Here's a really nice blast from the past!!! Sequel came out of Portland, Oregan and had several radio hits in the region during the early to mid 80's. Most famed musician here is bassist Todd Jensen (Harlow, Hardline, David Lee Roth, Ozzy, Steve Perry, Alice Cooper) as this was his first shot at the fame and glory. Guitarist Greg Georgeson currently plays with Tommy Tutone's traveling band and the other members of the band were David Wall (guitar/vocals) and drummer Grant Roholt.

The band toured with bands such as Journey, Sammy Hagar, Bryan Adams, The Tubes, Triumph, Aldo Nova, Icehouse and Greg Kihn, but disbanded already back in 1985. The selftitled debut came in 1982 and "Daylight Fright" was supposed to be the follow-up release. The cover art was completed as well (see pic above), when the band called it quits and the music has been in the vault ever since. Sequel has kind of reunited at least they get together to play a show every few year. In early 2003 they also began the process of listening to and releasing these 20 year old masters. There's no need to worry about this being some crappy, old, demos as the sound is very much "hi-tech" 'ala 1983 (of course). The music is freakin' fun stuff in the tradition of Honeymoon Suite (the debut), Franke & The Knockouts, Billy Satellite, or even Rick Springfield. Tracks like opener and title track "Daylight Fright", "I'm Losin'", "Over You Now", "It's Not Me", and "Pull The Trigger", are all very enjoyable in that innocent 80's style. I'd recommend you to check 'em out at their homsite where you can also get hold of thier CD (or try them at CDbaby.com).
www.sequelrocks.com

Daylight Fright est composé des sept titres initialement enregistrés pour l'album en 1983, complétés par trois morceaux live (sans public mais avec une qualité de son proche des pistes studio) datant de la même période. Plusieurs styles se côtoient sur ce disque. On commence par un titre très rentre-dedans avec l'excellent Daylight Fright, qui me rappelle le bon vieux hard rock "canuck" façon CONEY HATCH en légèrement plus soft, un style qu'on retrouve du reste sur plusieurs titres. S'ensuit un I'm Losing plus propre à vous coller le frisson avec son style pas si éloigné du pomp rock d'un WHITE SISTER. Le grand moment de cet album ! Daylight Fright commence donc sur les chapeaux de roue pour ensuite reprendre son souffle sur des titres un peu plus soft, mais toujours riches en guitare (un jeu souvent éblouissant de feeling comme sur The Jealous Type), comme sur les sympathiques Over You Now ou That Kinda Girl.

En replaçant ce disque dans son contexte, il est fort à parier qu'il aurait fait son chemin dans les charts, et que Sequel aurait sans doute laissé plus de traces dans le rock des 80's. Son leader Greg Georgeson aurait en tout cas mérité une toute autre carrière au vu de son travail sur ce disque !

Cet album est disponible sur le site officiel de Sequel, ainsi que sur cdbaby.com.

Highlights : I'm Losin', Daylight Fright, It's Not Me, Over You Now...

Tracklist :
01. Daylight Fright
02. I'm Losin'
03. Over You Now
04. It's Not Me
05. Pull The Trigger
06. The Jealous Type
07. Untouchable
08. You Love You
09. That Kinda Girl
10. She's Loaded

Review From Powerplay Magazine In The UK

I'm going to keep that old school AOR theme going for our next band Sequel. Hailing from Portland, America - Sequel originally released their debut S/T album way back in 1982. Their new CD is a collection of songs originally recorded in 1983 as the follow up to the debut. The album is titled "Daylight Fright" and the songs are highly reminiscent of that time period when bands like Ratt, Dokken and Great White had all just released independent product. When you first hear Sequel you will wonder how they ever got by-passed by the major labels as this is as good as those aforementioned bands in their early years. Their sound is a combination of the likes of Dokken, Black 'N' Blue and Great White with songs like "Over You Now", "Daylight Fright", "Untouchable" and "It's Not Me" being the pick of an impressive bunch. They still manage to get together and play the occasional show and if you want to see more on this great band check out www.sequelrocks.com

