Cherry Red / Hear No Evil are releasing tomorrow a digitally remastered 2-CD set featuring UFO albums ‘High Stakes & Dangerous Men‘ and ‘Lights Out In Tokyo‘. UFO’s 13th studio album, 1992’s ‘High Stakes & Dangerous Men’, was their first record in ten years to feature bassist and founder member Pete Way.
Fronted by Phil Mogg, the only band member to feature in every line-up of UFO’s 50 plus year career, the line-up was completed by excellent guitarist Laurence Archer (Grand Slam, Wild Horses) and drummer Clive Edwards (Uli Jon Roth, Bernie Marsden). Although this was the sole UFO album that the guitarist and drummer would appear on, Archer and Edwards had the musical chops and rock pedigree.
Disc 2 here is ‘Lights Out In Tokyo’, recorded on 20th June 1992 at Club Citta in Tokyo, and airing a healthy selection from their latest opus plus a host of classics
‘High Stakes & Dangerous Men’ is one of UFO’s best and one of the most overlooked. So, why has it been forgotten? It’s simply that it spent so long out of print. Luckily Cherry Red saw fit to champion this “lost classic” in 2022 with a long overdue reissue, and by coupling it with the brilliant ‘Lights Out In Tokyo’ live set – another release long AWOL – sought to shine a light on this brilliant but short phase in UFO’s long history.
DISC ONE
High Stakes & Dangerous Men (1992)
1 Borderline
2 Primed For Time
3 She’s The One
4 Ain’t Life Sweet
5 Don’t Want To Lose You
6 Burnin’ Fire
7 Running Up The Highway
8 Back Door Man
9 One Of Those Nights
10 Revolution
11 Love Deadly Love
12 Let The Good Times Roll
DISC TWO
Lights Out In Tokyo (1992)
1 Running Up The Highway
2 Borderline
3 Too Hot To Handle
4 She’s The One
5 Cherry
6 Back Door Man
7 One Of Those Nights
8 Love To Love
9 Only You Can Rock Me
10 Lights Out
11 Doctor Doctor
12 Rock Bottom
13 Shoot Shoot
14 C’mon Everybody