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WRITERS

Tommy Shaw,

Jack Blades,

Ted Nugent

RELEASED

June 10, 1990

(US), January

1991 (UK)

LABEL

Warner Bros.

How Jack Blades helped craft a

smash hit for supergroup Damn

Yankees, without being labelled a

“pussy” by bandmate Ted Nugent.

HOW

I WROTE...

HIGH

ENOUGH

Rise by REVOLUTION SAINTS, featuring

Jack Blades, is out now on Frontiers.