These names were once seen as unthinkable in the UK and even Survivor had shows booked before the untimely death of singer Jimi Jamison leaving just them and Boston as the ones that got away. Something gradually changed over the rest of the decade: bands started coming to the UK for the first time in 25 years or more –Kansas and Styx in 2005, Journey the following year and Night Ranger in 2011. Indeed that was how I ended up travelling across the pond to festivals for nearly 20 years, in the process falling in love and, more relevant in this context, writing my first ever reviews for the website in 2005. In America the behemoths of AOR’s heyday such as Journey, Styx and REO Speedwagon were still doing good business on the live circuit but there was little chance of them coming to these shores. When GRTR! started in late-2002 traditional melodic rock and AOR was still in something of a prolonged hangover from the years of grunge which swept away the genre, and indeed much else in rock music.Īt least the thriving scene had stabilised as an underground movement, coalesced around the website and specialist record labels including MTM and the UK’s Escape and Now and Then, and talented artists like Danny Vaughn and Jeff Scott Soto gamely plugged away but it barely registered in the wider consciousness and was very much seen as the music of the past. Melodic Rock Editor Andy Nathan witnesses the melodic revival… Share the post "Feature: Anniversary – Melodic Rock – Primer"
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