Artist: Santers
Label: Krescendo Records
UPC: 5060176680203
Genre: Hard Rock
Release Date: 2009

Recorded in December 1980, the debut Santers album, Shot Down In Flames went down to tape virtually live with almost no embellishment at all other than a few vocal and guitar overdubs. The entire recording process took little more than a week from beginning to end. With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to see that the album is all the better for the fact that it wasn't laboured over unnecessarily, it has an uncluttered and vibrant feel that is both energizing and exciting. Released in Canada in September 1981, the album was bolstered by the shooting of a video for You Turn Me On that was instrumental in getting the band attention overseas, especially in Europe where they were to spend so much of their time over the next few years. Before this, the band found themselves opening for Ozzy Osbourne on the Canadian leg of his Diary Of A Madman tour. It was all starting to happen for Santers