Band:	707
Album:	Mega Force
Style:	Hard rock, Rock
Release date:	1982

01. Mega Force
02. Can't Hold Back
03. Get To You
04. Out Of The Dark
05. Hell Or High Water
06. We Will Last
07. Hello Girl
08. Write Again
09. No Better Feeling
10. Heartbeat
11. Eagle One [bonus]
12. Mega Stomp [bonus]
13. Mega Force 2 [bonus]
14. Eagle One 2 [bonus]
15. The Float [bonus]
16. Mega Force [live] [bonus]

Damn, you can't imagine the "flashback" I just got, a real car-chase from an old movie from the eighties, in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Bad quality on the movie, and the movie isn't better either, but the music, the typical "mainstream" Hardrock from those years, damn that was times that, times that never will return, sadly.
But luckily the music labels is re-releasing old goodies from those years, this is one of those.

707 (Weird name, huh?) or at least the precursor, were formed back in the seventies, by Kevin Russel and Jim McClarty.
Later on Jim was jamming with other musicians in a ramshackle house in LA, one of those, his long-time friend Phil Bryant.
Then Kevin invited Jim to the set of a movie named "Skateboard", where he was playing with some locals, one of those, Duke McFadden, and the three felt from the start that this could be something.
They started as a trio but felt really soon that one more was needed, and mostly as fun, Kevin said to Phil (the long-time friend to Jim), "When are you going to get serious and join us?", and believe it or not, Phil joined.
Within months, 707 became the largest-drawing local band in Hollywood, but labels didn't want to sign them, because of the growing punk scene.
But after a while they got signed, with Casablanca and released their debut, that climbed the charts, but unfortunately everything wasn't ok with the band, and the decision to fire Duke was hard but needed.
A keyboarded was hired because of the popularity of the band, but with Duke gone (Main songwriter), Jim and Kevin wrote the material for the second album, entitled "The Second Album", that was totally different from the first one.
Third album was entitled "The Bridge" and was perhaps the most creative and industrious album.
But things didn't go as plan, Polygram purchased Casablanca and 707 was kicked out, but signed later with Broadwalk Records, that was operated by people from old Casablanca.
But the album "The Bridge" was never released.
And then, summer 82, this piece of music was released, "Megaforce" became the last released album (for all time?) by 707, and is now re-released for the first time on CD, with 5 bonus tracks.

So, here I have it, first time on CD, I wonder what the guys think of that, if only took 22 years.
But anyway, here it is, and welcome good old memories. It's hard not to think of the LA that we have seen tons of times on those old movies, and I shouldn't be surprised if some 707 songs have been played in some of those old movies, because this is exactly what the radio was playing back there, in the old L.A.

As you can understand, this is quite simple and straight 80ties Hardrock, radio influenced, but then it was released in a time when Hardrock were very popular in the stated too, not like today.
The simpleness in the music is sometimes alike what AC/DC (And actually there is a song here with the same name as a AC/DC song, "Hell of High Water") have been doing since the beginning of the seventies, but with a big touch of the sound that the bands in the states had in the eighties.
So I think this is something you really should check out of you're a fan of the old American Hardrock scene, this is surely a pearl.
But for me, it's working best as a piece of plastic that waking up the nostalgic part of me, nothing wrong with that, of course not.

Check Out: "Hello Girl" & "Can't Hold Back".