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░ ██ ██ Artist: Trillion ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Trillion █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 1998 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2016-01-12 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Progressive Rock ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Epic / Sony ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Reissue ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ Trillion's debut in 1978 is too refined to be the █
█ debut. It is surely the masterpiece at the █
█ beginning of melodic rock era. They made █
█ progressive hard rock more palpable to ordinary █
█ music listeners. Their achievement can be compared █
█ to Kansas, Journey, Foreigner and Styx who then █
█ were running at the top of the game but Trillion █
█ was tragically underrated. This album was deleted █
█ for so long and left to be forgotten but thanks to █
█ Japanese music fans that want it back as CD form █
█ it was reissued in 1998 and both progressive and █
█ melodic rock fans can now enjoy it. █
█ Fergie Fredericksenüfs high-toned voice gives this █
█ album fresh and feel-good atmosphere. My favorite █
█ tracks include catchy pop songs such as Give Me █
█ Your Money Money and Bright Night Lights. May As █
█ Well Go and Hand It To The Wind well represent the █
█ appeal of Fergieüfs high-tone voice. Overall the █
█ album is lighter than TOTO's Isolation and █
█ Fergie's solo Equilibrium but as listenable as █
█ these melodic rock masterpieces. █
█ Too bad he soon left the band. Maybe the bands █
█ like Styx or Survivor might have given Fergie █
█ fuller opportunity. Since then he moved from one █
█ band after another such as Re Loux, Toto, and a █
█ number of solo works such as Equilibrium. This █
█ year his high-tone voice can be heard again in █
█ excellent manner in Jim Peterik/Joe Vana project █
█ MECCA due around May. █
█ █
█ --- █
█ █
█ In 1978 keyboardist Patrick Leonard and vocalist █
█ Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen and a small handful of █
█ other musicians formed Trillion. Recorded in the █
█ studios at the Caribou Ranch owned by former █
█ Chicago producer, James William Guercio, in remote █
█ Nederland, Colorado their debut album hearkens █
█ back to a different era. Their brand of hard rock █
█ is strongly reminiscent of much of the better work █
█ of Blue Oyster Cult. █
█ Frederiksen's tweeter-scorching tenor graces all █
█ but one track on the 8 song release. The album █
█ starts with a bang on "Hold Out" with Fergie not █
█ only contributing vocals but also playing the █
█ tubular bells. Tubular bells?!?! Yes, oddly █
█ enough, tubular bells being used in 70s hard rock. █
█ The bells are subtle and you may not even notice █
█ them at first listen but they accent the song █
█ nicely. █
█ "Hold Out" segues into "Big Boy" which has a very █
█ similar vibe. Both tracks have catchy grooves fun █
█ to tap on your steering wheel or coffee table to. █
█ For all its cheese glory, "Give Me Your Money, █
█ Honey" is a regrettably catchy song... Regrettably █
█ catchy because, really, you don't want to be █
█ caught dead singing it to yourself in public... █
█ but after only a few listens, unfortunately you █
█ may find yourself doing just that. █
█ "You Never Had It So Good" will never win any █
█ awards for having clever lyrics. But it has a █
█ rather enjoyable guitar solo by Frank Barbalace █
█ and Fergie has the kind of voice that could make █
█ even the yellow pages sound compelling. █
█ While his keyboard/synthesizer theatrics are █
█ present on all the songs on the album, Patrick █
█ Leonard's keyboard playing is most evident on "May █
█ As Well Go." █
█ The whole album is enjoyable and fun, it doesn't █
█ take itself seriously (unless you consider a song █
█ titled "Fancy Action" to be high-art that is), but █
█ perhaps what makes this album so enjoyable is █
█ knowing that vocalist Fergie Frederiksen would go █
█ on to sing lead for bayou rockers, LeRoux, and █
█ south California studio rockers, Toto. And Patrick █
█ Leonard would go on to produce the likes of █
█ Madonna, Peter Cetera, and Michael W. Smith... not █
█ to mention was ╜ of the sadly overlooked and █
█ critically acclaimed, Toy Matinee with the late █
█ Kevin Gilbert. █
█ While their musical seeds weren't sown until █
█ later, this album shows where Frederiksen and █
█ Leonard's musical seeds were initially planted and █
█ where they initially cut their teeth. █
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░ 1. Hold Out 3:31 ░
░ 2. Big Boy 3:34 ░
░ 3. Give Me Your Money, Honey 3:27 ░
░ 4. Never Had it So Good 4:50 ░
░ 5. May as Well Go 3:19 ░
░ 6. Fancy Action 3:59 ░
░ 7. Hand it to the Wind 4:37 ░
░ 8. Bright Night Lights 3:51 ░
░ 9. Child Upon the Earth 5:41 ░
░ 36:49 ░
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