In the late '80s, Mike Tramp's band White Lion was at the top of hard rock charts. They sold millions of records and toured the world several times. However, with the explosion of the grunge scene, Tramp found his glory days numbered. After the breakup of White Lion, he formed Freak of Nature, who put out two albums to no critical acclaim. Tramp came back though with three solo albums, Capricorn (1998), Remembering White Lion (2001) and Recovering the wasted years (2002). More to life than this (spring 2003) is his fourth solo album, produced by Mike and recorded and mixed by Flemming Rassmussen.

Steve Lukather: "Mike is an old friend from the OLD days, end of 80's in LA. Nice cat, great voice and it took me less than 1/2 hour to do 2 songs. Nice old time rock and roll stuff. Great cat! I was in Denmark and Ulf from Ulftone, an old friend, called and asked if I would come in a blow a solo for Mike. I had some time so I said yes. I hope it is going well for him. " Lukather plays guitar on I won't let go and the yet unreleased bonus song Do it while you can.

Mike Tramp: "By the time we were doing the recording sessions in Kopenhagen (Denmark), Toto played in Kopenhagen too. We got the idea to call Steve Lukather and just ask him to play on the album. I knew him from the White Lion era, and we didn't met during the last ten years. But Luke immediately said "okay, let's do it." He only asked us to catch him at the hotel and bring him to the studio. He picked up my guitar and he played two of the coolest solos. One made it to the album and we'll use the other one for a future bonus track."

1 More to life than this (Tramp) 2 Lay down my life for you (Tramp) 3 Don't want to say goodnight (Tramp) 4 Nothing at all (Tramp) 5 Day by day (Tramp, Korade) 6 Live for today (Tramp/Steffensen) 7 Back from the dead (Tramp, Dangaard) 8 I won't let go (Tramp) 9 Goodbye song (Tramp) 10 The good, the sad and the ugly (Tramp) Musicians: Steve Lukather: guitar on (8) and Do it while you can Mike Tramp: guitar, vocals Kasper Foss: drums Nicholas Findsen: bass Dan Hemmer: Hammond B-3 Kasper Damgaard: guitar Oliver Steffensen:guitar Todd Wolfe: main guitar parts Songs I left behind

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