One has to wonder how the late Mr Woolfson's "More Tales of Mystery and Imagination" might have sounded had he been able to use the late Chris Rainbow's voice and/or Lenny Zakatek's voice when they were both in their prime. With no disrespect to Mr Balsamo who has his own talents, I would have liked to have mostly heard Chris Rainbow/Lenny Zakatek used on this project in the form of a concept album instead of a stage musical, personally speaking from my own bias. Unfortunately, Mr Woolfson passed away in 2009 and Mr Rainbow passed away recently in February 2015. It should be noted that Mr Woolfson was truly an extraordinary music composer and visionary on a stratospheric level. His name should be far more revered and widely known on a planetary scale than it probably is today. For his part, Mr Rainbow (real name: Chris Harley) was a tremendously unique tenor-style singer who similarly never got the world star accolades and attention he should have either...his vocal contributions to the material of the Alan Parsons Project and Camel were truly stunning and took their respective compositions to another level. For all their collective unique talents and contributions to music, both men are irreplaceable in my view...
Woolfson & Parson were the absolute dream team of music production of that decade. Tales of Mystery is probably the best produced album of that time, on par with Dark Side of the Moon. Only today I discovered the follow up album - and cannot find whether Alan Parson produced it - no info on spotify or Wikipedia. Does anybody have the Vinyl and could look it up on the sleeve notes?
He might be talented and a good singer but I still prefer Eric's voice. Eric's voice is amazing and transmits so much emotion and feeling. R.I.P. Eric. You are immortal to me.
@woolfson333 Sorry to hear of this man's passing, i always admired his very fine voice which compliments Alan Parson's music perfectly. Thanks for the upload. Cheers
Thanks for sharing this great interview video.I was so saddened by Eric's passing but take comfort in knowing that his works will live on forever. R.I.P
a very sad day for music lovers i just read about eric woolfsons passing on the internet fortunately we have resources to his music, but you can never replace a artist, the man, or his talent my sincere condolences to his family,
Quote from the APP website (FAQ) : " Eric Woolfson was the main songwriter and lyricist for the APP writing 95% of the music and 100% of the lyrics. He also sang lead vocal on many of the APP’s greatest hits including ‘Eye in the Sky’, ‘Time’ and ‘Don’t Answer Me’. He played keyboards on practically every APP track recorded. He was also the manager of the APP and handled all the business side. It was his decision to call it ‘The Alan Parsons Project’ - a choice he often described as both the best and worst in his career. The best because he got to enjoy the success of his work without any of the fame. The worst in that generally no one outside the music industry had a clue who he was! "
Of course certainly with the talent like sound engineer of Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson I emphasize with this album before that Lenny Zakatek should come to the band. A united album for the psychodelic experiences that Alan experienced during his career as producer and that of Eric Woolfson applying his instrumental trend up to separating definitively and to establish itself in Austria for the philharmonic one
Lo veo y lo vuelvo a ver y me sigue emocionando hasta lo más profundo escuchar "Inmortal" y tratar de entender lo sublime de esa canción y de todo lo escrito por Eric. Sin palabras...
Hi Eccova. Unfortunately I was serious when I wrote about people being tone deaf, even though it might have sounded as a joke. Either I'm am the one being tonedeaf or THEY are. Please just listen to the singer Steve at 5:52. Feel free to measure the frequency of his voice or whatever measurements are needed to prove, that he sings too low.
Actually that last note by Steve is really awful! I just relistened to it and still think, that it's CRAZZZZY, that someone really chose to have it as the final version of any record. Most Alan Parsons fans know that A.P. is a perfectionist, or at least that is a rumour I've heard. However some of his later choices of singers reveal a not too good judgement. One example: the singer Eric Stewart "Blown by the wind". I'd have hoped E. W. had better judgement.
