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Style: Indie Rock
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Songs Performed By The Band Prior Park, and Jeff Heller Collection - Songs Written By Jeff Heller, and songs written by Jeff Heller, William Guevara and Ted Machleit. also a special performance from Son Joshua,Enjoy. To hear more @ http://www.hellersongs.com
Musiv Review:
PRIOR PARK 'Welcome to Prior Park' (INDEPENDENT)
California's Prior Park are a very classy aor hard rock band, their music has a late seventies - mid eighties feel, the songs are simple and grip their hooks into you from the very first play.
Vocally singer Jeff Heller reminds me of SAVANNAH's Earle Lord, NIGHTRANGER's Jack Blades, HARLAN CAGE's, Larry Greene and PASSION STREET's Rick Cartey, but I must point out that the band are in a class of their own and offer very fine and instantly memorable singalong songs that get your feet tapping.
Onto the songs, the opening duo of "Once You Get Started" and "Let Me Be The One" are two very catchy songs with some nice guitar work, the nice thing is that Prior Park's music is very real, the production is raw and stripped down which adds to the LIVE feel, which makes the songs stand proud and in your face, these two songs are a pleasure to listen to,
and the more you listen the more addictive they become, especially "Once You Get Started".
On the next track "Aim For The Heart" we get a mix of southern rock a'la KANSAS and aor a'la NIGHTRANGER, I love the lyrical part on the chorus where Jeff sings "GO FOR IT"!!, this is most addictive and very very fun to listen to thanks to the summery southern melodies and catchy versus.
"It's Gonna Take Some Time" drops in pace and this is where the HARLAN CAGE similairties fall into place, this is a moody piece, a sweet ballad of pure emotion. Prior Park rock things up a little with some cool guitar friendly americana on "Bring The Magic To Me", this is also a nice song with some beautiful keyboard action. Now then with "In My Arms Tonight" Prior Park deliver a very classy ballad, just close your eyes and let the song , melt your body with it's passion filled delivery, awesome!!
Now then, with "One Kind Of A Woman" the band take on an almost new direction, you could say that this is pure west coast aor, but i'd sooner say that this song leans towards power pop bands like TEARS FOR FEARS and WHAM!! etc..still good though, then we get a very very special song, this is called "The Castle", and wins top song award with ease, and what a magical song it is, a total change in musical structures, as it leans towards progressive aor/rock, perhaps something that RICHIE BLACKMORE, IAN GILLAN or maybe even BOB CATLEY would be happy to record, in fact Prior Park should sell this song to Now And Then Records, i'm sure they could make great use of it for someone like CATLEY or STUART SMITH, or better still sign the god damn band!!
The last song "Impressions", is a song that maybe you'd find ERIC JOHNSON, SPOCK'S BEARD or even GENESIS creating, it's another stunning song that shows a sense of diversitiy within Prior Parks fold. And that's the refreshing thing about this band, they are not afraid to go with their natural instincts, they could have played it safe and turned out and album full mid-paced hard rock, but instead the album leaves you wanting more, so the final verdict, is simple, great songs played by great musicans, need you ask for more dear readers? One of the greatest independent releases of recent months, watch the record labels fight over these guys!!! Contact: http://www.hellersongs.com

Rating: 9/10 (Review by Nicky Baldrian)

Record Label: Hellersongs B.M.I.
Label Type: Independent
Band Members: 6 Members
Influences: Beatles, 38 Special, Toto, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, Sting, Police, Mike and the mechanics, Asia, Night Ranger,
Sounds Like: AOR, Original melodic music sound with vocal harmonies.
Country: United States
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Prior Park, Jeff Heller Videos - Live
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Live Performances.. Jeff Heller, Prior Park
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Songs Written and Performed By Jeff Heller and Prior Park//
Reflections - Live by Jeff Heller
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Reflections - written and performed by Jeff Heller -JHC
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Impressions - Live - By Jeff Heller
5:43
Impressions Written By Jeff Heller Performed Live by Jeff Heller
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So Nice To Have You Here - Live - Jeff Heller
5:24
So Nice To Have You Here Written By Jeff Heller
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Star Gazing - by Ian Shelter
3:38
Song Written and performed by Jeff Heller
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Prior Park Video "The Castle"
3:06
Original Live Music by Jeff Heller
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Impressions - by Prior Park
5:50
A song about everyone in the world getting along!! Writen by Jeff Heller
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Jeff Heller Collection
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Impressions Video
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Prior Park Video "Aim For the Heart"
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Aim for the Heart by Prior Park Written by Jeff Heller and William Guevara. Heller...
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Prior Park "In My Arms Tonight"
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Music Video of Prior Park ((The Band)) Jeff Heller, Jeff Budrot, William Guevara, ...
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More Songs written by Jeff
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Impressions - Live - By Jeff Heller
5:43
Impressions Written By Jeff Heller Performed Live by Jeff Heller
no rating 1 year ago 96 views priorpark no rating
So Nice To Have You Here - Live - Jeff Heller
5:24
So Nice To Have You Here Written By Jeff Heller
no rating 1 year ago 64 views priorpark no rating
Jeff Heller Collection
4:29
Impressions Video
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Joshua Scott
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[TRANSLATED] Joshua Scott
He Stole The Show!! as Dad Just Watched!!
1 year ago 98 views priorpark
Prior Park Video "Aim For the Heart"
4:03
Aim for the Heart by Prior Park Written by Jeff Heller and William Guevara. Heller...
2 years ago 650 views priorpark
Prior Park "In My Arms Tonight"
4:37
Music Video of Prior Park ((The Band)) Jeff Heller, Jeff Budrot, William Guevara, ...
2 years ago 866 views priorpark
Reflections - Live by Jeff Heller
2:52
Reflections - written and performed by Jeff Heller -JHC
no rating 1 year ago 46 views priorpark no rating
Channel Comments (2)
world8888 (1 year ago)
Thanks for subscribing :)
DarcBird (1 year ago)
I'm interested as to how you got your name, where you are from etc etc etc. The main reason for this is because I went to Prior Park in England. I'd like to find out all about you!