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Roger Taylor live in Gothenburg Sweden (IFS World Conference 2012 with SAS Band) - October 15, 2012

This was a private gig at a large software conference - the line-up included Roger Taylor, Roger Daltrey, Jeff Scott Soto and Patti Russo.

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The Devils I Know - Number 14

Welcome to “The Devils I Know!” For this spooky time of year, from now till Halloween, I’ll be counting down My Top 31 Depictions of the Devil, from movies, television, video games, and more! Today’s Devil is a Trans-Siberian Menace. Number 14 is…The Version from “Beethoven’s Last Night.”

“Beethoven’s Last Night” is a rock opera created by Trans-Siberian Orchestra – a group most well-known for their many, MANY Christmastime albums and Yuletide song covers. The story is sort of a bizarre blend of “Faust” and “A Christmas Carol,” taking place on – as the title implies – the last night of Ludwig Von Beethoven’s life. Moments before what will be his death, time stops and the Composer is first confronted by the angelic figure of Fate, and her warped son, Twist, who are planning to escort Beethoven to Heaven even as the composer is in the midst of completing his Tenth Symphony.

However, before the pair can do this, the Devil himself – here called Mephistopheles – sweeps into the room and declares that Beethoven’s soul belongs to him. However, he is willing to let Beethoven’s soul go in exchange for one simple thing: the destruction of the Tenth Symphony. Beethoven is torn by a monumental choice: either allow himself to be damned for all eternity, or give up his greatest masterpiece and final legacy. Fate offers to help, and takes Beethoven on a trip through his past, as the composer hopes he can change his life around and find some way to save both himself and his life’s work. This endeavor does not go the way Beethoven hoped, and when he returns to the present, the Devil is still waiting for him. But Mephistopheles offers a new counter-bargain: he points to a small child, a lonely orphan, shivering in the streets. He declares that if Beethoven is so desperate to keep his soul and his music, he will let him have both…but the girl and her soul will, as a result, be given up to the Devil. Another monumental decision stands before Beethoven as a result: save himself and his creation, or let an innocent child – a girl he knows nothing about – be condemned to an undeserved fate of torture and despair. I absolutely LOVE Beethoven’s Last Night. It’s never been staged as a proper stage show, but it HAS been performed in a concert form many times, and there are multiple editions of the album to pick from. Fittingly, multiple performers have sung the role of Mephistopheles in the show. The original singer, on the album, is Jon Oliva; Oliva’s vocals remind me distinctly of characters like Mark Hamill’s Joker or Steven Blum’s Green Goblin. His Devil is a shrill, cackling creature with a decidedly maniacal quality to his voice, but there’s also a smoothness and a sharpness to it, and even a sense of raw power in several points. You never forget that this is a being of cosmic and anti-divine might, but he’s also entertainingly wicked. In the concerts, the role has been sung by Jeff Scott Soto and Ronny Munroe. Soto’s Devil is a little more flamboyant in his gestures and expressions, really playing up the Devil as a master showman who knows how to make a big entrance. Munroe, meanwhile, plays the character as a much more coldhearted, tough sort of character, with moments of terrible stillness punctuated by sharp and sudden motions and vocal changes, creating an unpredictable and frightening character.

All three of these Devils do a fantastic job. I think, personally, Munroe might be my favorite, but Soto and Oliva are utterly brilliant, as well. Kudos, also, to artist Greg Hildebrandt, who created MANY pieces of artwork related to the album, for promotional and storytelling purposes. His dark-shrouded, shadowy Devil is a black-cloaked walking archetype of evil, with serpent-like eyes and clawed hands, and looks magnificent when paired against the powerful silhouette of Beethoven and the purity of Fate. No matter which way you slice it, Mephistopheles in “Beethoven’s Last Night” is one of the greats in my book. He and all his incarnations are more than worthy of a place in my Top 15.

Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 13! HINT: Two Devils For the Price of One.

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Canción favorita

Muy difícil escoger sólo una canción, por eso voy a responder a esta pregunta mejor con mi canción obsesión de la semana.

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Art Of Anarchy - Let There Be Anarchy

Serious question, does anyone remember the hard-rock band Art Of Anarchy? This band’s name was really familiar to me when I saw their new album, Let There Be Anarchy, and after some research, turns out these guys have been around since the mid 2010s, and they’re a supergroup composed of former members of Guns ‘N Roses, Creed, Sons Of Apollo, and Stone Temple Pilots, but not at the same time. The band’s had a rotating and inconsistent lineup of vocalists, first having the late Scott Weiland on their debut, and then Scott Stapp on their second album, but finally landing on Sons Of Apollo singer Jeff Scott Soto (guitarist Ron “Bumblefoof” Thal was in that band with Soto as well). I’ve listened to their 2017 sophomore album with Stapp, entitled The Madness, since listening to their newest album, and it’s a good album. It’s been seven years since that record, but it looks like Soto has been part of the band since 2020. I can wonder what took them so long to drop a new album, but COVID-19 might have a lot to do with that.

Terrible and amateurish artwork aside, I was curious to listen to this, especially when I’ve been looking for some solid hard-rock / heavy metal. The length made me a bit scared, as this album clocks in at 52 minutes, but for all I knew, the length could be justified. After listening to this album a handful of times, I would say that it is, although it’s not quite a perfect album. I like this album, but I don’t quite love it, as it does have a few problems that prevent me from really loving it. It’s still worth hearing if you want a good hard-rock album, but it won’t quite blow your mind or change the way you think about the genre. There’s still a lot on here to appreciate (even though the artwork is really bad).