@1Youngcat to make a comment on Andrew Lloyd Webber, the same goes for him. A musical genius probably but what happened to his song in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009? The song was both nagging and tedious, with the self-satisfied title: "It's My Time" (sung by Jade Ewen": youtube.xxx/watch?v=PBykhFyy-ZE; you know what do to with those "X":es, right? ;OP). It ended up in 5th place. Maybe the UK shouldn't be automatically finalists in ESC but that's another issue.
to summon 256 we have all asked the question why? why have the people that have inspired us to soon left us i believe we eventually do find our own answer your list of artists is great but you could put liberache in there too a kind gentle man whose fingers hit piano keys like air a different genre of music but thats the point to lift body and revive the spirit i listened to eric today and i smiled , you will to
@1Youngcat Well, "1YC", I'm saying that even the "masters" can make mistakes, that are too obvious to an outsider's ear, ~05:50. If you only knew to what a great extent I used to be an APP fan, etc... Eg. I used to be a member of the Canadian fan club ("the Avenue"), wrote an essay. In short: I have/have_had access to all of the APP and APB (Alan Parsons band) and AP records (I think) and also the "Freudiana" record. I also own some records by "Pilot" and the "Keats" record from 1984.
burqua12. music as with anything else in this life is one of perception, i'm not saying your wrong just hearing or feeling the song differnt, and the poe album is different from app its more influenced by musical theater of which as you know eric was involved in staging sucessful shows. I think though some of your responses here are bordering on the nasty side, not everyone here is after all stone deaf and steve is talented he would not be where he is if he was not.
stead fast coward how can you thank a person, you have done this by the words you wrote, it's not the quanity of people you touch, but how you move them and i can see from what you wrote eric woolfson's talent and music moved you, and yes though his work / life here on earth was to short his music will continue to enrich generations to discover thus giving meaning and hopefully peace to his family friends and fans
this is a great video for erics more tales c.d. as well as the coming stage musical that began its run at abbey road i love the back ground as well as comentary from steve and eric, its good to see eric warming to more video outlets show casing his talent so vacant in the late 70's and early 80's during the project years.
@sneezie24 Thank you. Couldn't have put it better myself. It was Gethsemane and there's no allegedly about it. Steve's performance of Geth and this one too has brought many to tears with the raw emotion he is able to make the audience feel when he sings them. I was at the live performance of this song in Abbey Road...... I cried buckets along with most of the audience. So Burqua instead of focusing on the one note - which sounds amazing to me by the way, listen to the whole performance.
I'm sorry so much if my question will be an impolite but am I understand well "Poe" album was created by Eric Woolfson only, not by APP? I'm asking because I've always thougt is was work of Woolfson/Parson cooperation - Alan Parsons Project. If you can explain me it - I'll be kindly thankful.
Eric stopped working with Alan Parsons because he wanted to write musicals and Alan didn't. The last album they worked on together was Freudiana, which was originally supposed to be an APP record, but Eric wanted to make it into a play/musical.
Presley, Lennon, Mercury, Jackson and now Woolfson...but WHYYYY ...God tell me WHYY the best have to go ? ...i don't understand...didn't you learn us that good always wins over evil ? ...but its getting confusing God, please tell us...whats happening...
Unfortunately for all the people out there, who obviously are tone deaf, including Eric Woolfson (who I'm a great fan of): the singer Steve sings out of tune, TOO LOW, at 5:52!!! I'm amazed and flabbergasted, if this is really the version on the album "Poe". Did Steve really get an award and did Andrew Lloyd Webber himself appraise him? I'm so surprised, really!!! It's saddening for me as a true and longtime Alan Parsons Project's fan. Don't people have ears anymore?
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Eric is gone...so sad. I loved his lyrics and his voice. Such a huge talent.
Goodbye Eric.
One has to wonder how the late Mr Woolfson's "More Tales of Mystery and Imagination" might have sounded had he been able to use the late Chris Rainbow's voice and/or Lenny Zakatek's voice when they were both in their prime.
With no disrespect to Mr Balsamo who has his own talents, I would have liked to have mostly heard Chris Rainbow/Lenny Zakatek used on this project in the form of a concept album instead of a stage musical, personally speaking from my own bias.
Unfortunately, Mr Woolfson passed away in 2009 and Mr Rainbow passed away recently in February 2015.
It should be noted that Mr Woolfson was truly an extraordinary music composer and visionary on a stratospheric level. His name should be far more revered and widely known on a planetary scale than it probably is today.
For his part, Mr Rainbow (real name: Chris Harley) was a tremendously unique tenor-style singer who similarly never got the world star accolades and attention he should have either...his vocal contributions to the material of the Alan Parsons Project and Camel were truly stunning and took their respective compositions to another level.
For all their collective unique talents and contributions to music, both men are irreplaceable in my view...
I agree to 10000000 percent!!! The best five voices of APP is: John Miles, Chris Rainbow, Eric Woolfson, Lenny Zakatek and Colin Blunstone.
Alanparsons Projectforever Arthur Brown, based solely on TellTale Heart.
