WAR & PEACE – The Flesh And Blood Sessions 2013

That sneaky Jeff Pilson!  He didn’t even mention this album coming out when I interviewed him for this site a few weeks ago!  Guess the man can add “secret keeper” to his list of accomplishments, because it seems like he has done just about everything else!

Whether you know him as a member of Dokken, Dio, MSG, Lynch/Pilson, Foreigner, Adler, T&N, or any of the other half-dozen lesser known projects he has worked with, it is most likely you DO know Jeff Pilson if you are at all into melodic hard rock from the 80’s to the present.  This album features the material Pilson wrote with Michael Diamond (Legs Diamond) for what would have been the Flesh And Blood album, had that band ever released an album under that name.  As Pilson explains in the liner notes, the first five tracks here were the original Flesh And Blood demo from 1989, and things looked promising for the band.  However, Hansen would leave in 1990 and the band lost the rights to the name Flesh And Blood.  So, rather than sit and stew, Pilson and Company switched monickers to War & Peace, recorded with various versions of the line-up of musicians listed above, and released The Flesh And Blood Sessions.