Sterling Cooke
Have Guitar… Will Rock
1989 (no label)
Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, USA
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Say What
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A Thousand Points of Light
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Little Wing
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Savoy Shuffle
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Red Sky at Night
This EP was released four years before Above and Beyond, so it makes you wonder if there are any other recordings out there. Like Above and Beyond, this is instrumental heavy metal with more attention paid to crafting songs than your typical instrumental metal. This also came four years after Cooke released Force This as Sterling Cooke Force, which Cooke has described as not well done. This tape was well done if you ask me. Not much information on this one – so I don’t know if Cooke recorded all the instruments here, or if others joined in.
Missing Information: Did anyone else play on this?
Christian Tape Underground 
Tamaqua is a small town that came up when coal mining was a big deal in PA. I vaguely remember pen-pal-ing with him in the 80s, and he has no trail on current social media other than an AllMusicGuide critique. There’s a cover of “Tomorrow Never Knows” on Youtube but I’m not sure if it’s the same guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOphhKOhWQ
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