McQueen Street - McQueen Street (1991) {1992, Japan 1st Press}

McQueen Street was a hard rock band from Montgomery, Alabama, consisting of Derek Welsh on lead vocals, Richard Hatcher on bass, Michael Powers on guitar, and Derek's brother Chris Welsh on drums. The band was originally known as "Klass", which formed in 1987 and played mostly covers and was well-known on the southeast rock music club circuit in the late 80's. The band changed its name to McQueen Street and signed a record deal with SBK Records, a division of EMI in 1990. They got their name from the street where the recording studio was located in their hometown. The band's debut album, titled "McQueen Street" was produced by Tom Werman with additional production on one track from Steve Stevens of Billy Idol's band, who also played guitar on the album. Jeff Scott Soto, formerly of Journey also contributed to vocals. Two songs, "Money" and "My Religion" had music videos that were played on MTV's Headbangers Ball. With the grunge movement of the early 1990s most bands whose music was based on 1980s-style rock were no longer popular. The radio stations and MTV stopped playing their style of music, causing the second album produced by Tony Platt to not be released. Derek Welsh self-released the second McQueen Street album in 2003 after acquiring the rights from EMI, and his personal web site offered all the albums he's been associated.