Heavy Hitters is a 2005

2005 in music

-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...

 cover

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the Michael Schenker Group

Michael Schenker Group

The Michael Schenker Group is a guitar-oriented hard rock band formed in 1979 by former Scorpions and UFO guitarist, Michael Schenker. In 1986, Schenker and vocalist Robin McAuley formed the McAuley Schenker Group, which lasted until 1992. After that, the Michael Schenker Group was reformed.The...

. Originally planned by Schenker

Michael Schenker

Michael Schenker is a German rock guitarist, best known for his tenure in UFO, in addition to his solo band. He first rose to fame as a founding member of the Scorpions, then achieved fame in the mid 1970s as the lead guitar player for UFO. Since leaving UFO in 1978, he has been leading the...

 as a collection of covers featuring himself and a "revolving all-star cast of guest musicians," the album was labeled and marketed as an MSG album, with the result that Schenker received only a flat fee.
In 2007, it was re-released as a Michael Schenker solo album

Solo album

A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...

 under the title Doctor Doctor: The Kulick Sessions and included 4 additional tracks (1-2 and 13-14). The album was re-issued again in 2011 with the title By Invitation Only by the Store For Music label, including the song "Run to the Hills

Run to the Hills

"Run to the Hills" was Iron Maiden's sixth single and the first single from their 1982 album The Number of the Beast. The lyrics clearly discuss the violence visited upon Native Americans in the Nineteenth Century. Several lines appear to address the Sioux Wars, a conflict between the Lakota...

", which Schenker and McAuley had recorded for the Iron Maiden tribute album Numbers from the Beast.

Track listing and instrumental contributions

1. "All Shook Up
   All Shook Up
   "All Shook Up" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music and composed by Otis Blackwell. Elvis Presley's single topped the U.S. Pop chart on April 13, 1957, staying there for eight weeks. It also topped the R&B chart for four weeks, becoming Presley's second single to...
   
   " (Otis Blackwell
   Otis Blackwell
   Otis Blackwell was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist, whose work significantly influenced rock 'n' roll...
   
   ; Elvis Presley
   Elvis Presley
   Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
   
   ) - 4:21 (Elvis Presley
   Elvis Presley
   Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
   
    cover)
   • Joe Lynn Turner
     Joe Lynn Turner
     Joe Lynn Turner , is an American rock singer, known for his works with Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, Deep Purple. From the late 1990s, he continued to perform in a large number of solo albums and other studio projects...
     
      - vocals
     Singing
     Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
     
     
   • Michael Schenker
     Michael Schenker
     Michael Schenker is a German rock guitarist, best known for his tenure in UFO, in addition to his solo band. He first rose to fame as a founding member of the Scorpions, then achieved fame in the mid 1970s as the lead guitar player for UFO. Since leaving UFO in 1978, he has been leading the...
     
      - guitar
     Guitar
     The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
     
     s
   • Bob Kulick
     Bob Kulick
     Bob Kulick is an American guitarist and Grammy Award-winning record producer, best known for his studio work with Kiss. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and is the older brother of former Kiss lead guitarist Bruce Kulick, whom he suggested Kiss hire....
     
      - guitars
   • Jeff Pilson
     Jeff Pilson
     Jeff Pilson is an American bass guitarist, best known for his stint in the heavy metal band Dokken...
     
      - bass
     Bass guitar
     The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
     
     
   • Aynsley Dunbar
     Aynsley Dunbar
     Aynsley Thomas Dunbar is an English drummer. He has worked with some of the top names in rock, including Eric Burdon, John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Ian Hunter, Lou Reed, Jefferson Starship, Jeff Beck, David Bowie, Whitesnake, Sammy Hagar, UFO, and Journey...
     
      - drums
     Drum kit
     A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
     
     
2. "Blood of the Sun" (Felix Pappalardi
   Felix Pappalardi
   Felix A. Pappalardi Jr. was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bass guitarist.- Early life :Pappalardi was born in the Bronx, New York...
   
   ; Gail Collins Pappalardi
   Gail Collins Pappalardi
   -Biography:She was wife of the late Felix Pappalardi. She contributed lyrics to many Mountain songs and co-wrote Cream's "World of Pain" with Pappalardi and "Strange Brew" with Pappalardi and Eric Clapton...
   
   ; Leslie West
   Leslie West
   Leslie West is an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.-Biography:Originally named Leslie Weinstein, West was born in New York City, grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and in East Meadow, Forest Hills and Lawrence. After his parents divorced, he changed his surname to West...
   
   ) - 3:52 (Leslie West
   Leslie West
   Leslie West is an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.-Biography:Originally named Leslie Weinstein, West was born in New York City, grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and in East Meadow, Forest Hills and Lawrence. After his parents divorced, he changed his surname to West...
   
