Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    
    	I have "Dragon Attack" [Queen] and "Legends of Metal" [Judas
    	Priest] in the car but haven't listened to them yet.  Are they
    	any good?
    
    	The Judas Priest tribute is the typical 1 song per band format,
    	but the Queen tribute appears to be a set of musicians that did
    	a bunch of songs together, for the most part.
    

    I had also "Dragon Attack" and I think there were some excellent
    moments while other covers were just OK. The first song, "I want it
    all", was the best for me (Robin Mc Auley singing). James La Brie from
    DT, sings also on two songs but I was not very impressed.
    There are also some fine guitar parts in places.
    
    I don't have the Judas Priest tribute but I know that it should contain
    a cover by Iced Earth (so you can hear what they do sound like). You
    should like Iced Earth's Dark Saga.
    
    Sorin

    
    Noone has gotten either of the 2 Judas Priest releases from Century
    Media which has a bunch of bands doing songs from them and I've heard
    it's supposed to be pretty good. I'll have to check into that. I see
    that there is another VA - Tribute to Judas Priest coming out also, but
    I don't think this is the CM release as those came out last year some
    time....
    
    I think Working Man off of Magna Carta label for Rush is quite good
    except for two parts I don't care for, one is them putting "Mission" on
    that release when they could have used something else as to me it just
    doesn't fit the overall mood/tone of the disc, and Anthem, while Mark
    Slaughter does a decent job on the vocals, George Lynch just over does
    it and blows the song for me.....the rest I think is quite good with
    Mike Portnoy of DT doing some very good drumming, James Labrie doing
    some good stuff, along with a lot of the other musicians (some good
    bass riffs on YYZ which surprised me!). Still, a decent investment
    since I am a Rush fan from waaaaaaaaay back. I prefer pre Power Windows
    stuff though...
    
    

    
    	I've listened to most of "Legends of Metal - Judas Priest Tribute".
    
    	Most are pretty good, the [expected] highlight being "The Hellion/
    	Electric Eye" by Helloween.
    
    	There are 2 versions of "The Ripper", 1 by Mercyful Fate and 1 by
    	Iced Earth.  Both are pretty good, but neither singer really tries
    	to achieve the high notes.  The Iced Earth singer hits a couple of
    	them at the end of the song, but I'm not sure why he waits until
    	then since he skipped a few along the way.
    
    	"Love Bites" by Nevermore is pretty terrible, IMO.
    
    
    	Next up is "Dragon Attack - Queen Tribute".
    

    Re. -1
    
    On The Dark Saga, the singer from Iced Earth uses the higher range only
    towards the last part of the album, but when he does it, the effect is
    really impressive.
    
    Sorin

    
    	I listened to almost all of "Dragon Attack" this morning.
    
    	"I Want It All" and "One Vision" are the best of the 11 songs,
    	and the rest are just OK.
    

    Would someone be willing to post the songs and the artists that did
    them?
    

    
    	Well, I picked up "In the Name of My Father" by The Jason Bonham
    	Band and listened to it 2 or 3 times.  All Led Zeppelin songs,
    	and it was recorded live as far as I can tell.
    
    	The lead singer sounds sort of like Robert Plant, and the band is
    	quite good.  I'm not a huge fan of Led Zeppelin, so I can't com-
    	ment on the faithfulness to the originals.
    
    	10 or 11 tracks, but the last track is a long medley of several
    	songs.
    

    Kewl..