Lost In The Translation

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 53:33

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JSS: Best Place to Start

GKH

Yes, he's been known as a journeyman vocalist, but he's got an unbelievable voice and uncanny pop and rick sensibility. Many people will recognize his voice as that of the movie "Rockstar", singing the parts behind Mark Whalberg. That's only part of the story, however. Lost In Translation, shows JSS in his best comfort zone and displays his command of rock, pop and on occasion, soulful delivery. This is the man who was tapped by Neal Schon for Soul Sirkus (once the ill-fated Planet US folded as Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony left for the '04 VH reunion) and he eventually replaced Steve Augeri (after vocal problems arose) as the lead vocalist for Journey for the remainder of the 2006 tour. One listen to this album explains why. Start here for the solo material, then jump to his primary band, Talisman

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Guitarrock

Probably JSS`s career highlight, LITT features great hooks/melodies and a guitarist, Howie Simon, who is elbowing many self-defined virtuoso out of the shreddodrome at the speed of light. Mandatory stuff

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GREAT ALBUM

EMUSIC-Sebastian

Really good stuff here. Jeff holds his own - solid - good pipes. Tracks 1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 11 & 13 my favs. Kinda rare to like so many tracks on one album. These days it seems most artists (major label that is) are lucky to have 1 - 2 max good songs on them and those tracks usually are written by a "label approved" song writer. Lame! This is an exception.

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California native Jeff Scott Soto is a journeyman vocalist who started out singing for theatrical metal guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen in the ’80s. He then went on to front numerous not-quite-on-the-radar groups throughout the ’90s before teaming with Journey guitarist Neal Schon in the group Soul SirkUS in 2004. Since 1995, Soto has also consistently released solo albums, this being his fourth. The opening song, and Schon co-write, “Believe in Me” sounds like an outtake from Journey’s Frontiers (or like psyche-up music from an ’80s teen film), while “Soul Divine” has an ’80s lite-metal bent to it, as does “Drowning.” Soto just happens to have one of those dramatically fierce, vibrato-drenched voices suited toward ’80s-style pop-metal, and Lost in the Translation is full of grand gestures befitting that era. Originally released on the European label Frontiers in 2004, the CD was issued stateside by Locomotive Music in 2005. – Erik Hage

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