OSI - 01 The Escape Artist

[@divyx]

Well you know that Kevin abandoned commercialism damn long ago. Artists like him deserve to do the album just like they want to, like it should be for any serious artist out there. Thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!!

[@hahahahva]

This album is a proud member of my CD collection. I love Kevin Moore so very very much. I can't even decide on which song I like the most.

[@khold7560]

Blood

[@emilyliberman-omy5484]

well... now it's the only source to listen to best album - THANK YOU!

[@dannje8405]

Only source? You can literally buy the album in a bunch of different ways and at the same time support the artist.

[@emilyliberman-omy5484]

⁠@@dannje8405i wrote my comment 2 years ago. By that time I was listening to this album on apple music. And then they removed it from their list. And no vinyl record was available. But now I have that record. So… pay attention when you write a comment. It might be not relevant.

[@elizabethbathory1120]

I am in love with this band for more than 4 years. I can say that "Blood" album is the one of the best of OSI.

[@jublaim]

Liked in a Spot suggestion, forgotten and then wow this is really good resurrected. Kinda simple but got groove and ya know.

[@TheGrandBrand]

What's fantastic about this song besides the fact that it's fantastic? The chorus begins before the chorus: "alone, alone" which belongs to the chorus' melody is sung while the verse still plays, just before the instruments join in for the chorus. What a great sound!

[@venkatnatarajan3479]

Naturally Spotify recommended this song for me, and I was having this play in the background. Halfway through the song I thought to myself "The drumming sounds a lot like Gavin Harrison. I mean, it is so unique and tasty". I look up album personnel and it was indeed GH on the drums. Some musicians have their signature; their style stands out.

[@mr.magenta4877]

I have been listening to this and picking up on the drummer and I am a big BIG fan of Gavin Harrison and I made the comment to myself this guy (the drummer) is definitely a Gavin fan or maybe its Gavin himself?! And sure enough it is. Gavin just has that unique ability to use fills where NOT many drummers can rhythmically design those beats and keep it all in time. Stupendous! All of the other musicians are great as well and on the other albums Mike Portnoy is drumming I could definitely pick up on his style as well. Fantastic.

[@Plaswuff]

This album is perfect in its tastefulness, its lack of overindulgence (which could happen, given the ability of the guys involved) and the exquisite production. Can't wait for number four.

[@mdrumjack]

Gavin Harrison, perfect sound at a perfect time!!!!

[@vampiroangelico]

Thank you for being fair to me. The thumbs down don't mean anything, really. I've learned to ignore them. Only people who are incapable of being articulate and objective, hard core OSI fans or people who only listen to metal and nothing else, would give thumbs down to a comment like mine, which is based upon my own experience as a music listener (and I refuse to listen to only metal) and on my 30 years experience as a progressive musician.

[@billstarrjr.3249]

these guys poured their hearts out making this music. they put blood, sweet and tears in so someone can relate to the music they make. if you have anything negative to say, i piety you! this is pure rock in its most advanced form. only true rockers can share the same soul here!

[@khold7560]

I agree...instead in the opposite direction we have Dream Theater

[@mmteshi]

My favourite song of the album :)

[@MarianoCardilloMusic]

I love this song

[@theinaereproject]

everything is perfect in this song.. kevin is a genius

[@marcosesatti]

Bravo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I stand Up!

[@SHR3DD3Rx]

I am very happy there are no idiots comin' here to say that OSI sucks. That always ruins listening to the song for me. OSI RULES!

[@GazellePearl]

it's never late! and yeah you just gotto buy it! it's awesome.

[@vampiroangelico]

I love jazz and fusion myself, Pat Metheny is one of my biggest favorites, along with David Gilmour, Steve Rothery (Marillion), Robert Smith (The Cure), Larry Carlton, Gary Moore and John Sykes. But you know what? There's good and bad music in every genre. Keep your mind open, remember, the mind is like a parachute, it only works when it's open! ;-)

[@khold7560]

What Robert Smith have to do whit that list ? 😱😱😱😱

[@pianoprog]

This is root music ... totally rockin ... progressive rules ... Kevin follwed his own original way after DT and personally I'm happy he did it ..

[@Iakyaa]

Yeah definitely check out the whole album as it far from constant hard driving metal. While I prefer the harder style I think the whole album is very balanced. Also this song as the first track is perfect in my opinion because if the album had started with a song like Terminal, I think I might have been very underwhelmed with it. But on the other hand, that could have suited someones elses musical tastes perfectly so its hard to judge without personal bias.

