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Post by bartman2001 on May 10, 2020 3:13:15 GMT -5
Goddamn I do believe I'm in love...
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Post by steve on May 11, 2020 6:15:00 GMT -5
Great choice! Loved that psychedelic ending too.
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Post by steve on May 16, 2020 10:55:01 GMT -5
Green Cards! Yaaay we got our Green Cards! As you know we immigrated to the USA almost 2 months ago with a visa called Alien with extraordinary ability which allowed us to get green cards right after the immigration. Hope you are all staying safe 🌼 - Alyona
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Post by steve on May 20, 2020 15:28:18 GMT -5
Two years ago, the best young musicians in Europe got together to make this international collaboration. The band -
Alyona Yarushina (Russia) - Vocals
Andrei Cerbu (Romania) - Guitar
Sina (Germany) - Drums
Mike Wilbury (Germany) - Bass
Mike is Sina's dad, but he did not want to appear in the video!
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Post by steve on Jun 1, 2020 12:07:51 GMT -5
Today is Alyona's birthday. She made this short video (14 minutes) two years ago. In the video, Alyona introduces herself and talks about her life in music, her musical family, some of the artists she has played on stage with, her favorite bands. And more. Lots of live footage too.
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Post by steve on Jun 23, 2020 5:10:14 GMT -5
Over a million views for this video. Nothing unusual on You Tube, but its a big deal for Alyona as only one of her other videos has passed this landmark and had more views. Foreigner used a huge choir on this song, and that was a bit of a stretch for Alyona. But fortunately, some members of the loyal Alyona Choir were available and helped her out with this one.
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Post by steve on Jul 5, 2020 9:10:29 GMT -5
Alyona's new video
This is the first one I've posted from her new studio in Florida. She can make much better videos in here, she's got some new lights, and much more space to express herself, move about and throw her arms around. Alyona never had that space in Moscow.
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Post by bartman2001 on Jul 8, 2020 9:29:41 GMT -5
^^ Not bad, alright she's smokin' hot, the music felt a touch more produced in that one. In her introduction to her new Patreon page she mentioned live shows. Now that peaks my interest.
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Post by steve on Jul 14, 2020 8:40:31 GMT -5
^^ Not bad, alright she's smokin' hot, the music felt a touch more produced in that one. In her introduction to her new Patreon page she mentioned live shows. Now that peaks my interest. On her Patreon, there's some live videos, rehearsals, that are not available anywhere on You Tube. There's some on Alyona's own channel, but most of the live videos on You Tube are under the listings for her Russian name (Алена Ярушина) and are just fan videos filmed from the audience on other You Tube channels. Usually Beatles, Zeppelin, or jazz covers. Alyona's now living in Virginia - she moved there from Florida last week. I hope she will settle there and can live there for a long time. She loves it in the US and wants to get out and start playing live.
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Post by steve on Jul 14, 2020 10:25:05 GMT -5
Alyona singing in Russian. With her dad on bass and her brother on piano, live in Moscow 2016.
This is an old song that her dad recorded sometime in the 70s with his band Ariel.
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Post by bartman2001 on Jul 15, 2020 0:05:13 GMT -5
^^ Now that was fudkin' profound!
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Post by steve on Jul 24, 2020 15:36:59 GMT -5
The Zeppelin connection...
"Many years ago I had not even been listening to Led Zeppelin - even none of their songs were familiar to me at that time before in 2008 a Led Zeppelin tribute band called Plumbum Dreams found me through musical friends and asked me if I want to sing 2 LZ songs with them in Moscow on 40 year anniversary of Led Zeppelin. I decided to try. At that moment I already used my raspy sound in Beatles music. So they gave me just 2 songs: "Since I've Been Loving You" and "The Rover". After that show this band invited me to be their lead singer. That's how I was attracted to that music. Only after I started singing them. Then those songs became really close spiritually to me. Many of them. So I performed often." - Alyona
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Post by steve on Sept 5, 2020 7:49:05 GMT -5
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks...
Jim Steinman wrote a great song, one of my favorites from the big hits of the 80s. Alyona recorded this in 2016 for the vocal academy. I would have preferred it without the background video that they decided to add. Its too good for this not to be on her own channel, so I'm hoping that she re-records it for her own channel. And I think there's a good chance that she will. I hope so because she will do all the backing vocals herself too. She's already re-recorded some vocal academy songs that she made.
Seems that Meat Loaf was not happy that Jim Steinman did not give the song to him to record. Steinman was Meat Loaf's songwriter, he wrote Meat Loaf's first two albums, before they had a massive fall out and ended up suing each other.
From Wiki - According to Meat Loaf, Steinman had written the song, along with "Making Love Out of Nothing at All", for Meat Loaf's album Midnight at the Lost and Found; however, Meat Loaf's record company refused to pay Steinman and he wrote separate songs himself. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was then given to Bonnie Tyler and "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" to Air Supply.[14] Tyler has denied this claim.[15] "Meat Loaf was apparently very annoyed that Jim gave that to me," Tyler stated. "But Jim said he didn't write it for Meat Loaf, that he only finished it after meeting me."[16]
In an interview with journalist Mick Wall shortly after the release of Meat Loaf's 2006 album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, Steinman stated: "I didn't write [Total Eclipse of the Heart] for anyone but Bonnie."
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Post by steve on Sept 20, 2020 10:18:59 GMT -5
I was never a fan of the original song when it got released in the late 80s as I don't listen to opera. But Alyona deserves to win some kind of You Tube award for this video. I can't imagine there's any other vocalist who would be brave enough or capable enough to make a video like this. Anyone who follows Alyona will know that she is, first and foremost, a rock singer. But here, she is singing the vocal parts of both Freddie and Montserrat. And singing opera for the first time. And what made things more complicated were that Montserrat's vocal parts were a mish mash of both Spanish and English for Alyona to unravel. I've seen the behind the scenes of the making of this video. It blew my mind the amount of work she must have put into this video. She recorded the instrumental track too. And multiple vocal tracks for the choir.
"After I was goofing with operatic vocals on my rehearsals my dad said - why don't you record something like this? ahahah ooops" I'm not trained to sing opera, I was training the opera sound for about 1 week.
This song was pre-recorded, also all the instruments I have recorded myself using my midi-keyboards and Logic Pro. I mixed and mastered myself, also I filmed the video on my phone and edited it using Final Cut Pro" - Alyona
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