Axel Rudi Pell
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Posted by Baz Anderson, 12.09.2006 - 00:24
In 1998 the band had a big line-up change introducing new singer, drummer and keyboardist - and in my opinion the band has not been stronger then they are now.
Johnny Gioeli has to be one of my favorite singers, I love his voice - it fits so perfectly into the band who usually play more ballad kind of stuff. The backbone of their albums arent exceptionally fast stuff but it is thoroughly enjoyable stuff indeed.
They dont play a lot of live shows, or not from what I can see - but I am lucky enough to be able to watch them play at the end of this month and I am very excited indeed as they are probably one of my favorite bands now. I will make sure I get my albums signed too!
So anyone else who likes this band or has anything else to say about the band, pop a comment by and let us know what you think. Favorite albums, that sort of stuff..
I have to say, my favorite album is probably the album from a couple of years ago, 'Kings And Queens'
every song on that album is quite remarkable I think and is well worth listening to indeed!
Anyone who does not know this band but loves real heavy metal - they are well worth looking into!!
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Hi there, welcome to this thread  I like all Axel's albums almost the same (of course I do, he's my guitar hero  ) but I prefer those wich have Johnny's voice. I think he blends more with Rudi's music than Jeff did. But I think Jeff is also very talented and the albums he did with Axel are great. He's also very good live. I checked his solo albums and they're good also.But as you said it's about Axel's compositions. He has his unic style that makes him stay so deep in my heart. I dont know what album is the best in my opinion.. I like all his albums the same...but I think my absolute favourite song is Ashes from the Oath from "Oceans of Time" album. Thats gust great...
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haha - I am still here.. I guess that other person just dropped in and then left again I havent listened to any of Jeff's solo albums - are they in a traditional heavy metal style as well? I doubt I would have any way of getting my hands on them anyway though..
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
no it doesnt matter - I would be after full albums. I have just heard a few Jeff Scott Soto stuff on myspace though and some samples on his official site one thing really caught my attention though - there is an album on there 'Live At The Queen Convention' and I am a huge huge fan of Queen as well so it was great hearing some samples, he sounded great doing all of them - '39 is always such a nice song.. I would like to hear the whole thing but I cant even see that on amazon to buy.. oh well EDIT: actually you can buy it from his online store.. hmm.. I'm tempted
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hey I was wondering...what's your favourite ARP solo ? Tough question, isn't it ?
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
favorite solo.. I've no idea. I dont pay attention to which solo goes with which song.. so I cant answer the question ..probably a solo from one of the songs I saw him do live as it will bring back the memories, etc. dont know which though
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
ooh.. where did you see the stuff from Barcelona? is there some songs on youyube or something.. it might be worth me looking when I have time if they are
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yes they are, I'm absolutely thrilled about The temple of the king there... You can actually see that Axel is not feeling so good...some of those images were taken hours before he was hospitalized. http://youtube.com/watch?v=EZEqeR0ZI8A (one day before) http://youtube.com/watch?v=IMXgHfW42NY (the day he got serious ill) Damn I like this band
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
yes well at least he is getting better now.. I've not seen or heard them so 'Oceans Of Time' anywhere.. they didnt do it when I saw them and isnt on any live album either.. I just hope when they decide to come back and play here - the date is one I can get to.. it'll be an expensive and long trip to London but I'd do it again for Axel Rudi Pell (the only other band I have for is Emperor when they re-united)
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
Happy Easter to you too! I'm looking forward to seeing the tracklisting for the new covers album.. hopefully I will know at least a few of the songs before.. I am used to hearing covers and not knowing they are covers! but not so much recently.. I guess my musical knowledge is growing wider oh well we'll just have to wait and see.. I dont suppose it will be too long before we find out.. hopefully anyway..
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I guess the Axel will tell us about what songs he is covering I'm so curious, damn it !
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Hey did u hear about the competition ? ))I hope he doesn't cover "I will survive"
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
hahaha - or "Cold As Ice" hahaha.. well it would be interesting if he did! theres no point in trying to enter the competition now though I guess.. someone will already have it
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I already did, who knows....just for fun...I put Cold as Ice... I'm so curious about this new album.Still a long way to go...anyway I'm also happy because Scorpions will come out with a new album so soon, and I listened some samples and they sound awesome. So, it's gonna be the year of my kind of music for me
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yes and the new Ensiferum album is the best of the year so far in my opinion.. but yeh, I really wasnt expecting anything new from Axel because we just got 'Mystica' last year.. I guess he wants to capitalise on his new found, growing popularity
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
haha - Barry yeh, I'm still alive!! I gave up on that competition in the end.. haha also last night I saw Masterplan (with Saxon) live and so I got to see mr Mike Terrana again.. and got to see him do another drunk solo just like he did when I saw Axel Rudi Pell last year.. haha it was great  theres not really been any more news lately on the Axel Rudi Pell side of things..
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| White Winter Sun Laboratory's Rat Elite Posts: 2198  |
You can download the 'Warrior' one-minute sample from from the upcoming "Diamonds Unlocked" at this location. Enjoy.
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I did it since the 1st day it appeared.... It sounds awesome. Can't wait to hear the entire album...I'm gonna get it signed by Axel himself yeaaaaaaaaaaah
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
yeh, I heard both the samples there are available and they sound alright.. I will of course get this album but I'm not expecting it to be the best thing ever.. especially it being a covers album Helloween's covers album is fantastic.. it would be good if this could get anywhere near that
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| Alex Smith Posts: 167  |
I can't say that I am Axel's fan, but I like a lot of their songs. Even I can play guitar "Forever Angel" 
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A brand new audio interview with German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell conducted by James Allman of the U.K.'s Baconmusic has been posted at this location.
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| Vinnie R. Chido Chido Posts: 937  |
Jesus! Axel is (At least For me) The Ritchie Blackmore of this time, his technique is really amazing. I got to say that Johny Gioeli is my favorite singer in Axel's music. My favorite album: Shadow Zone And the ballads of course.
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
I am looking forward to hearing this covers album - I think I should be able to get my hands on it soon with some luck.. it wont be as good as studio album, but it will still provide some good entertainment
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