Rest in peace Eric Woolfson. Your music will never die. Now you are Closer to heaven.
R.I.P Eric Woolfson. Great singer, Great talent.
Eric!, you're AMAZING! see you in heaven!
Eric Wolfsoon expresses the greatness of his soul through his incredible talent for music. Unique and unrepeatable genius, his legacy is immortal.
Woolfson. :)
Woolfson & Parson were the absolute dream team of music production of that decade. Tales of Mystery is probably the best produced album of that time, on par with Dark Side of the Moon. Only today I discovered the follow up album - and cannot find whether Alan Parson produced it - no info on spotify or Wikipedia. Does anybody have the Vinyl and could look it up on the sleeve notes?
No puedo entender cómo en la televisión ni se comentase su muerte. Me he enterado HOY, en 2010 :-( Y por casualidad.
He might be talented and a good singer but I still prefer Eric's voice. Eric's voice is amazing and transmits so much emotion and feeling. R.I.P. Eric. You are immortal to me.
Eric's Scottish accent will always remain in my heart forever. I'm grieving. Bravehearts will truly never die.
Bow down to one of the greatest band of all time. Rest in peace Eric.
Thanks for the music Eric,
Now it's time to rest.R.I.P.
@woolfson333 Sorry to hear of this man's passing, i always admired his very fine voice which compliments Alan Parson's music perfectly. Thanks for the upload.
Cheers
This was painful to watch. Mixing parsons project with broadway makes dog vomit look appetizing.
Thanks for sharing this great interview video.I was so saddened by Eric's passing but take comfort in knowing that his works will live on forever.
R.I.P
Eric Woolfson... musical genius.
R.I.P. Eric,you made my life more happy
a very sad day for music lovers i just read about eric woolfsons passing on the internet fortunately we have resources to his music, but you can never replace a artist, the man, or his talent my sincere condolences to his family,
This is a very good CD. I just love it.
Quote from the APP website (FAQ) :
" Eric Woolfson was the main songwriter and lyricist for the APP writing 95% of the music and 100% of the lyrics. He also sang lead vocal on many of the APP’s greatest hits including ‘Eye in the Sky’, ‘Time’ and ‘Don’t Answer Me’. He played keyboards on practically every APP track recorded. He was also the manager of the APP and handled all the business side. It was his decision to call it ‘The Alan Parsons Project’ - a choice he often described as both the best and worst in his career. The best because he got to enjoy the success of his work without any of the fame. The worst in that generally no one outside the music industry had a clue who he was! "
L'ho saputo oggi......e' una giornata molto triste.
R.I.P. Eric
Grazie per averci incantato con la tua musica.
Riposa in pace Eric.
R.I.P Eric
Thanks for all the music
I hope they have a radio satellite station in heaven playing his music.😉
Eric genius
Of course certainly with the talent like sound engineer of Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson I emphasize with this album before that Lenny Zakatek should come to the band.
A united album for the psychodelic experiences that Alan experienced during his career as producer and that of Eric Woolfson applying his instrumental trend up to separating definitively and to establish itself in Austria for the philharmonic one
Woolfson & Balsamo = Magic!!!!!!!!!!!
RIP Mr Woolfson!
Lo veo y lo vuelvo a ver y me sigue emocionando hasta lo más profundo escuchar "Inmortal" y tratar de entender lo sublime de esa canción y de todo lo escrito por Eric. Sin palabras...
Good to see Eric getting the credit that he deserves in this report.
Hi Eccova.
Unfortunately I was serious when I wrote about people being tone deaf, even though it might have sounded as a joke.
Either I'm am the one being tonedeaf or THEY are.
Please just listen to the singer Steve at 5:52.
Feel free to measure the frequency of his voice or whatever measurements are needed to prove, that he sings too low.
Such a shame to lose such a genius.
Actually that last note by Steve is really awful!
I just relistened to it and still think, that it's CRAZZZZY, that someone really chose to have it as the final version of any record.
Most Alan Parsons fans know that A.P. is a perfectionist, or at least that is a rumour I've heard. However some of his later choices of singers reveal a not too good judgement.
One example: the singer Eric Stewart "Blown by the wind".
I'd have hoped E. W. had better judgement.
Eric Woolfson is immortal
@1Youngcat to make a comment on Andrew Lloyd Webber, the same goes for him.
A musical genius probably but what happened to his song in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009?