[@Hadd13]

great song even a better album

[@TheVrominator]

This is so awesome......

[@davisouzza8980]

Melhor banda, bixo

[@micanut48]

let's call it this: honest music done by honest musicians. How about that?

[@JSBMable]

I think what makes this album special is Gavin Harrison' drumming. He is also a genius. I' ve got Fire Make Thunder yesterday.

[@LiquidShadows71]

Actually Portnoy was kicked cause of Kevin Moore's strife with him, Mateos wanted him on it so Moore went along but wasn't happy about it. I think Portnoy did the first two albums but this one is definitely Gavin Harrison as well as Fire Make Thunder . If ya listen you can hear the differences ~

[@Mr6saabs]

Gavin Harrison is a beast

[@AhnxRU]

Jim Matheos is a genius.

[@metal1636]

Sim, Jim Matheos É Gênio Máximo! Amém! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

[@vampiroangelico]

Exactly, and we're talking about a good album, I want you to know. Matter of fact, although my favorite moments are "terminal", "we come undone" and "radiologue", I'm going to get the whole album, with bonus tracks too!

[@USMCSDI]

OSI is bad ass. To go from MP on drums to GH is not losing a beat. PUN INTENDED!

[@Iakyaa]

to each his own :P but i completely agree about commenting on albums, different backgrounds even as artists makes music so diverse :D

[@DeHa1980]

Third, best album of this supergroup. When I heard the Head work for the first time, from first album, I knew that the rock hadn't died. OSI is ruling, and Gavin far better he integrated than Portnoy himself into the weather of the music of the group, although I respect this drummer.

[@WilczekToJa]

WOW... kick ass song!

[@jordantessier25]

this band is intense now. I love portnoy but something tells me that gavin harrison just fits in better.. I don't know if anyone else agrees lol...

[@frankvilly6083]

portnoy is an asshole...

[@0_Ka-Bar_0]

There's no one like Gavin... Not Portnoy, not Carrey. No one can touch his skill

[@88omair]

@@0_Ka-Bar_0 Bobby Jarzombek and Mark Zonder are also in the elite category

[@AlecScam]

You act mysterious but you speak in gibberish You can take your memories I'm off I better be alone Alone.

[@USMCSDI]

GREAT SONG!

[@vivace679]

yea this one is great!

[@caniportnoy]

tremendooo!!

[@thedarksideofthemenk557]

tanta roba ...!

[@TheAdam159]

This album is sick! Harrison is a god, of course. Kevin and Jim are great on this disc, too.

[@rodrigomacias]

de lo mejor

[@EttoreFerretti]

Gavin !!!

[@jofvenom]

Awesome song! Awesome band and Awesome fucking song!

[@Optimus182]

Definitely liking this album more than Free don't know if it tops OSI yet

[@1980Davor]

So fuckin good chorus

[@Ar41e]

Why does anyone not mentioned about Kevin Moore on this EP?!

[@Iakyaa]

I downloaded the album off Itunes, but im sure its available on other places like amazon or their website maybe

[@SHR3DD3Rx]

That is logical. I suppose I may take that into consideration.

[@psychofunksoldier02]

Ditto!

[@guitaristFemale]

i agree

[@HedOnFire]

@jordantessier25 actually ironically enough the only drummer I don't mind replacing Portnoy in any project would probably be Gavin. He's a phenomenal drummer on a very different end of the progressive spectrum.

[@toolfan92]

Gavin Harrison.

[@hushjohnny9543]

These dudes must not of got much exposure or something along those lines? How in the hell aren't they on rock radio, or have I just been under the rock? WOW....(just found this band today)...killer stuff! I saw something about Dream Theatre...was one of these guys in that band some time ago or something? HELP! Thanks.

[@hushjohnny9543]

.....KILLER, thanks!!!! \../

[@thechickennuggetoffate9139]

Yes. The first Keyboard player of Dream Theater is the Vocalist and keyboardist of this band, Kevin Moore. One of the best in the industry as for arrangements and composition other than maybe DT's current keys player, Jordan Rudess

[@MasterExploder61]

He's entitled to his opinion.

[@rodrigomacias]

but this is just the first song, you have to listen the whole album. And actually in their first album they have songs like this one

[@starark]

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[@fLx0r1z0r]

Maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me but for me it seems like I've heard that chorus melody ("you can take your memory, I'm off I'd better be alone, alone" chorus melody "I'm off I'd better be" chorus melody) in a prior song but I can't remember the damned title

[@gerdfeichtinger9521]

Gerry Glitter ?

