Artist description Melodic Rock!!..Meaningful Lyric Content!..Excellent Ballad Rock!! Great Sound!Strong Vocal Content! Harmonies! Big Sound!

Music Style Rock!, Soft Rock!, Melodic Rock! Ballad Rock!, Country Rock! Alternative Rock!

Musical Influences The Beatles, 38 Special, Asia, Yes, Paul McCartney, Bad Finger, Hendrix,Stones, Boyce and Hart, Everly Bros. and More!

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Artist History NOW AVAILABLE! THE CD's YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR FROM THE GROUP "Prior Park". "Prior Park" Who currently lives in the Greater Sacramento area of California. It was the same Sacramento Area that Night Ranger, Tesla, CCR, Steve Perry, Jefferson Starship, Steele Breeze, Ian Shelter Played for their pre audiences. Veterans In the Rock Scene in the area, Jeff Heller Formally with groups (Ian Shelter, The Arizona Band , and dbTHRASHER went solo for a few years with his own group The JEFFHELLERCOLLECTION and recorded his 1st solo LP "REFLECTIONS" and the CD "IMPRESSIONS" with the help of long time musician friends from the Sacramento area.. Jeff by now has played a multitude of concert situations in the Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas and the San Francisco and the timing was right to start the formation of "PRIOR PARK"- Enters William Guevara - Guitarist from the group The Verge and Midnight Hour . William also played a multitude of concerts. Jeff and William Started collaborating their ideals and now enters Ted Machleit - Guitarist/ Vocalist/ Songwriter-a long time friend of Jeff's who played with "db THRASHER" They met up in Los Angeles while Jeff and Will were recording the sessions of " In my arms tonight" and "The Castle ", And this began the start of a beautiful friendship! Noted!! Jeff Boudrot - Drums, // Mike Williams - Keyboards, //Phil Dockery - Guitar,// Who are also from the Sacramento area. Just to fill you in Jeff, William and Ted and a long time friend Matt Ryan who is a phenomenal Drummer just finished four brand new songs Now Available On MP3.COM. Enjoy em! As we did recording them!

Group Members Jeff Heller- Bass, Keyboard,Vocal//Ted Machleit-Guitar, Vocal//William Guevara - Guitar//Matt Ryan - Drums//Jeff Boudrot - Drums//Mike Williams - Keyboards//Phil Dockery - Guitar//

Instruments Vocals, Acoustics, Guitars, Keyboards,Bass, Drums

Albums Prior Park - Passport - http://www.hellersongs.com

Press Reviews Local News Papers/Magazines/Sacramento Bee/Valley Music News/WELCOME TO PRIOR PARK-PRIOR PARK (INDEPENDENT)PRIOR PARK comes out of El Dorado, California and has released two CDs. Leader of the band is Jeff Heller who plays bass, keyboards and sings on the CDs. 'Welcome to Prior Park' features 8 songs and musically we are into 80s typed AOR/Melodic Rock territory. The band reminds me a lot of LITTERER, they play somewhat the exact same style. There are also influences from NIGHT RANGER, 38 SPECIAL and the old THRILLS. The first two songs ("Once you get started" and "Let me be the one") are good uptempo melodic rockers like 38 SPECIAL. Then we get to hear the fantastic song "Aim for the heart", a classy mid 80s AOR tune which reminds me a lot of the old NIGHT RANGER. In this same style is the song "Nothin's gonna bring me down" which also has some VAN HALEN influences here and there. "It's gonna take some time" and "In my arms tonight" are the semi AOR ballads on this CD and sound like a mix between REO SPEEDWAGON and 80s NIGHT RANGER. Remaining tracks are the melodic rocker "Bring the magic to me" and closing track "The castle", a bit experimental song which falls a little out of place between the rest of the tracks on this CD. A good record and recommended to evreyone that likes early 80s melodic rock/aor in the style of bands such as NIGHT RANGER, 38 SPECIAL, LITTERER…(Points: 8.5 out of 10. Go To: http://www.angelfire.com/ma/strutteraorPASSPORT-PRIOR PARK (INDEPENDENT)Besides 'Welcome to the park', PRIOR PARK also released a CD titled 'Passport' which also features 8 songs of which 2 also appeared on the above reviewed CD. These are the melodic AOR rocker "Nothing's gonna bring me down" and "The castle" (which now sounds like STYX - "Boat on the river"). What remains are 6 interesting songs of this Californian AOR outfit. "The ride" is a great semi melodic rocker. The band really moves into Classic early 80s AOR on the song "She turned out the light on me", a fantastic uptempo AOR song which reminds me of bands such as CINEMA, NIGHTWORK, BOOTCAMP, PROPHET… This is the AOR style I prefer to hear and if PRIOR PARK would put more songs like these on a future record, then they would easily become one of the best indie AOR bands around. Still the band has a lot to offer, because a song like "Together" is also a very nice (calmer) AOR song. This CD captures a couple of different music influences which can clearly be heard in "One kind of woman", a 70s pop influenced TOTO oriented track. Same goes for the already mentioned "The castle". The songs I haven't mentioned yet are "C'mon everybody" (nice melodic rocker) and "Impressions" (good semi AOR ballad). PRIOR PARK has a lot of potency to become one of the best indie AOR bands around today. Check out their mp3 site at: http://www.mp3.com/priorpark for all the information and listen to their songs, especially I would recommend you to listen to their fantastic AOR song "She turned out the light on me", Classic 80s AOR at it's best! more info on this and about the band can also be read in an interview which will be uploaded to this site later this month. (Points: 8.0 out of 10) Gabor KleinbloesemEditor of Strutter'zine

Additional Info FEB 2000 INTERVIEW = http://www.angelfire.com/az2/strutter8/PRIORPARKINTERVIEW.htm

Location Sacramento, California - USA

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