Is it just me or does Les Holroyd...

...sound like Peter Cetera, particularly on the later BJH albums. Some songs on Face to Face even remind of me some 80's Chicago songs, partly because of Holroyd's vocal style!

Joolz wrote: Oh, and who's Peter Cetera?

    


CHICAGO's (now former) lead singer, who sang all those classic cheezefest
anthems like "if you leave me now", "you're the inspiration" et cetera

i see CHICAGO in a way sharing it's fate with REO speedwagon – both bands
started out as promising and highly individual hard rockin' and hard workin'
bands (CHICAGO with an almost big band feel due to its brass section) that
later succumbed to the mighty dollar and recorded some awful tunes for
"the demography", so to speak.

and, before everybody starts mouthing off, both bands have NO place in
progarchives.com! anyone care to disagree?

I don't quite hear it, although they do both have high voices, and both have turned into big time cheezemeisters in their old age. Holroyd now claims that Toto is one of his prime musical influences...er, Les, your career began 10 years before theirs!

Oh definitely I agree. This was the direction Les Holroyd seemingly wanted BJH to go in, as more or less every song he did in this era sounds like pure sop. He had some excellent moments- 'Echoes and Shadows', 'Victims Of Circumstance' and 'Kiev', but almost unanimously the weakest songs on the BJH albums for me are Holroyd's. I actually find it quite hard to accept it's the same man singing on the glorious 70s albums- his voice changed a lot in the 80s to a Bee Gees/Peter Cetera like sound.

Well, as Les is a confessed Fan of Chicago there's surely the influence to be heard, not only in the singing ( the "I can no longer see"-part in "I've got a Feeling" ows a lot to a Chicago-song, too ! ), but i don't think of Peter Cetera when I hear Les SINGING. By the way, I'd like to hear him SINGING again...