   /Mountain
   Mountain (band)
   Mountain is an American hard rock band that formed in Long Island, New York in 1969. Originally comprising vocalist and guitarist Leslie West, bassist Felix Pappalardi and drummer N. D. Smart, the band broke up in 1972 before reuniting in 1974 and remaining active until today...
   
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   • Leslie West
     Leslie West
     Leslie West is an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.-Biography:Originally named Leslie Weinstein, West was born in New York City, grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and in East Meadow, Forest Hills and Lawrence. After his parents divorced, he changed his surname to West...
     
      - vocals
   • Michael Schenker - guitars
   • Bob Kulick - guitars
   • Rudy Sarzo
     Rudy Sarzo
     Rudy Sarzo is a Cuban American hard rock/heavy metal bassist. Sarzo has played with many well known heavy metal acts including Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Manic Eden, Dio and Blue Öyster Cult.-Early life:...
     
      - bass
   • Simon Wright - drums
3. "Doctor Doctor
   Doctor Doctor (UFO song)
   "Doctor Doctor" is a single released by the British hard rock band UFO. It's the band's first hit single in the UK. The song was written by Michael Schenker and Phil Mogg and is included in UFO's third album Phenomenon of 1974. It was released as a single in Europe, but not in the United Kingdom...
   
   " (Michael Schenker; Phil Mogg
   Phil Mogg
   Phillip John 'Phil' Mogg is a vocalist for the band UFO, which he formed with longtime friends Pete Way and Andy Parker. Mogg wrote the majority of the band's lyrics, with the music being written by Way, Schenker, and later, Raymond, but Schenker left to launch his solo career in 1979...
   
   ) - 6:07 (UFO
   UFO (band)
   UFO are an English heavy metal and hard rock band, who were formed in 1969. UFO became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal...
   
    cover)
   • Jeff Scott Soto
     Jeff Scott Soto
     Jeff Scott Soto is an American rock singer of Puerto Rican descent. He is best known for being the lead singer for the group Talisman from 1990 till the end of Talisman in 2007, the vocalist on Yngwie Malmsteen's first two albums, and for stepping up to the job of lead vocalist for Journey on...
     
      - vocals
   • Michael Schenker - guitars
   • Bob Kulick - guitars
   • Jeremy Rubolino - keyboards
     Keyboard instrument
     A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
     
     , strings
     String instrument
     A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
     
      arrangement
     Arrangement
     The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
     
     s
   • Marco Mendoza
     Marco Mendoza
     Marco Mendoza is an American musician. He spent his formative years living with his grandmother in Tijuana, Mexico. He started playing the guitar at an early age, adopting the bass when he was invited to join a band that needed a player....
     
      - bass
   • Brent Chassen - drums
4. "War Pigs
   War Pigs
   "War Pigs" is a song by British heavy metal band Black Sabbath from their 1970 album Paranoid. It is generally believed that the band wrote the song as a protest against the Vietnam War; however, when Sabbath played "War Pigs" in the mid-'70s, they projected scenes from World War II.As explained in...
   
   " (Bill Ward; Geezer Butler
   Geezer Butler
   Geezer Butler is an English musician and songwriter. Butler is best known as the bassist and lyricist of heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He was also involved in Heaven & Hell from 2006 to 2010.-Career:Butler formed his first band, Rare Breed, with old friend John "Ozzy" Osbourne in the autumn of...
   
   ; Ozzy Osbourne
   Ozzy Osbourne
   John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...
   
   ; Tony Iommi
   Tony Iommi
   Anthony Frank "Tony" Iommi is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the founding member of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and its sole continual member through multiple personnel changes.Iommi is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential guitarists in...
   
   ) - 7:24 (Black Sabbath
   Black Sabbath
   Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...
   
    cover)
   • Tim "Ripper" Owens - vocals
   • Michael Schenker - guitars
   • Bob Kulick - guitars
   • Mike Inez
     Mike Inez
     Mike Inez is a rock musician best known for his role as the bassist of Alice in Chains. Inez has also worked with other popular musical acts such as Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society, and Heart. Inez is of Filipino ancestry.-Career:...
     
      - bass
   • Aynsley Dunbar - drums
5. "I'm Not Talking" (Mose Allison
   Mose Allison
   Mose John Allison, Jr. is an American jazz blues pianist and singer.-Biography:...
   
   ) - 4:10 (Mose Allison cover)
   • Mark Slaughter
     Mark Slaughter
     Mark Allen Slaughter is an American singer and musician. He is one of the founders of hard rock band Slaughter, and he also has worked as a voice actor and composer...
     
      - vocals
   • Michael Schenker - guitars
   • Bob Kulick - guitars
   • Jeff Pilson - bass
   • Aynsley Dunbar - drums
6. "Money
   Money (Pink Floyd song)
   "Money" is the sixth track from English progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Written by bassist Roger Waters, it opened side two of the original vinyl LP, and is the only song on the album to enter the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100...
   
