Ramos – Hugo – The Dream 2008

osh Ramos: his roots locate at Bay Area, San Francisco, where – in the first half of the 80s – he cut his teeth in LE MANS trying to unveil his strapping persona in a typhoon of cranking guitarists (remember Mike Varney’s roster?). An equal mix of shredder-ness and melody, Ramos had to wait a little bit before scoring bigger levels with THE STORM (hyper-band featuring JOURNEY members), HARDLINE and TWO FIRES (alongside THE STORM’s superb singer Kevin Chalfant). His first solo album, Living In The Light, was a good portion of guitar-oriented Rock album; dunno if The Dream is considered to be a Ramos solo follow-up, then again.

Hugo: a ‘cult’ singer for OPEN EYEZ and VALENTINE, as well as a revered solo artist, he definitely bears a face resemblance to JOURNEY’s legendary frontman Steve Perry, let alone the fact he strongly sounds influenced by the American idol (he even fronted a tribute band called EVOLUTION). His debut solo CD did score great feedback in the AOR field, while he additionally released two more albums (Time On Earth and Fire In The Night). In the midst of VALENTINE being back on trek in 2008, Hugo took the chance to accept Ramos’ kind proposal to sing in The Dream.

Tracklist:
01. You’re Not Alone
02. All That I Wanted
03. The Dream
04. Fool’s Game
05. Bring Back This Love
06. I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye
07. When You Get Lonely
08. In The City
09. Tomorrow
10. If I Can Take You

Line-Up:
Josh Ramos – guitars
Hugo Valenti – vocals
John Macaluso – drums
Eric Ragno – keyboards
Jamie – bass

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