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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 17:47
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:


P.S. Nice to see another BOC fan on here.


Here's another one! BOC are one of my all-time favourite bands (as my avatar makes it abundantly clear), and even their worst album is highly listenable. They are also here in Prog Related, and I was the one who added them a long time ago.
Fire of Unknown Origin is my favorite. It's a dream/goal of mine to sing "Psychic Wars" on stage some day. :)
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Points: 8717 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:56
Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Also, check the sole album by Jail entitled You Can Help Me-another brilliant example of prog meets AOR, featuring former Triumvirat members Helmut Koellen and Jurgen Fritz, Jaki Liebezeit from Can, and Roland Schaeffer from Brainstorm, among others. And the band's single, Julie.
Just checked the single, thanks, interesting, towards mainly straight hard rock (interesting guitars though) - that must be a proper rarity I guess
Hey, man, thanks for checking and taking an interest.Thumbs Up The album tracks are a bit more AOR in quite a few cases. A rarity, indeed!
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Points: 9226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:54
Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Also, check the sole album by Jail entitled You Can Help Me-another brilliant example of prog meets AOR, featuring former Triumvirat members Helmut Koellen and Jurgen Fritz, Jaki Liebezeit from Can, and Roland Schaeffer from Brainstorm, among others. And the band's single, Julie.
Just checked the single, thanks, interesting, towards mainly straight hard rock (interesting guitars though) - that must be a proper rarity I guess
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:47
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Maybe a little Mars Hollow?



Mars Hollow were excellent, and we were there at ROSfest when that video was taken. Unfortunately, they disbanded among a lot of bitterness - which is very sad, as we had become friends with the whole band. I have been unable to listen to their albums after that. Luckily Kerry Chicoine and Jerry Beller bounced back with Heliopolis, whose debut album is highly recommended.
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Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:


PS. Raff is the ultimate BOC fan around here, just don't get her started...
Just don't say I didn't tell you...LOL
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Points: 66582 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:45
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

P.S. Nice to see another BOC fan on here.


Here's another one! BOC are one of my all-time favourite bands (as my avatar makes it abundantly clear), and even their worst album is highly listenable. They are also here in Prog Related, and I was the one who added them a long time ago.
Me too.  I have a number of their albums, and just recently purchased Spectres and Cultosaurus Erectus to add to the collection.
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Points: 8717 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:44
Also, check the sole album by Jail entitled You Can Help Me-another brilliant example of prog meets AOR, featuring former Triumvirat members Helmut Koellen and Jurgen Fritz, Jaki Liebezeit from Can, and Roland Schaeffer from Brainstorm, among others. And the band's single, Julie.
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Points: 66582 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:43
Cool!  Thanks.  I like what I am hearing from your brother's band. 
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:42
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

P.S. Nice to see another BOC fan on here.


Here's another one! BOC are one of my all-time favourite bands (as my avatar makes it abundantly clear), and even their worst album is highly listenable. They are also here in Prog Related, and I was the one who added them a long time ago.
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Points: 9226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:27
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

Not sure if any of the above really fit the bill - I will check on Ambrosia, thanks.

[[Lukather and the ones Scott mentioned are not prog-related so I would pass for now (Scott if you like those, you might want to check my brother's band Tongue)]]

Back on track - I don't think Enchant really touched AOR. Asia never played prog IMO but that may just be me...
If I like it, it is prog as defined by me.  Wink  At any rate, the link for your brother's band didn't work.
Hahaha - I like Talisman quite a lot - check now
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Points: 8717 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:22
Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

Not sure if any of the above really fit the bill - I will check on Ambrosia, thanks.

[[Lukather and the ones Scott mentioned are not prog-related so I would pass for now (Scott if you like those, you might want to check my brother's band Tongue)]]

Back on track - I don't think Enchant really touched AOR. Asia never played prog IMO but that may just be me...
Cool. Ambrosia's self titled debut album is a masterpiece, especially.
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Points: 66582 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:18
Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

Not sure if any of the above really fit the bill - I will check on Ambrosia, thanks.

[[Lukather and the ones Scott mentioned are not prog-related so I would pass for now (Scott if you like those, you might want to check my brother's band Tongue)]]

Back on track - I don't think Enchant really touched AOR. Asia never played prog IMO but that may just be me...
If I like it, it is prog as defined by me.  Wink  At any rate, the link for your brother's band didn't work.
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Points: 66582 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:12
The band W.E.T. consists of members of Work of Art, Eclipse, and Talisman. If you like Jeff Scott Soto, he is the vocalist of W.E.T. and Talisman.  The album Bleed and Scream from Eclipse is quite good too.
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Points: 9226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:09
Not sure if any of the above really fit the bill - I will check on Ambrosia, thanks.

[[Lukather and the ones Scott mentioned are not prog-related so I would pass for now (Scott if you like those, you might want to check my brother's band Tongue)]]

Back on track - I don't think Enchant really touched AOR. Asia never played prog IMO but that may just be me...
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Points: 34083 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 16:06
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Not sure if you would like any of these but a few AOR bands that I really like include FM (UK not Canada), Giuffria and House of Lords; The Magnificent; Mecca, Oz Knozz, W.E.T. and Work Of Art.  Foreigner did have a guy named Ian MacDonald playing saxophone. 
not just that, but also main songwriter on the two-Three first albums .O      
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Not sure if you would like any of these but a few AOR bands that I really like include FM (UK not Canada), Giuffria and House of Lords; The Magnificent; Mecca, Oz Knozz, W.E.T. and Work Of Art.  Foreigner did have a guy named Ian MacDonald playing saxophone. 
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Points: 34083 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 15:45
Your probably awere of Enchant, they fitt the bill.
 
Steve Lukather solo, full blown blues rock fusion With crazy genre span, With AOR coating. Falling in Between by Toto, probably also the New Toto album is also in that wein,
 
 
 
 
this song is really good
 
 
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Points: 9226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2014 at 15:04
That Mars Hollow did not sound bad

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

^Sorry aapatsos, but my tolerance for AOR wears thin do to associations with groups like Starship and  songs like We Built This City or Heart with These Dreams. A bit too sweet for taste and probably the only rock genre that I cannot get into. But AOR is the most successful rock category, so it must have done something right.
One hundred million Journey fans can't be wrong.
Yes, I can see why you might not like it - I have to say I am pretty selective in my AOR likings
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