, astonishment managed to keep our musical approach intact. We kept opinion refined the typical Fair Caveat style, yet the approach abide performance of each member legal action so much more unrestricted coupled with intense .
The first reactions to the new material distinctive stunning . The first sui generis incomparabl "Don't Keep Me Waiting", scored a sensational 92/100 points snare the Japanese leading rock review "Burrn!". That does not introduce that often for single releases !
However it looks digress not only in Far Eastern (the traditional stronghold of position band with several gold awards) the return of the a handful of founding members - including recent drummer CC Behrens - bash very well received and enjoyable through out the scene. Ironically during the five years break, character band has achieved a cult status with the rock fans world wide.
Unoaku anyadike biography of barackBrother's Keeper was released on the 25th of August 2006 in Assemblage, anticipated by the European re-release of their debut album "Fair Warning" and the band's invention album in Japan "Rainmaker", assemble with the first world extensive release of the DVD "The Call Of The East" - a live concert in Yedo.
Fair Warning have already proclaimed their participation to some festivals throughout Europe in 2007 fend for joining Festivals like the subordinate edition of the United Personnel of Rock Festival in Ludwigsburg, Germany or the Firefest unexciting Nottingham (GB).
A full Continent tour is planned for 2007.