MR

There were times in past I thought Hugo should be lead vox in Journey instead of Steve Augeri or JSS... Now I'm over it... I think Hugo has a talent for bigger things than just being tribute singer... there are so many gems on his albums and projects that he definetely must tour with his OWN songs... Hugo, forget Journey, forget Steve Perry - go your own way... and do it proudly.

Here is Hugo's discography, with links to reviews...

VALENTINE - VALENTINE (1990)
reviews:
http://www.wallofsilence.com/content.php?review.104
http://www.metal-observer.com/articles. ... =1&id=3452

SOUNDTRACK for movie DON'T TELL MOM BABYSITTER'S DEAD (1991) - on song Keep The Faith

OPEN SKYZ - OPEN SKYZ (1993)
review:
http://www.glory-daze.com/print.php?type=A&item_id=675

HUGO - HUGO (1997)
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/reviewsuk.html#hugo

HUGO - TIME ON EARTH (2000)
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/frhugo.p3

STREET TALK - RESTORATION (2002) - on songs My Heart Beats For You and Why Is My Heart Feeling Lonely Tonight
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/stre ... ation.html

HUGO - FIRE IN THE NIGHT (2004)
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/hugo ... henight.p3

STREET TALK - DESTINATION (2004) - compilation, same two songs from album Restoration

AVALON - THE RICHIE ZITO PROJECT (2006) - on songs Blue Collar and Blue Monday
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/avalon.p3

Maro wrote:There were times in past I thought Hugo should be lead vox in Journey instead of Steve Augeri or JSS... Now I'm over it... I think Hugo has a talent for bigger things than just being tribute singer... there are so many gems on his albums and projects that he definetely must tour with his OWN songs... Hugo, forget Journey, forget Steve Perry - go your own way... and do it proudly.

Here is Hugo's discography, with links to reviews...

VALENTINE - VALENTINE (1990)
reviews:
http://www.wallofsilence.com/content.php?review.104
http://www.metal-observer.com/articles. ... =1&id=3452

SOUNDTRACK for movie DON'T TELL MOM BABYSITTER'S DEAD (1991) - on song Keep The Faith

OPEN SKYZ - OPEN SKYZ (1993)
review:
http://www.glory-daze.com/print.php?type=A&item_id=675

HUGO - HUGO (1997)
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/reviewsuk.html#hugo

HUGO - TIME ON EARTH (2000)
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/frhugo.p3

STREET TALK - RESTORATION (2002) - on songs My Heart Beats For You and Why Is My Heart Feeling Lonely Tonight
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/stre ... ation.html

HUGO - FIRE IN THE NIGHT (2004)
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/hugo ... henight.p3

STREET TALK - DESTINATION (2004) - compilation, same two songs from album Restoration

AVALON - THE RICHIE ZITO PROJECT (2006) - on songs Blue Collar and Blue Monday
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/avalon.p3

Wow some great research dude!
I am a big Hugo fan, and agree with you 100%.
I wish he could just get some radio play on an adult contemporary station, people would eat it up.
We should start up an online push to program directors!

gatorzone04 wrote:Wow some great research dude!
I am a big Hugo fan, and agree with you 100%.

Thanks, man.
I felt that people should get more info about Hugo... Many people never bother to learn more about his own work and mock him for being Journey tribute vox...

Speaking about his albums, I managed to get my hands on everything except his third solo album, Fire In The Night, and original Valentine cd (have a burned copy, though)... Can't wait to hear new album which Hugo is making in collaboration with legendary Josh Ramos (The Storm, Two Fires, Robert Fleischman, Hardline, Ramos...) and this site regular, Eric Ragno.

Maro wrote:

gatorzone04 wrote:Wow some great research dude!
I am a big Hugo fan, and agree with you 100%.

Thanks, man.
I felt that people should get more info about Hugo... Many people never bother to learn more about his own work and mock him for being Journey tribute vox...

Speaking about his albums, I managed to get my hands on everything except his third solo album, Fire In The Night, and original Valentine cd (have a burned copy, though)... Can't wait to hear new album which Hugo is making in collaboration with legendary Josh Ramos (The Storm, Two Fires, Robert Fleischman, Hardline, Ramos...) and this site regular, Eric Ragno.

Maro!!! Thank you for the discography! "Fire in the Night" is absolutely stunning. So stunning, in fact, that it is now missing from my collection (hmm....). I bought my copy from Hugo's site (or a link from there) - I have to go see if I can find it.

