TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox.As Russell Miller of Connellsville joined thousands of others Saturday in watching World War II training planes modified to look like Japanese planes simulate — but in the skies above the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe — the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, he wondered what it was like to be there that fateful day.For Miller, watching the Tora! Aerial show at the Shop ’n Save Westmoreland County Airshow, hit very close to home.“I wonder what he (Miller’s father) would have thought” of the simulated attack played out over the rolling hills of Westmoreland County.That’s because his late father was a radioman aboard a destroyer at Pearl Harbor the day the Japanese launched the surprise attack, destroying or damaging almost 20 U.S. Ships and killing more than 2,400 Americans. The attack that plunged the United States into a war already waging in Europe and Asia.The Tora!
Surprise Attack (1989) Wild America (1992) Revolution Day (1994) Wild America is the second album released by the hard rock band Tora Tora.
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Performance by eight planes of the Commemorative Air Force of Morton, Ill., included a pyrotechnic display of explosions meant to mimic the bombing by Japanese planes. It was accompanied by a narration explaining the attack. The Japanese word Tora translates to tiger in English.
In the attack on Pearl Harbor, the word was used by to signify that the attack had been a surprise, according to the website Japan Today.Going to the popular airshow and seeing the planes and helicopters, like the Black Hawk helicopter parked along the airport’s tarmac, “brings back a lot of memories,” the 72-year-old Miller said.Miller was in the Marine Corps from 1966 to 1970, serving “all over Vietnam” and during the massive Tet Offensive that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong allies launched in January 1968.“I used to fly in a Huey helicopter. I was a door gunner,” Miller said.The Pennsylvania National Guard’s Black Hawk helicopter, based at the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport, drew a considerable crowd. Airshow patrons were able to climb into the helicopter and be strapped into seats and go into the cockpit.Watching over the crowd at the Black Hawk helicopter was Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Stephen Pernelli of Latrobe.“It’s a great workhorse.
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Tracklist A1Love's A BitchA228 DaysA3Hard TimesA4GuiltyA5Phantom RiderB1Walkin' ShoesB2Riverside DriveB3She;s Good She's BadB4One For The RoadB5Being ThereCompanies, etc. Distributed By–A&M Records Of Canada Limited.
Published By–Photon Music. Published By–Sneak Attack Music. Produced For–Ardent Productions Inc. Recorded At–Ardent Studios.
Mastered At–MasterdiskCredits. A&R–Bryan Huttenhower. Co-producer, Engineer–Joe Hardy,Paul Ebersold. Management–Loud & Proud Mgt.
2-show reconnection with fans pumps up '80s hard-rock heroes
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Tora Tora's 20th anniversary concert starts at 10 tonight at Newby's, 539 S. Highland. Fiddleworms and Shaved also perform.
Tickets are $15; available at the door and online at newbysmemphis.com. For more information, call 452-8408.
When Memphis hard-rock heroes Tora Tora finally called it quits in the mid '90s, the band went out not with a bang, but with a whimper.
After two albums of soulful metal, the group was in the middle of recording its third record when it was hit by a double whammy: the commercial rise of grunge rock, which pushed Tora Tora's brand of bluesy, glammy rock down the charts, and the departure of the person who had been their champion at A&M Records. When A&M was sold to Universal Music Group, Tora Tora was dropped.
'When we went out for the last time in 1994, we didn't do a big send-off,' says the quartet's lead singer, Anthony Corder. 'We didn't realize it was going to be the last time we were going to play. We were thinking we were going to stick around for a while, hammering it out on the road.'
Tonight at Newby's on the Highland Strip, the members of Tora Tora will get to remedy that somewhat with the first of two reunion concerts this summer planned to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the band's major label deal.
In the late '80s and early '90s, Tora Tora was one of the biggest bands on the local scene. Its 1989 debut album, Surprise Attack, sold more than 200,000 and spawned the hit 'Walkin' Shoes' as well as such fondly remembered tracks as 'Phantom Rider.' The group's 1992 followup, Wild America, was a more ambitious, varied and mature record, featuring touches like the collaboration with the Memphis Horns, 'Dead Man's Hand.'
Wild America was less successful than its predecessor. The band's third record, Revolution Day, was never released. (As a treat for fans, Tora Tora has pressed a limited edition run of its debut EP To Rock To Roll with bonus tracks for sale at Saturday's show.)
After their record deal fell apart, the members of Tora Tora started to drift apart, with band members Patrick Francis (bass), Keith Douglas (guitar), and John Patterson (drums) all eventually settling into jobs outside of music.
Corder stuck with it, though. He formed a musical partnership with guitarist Hal McCormack (Survivor, Black Oak Arkansas), performing as a duo and as the roots-rock outfit Homemade Flavor. The fruit of their 10-year collaboration can be heard on the recently released compilation CD, Spiritual Warfare, available at CDFuse.com.
Corder also earned his master's degree from the University of Memphis and recently moved to Nashville, where he works as creative director at a music publishing company.
'When I moved up here and started working on the corporate side, I pretty much put my guitar down,' he says about his largely gig-less life. 'I love it. I'm on the creative side, working with songwriters every day.'
Over the years, the members of Tora Tora flirted many times with the idea of reuniting, managing only one impromptu gig, a fundraiser for an ill ex-crew member, at the Blue Monkey in Midtown the night before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The chance for a full-blown reunion came with the phenomenal success of Rocklahoma, the gathering of '80s metal bands in Pryor Creek, Okla., which drew 100,000 fans its first time out last year. With the event expanded this year to five days, Rocklahoma organizers contacted Tora Tora about playing the July12-15 festival.
'This was the perfect opportunity,' says Corder. 'We just wanted to give something back to the people we hadn't seen in a long time, the fans.'
Saturday's show at Newby's is both a shakedown run and a chance to reconnect with the friends and fans who helped Tora Tora get on the national stage. Corder has been driving down from Nashville periodically to rehearse with his old bandmates.
'I saw the guys last weekend, and soon as I walked into the room I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, I feel like I'm 18,' says Corder, whose once high, screeching voice is the one instrument that has mellowed. 'They sound like they're 18 playing through all their original equipment, but I definitely sound like someone in the 30s. So it sounds a little different, but basically it's the same. It's got that chemistry thing.'
With everyone in the band pursuing his own career and building his own family, Corder, himself the father of three, says not to expect the full-blown return of Tora Tora.
'We're not trying to do some kind of comeback or anything like that,' he says. 'This is really just a celebration of the time we got to spend together.'