The band kind of changed their sound for this album a little bit, and the reason why this album’s length is justified is because it seems like adding Soto brought a progressive-metal influence to their sound (as Sons Of Apollo is a prog-metal supergroup). The first song on this album is almost 8 minutes long, but it’s this prog-rock / hard-rock track that never feels pretentious or self-indulgent, and it has some cool riffs and solos that keep the song engaging. What’s interesting is that this album switches between two modes — longer prog-influenced songs and shorter and more straight-forward hard-rock cuts. The album doesn’t feel disjointed because of it, because the riffs and solos sound pretty similar, but one of the big problems I have with this album is that some of the hooks just aren’t memorable. Soto is a good vocalist, but the hooks don’t really hit the way they should, at least on certain tracks, but that is because they lean into their progressive side a lot.

If you want a hard-rock album with some prog leaning sounds, and that sort of lean too far into it but without becoming pretentious, you’ll enjoy this. They take themselves out of it from time to time, and a handful of tracks are more are straightforward hard-rock cuts, such as “Vilified.” This song is a perplexing one, because the song itself is more or less a straightforward hard-rock cut, but this song brings up the other main problem I have with this album — its lyrics are very questionable at times. “Vilified” is a track that’s about people who are misunderstood in some way being vilified by society, and one can assume that would mean people of color, LBGTQ+ folks, disabled people, or many other kinds of people that the “mainstream” doesn’t really quite understand. Well, I suppose you can take that from track, but the song has fakes clips of a news reporter (weirdly done by former Queensryche vocalist Geoff Tate)talking about the Joker movie from 2019, and how it’s inspiring people to commit heinous acts. The song, according to actor Cuba Gooding Jr (who appears in the music video) is “not a song, but a statement, a message, and a warning. It is a reflection of the many issues that are being brought to the forefront within our society. Mental illness, mass shootings, institutions, people being demonized without proper information or due process.”

This makes me uncomfortable for a couple of reasons, mainly that the Joker is such a dated and cringy reference (especially with a “we live in a society” type of narration that appears in the song and it’s so funny because of how bad it is), but Gooding Jr has a history of sexual harassment. Him saying that last part makes me think he’s whining about being charged for that, and thinks that he didn’t do anything wrong, even if he doesn’t come out and say it. I can understand the mental illness part, but mass shooters should be vilified, so I don’t know what they’re trying to say there. This song reminds me a lot of “Bad Man” by Disturbed, because there’s a very purposely vague message in these songs that either side of the political spectrum can utilize for their own. I look at “Vilified,” and think of the song as being about minorities and people who are oppressed being vilified by the powers that be, but I can see conservatives look at this song and thinking that they’re being “vilified” for being bigoted. It just doesn’t sit well with me, even though I can ignore the implications of the vagueness of the lyrics.

Most of the lyrics are fine, but they do kind of follow the same formula of not saying anything interesting or pointed, so they’re not about anything at all. The lyrics fall to the wayside for me, and it’s kind of a shame, because Soto is a good vocalist, but the hooks and lyrics don’t stick. It’s really the riffs and solos that work quite well, so if you want a hard-rock / metal album with some cool instrumentation, you’ll dig this. The lyrics kind of stink, but they’re not as offensive as they are purposely vague, and like I said in my review of that forgettable Disturbed album from 2022 (that I remember being okay, I haven’t gone back to it since, and its lyrics were bad), the lyrics being vague is almost worse because they can say they’re not being “political” or express favor to one side in particular, but the main difference with this is that the music is actually pretty cool. I wish the lyrics and hooks were better, but it’s okay. I’ve heard a lot worse, and it’s worth a listen, least, but you’re not quite missing anything if you don’t listen to it.

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ALBERTO RIGONI's First Stand-Alone Single 'Lonely World' Out Now, Feat. Jeff Scott Soto

The wait is over! Italian bass master and composer ALBERTO RIGONI (solo, BAD AS, NATURAL BORN MACHINE, Bassists Alliance Project, Vivaldi Metal Project etc.) has released today, April 7th, his first stand-alone single, entitled ‘Lonely World’ feat. the legendary Jeff Scott Soto (ex Official Yngwie Malmsteenen, Sons Of Apollo, Journey and tons of others)! Buy the digital single at…

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W.E.T.

Work of Art/Eclipse/Talisman

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Το “The Reason” αποτελεί το τρίτο single του νέου project Ellefson-Soto των David Ellefson και Jeff Scott Soto.

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May 17th 1988 - Vinnie Vincent Invasion released the album "All Systems Go"

All Systems Go is the second studio album by American glam metal band Vinnie Vincent Invasion, released on May 17, 1988. All Systems Go featured new vocalist Mark Slaughter, who replaced Robert Fleischman. The band toured in support for this album, headlining small clubs, but broke up after the completion of the tour at the end of August 1988. The album features Yngwie Malmsteen's vocalist Jeff Scott Soto on backing vocals.This would be the last studio album from the Vinnie Vincent Invasion for more than three decades, until the release of their upcoming third album Judgment Day (Guitarmageddon Pt. I)

All tracks are written by Vinnie Vincent

No. Title Length

1. "Ashes to Ashes" 5:05

2. "Dirty Rhythm" 3:38

3. "Love Kills" 5:36

4. "Naughty Naughty" 3:30

5. "Burn" 4:38

6. "Let Freedom Rock" 4:44

7. "That Time of Year" 4:11

8. "Heavy Pettin" 4:38

9. "Ecstasy" 4:40

10. "Deeper and Deeper" 3:55

11. "Breakout" 4:01

CD edition bonus tracks

No. Title Length

12. "The Meltdown" (instrumental) 2:01

13. "'Ya Know'—(I'm Pretty Shot)" (instrumental) 4:07

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