The song was both nagging and tedious, with the self-satisfied title: "It's My Time" (sung by Jade Ewen": youtube.xxx/watch?v=PBykhFyy-ZE; you know what do to with those "X":es, right? ;OP).
It ended up in 5th place. Maybe the UK shouldn't be automatically finalists in ESC but that's another issue.
to summon 256
we have all asked the question why? why have the people that have inspired us to soon left us i believe we eventually do find our own answer your list of artists is great but you could put liberache in there too
a kind gentle man whose fingers hit piano keys like air
a different genre of music but thats the point to lift body and revive the spirit i listened to eric today and i smiled , you will to
@1Youngcat Well, "1YC", I'm saying that even the "masters" can make mistakes, that are too obvious to an outsider's ear, ~05:50.
If you only knew to what a great extent I used to be an APP fan, etc...
Eg. I used to be a member of the Canadian fan club ("the Avenue"), wrote an essay.
In short: I have/have_had access to all of the APP and APB (Alan Parsons band) and AP records (I think) and also the "Freudiana" record.
I also own some records by "Pilot" and the "Keats" record from 1984.
burqua12.
music as with anything else in this life is one of perception, i'm not saying your wrong just hearing or feeling the song differnt, and the poe album is different from app its more influenced by musical theater of which as you know eric was involved in staging sucessful shows.
I think though some of your responses here are bordering on the nasty side, not everyone here is after all stone deaf and steve is talented he would not be where he is if he was not.
stead fast coward how can you thank a person, you have done this by the words you wrote, it's not the quanity of people you touch, but how you move them and i can see from what you wrote eric woolfson's talent and music moved you, and yes though his work / life here on earth was to short his music will continue to enrich generations to discover thus giving meaning and hopefully peace to his family friends and fans
this is a great video for erics more tales c.d. as well as the coming stage musical that began its run at abbey road i love the back ground as well as comentary from steve and eric, its good to see eric warming to more video outlets show casing his talent so vacant in the late 70's and early 80's during the project years.
@sneezie24 Thank you. Couldn't have put it better myself. It was Gethsemane and there's no allegedly about it. Steve's performance of Geth and this one too has brought many to tears with the raw emotion he is able to make the audience feel when he sings them. I was at the live performance of this song in Abbey Road...... I cried buckets along with most of the audience. So Burqua instead of focusing on the one note - which sounds amazing to me by the way, listen to the whole performance.
@1Youngcat that syllable doesn't sound good in my ears. I can't help it. Does it sound good in Your ears?
RIP Eric you will be missed deeply xxx
@1Youngcat the syllable "tal" at the end is the one I'm talking about, to put it simplier.
Noone sings better than Eric Woolfson. Period. I would rather hear him
@psychologicznawojna Its called Angel of the Odd. It leads into the fabulous Wings of Eagles.
I'm sorry so much if my question will be an impolite but am I understand well "Poe" album was created by Eric Woolfson only, not by APP? I'm asking because I've always thougt is was work of Woolfson/Parson cooperation - Alan Parsons Project. If you can explain me it - I'll be kindly thankful.
Eric stopped working with Alan Parsons because he wanted to write musicals and Alan didn't. The last album they worked on together was Freudiana, which was originally supposed to be an APP record, but Eric wanted to make it into a play/musical.
Presley, Lennon, Mercury, Jackson and now Woolfson...but WHYYYY ...God tell me WHYY the best have to go ? ...i don't understand...didn't you learn us that good always wins over evil ? ...but its getting confusing God, please tell us...whats happening...
Summon they Graduated, they did their Time 💓
This is Great album!
whats the name of the first song in the background
R.i.p. From Italy. Ciao Eric.
Thank you for posting!
whats the name of the first track in background?
Unfortunately for all the people out there, who obviously are tone deaf, including Eric Woolfson (who I'm a great fan of): the singer Steve sings out of tune, TOO LOW, at 5:52!!!
I'm amazed and flabbergasted, if this is really the version on the album "Poe".
Did Steve really get an award and did Andrew Lloyd Webber himself appraise him?
I'm so surprised, really!!!
It's saddening for me as a true and longtime Alan Parsons Project's fan.
Don't people have ears anymore?
wow you are better that Eric and Lloyd Weber, sure. What a joke.
@@Mr.RodrigoGomez The joke's on me.
Whats the song at the very beginning
It's the End of "Wings of Eagles"
True good work together
To my mind it waen't that great later!
you are really missed
rip Eric