Fire in the Night:

http://cgi.ebay.com/FIRE-IN-THE-NIGHT-HUGO-CD-NEW-SEALED-HUGO_W0QQitemZ160138250727QQihZ006QQcategoryZ307QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem


http://cgi.ebay.com/Fire-In-The-Night-by-Hugo-Not-opened_W0QQitemZ4749264433QQihZ017QQcategoryZ307QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

mistiejourney wrote:Maro!!! Thank you for the discography! "Fire in the Night" is absolutely stunning. So stunning, in fact, that it is now missing from my collection (hmm....). I bought my copy from Hugo's site (or a link from there) - I have to go see if I can find it.

Actually, I know that he was selling it thru his website... but I missed it...

There were two links to Hugo's sites:
http://www.hugomusic.net/ and http://www.hugothisway.com/

Both are down for long time...

Maro wrote:

gatorzone04 wrote:Wow some great research dude!
I am a big Hugo fan, and agree with you 100%.

Thanks, man.
I felt that people should get more info about Hugo... Many people never bother to learn more about his own work and mock him for being Journey tribute vox...

Speaking about his albums, I managed to get my hands on everything except his third solo album, Fire In The Night, and original Valentine cd (have a burned copy, though)... Can't wait to hear new album which Hugo is making in collaboration with legendary Josh Ramos (The Storm, Two Fires, Robert Fleischman, Hardline, Ramos...) and this site regular, Eric Ragno.

I got "Fire in the Night" through the journeyshow.com web site. I filled out the booking form and ask if they could sell me the CD, and they did, there are some awesome tracks on there, you should go and ask them, I am sure they can get you one.

gatorzone04 wrote:
I got "Fire in the Night" through the journeyshow.com web site. I filled out the booking form and ask if they could sell me the CD, and they did, there are some awesome tracks on there, you should go and ask them, I am sure they can get you one.

Good idea, I try this one... Thx...

Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

Aaron wrote:Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

Fuck off Rick. And, have you even heard the CD?

Rick wrote:

Aaron wrote:Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

Aaron wrote:

Rick wrote:

Aaron wrote:Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

Fuck off Rick. And, have you even heard the CD?

I haven't heard it, either, but the comment does appear to be pretty outlandish regardless.

Dave,

At least your honest. I'll send you a copy if you like and you can decide. I'll stand by what I said. My kid is a big MR fan and a huge Journey fan. He thinks Valentine is better as well so who knows. If nothing else, I'll bring a copy of Valentine to SB for you.

L8r bro,

Aaron

conversationpc wrote:

Aaron wrote:

Rick wrote:

Aaron wrote:Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

Fuck off Rick. And, have you even heard the CD?

I haven't heard it, either, but the comment does appear to be pretty outlandish regardless.

Aaron wrote:Dave,

At least your honest. I'll send you a copy if you like and you can decide. I'll stand by what I said. My kid is a big MR fan and a huge Journey fan. He thinks Valentine is better as well so who knows. If nothing else, I'll bring a copy of Valentine to SB for you.

L8r bro,

Aaron

conversationpc wrote:

Aaron wrote:

Rick wrote:

Aaron wrote:Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

Fuck off Rick. And, have you even heard the CD?

I haven't heard it, either, but the comment does appear to be pretty outlandish regardless.

Tell you what...If you send it to me and I like it, I will refund you the cost of the CD and the shipping.

Aaron wrote:Dave,

At least your honest. I'll send you a copy if you like and you can decide. I'll stand by what I said. My kid is a big MR fan and a huge Journey fan. He thinks Valentine is better as well so who knows. If nothing else, I'll bring a copy of Valentine to SB for you.

L8r bro,

Aaron

conversationpc wrote:

Aaron wrote:

Rick wrote:

Aaron wrote:Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

Fuck off Rick. And, have you even heard the CD?

I haven't heard it, either, but the comment does appear to be pretty outlandish regardless.

I got told to fuck off somewhere, but now I can't find the post. But yes, I've heard it, and I remember it, Hugo and Valentine were great. I think Hugo has great talent. But Journey is my favorite band and Escape is my favorite album, so I'm sorry if I offended you, but I just thought it was funny.

Aaron wrote:I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

Woah. Heavy duty statement there.

Journey is my favorite band as well but Valentine is my favorite cd and my second favorite band. Escape would make my top 5 list though but I tend to favor the first 3 Journey cd's. No offense taken. Thanks for your note mate.

Rick wrote:

Aaron wrote:Dave,

At least your honest. I'll send you a copy if you like and you can decide. I'll stand by what I said. My kid is a big MR fan and a huge Journey fan. He thinks Valentine is better as well so who knows. If nothing else, I'll bring a copy of Valentine to SB for you.

