A common tendency is to dismiss the Animals II as a cash-in effort by the surviving members of the original Animals, but the recorded evidence, coupled with their successful touring, indicates that they're more than that. Initially organized in the spring of 1993 by guitarist Hilton Valentine as a vehicle for performing songs by his old group the Animals, the Animals II added original drummer John Steel to its lineup the following year, and the group found success playing throughout England, America, western and northern Europe, and the newly freed countries of the former Soviet bloc.
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