[@gerdfeichtinger9521]

gerd feichtinger Gary Glitter "Hello" glaube ich..

[@ethergr4]

it's kinda HIM song I think.join me in death maybe?

[@MetalReaperDanielR]

I think it's "you can take your rhetories"

[@anthrmthrfckr]

Techno solo FTW!

[@pecavallo]

Great song.. I like kevin's voice, but he could sing for a few minutes instead of "talking" through the whole thing. I think that would give more dynamics to the full piece.

[@ozzzzy939]

agreed, but i dont mean the group as a whole, just this song.

[@vampiroangelico]

I did hear the whole album, but in my humble opinion the metal moments are far too many. Far more than needed to be able to make an album of intelligent, thoughtful music. There's nothing bad necessarily about having a personal bias when commenting on albums, since we all come from different backgrounds, but just as long as we respect each other's opinion and avoid the belittling and the cheap insults. :-)

[@vampiroangelico]

@aSpoonfedTribe Metal in itself is not intelligent, thoughtful music. If you wish to hear intelligent, thoughtful music, try Genesis, Yes, Marillion, Pendragon, Spock's Beard, Flower Kings, and as much as I love Fates Warning, I only liked them between their "No Exit" and "Inside Out" period. I cannot listen to bands that are too enslaved by the obsession of having to use 100% distortion all the time and loud drums all the time, and very few dynamic changes, if any at all....

[@vampiroangelico]

@aSpoonfedTribe LOL that in itself was not a very intelligent comment.

[@vampiroangelico]

@aSpoonfedTribe Why is it a bad thing to have distortion? I didnt say it's a bd thing to use distortion, but it is to use it all the time, because in heavy distortion it becomes far too easy to hide mistakes and your lack of technical skills, and when you use distortion all the time, everything starts becoming like a bumblebee buzzing, and you lose the musicality of your compositions.

[@GazellePearl]

you act mysterious, but you speak in gibberish!

[@vampiroangelico]

@aSpoonfedTribe I can tell your views are very restricted, and you're being quite enslaved and locked in that silly heavy metal cage you built around yourself. Nick Menza, funny you say that, is actually quite sloppy, without even mentioning the fact that Dave Mustaine only knows pentatonic/chromatic scales. I myself learned how to play his solos when I was 20, when the records by you mentioned were popular. He was not what I call challenging.

[@drunkhas]

So d yourself the favor and don't read comments. No rude sound in there pal.

[@vampiroangelico]

@aSpoonfedTribe I can tell you're not a musician, or not a very articulate one, if you claim distorted guitarists and loud drummers have higher skills than musicians like Genesis and Yes. No one in the metal world can touch the knowledge of people like Phil Collins, Al Morse, Nick D.Virgilio, Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, Nick Barrett....

[@MarkReed-smokindeist]

Jim Matheos is amazing in the guitar but if you want another 'metal' guy, how about Devin Townsend?

[@psychofunksoldier02]

Sadly I think that's the weakest component of OSI's music IMHO.

[@matthewterry9818]

Oh, so this is where Dream Theater went ten years ago. How I've missed them.

[@jamiemacmillan4056]

Everyone complains about mangini and labrie but it's Rudess that's the issue. You only have to listen to the instrumental parts of Train of Thought to realise that. He's all flash and very rarely serves the song. He joined Dream Theater thinking it was all about how difficult what he played was whereas Moore (and tbh Sherinian too) used their keys to add layers of atmosphere to the music which complements the music in every way possible.

[@vampiroangelico]

Eh! Too heavy metal for me! In this new OSI cd I was hoping for an influence closer to Oceansize's style, which is closer to OSI's first cd. I love Moore from DT's Images & Words, and I LOOOOVE Matheos' acoustic cds and his stuff in FW from Perfect Simmetry, but this is just too much silly metal....not enough beauty, textures and intelligence.

[@ozzzzy939]

Honestly i dont really see how this can be considered progressive.... Sounds like hard rock, but sounds ok i guess..

[@DiegoProgressive]

It´s ok, but not that good to be considered as progressive rock

[@MrDoggerDog]

Diego Romero I'm not sure quality is what dictates whether something is progressive or not, but I agree - OSI is just three guys making killer rock tunes.

[@pagedown6310]

this song is pretty straightforward but the rest of the album has a lot of prog elements