The two main singers and songwriters of the band were Owsley and Millard Powers. Most power pop bands would be delighted to come up with an album this strong. Overall, this album isn't as strong as "Powerbill." But I still think it's very good overall. That's actually a little longer than "Powerbill" is.Ĭalling these "demos" undersells them. But there is this, which are unreleased demos of songs considered for their album "Powerbill." Luckily, there are enough songs for a 38-minute long album.
If the band played any concerts, which is uncertain, there are no known live bootlegs. It eventually came out in 1996 in Japan, for a short time only, but that wasn't enough for the band to get back together.īecause of that unfortunate history, I don't think there's any music by the band other than that album, and this. This band competed the album in 1993, and broke up shortly thereafter when they were unable to get it released on any label. I just posted "Powerbill," the one and only studio album by the short-lived power pop band the Semantics. Basically, I just removed the name of that song from the bottom of the cover, and replaced it with Mike's name for this album. I used the artwork of the "May Be a Price to Pay" single. I made the album cover art, with Mike's input and approval. So please keep an eye out for that soon.Ġ1 May Be a Price to Pay (Alan Parsons Project)Ġ2 Games People Play (Alan Parsons Project)Ġ3 Time (Alan Parsons Project)Ġ4 The Turn of a Friendly Card - Snake Eyes - I Don't Wanna Go Home (Alan Parsons Project)Ġ5 The Gold Bug (Alan Parsons Project)Ġ6 The Turn of a Friendly Card (Alan Parsons Project)Ġ7 Snake Eyes (Alan Parsons Project)Ġ8 The Ace of Swords (Alan Parsons Project)Ġ9 Nothing Left to Lose (Alan Parsons Project)ġ0 The Turn of a Friendly Card [Eric Guide Vocal and Extended Guitar. Hopefully he may still post some things here, if he wants more of my involvement on something, but probably a lot more over there. So we've decided it's better if he posts most of his stuff through PJ's excellent "Albums I Wish Existed" blog. He has a lot of things to post, and it's hard for me to deal with that and the many, many albums I want to post on my own. However, on a sad note, it seems I have slowly driven Mike crazy with my slow pace of posting his guest post albums.
So instead of writing more about it here, I'll leave it to you to read the PDF file that is included.
He calls this "An Alternate Turn."Īs is his habit, Mike has created a PDF file to explain his thoughts on this album, complete with photos. It turns out there are enough alternate versions of the songs from this album issued as bonus tracks decades later that it's possible to create an entire alternate version of the album. This one is based on the 1980 Alan Parsons Project album "The Turn of a Friendly Card," one of his favorites. Here's a happy holidays to you and yours from Mike Solof. I could be wrong, but I believe this is a screenshot of their video for "Mamma Mia." However, for this album cover, I'm only showing the three sisters, 'cos I thought it's a nice image of the three of them singing into the same microphone. There are six people in the Petersens band, five of them members of the Petersen family. To some, it might seem gimmicky, but I think it just shows that some songs are just really good songs, so they work well in very different styles if played by talented people. You'll see plenty of that here, with songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen and "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys getting a radical makeover. They also have a special talent for taking songs from all sorts of genres and turning them into acoustic folk tunes. The Petersens have done some nice originals, but their main forte is cover songs. Don't mind the fact that even though this is "Home Concerts 3," the first songs here come before the dates of those two concerts. This, by contrast, is a collection of individual songs that they also originally posted on YouTube.
I previously posted two full concerts they did, which they had originally posted on YouTube. They play the sort of music you might want to play on family gatherings on holidays. The Petersens are an American, Christian, wholesome, acoustic family band. But, in my opinion, it has the sort of vibe. There isn't a single Christmas song on it. Happy holidays! Technically, this isn't a Christmas album.