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JMG escreveu:Esse é mas é um Michael Bolton

Sem dúvida mas menos consagrado...



Dos tempos áureos dele (Bolton)...

E mais uma,

JOHN KILZER - Memory In The Making - 1988 - USA

Diferença = 16 anitos... (malhas distintas)

ELEVENER - FM/AOR - Suécia



ELEVENER - When Kaleidoscopes collide - 2008





ELEVENER - Symmetry In Motion - 2011



Current line-up:
Magnus Lindqvist : Guitar, Back Vocals
Johan Bergquist : Vocals, Bass, Back Vocals, Keyboard
Anton Ross : Drums
Pierre Wensberg : Vocals

SATROX - Heaven Sent - SUIÇA - 1990

Last line-up:
Peter Grob : Bass
Peter Mauerhofer : Guitar
Danni Zimmermann : Drums
Dany Schärz : Keyboard
Werner Schweizer : Vocals

MARCHELLO (USA) - Destiny - 1989

Last line-up:
Gary Bivona : Back Vocals, Keyboard
John Miceli : Drums
Nick DiMichino : Bass, Back Vocals
Gene Marchello : Vocals, Guitar, Back Vocals

CONEY HATCH - CANADA

Coney Hatch is a Canadian hard rock band who released 3 albums in the 1980s. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band consisted of vocalist and guitarist Carl Dixon who would also go on to play with April Wine and a Burton Cummings-less Guess Who for several years, as well as touring solo and releasing at least two solo albums; vocalist and bassist Andy Curran who had his own solo album featuring the semi-hits, "License to Love" and "No Tattoos"; guitarist Steve Shelski who has written several instrumentals for TSN; and drummer Dave 'Thumper' Ketchum. They released their first album in 1982. Ketchum left the band in 1983, and was replaced by Barry Connors who formerly drummed with Toronto. In April, 2008 Carl Dixon was very seriously injured in a car accident in Australia. On August 5, 2010 the original Coney Hatch line up including the now recovered Carl Dixon played a reunion show at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. It was the first performance from the original line up since 1993. A further live date was scheduled for the Firefest rock festival in Nottingham, England on 23 October 2011.





Uma das minhas Top 20...

Estes senhores vão estar presentes no Firefest deste ano (2011).

Desculpem mas esta mulher dá cabo de mim...

ALL I KNOW - BÉLGICA



ALL I KNOW - Vanity Kills - 2010

All I Know are: Ward Dufraimont (Lead Vocals/Guitar), Michaël Neyt (Guitar/Vocals), Amély Mondy (Bass).

All I Know’s sound sees them mix up the best influences of Bryan Adams, Van Stephenson, REO Speedwagon and Bon Jovi.

Mais uma morte a lamentar.

R.I.P. JANI LANE - DEAD AT 47:
Jani Lane -- former lead singer of the rock band Warrant has died. The popular singer's body was discovered at the Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills, CA. So far, no official cause of death has been released.

Jani had a long history of addiction, but was always revered for his songwriting talent and his death is yet another body blow to the rock community. He is gone way to early and his fans will long morn his passing. R.I.P Jani.

NOVELLA - USA

Last line-up:
Jonathan Pagano : Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
Derek : Guitar
Jon Spinola : Bass, Back Vocals
Adam Gibson : Drums, Back Vocals



NOVELLA - One Big Sky - 1991







NOVELLA - A Liquid Earth - 1992

Este fora da onda, mas um bom tema...

Uma das muitas "bombas" dentro do género lançadas este ano.



WORK OF ART - In Progress (Frontiers Records) - CD - 2011

WORK OF ART - Suécia:

Lars Safsund - Vocals
Robert Sall - Guitars
Herman Furin - Drums

Como ultimamente ando a ouvir muito AOR, mas não conheço alguns dos grandes álbuns, andei a pesquisar e vi esta lista da revista Kerrang! (que vale o que vale...):

The Best AOR Albums Of All Time
(as per the readers of Kerrang! magazine back on October 29,
1988)

1. Escape - Journey
2. Everybodys Crazy - Michael Bolton
3. Night Of The Crime - Icon
4. Native Sons - Strangeways
5. Raised On Radio - Journey
6. White Sister - White Sister
7. Heart - Heart
8. Fashion By Passion - White Sister
9. Vital Signs - Survivor
10. Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
11. Michael Bolton - Michael Bolton
12. In For The Count - Balance
13. Pride - White Lion
14. Dawn Patrol - Night Ranger
=. 4 - Foreigner
15. The Hunger - Michael Bolton
16. Reckless - Bryan Adams
17. Indiscreet - FM
18. Bad Animals - Heart
19. Boston - Boston
20. Frontiers - Journey
21. Seven Wishes - Night Ranger
= Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
22. Only Child - Only Child
= Freight Train Heart - Jimmy Barnes
= A Matter Of Attitude - Fate
23. Spys - Spys
24. Heartbreak - Sabu
25. Crimes In Mind - Streets
26. Hughes Thrall - Hughes Thrall
27. The Big Prize - Honeymoon Suite
= Excess All Areas - Shy
28. Touch - Touch
29. Hysteria - Def Leppard
30. Sinful - Angel
= Aviator - Aviator
31. Under Lock And Key - Dokken
32. Silk+Steel - Giuffria
= When Seconds Count - Survivor
33. IV - Toto
34. The Grand Illusion - Styx
= A Diamond Is A Hard Rock - Legs Diamond
= So Fired Up - LeRoux
= Midnight Madness - Night Ranger
= Wired Up - Jeff Paris
35. Dreamboat Annie - Heart
=. On A Storyteller's Night - Magnum
36. Fireworks - Bonfire
= Rumors - Fleetwood Mac
37. Subject - Aldo Nova
= Ignition - John Waite
= Giuffria - Giuffria
38. Friction - Coney Hatch
= Pieces Of Eight - Styx
= Isolation - Toto
39. The Final Countdown - Europe
40. Welcome To The Real World - Mr. Mister
= Alpha - Asia
= Shaft Of Light - Airraces

Tão ai albuns memoráveis.
E eu vou ter que conhecer tudo o que ai está

O que me supreende mais é o Michael Bolton ter 3 álbuns no top 15.

Dessa lista descobri duas bandas que estou a gostar particularmente, que são os Icon e os Touch. Ainda não conheço nem um terço delas, mas não deixa de ser curioso os Foreigner terem apenas o álbum "4" na lista quando qualquer um dos três primeiros são, na minha opinião, bem superiores a esse. Loverboy também é um nome que estranhamente não está na lista, no entanto as Heart tem 3 álbuns.

Estranho é também, para mim, verificar que bandas como Mr. Mister ou Fleetwood Mac serem consideradas AOR.

Enfim, Fica a curiosidade.

Mais um álbum certo no Top Ten deste ano:



TOBY HITCHCOCK - Mercury´s Down (Frontiers Records) - 2011

Projecto nascido da parceria entre Toby Hitccock (vocalista dos Pride Of Lions) e o produtor/compositor
Erik Martensson (W.E.T/ECLIPSE,...).



e já agora uma com PRIDE OF LIONS (em conjunto com Jim Peterik - Survivor).

Já não escutava isto à uns tempitos...