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Atmospheric guitar treatments a textured Iggy / Bowie sound.

Dance Of The Siren, has flute like synths that play on top of a syncopated spacial sound. Strings elevate the music for this dance of death by the deadly Siren.

“BOGALUSA” is a tough late 60's R&B’s influenced rock track. "Heading for the Land of a thousand dances."

Funkasaurus has a pounding bass and drum drive, while keyboards and synths blast insanely around the beat to increase your heart rate.

"You Don't Know" is track 6 on the remastered album, Fatal Slide. It has a mid-tempo Stones/Clash rocker, Bowie 80's keyboard, driving drum and bass, with Mick Jagger style vocals. To read the album liner notes visit > https://tarockmusic.com/1982-fs-liner-notes/

Rick Shaffer’s track, Like Fire, is a late night classic full of haunting emotion that’s a poignant overdose tale that harkens back to the psychedelic undertow of Jim Morrison and The Doors. The song contains some guitar work stylings like the work Shaffer did with The Reds on the Band of the Hand soundtrack. His guitar work has mysterious, taut and razor sharp phrasing and, not to be ignored, his vocal is a dark soulful rasp with an undiminished singers’ poetic passion.

Under The Nova has some Enoesque funk, with groove oriented bass and drums, while synths and organ sweep in and out.

Killing You is track #8 on The Reds® remastered album, STRONGER SILENCE.

All funk all the time, while bass and drums drive the groove and sweeping synths add the melody,

Bruce Cohen's single release, "BIG GUY RETURNS," has a has a great 1970’s Herbie Hancock Head Hunters funk groove, with ambient textures.

This instrumental by Rick Shaffer is a Link Wray / Yardbirds homage . . . let it rock.

Modern Lie is a reflective cautionary approach to deception, with a 1970’s British hard rock glam style production.

Hard, heavy groove oriented track.

"Going Down Slow" is track 2 on Rick Shaffer's album Outside Of Time. The song is late 60’s early 70’s late night hard rock pile driver.

So Tired is track 4 on Rick Shaffer's sixth solo album, Jitterbug Shake. The song is a reflective freewheeling approach to one’s morality, and media overload.

Influenced by the British Rocker style of the 1960's, HARD TIMES SIXTY, is another Rick Shaffer instrumental single.

With the single release of Link, Rick Shaffer, founding member of The Reds®, has now focused his talent beyond his garage rock solo albums, to boost the garage rock genre with a Link Wray, and swamp blues inspired instrumental.

Some Say is track 2 on Rick Shaffer’s 2014 album release, MISADVENTURE, and it has him back in the garage again, with some of his best songs, performance and production to date. The ragged edges, room echo, distortion, great hooks, and underlying menace are right in place for some compelling tension and adrenaline drenched garage blues.

Written and produced by Shaffer, STACKED DECK continues the "sonic minimalist” blueprint of his previous solo albums. The sound combines hard fuzz guitar driven garage-blues, a blues edged two step, lazy insistent rolling beat, new colors in the harmonica and spoons style percussion, along with an unadorned and unaffected blues narrative.

One More Heartache is about living in the present with your convictions, not being swayed by money or media, with the aspect of sometimes having the truth suffer, through no fault of your own, but it’s still the truth. It has a 1960’s R&B rocker feel, with melodic guitar hooks, and repetitive verses/chorus.

Funky Gojira is for all the Godzilla hipsters. But, this time, the Big Guy’s theme is a funky Eno exploration, with bouncing bass plugs, along with stomping funk drums.

Buy And Sell has a reverb soaked guitar hook, oversaturated riffs, driving Maureen Tucker drum beat, and a subdued confessional lead vocal, with some nice mid-60’s cool background vocals. This song has one of the more catchy hooks on the album, and is a true candidate for a single. This song is track #2 on Rick Shaffer's solo album, Hidden Charms.

The heart of Necessary Illusion's sound is delivered in the opening track, ”Lucky Day,” where bad luck and fate take an altered metallic stomp, thumping drum percussion, with a dark bluesy vocal, framed in slashing guitar leads. Track #2 on Rick Shaffer's solo album, Necessary Illusion.

Rick Shaffer and Bruce Cohen, a/k/a The Reds®, composed and performed the score of "MANHUNTER." The soundtrack album was released in limited quantities in 1986 on MCA Records (#6182), but the film's failure at the box office prevented a release on the then new compact disc format. Soon afterwards, the 12" record and audio cassette were deleted making them highly sought after by fans of the film. Currently, the film is a cult classic and can be viewed almost daily on various cable channels all over the world, while the soundtrack has become a huge collectors item. The original 1986 release was on MCA Record, and re-released on Intrada Records in 2010.

Trip and hop to And How's heavy groove with the melodic strings of the Angelo Badalamenti orchestra. This song is track #8 on Bruce Cohen's solo album, ONE BC.

DIGGIN' IT is track #3 on The Reds® album, EARLY NOTHING. FOLLOW THE REDS® on TWITTER at twitter.com/TarockMusic, or join Rick Shaffer on Facebook at, facebook.com/TheRedsMusic.

Wild has a Rolling Stones loose feel rocker, mid tempo with 60's style percussion and very Jagger like vocal. Track is alternative sounding and would be good in action, drama, horror and thriller. Wild is track #1 on The Reds® album, Fugitives From The Laughing House.

CRY TOMORROW is track #8 on The Reds® album, CRY TOMORROW.

In 1984, The Reds®, consisting of founding members Rick Shaffer and Bruce Cohen, found themselves in a situation, not unfamiliar. Constant adversity, but with this change, the loss of drummer, Tommy Geddes, and bass player, Jim Peters. The evidence is on their five song extended play album, Shake Appeal, named after the track on the Raw Power album, recorded by one of their musical influences, Iggy Pop. The results are best exemplified on tracks "Laughing," "Waiting For You" and the closer "Beat Away" which has a booming Joy Division feel propelled by Shaffer's haunting vocals and disturbing lyrics. Re-released in 2013 worldwide by Warner Bros., and in 2014 by Tarock Music in the USA. It’s time to listen with new ears.

Hard drum heavy modern rocker, driving bass, hard guitar, possessed vocal and electronic keyboards in an Eno style. Track #1 on The Reds® album, Fatal Slide.

KILLING YOU is track #8 on The Reds® album, STRONGER SILENCE. In February 2020 Tarock Music released a remaster of Stronger Silence. Go to the track on Tarock Music's SoundCloud profile to listen.

Track #1 on The Reds® debut album entitled, The Reds.