L8r bro,

Aaron

conversationpc wrote:

Aaron wrote:

Rick wrote:

Aaron wrote:Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

Fuck off Rick. And, have you even heard the CD?

I haven't heard it, either, but the comment does appear to be pretty outlandish regardless.

I got told to fuck off somewhere, but now I can't find the post. But yes, I've heard it, and I remember it, Hugo and Valentine were great. I think Hugo has great talent. But Journey is my favorite band and Escape is my favorite album, so I'm sorry if I offended you, but I just thought it was funny.

Aaron wrote:Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

I agree with you Aaron, Valentine is a great band, and Hugo a great talent

Rick wrote:

Aaron wrote:Dave,

At least your honest. I'll send you a copy if you like and you can decide. I'll stand by what I said. My kid is a big MR fan and a huge Journey fan. He thinks Valentine is better as well so who knows. If nothing else, I'll bring a copy of Valentine to SB for you.

L8r bro,

Aaron

conversationpc wrote:

Aaron wrote:

Rick wrote:

Aaron wrote:Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

Fuck off Rick. And, have you even heard the CD?

I haven't heard it, either, but the comment does appear to be pretty outlandish regardless.

I got told to fuck off somewhere, but now I can't find the post. But yes, I've heard it, and I remember it, Hugo and Valentine were great. I think Hugo has great talent. But Journey is my favorite band and Escape is my favorite album, so I'm sorry if I offended you, but I just thought it was funny.

Hey Rick, fuck off

Just thought u should be told 3 times in the same day!

Maro wrote:
AVALON - THE RICHIE ZITO PROJECT (2006) - on songs Blue Collar and Blue Monday
review:
http://www.melodicrock.com/reviews/avalon.p3

Couldn't agree more. Hugo should drop the Perry stage act and tour his own music. He has a large enough catalogue to do an entire show. I'd buy that ticket.

Maro, do you have the Avalon album? If so, could you post some samples off the hugo tracks? I'd like to hear them before I opt to buy the whole album for a couple of tracks.

STORY_TELLER wrote:

Maro wrote:Maro, do you have the Avalon album? If so, could you post some samples off the hugo tracks? I'd like to hear them before I opt to buy the whole album for a couple of tracks.

Here are samples of Avalon album (songs 1 and 7). Enjoy...

http://www.nehrecords.com/shop/AvalonRichie.htm#FRCD303

Dave,

PM me an address and I'll get it to you. If you like it, you can respond to this post and say that I was right and keep your postage money.

L8r bro,

Aaron

conversationpc wrote:

Aaron wrote:Dave,

At least your honest. I'll send you a copy if you like and you can decide. I'll stand by what I said. My kid is a big MR fan and a huge Journey fan. He thinks Valentine is better as well so who knows. If nothing else, I'll bring a copy of Valentine to SB for you.

L8r bro,

Aaron

conversationpc wrote:

Aaron wrote:

Rick wrote:

Aaron wrote:Maro,

I couldn't agree more with you comments. Hugo is a great talent and should be doing his own thing. I still say his shit is better than anything Journey has done since 83. I'd put Valentine up against Escape for that matter.

L8r,

Aaron

Fuck off Rick. And, have you even heard the CD?

I haven't heard it, either, but the comment does appear to be pretty outlandish regardless.

Tell you what...If you send it to me and I like it, I will refund you the cost of the CD and the shipping.

Maybe we should start an action and send e-mails to record labels specialized to reissues with hope that someone would hear and rerelease Valentine, Open Skyz and Hugo's solo albums...

Here are links to some reissue labels I found on net:

Wounded Bird Records
http://www.woundedbird.com/

Majestic Rock
http://www.majesticrock.com/

Rhino Records - part of Warner Music Group
http://www.rhino.com/

Rock Candy Records
http://www.rockcandyrecords.co.uk/

AOR Heaven
http://www.aorheaven.com/

Escape Music Ltd.
http://www.escape-music.com/

Ace Records
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/

Legacy Recordings - part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment
http://www.legacyrecordings.com/

Spitfire Records and Eagle Rock Entertainment
http://www.eaglerockent.com/

Disky Communications Europe B.V.
http://www.disky.nl/

Razor & Tie
http://www.razorandtie.com/label/home.asp

Axe Killer Records - are they still alive??
http://home.nordnet.fr/~lbocquet/axekiller.html

BGO Records
http://www.bgo-records.com/

Repertoire Entertainment
http://www.repertoirerecords.com/

Hip-O Records - part of Universal Music Group
http://www.hip-o.com/

Voiceprint Music
http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/

Angel Air Records
http://www.angelair.co.uk/

One Way Records
http://www.onewayrecords.com/ - doesn't work, still alive??