Review From Melodic.net In Sweden

Once in a while you come over some undiscovered gems. Sequel is one of those undiscovered acts that I´ve never heard of and has recorded a brilliant 80s sounding AOR album.<BR>
If we take it from the start and go back to the early 80s when Greg Georgeson, Todd Jensen, Grant Roholt and David Wall started Sequel. The band released their debut album in 1982 and was on their way to record a follow-up to the debut album in 1983. They had recorded 6 songs and the follow-up was to be titled "Daylight Fright" and the cover art was nearly complete. But that album was never released and the band called it quits shortly thereafter.<BR>
In 1995 they got back together for the first time in nearly a decade and played some shows every year.
So in 2003 they sat down and listened to the stuff that never was released and they found them to be remarkably well preserved and a worthy of a CD release.
This is pure 80s AOR with high quality and the sound of this CD is very good. If you´re into acts like Franke & The Knockouts, Santers, Triumph and early Survivor this is a gem you can´t miss.
Just listen to the opening track "Daylight Fright", an AOR/Rocker with big hooklines a´la Santers. The chorus has great background vocals that reminds of the"High And Dry" era with Def Leppard.<BR>
"I´m Losin`" is pure Survivor style with some classic Franke Sullivan sounding guitarriffs.
If you´re missing Santers then put on "The Jealous Type", this straight ahead rocker is sounding so much Santers and it´s done with class.
Many of the songs has Rik Emmett sounding guitars and therefor the Triumph sound on many tracks.
Franke & Knockout fans will love "It´s Not Me", this is a fantastic up-tempo AOR smasher with brilliant hooks and melodies. This is pure AOR heaven.<BR>
The first 7 songs are studio recordings and rest is recorded live but the sound is surprisingly very good.
Every song on "Daylight Fright" is high quality 80s AOR and I have to say that it´s a treat to put on a record like this once in a while and just relax to good AOR.
It has taken over 20 years for these songs to be heard and I´m glad that it´s been re-issued and if you miss some of the glory days of the 80s then check out this gem. Go to their website WWW.SEQUELROCKS.COM.

In 1983 Sequel were one of Portland's best live bands and almost signed and had their album released with Elektra's Asylum records. The band then split but have recently got back together. Sequel was an early vehicle for bassist Todd Jensen who went to enjoy success with the likes of Alice Cooper, David Lee Roth, Marc Ferrari, Hardline, Doro Pesch etc... Sequel also features singer/guitarist Greg Georgeson, drummer Grant Roholt and guitarist David Wall.

'Daylight Fright' is a very catchy melodic rocker reminding me of Shooting Star, this song actually charted in the top ten Northwest radio charts. 'I'm Losin' is also very catchy and melodic, this reminds me of bands like Tommy Shaw and Giuffria and is a fantastic song with a glorious melodic chorus and fantastic rocking guitars.
'Over You Now' is more simple catchy melodic rock, this one reminds me of Survivor, Europe and Frankie And The Knockouts and is again a very cool song which you will sing along to from the start.

'It's Not Me' is pure melodic rock, whilst the excellent 'Pull The Trigger' is melodic heaven with a lovely chorus which reminds me of bands like Autograph, early Bon Jovi, Shooting Star, Coney Hatch etc.. The song is very catchy, AOR and melodic rock fans will love this song which is an undiscovered classic. 'The Jealous Type' is also very catchy with strong guitars and reminds me of Robert Tepper. 'Untouchable' is also really good, this song is more of an arena based rocker and reminds me of Survivor and the chorus is really hot. 'You Love You' is also an arena style rocker, this one is more simple, the chorus is a typical melodic style chorus and this reminds me once again of Shooting Star.

'That Kinda Girl' is next this, is more poppy but still melodic and reminds me say Survivor and Bryan Adams, Last up is 'She's Loaded' a burning rocker to end the album with, this is one of the albums best songs and is very catchy and could very well have ended rolling up the charts had it came out as it's a very good song again like Survivor, Autograph and also Henry Lee Summer.

This is a great reissue well worth checking out!