MR. BIG (US)

The band members decided it was time to close their chapter after their original drummer and co-founder Pat Torpey lost his battle with Parkinson's disease in 2018. The tour, aptly titled "The BIG Finish", will have one of its stops in Prague.

MR. BIG, virtuoso "pop metal" singer-songwriters. The seeds for the formation of the band were sown when the exceptional bassist Billy Sheenan - often called "the bass Eddie Van Hallen" - left David LeeRoth's solo band in 1988. Shortly thereafter, he began putting together a new lineup consisting of former Racer X guitarist Paul Gilbert, drummer Pat Torpey and singer Eric Martin, who had released a couple of obscure solo records in the mid-'80s. By 1989, the newly formed quartet MR. BIG signed a record deal with Atlantic and released their eponymous debut the same year. Although the album found a warm reception among musicians, it failed to cross over to mainstream rock audiences in America; overseas in Japan, however, MR. BIG was an immediate success.

On their second album, 1991's "Lean into It", which included the melodic psychedelic-rock track "Green Tinted Sixties Mind" and a pair of ballads that became major singles: the number one hit "To Be with You" and the popular "Just Take My Heart", the quartet greatly expanded their horizons. And now they'll make a stop with these 90s hits at the Roxy club in Prague.