32, I'm supposedly a musical nerd.
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Great setlist, but I'm really missing "Eye For An Eye", because that's my favourite song of the new record.
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Endless Angel Don't Cry Could This Be Love Only The Children
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Great CD, but not as good as "Address The Nation" IMO. There is not one bad song on this CD, but I'm missing absolute killer songs like "Breaking The Silence" and "Living On The Run". I would rate it 8,5/10 and "Address The Nation" was 9,5/10 for me.
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It seems that Europe, apart from the first 2 songs, has finally put together a decent setlist again. Maybe they finally remembered which songs made them so succesful.
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So far, this is my favourite album of 2014. Every song is very good to great, there are no fillers on this album. Especially the choruses are great. I know this is a metal album, but every song has a very melodic chorus. I'm very impressed with the singer too. The previous Dynazty albums were a bit hit and miss for me, with "Land Of Broken Dreams" being my favourite song. Now they compl
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I'm looking forward to this CD, because I still love the Shining Line album.
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I totally agree, it isn't Styx without Dennis DeYoung. The same goes for Journey without Steve Perry and Foreigner without Lou Gramm. IMO most of the classic bands of the eighties are now nothing more than glorified cover bands. Every band has essential members that can't be replaced. For me Styx has 2 of those essential members, Deyoung and Shaw. Journey: Perry and Schon. Foreigner: Gramm and Jo
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I totally agree, Bruce. "The Last Romantic Warrior" is an amazing song and especially the instrumental part at the end is just fantastic. I always turn up the volume when that instrumental part starts.
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Great album! "Living Tattoo" is my favourite song, but there are no fillers on this album.
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I like the first single, but these 3 clips are very disappointing. Especially the first 2 clips "Get Up And Move On" and "Bang" are very mediocre songs. Well, not even mediocre, these songs are just bad. When Steve Lee died, Gotthard not only lost a fantastic singer, but they also lost their best songwriter. I was just playing the fantastic "Lipservice" record and th
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Great song! Really looking forward to the album and their Firefest show.
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Best meets: Jimi Jamison (always very nice to everyone), Steve Lee (great guy, we talked about Journey), JSS (always takes time for everyone), Bob Catley (always in good spirits), Tony Kakko (very down to earth, we spoke with him for almost an hour about everything except music after a Nightwish / Sonata Arctica gig), Fiona (very nice and humble lady), Ted Poley (posed for pictures and was nice t
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1. Survivor - I See You In Everyone 2. Journey - Ask The Lonely 3. REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling 4. Kansas - Play The Game Tonight 5. Styx - Blue Collar Man 6. Tyketto - Forever Young 7. Europe - The Final Countdown 8. Magnum - Vigilante 9. Gotthard - Anytime, Anywhere 10.Giant - Hold Back The Night
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A few years ago, I watched live TV when I was flying across the USA. I remember because I was watching the Ryder Cup (Golf) when I was waiting for my flight in a bar at the gate and I felt very fortunate that I could continu watching it on the plane.
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You're right, "Eye For An Eye" is a fantastic song, much better than the single.
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I love these podcasts, because I've been able to listen to half the H.E.A.T. album this way and most songs are sounding great (better than the single). Besides that I heard several other great new tracks from Magnum and Stan Bush amongst others. The big advantage of a podcast is that you don't have the listen the full 2 hours, but can skip to the tracks that you want to hear.
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I watched the DVD today and I agree, it's a great live DVD/album. A great setlist too, with all the best songs of both the W.E.T. albums. JSS and EM are in very good form and I love the sound. I have 2 important questions about W.E.T.: Is there going to be a new W.E.T. album and if yes, when can we expect it? Is W.E.T. going to tour this year, besides the Frontiers Rock festival?
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I like this song, but don't recognize the singer. I'm curious to hear what band it is.
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Their debut is easily their best album IMO and "EZ Come EZ Go" and "Modern Day Cowboy" their 2 best songs. There is one thing I never understood and that is why they never play "EZ Come EZ Go" live. I hope they will play it at the Frontiers festival, if they do, I'm sure it will be one of the highlights of their set.
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I can't believe what I just read. Right now Heaven & Earth is probably the best chance for the type of music you all profess to love to survive So your virtually unknown band is the best chance for melodic rock to survive? Can you possibly overrate yourself more than this? You lot that are always complaining need to quit moaning and pray that this is the case and that this tour does
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I can't believe that a virtually unknown band decides to do a European tour as headliners. And on top of that they are booking venues with a capacity of 800 to 2000? What were they thinking? Sorry, but this is just ridiculous.
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Reading this thread I'm wondering if it's really the venues that are cancelling the shows. Maybe the bands themselves are cancelling because of poor ticket sales.
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For me "World Upside Down" is easily their best album. Since then, the quality has been dropping. This new single doesn't impress me and certainly isn't of the same quality as many songs on "World Upside Down".
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Just heard the new H.E.A.T. song and I'm not impressed. It's certainly not bad, but I expected much more. "Living On The Run" was a much better song than this new single. I already had big concerns when I heard the guitar player say that he thought "Address The Nation" was just an average album. That sounded like they were going to change their style of music and with this fir
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I agree that Hydra is not as strong as "The Unforgiving". There are several great tracks (my favourites are "Dangerous", "Paradise" and "Roses", but I also like "Let Us Burn", "Silver Moonlight" and "The Whole World is Watching"), but also a few mediocre ones ("Dog Days", "Edge Of The World" and "Tell M
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"Firebirth" was very disappointing, but this sounds better.
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Great news that there will be a Frontiers Records Festival on may 1, 2 and 3 in Milan, but I would like to know when and how the bands will be announced. Hopefully someone from Frontiers Records can answer this question.
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Great news! Looking forward to the announcement of the bands.
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I like "Goodnight LA" more than "Sleepwalking", but I rank them both well below my 3 favourite Magnum albums, which are in order: "Vigilante", "On A Soryteller's Night" and "Wings Of Heaven".It was a positieve surprise that they put "Rockin'Chair" back in their setlist during their last tour, because that's a great live song.
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