Sandra Dee

成员: Lance Thomason lead vocals Chris Kamyowski lead vocals Gino Buonamici lead guitar, backing vocals Jason Bowman lead guitar, backing vocals Geoff Matson bass Erik Youmans drums Nicky Bernardi drums, percussion SANDRA DEE formed in November of 1989, arriving toward the tail end of the pop-metal party but still believing their particular brand of dark-tinged, metallic-edged hard rock deserved a shot in a market glutted by glam. Vocalist Chris Kamykowski, guitarist Jason Bowman, and bassists Geoff Matson initially formed the nucleus of the band, eventually recruiting drummer Nicky Bernardi through some mutual friends and then rounding out the first incarnation of the band with guitarist Gino Buonamici. About a year later Nick and Chris departed and the band added drummer Erik Youmans and vocalist Lance Thomason to fill the gaps, resulting in the band’s second incarnation. With all slots on their roster filled, the band, still nameless at this point, turned their attention to the process of penning songs with one goal in mind: writing tracks that featured big melodic hooks and sported a serious edge. They wanted to craft the kind of killer tunes craved by fans of the genre, the sort of songs that pleasure the ears of hard rock lovers like sonic candy. While the tracks that sprouted from the band’s creative juices early in their career clung fairly close to the hair-metal formula so prevalent in the day, the band would later churn out heavier, darker, dirtier songs with thick guitar work and a meaner, harder, more mature edge. The band hails “Visions of Pain” as one of their favorite tracks, singling it out as a prime example of how they wanted to sound and what they hoped to accomplish as a hard rock/metal group.