   " (Roger Waters
   Roger Waters
   George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
   
   ) - 6:04 (Pink Floyd
   Pink Floyd
   Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
   
    cover)
   • Tommy Shaw
     Tommy Shaw
     Tommy Roland Shaw is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the rock band Styx. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with the supergroup Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades, and has released several solo albums....
     
      - vocals
   • Michael Schenker - guitars
   • Edgar Winter
     Edgar Winter
     Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician. He is famous for being a multi-instrumentalist. He is a highly skilled keyboardist, saxophonist and percussionist. He often plays an instrument while singing. He was most successful in the 1970s with his band, The Edgar Winter Group, notably with their...
     
      - sax
     Saxophone
     The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
     
     
   • Tony Levin
     Tony Levin
     Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....
     
      - bass
   • Mike Baird - drums
7. "Out in the Fields
   Out in the Fields (song)
   "Out in the Fields" is a single by former Thin Lizzy band members Gary Moore and Phil Lynott, released in 1985. The song is about the religious turmoil in their native Ireland....
   
   " (Gary Moore
   Gary Moore
   Robert William Gary Moore , better known simply as Gary Moore, was a Northern Irish musician from Belfast, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer....
   
   ) - 4:25 (Gary Moore cover)
   • Gary Barden
     Gary Barden
     Gary John Barden is an English singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the Michael Schenker Group....
     
      - vocals
   • Michael Schenker - guitars
   • Bob Kulick - guitars
   • Chuck Wright
     Chuck Wright
     Chuck Wright is an American bassist, best known as the bassist of heavy metal band Quiet Riot. He originally joined Quiet Riot in 1982, performing bass on several tracks for their hit album, Metal Health, as well as contributing backing vocals. He left and rejoined Quiet Riot multiple times,...
     
      - bass
   • Brent Chassen - drums
8. "Hair of the Dog
   Hair of the Dog
   -Bonus track information:The remastered editions include both "Guilty" and "Love Hurts" plus the following bonus tracks:* Some editions include also "Holy Roller" and "Holy Roller "...
   
   " (Dan McCafferty
   Dan McCafferty
   Dan McCafferty is the lead singer for the Scottish hard rock band, Nazareth. Under the influence of artists such as Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Otis Redding, McCafferty became one of the founding members of Nazareth in 1968...
   
   ; Darrell Sweet
   Darrell Sweet (musician)
   Darrell Antony Sweet was a drummer for the Scottish hard rock band, Nazareth...
   
   ; Manny Charlton
   Manny Charlton
   Manny Charlton is notable for being a founding member of and the lead guitarist for the Scottish hard rock band, Nazareth from 1968 to 1990.-Charlton with Nazareth:...
   
   ; Pete Agnew
   Pete Agnew
   Pete Agnew is the bassist for the Scottish rock band, Nazareth.Agnew has been with the band since its founding in 1968.-References:...
   
   ) - 4:11 (Nazareth
   Nazareth (band)
   Nazareth is a Scottish hard rock band, founded in 1968, that had several hits in the UK in the early 1970s, and established an international audience with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog. Perhaps their best-known hit single was a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts", in 1975...
   
    cover)
   • Paul Di'Anno
     Paul Di'Anno
     Paul Andrews , better known as Paul Di'Anno, is an English singer best known as the first vocalist to record with the iconic heavy metal band Iron Maiden, from 1978 to 1981....
     
      - vocals
   • Michael Schenker - guitars
   • Bob Kulick - guitars
   • Phil Soussan
     Phil Soussan
     Phil Soussan is a bass guitarist, songwriter and producer who has gained notoriety as a member of a host of famed rock and roll bands, including some who have been fronted by such vocalists as Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, Vince Neil, Johnny Hallyday and John Waite, as well as a membership in Beggars...
     
      - bass
   • Vinnie Appice - drums
9. "I Don't Live Today" (Jimi Hendrix
   Jimi Hendrix
   James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
   
   ) - 3:54 (The Jimi Hendrix Experience
   The Jimi Hendrix Experience
   The Jimi Hendrix Experience were an English-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which...
   
    cover)
   • Sebastian Bach
     Sebastian Bach
     Sebastian Bach is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987 to 1996. Since his departure from Skid Row, he has had many television roles, acted within Broadway plays, and leads a successful solo career.-Early life:Bach was born Sebastian...
     
      - vocals
   • Michael Schenker - guitars
   • Bob Kulick - guitars
   • Tony Franklin
     Tony Franklin (musician)
     Anthony James "Tony" Franklin is an English rock musician, best known for his work on the fretless bass guitar with Roy Harper, The Firm, Jimmy Page, John Sykes' Blue Murder, Whitesnake and briefly, with Quiet Riot.-Fretless bass:...
     
