Fate never did justice to this great band. Forget the British AOR-prog superstars for a while, right now we are dealing with the original Asia band from the US.Asia emerged from the ashes of a talented but rather short lived progressive rock band,Whitewing, who did a self titled album in 1975. Whitewing members Mike Coates (guitarist and main composer) and Mike English (singer and bassist) reached their musical heights with their next band. Asia delivered a blend of progressive/pomp/hard rock. They released their first self titled album in 1978. A wonderful release indeed and a collector's item as far as the vinyl format is concerned. Lengthy tracks with great lyricism and inspired melodies. Mike English is an exceptional singer without doubt and second guitarist Larry Gallbrath who does some lead vocals as well is great too. Picking up favorite tracks on this album is almost impossible. Just listen to it. The second album, ''Armed to the teeth'' was released in 1980. Though I don't appreciate all of the songs on this album the same, two of the bands best songs can be found here, the opener Thunder Rider, a catchy pomp epic and the last track The Bard, a simply stunning ballad. After those two albums and while the band was still trying to create a buzz around their name, the news came that former King Crimson, Yes, ELP and Uriah Heep members were about to create a supergroup named Asia. Though the rights to the name belonged to the US band, Brian Lane, manager of the British ones succeeded in deceiving them to give up the name, using a scam about a Louisiana band that supposedly had the rights to the name and had sold it to the new band. US Asia were actually granted exclusive ownership of the name but they couldn't afford an international law suit so inevitably they gave up, changed their name and shortly after disbanded...In 1995 the two albums were rereleased on 1 cd by The Wild Places.
ENJOY!!!
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Great blow ! Can you re-up the ASIA - ASIA 1978 lp please, the link does not work for that lp. Thanks
Márcio Miranda diz:
Tem como colocar para download
a Part 1, o Link no Rapidshare
está quebrado, mano, obrigado pela atenção desde já.
Vida longa para o Rock and Roll.
Márcio Miranda Diz
e muitíssimo obrigado pela parte 2
muito boa essa banda que eu realmente não conhecia, e foi uma
grata surpresa, que em deixou aqui pensando com os meus botões, como podê uma banda tão boa lançar apenas dois álbuns e se acabar com tanto talento.
Eu conhecia aquela outra Banda Inglesa Asia de Pop bem mais famosa do que essa, até achei que fosse algum álbum que não conhecia ou que foi lançado depois.
Sugestão: Coloque também a Parte 1
no mediafire, bem melhor.
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