Star One

[Greeno]

Nothing going on today so I went to the crappy mall music store. Found a copy of Star One - Live On Earth with the DVD. Holy shit!!!!!! This may be one of my favorite music dvd's now. I've had the album for a while now and liked it but this dvd takes it to the next level. Great musicians, great vocals and great songs! This thing blew me away. Anybody else here into them?

 

[tsorl]

I had the cd, but I sold it. Too much space and not enough metal for my tastes, I guess.
I loved (and still do) Arjen's previous space opera, Flight of the Migrator though. But for some reason, Star One just didn't click. I've heard a lot of praises for the dvd, but I haven't got around buying it yet.

 

[Greeno]

I loved (and still do) Arjen's previous space opera, Flight of the Migrator though. .

I need to hear his other albums, Star one is my introduction to him.

 

[Wyvern]

Nothing going on today so I went to the crappy mall music store. Found a copy of Star One - Live On Earth with the DVD. Holy shit!!!!!! This may be one of my favorite music dvd's now. I've had the album for a while now and liked it but this dvd takes it to the next level. Great musicians, great vocals and great songs! This thing blew me away. Anybody else here into them?

Let's put it this way that was my #1 album of 2003.

I have every Arjen Lucassen project, I still have to take his work on Bodine and Vengeance (but that will be the future).

Arjen is a genius of composition, performance, playing, arrangements and casting. If you want to get more into his work I advise you to get the Ayreon albums:

1) "The Universal Migrator 2: Flight Of The Migrator"
2) "The Universal Migrator 1: The Dream Sequencer"
3) "Inside The Electric Castle"
4) "The Final Experiment"
5) "Actual Fantasy"

Then of course Star One - "Space Metal"

And if you want to be a completist, Ayreon - "Ayreonauts Only" and Ambeon - "Fate Of A Dreamer"

Also his new album Ayreon - "The Human Equation" is due in June

He has also contributed with Lana Lane, Within Temptation, Gary Hughes and others.

 

[Greeno]

Thanks Wyvern! I must get some more of his music!

This Star One dvd has me all amped up. For some reason when I first got the Star One - Space Metal album back when it came out it didn't catch me. I liked it but it just ended up setting on the shelf. But since watching the dvd the cd has not come out of my stereo..... other than long enough to get it to the car stereo.

Is he going to do any more Star One albums?

 

[Sinner Rider]

I missed a show last night, so I sat on E-bay buying shit that I don't need. Found some really cool shit though. Hero Hero LP, all Priest shit, like I said shit I don't need.
They CLAIMED that it was almost mint condition, but come on, I doubt it for the 3.00.
Original cover too!

 

[Wyvern]

Is he going to do any more Star One albums?

Difficult to know. Arjen being a multiinstrumentist, composer, arranger, producer, and nice guy willing to cooperate with other bands a musicians is always pushing his own boundaries.

Star One was the response to Ambeon which is a very ethereal ambiental album with a (at the time) 16 yeard old female vocalist which also wrote the lyrics (that are dark as a starless night) based mostly on Ayreon songs with modifications. So he went in the opposite direction making something more metallic. He has never been a Manowar or Rhapsody type of guy. His main influences are the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Hakwind but he's always willing to experiment with something more. His music tneds to be more prog/metal that straightforward stuff.

Nevertheless with the rooster of people that has collaborate with him at one time or another, he is undoubtely a most respectable member of the rock community.

Check www.arjenlucassen.com (graphic intense).

 

[Fangface]

I think that the best Lucassen's piece of work to date is "Into the Electric Castle", one of my favorite albums ever, just pure musical magic with thoughtful lyrics too.

And the Star One DVD is awesome indeed :Spin: