1. W.E.T.-Rise Up 2. Find Me-Wings Of Love 3. Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall-st
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This remark of Kieran (and Andrew's reply) sounds like there might be a small possibility that Firefest 2014 is not the end after all. I think it would be great news for melodic rock/AOR if there would be a way (partnership) to continu with the best festival ever.
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I love Asia's "Aria" CD too. It's even my favourite Asia CD. My favourite track is "Military Man", but there is not one bad song on this CD.
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This sounds great! "The Unforgiven" was my favourite CD of 2011 and, after hearing this clip, I can't wait for the new album.
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I read that the W.E.T. show in Stockholm in january was filmed for a DVD, but haven't heard anything since. Will there still be a DVD and if yes, when can we expect it? Just 4 more weeks until Firefest and W.E.T. is one of the bands I look forward to the most. With 2 top CD's, I'm sure their setlist will be great. I only really hope they will play "Shot", as it is one of my favourite W.
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Tommy, I understand that you will never say a bad word about the people (singers) you work with and that's how it should be. What I don't understand is that you first say that youtube videos say NOTHING about a show, but then you post a link to one to prove that Bobby Kimball still is a good singer. So what are you saying here? If he sounds good on a Youtube video, that proves he is a good singer
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Very disappointing to read that Fergie Frederiksen and Joe Lynn Turner will not be performing at Firefest. It was very sad to hear that Fergie's terrible illness returned and therefore he will nog be able to come to Firefest. I was very much looking forward to seeing him perform classic "Isolation" songs like "Angel Don't Cry" and "Endless", but unfortunately he
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I love this show, but I agree that the first episode of season 2 was too chaotic. I've now seen 6 more episodes of season 2 and I think it's just as good as season 1. I agree that the storyline about Maggie is not very believable, it would have been far more believable if everyone was in love with Sloan (Olivia Munn). My favourite current TV show is "House Of Cards" with Kevin Spacey
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Jim Peterik sounds terrible and this arrangement of "Is This Love" is just ridiculous. I once heard that he always wanted to sing and play lead guitar in Survivor and was frustrated that he didn't get the chance to do that. Well, after hearing this, every Survivor fan should be thankful that he wasn't given the chance to sing in Survivor. Jim Peterik is a great songwriter and keyboard p
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1. W.E.T. - Rise Up 2. Magnus Karlsson - Free Fall 3. The Poodles - Tour De Force
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I'm a Tottenham Hotspur fan and I expect great things from them this year IF Gareth Bale (the best player in the Premier League) stays. If he leaves I expect the Spurs to still compete for 4th place in the league, but if Bale stays I see them competing for the title. OT: I live in the Netherlands and I am a big Feyenoord fan. They just had their worst start in history by losing the first 3 gam
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That the Rage Of Angels European Tour was postponed doesn't surprise me in the least. I don't know what they were thinking when they announced a headlining European tour after only 1 CD. Their CD is good, but you can't do a European headlining tour when you are almost completely unknown. On top of that Rage Of Angels decided to use some support acts that I really never heard of before. Another bi
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I love Kansas and "Power" has always been my favourite album. I also love "Vinyl Confessions" with John Elefante and "Play The Game Tonight" still is my favourite Kansas song. I have their DVD "Live Confessions" with John Elefante and it shows what great musicians they are. Den already posted the link to this show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuKnYCGvauo
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Great to be able to see this show again. For me, Robin Beck's performance was the best of Firefest 2012 and hopefully she will get a chance to come back.
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This is fantastic news! They could not have chosen a better replacement IMO. I saw H.E.A.T. in june at the Hi Rock Festival and they were one of the best bands of the festival. This year's Firefest line-up was already great, but now, with H.E.A.T. replacing Trixter, it has become even better. I never liked Trixter and was planning to skip them on saturday, but now I really don't know when I will
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This is just great. Even better that Rocktopia will post other Firefest and even Gods shows on a weekly basis. Some great shows coming up and I'm especially looking forward to last year's Robin Beck show and the classic Two Fires show from the God's days.
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Lost the least: Joseph Williams (sounded amazing at the Hi Rock festival) Lost the most: David Coverdale (sounded terrible at the Hi Rock festival)
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Totally agree with Asia, Dare and Tyketto.
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His 1989 self-titled is very good and contains several great songs. My favourite is "Never Far Away" which he wrote together with Mark Mangold and Al Fritsch.
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Heart - Alone
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That's easy: "Ask The Lonely"
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I was at this concert and you could clearly hear that Coverdale's voice is completely shot. He is still one of the best frontmen in rock and at the beginning of the concert his voice was reasonable, but at the end he sounded just terrible. Because of Coverdale's voice problems, I didn't enjoy the concert nearly as much as I used to enjoy Whitesnake shows in the past (eighties and nineties). For m
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"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us" from the same show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRW2cRVdZe8 Mickey Thomas still has a great voice and I also think the female singer sounds impressive.
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I'm an AOR/melodic rock fan, but I really like the Avantasia CD's. "The Wicked Symphony" is my favourite, but what I play most is a bootleg of their 2011 show at Wacken Open Air. There is also a bootleg DVD of that show on the web and that is one of my most played DVD's. This year I saw Avantasia live for the first time in Amsterdam and they were great. The show lasted for more than 3 h
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Warrant were overrated with only a few good (hit) songs on every release and a lot of fillers. Britney Fox is a very mediocre band IMO, so I can't believe how you would rate both of these bands albums higher than H.E.A.T.'s "Address The Nation". So you hate "Address The Nation" because it lacks originality? Well, if there is one band that sounds like every other eighties hair
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I agree with you Terry that "Address The Nation" is a great record and that the quality is comparable with many of the great eighties records. For me H.E.A.T.'s "Address The Nation", W.E.T.'s "Rise Up" and Treat's "Coupe De Grace" are the 3 best records of the last 5 years.
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I found the latest Fireworks magazine in the mail yesterday. Looks like another great issue. Now that they use a bigger font size, I'm enjoying the magazine a lot more. Looking forward to read it this weekend.
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Hey Paul, Like Tony I haven't received the latest Fireworks issue yet. I live in the Netherlands, so maybe that's why it takes a bit longer. I will give it a few extra days before I email Bruce.
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What an amazing performance and how much Steve Lee is missed. For me Steve Lee was Gotthard. Compared to this fantastic show, Gotthard's show with Nic Maeder at last year's Firefest was a big disappointment for me.
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I totally agree with Laurent here. You shouldn't have to pay to shake the hand of band members, have something signed by them or take a photo with them. If bands really love their fans, they will come out after a show to meet them. If they only want to milk them for more money, they will come up with all kinds of VIP packages.
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