      - bass
   • Eric Singer
     Eric Singer
     Eric Doyle Mensinger , better known as Eric Singer, is a hard rock and heavy metal drummer for the rock band Kiss and formerly for singer Alice Cooper...
     
      - drums
10. "Politician" (Jack Bruce
    Jack Bruce
    John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...
    
    ; Pete Brown
    Pete Brown
    Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet and lyricist.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores and formed a film...
    
    ) - 5:10 (Cream
    Cream (band)
    Cream were a 1960s British rock supergroup consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker...
    
     cover)
    • Jeff Pilson - vocals, bass
    • Michael Schenker - guitars
    • Brent Chassen - drums

Track Listing from Doctor Doctor: The Kulick Sessions (2007 re-release)

1. "Save Yourself" (Robin McAuley
   Robin McAuley
   Robin McAuley is an Irish rock vocalist known mostly for his work in McAuley Schenker Group and before that Grand Prix recording 2 albums...
   
   ; Michael Schenker) - 5:55 (with Robin McAuley)
2. "Finding My Way
   Finding My Way
   Finding My Way is the first song on Rush's album Rush. It is five minutes and seven seconds long and in 4/4 time. The song was written by singer/bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson...
   
   " (Alex Lifeson
   Alex Lifeson
   Aleksandar Živojinović, OC, better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a second generation Serbian-Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968, Lifeson founded the band that would become Rush with friend, drummer John Rutsey...
   
   ; Geddy Lee
   Geddy Lee
   Gary Lee Weinrib, OC, better known as Geddy Lee , is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush...
   
   ) - 5:19 (Rush
   Rush (band)
   Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...
   
    cover)
   • Sebastian Bach - vocals
   • Michael Schenker - guitars
   • Bob Kulick - guitars
   • Tony Franklin - bass
   • Eric Singer - drums
3. "All Shook Up"
4. "Blood of the Sun"
5. "Doctor Doctor"
6. "War Pigs"
7. "I'm Not Talking"
8. "Money"
9. "Out in the Fields"
10. "Hair of the Dog"
11. "I Don't Live Today"
12. "Politician"
13. "Doctor Doctor" - 6:16 (instrumental
    Instrumental
    An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....
    
     version)
14. "War Pigs" - 7:25 (instrumental version)

Track Listing from By Invitation Only (2011 re-release)

1. "Run to the Hills
   Run to the Hills
   "Run to the Hills" was Iron Maiden's sixth single and the first single from their 1982 album The Number of the Beast. The lyrics clearly discuss the violence visited upon Native Americans in the Nineteenth Century. Several lines appear to address the Sioux Wars, a conflict between the Lakota...
   
   " (Steve Harris
   Steve Harris (musician)
   Stephen Percy "Steve" Harris is an English musician and songwriter, known as the bassist, occasional keyboardist, backing vocalist and primary songwriter of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, which he founded in 1975...
   
   ) - 4:05 (Iron Maiden cover)
   • Robin McAuley – lead vocals
   • Michael Schenker – lead guitar
   • Pete Fletcher – rhythm guitar
   • Tony Franklin – bass
   • Brian Tichy
     Brian Tichy
     Brian Tichy is a drummer, guitar player, vocalist and songwriter. He is currently the drummer with Whitesnake. Previously he was the drummer for Foreigner from 2009 until 2010, when he was replaced by Jason Sutter. Tichy began playing drums at age eight and started playing guitar at age 12...
     
      – drums
2. "Save Yourself"
3. "Finding My Way"
4. "All Shook Up"
5. "Blood of the Sun"
6. "Doctor Doctor"
7. "War Pigs"
8. "I'm Not Talking"
9. "Money"
10. "Out in the Fields"
11. "Hair of the Dog"
12. "I Don't Live Today"
13. "Politician"

Credits

• Bob Kulick - producer, arrangements, mixing
• Brett Chassen - producer, engineer, mixing
• Jeremy Rubolino - keyboards, strings production, digital editing
• Bruce Bouillet
  Bruce Bouillet
  Bruce "Einstein" Bouillet is a guitarist who has played in the bands Racer X, The Scream, DC-10, and Epidemic.-Racer X:Bouillet played on Racer X's Second Heat, Live Extreme - Vol.I, and Live Extreme - Vol. II. After leaving the band, he joined with former Angora singer John Corabi, and his former...
  
  , Bob Held, Billy Sherwood
  Billy Sherwood
  William "Billy" Wyman Sherwood is a musician, record producer, and engineer.-Family:Sherwood comes from a musical family which includes his father Bobby Sherwood, who was an actor, musician, and big band leader, his mother Phyllis, a singer and drummer, and brother Michael, a keyboardist and...
  
  - engineers
• Kris Solem - mastering
• Brian Perera - executive producer