Star One

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This article is about the Dutch musical group. For the Hindi television channel, see STAR One (tv channel)

Photo of Arjen Lucassen used as publicity material for Star One

Star One is a Dutch progressive metal side-project of Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame.

1 Music
2 Album line-up
- 2.1 Additional musicians:
- 2.2 Live line-up:
3 Discography
4 External link

[edit] Music

The music of Star One is heavier than that of Lucassen's progressive rock opera project Ayreon and draws influences from seventies space rock and blends them with modern progressive metal. They have released one studio album, 2002's Space Metal and a live recording with material by Ayreon in addition to that by Star One. At present there are no known plans for any future Star One releases: Arjen Lucassen has stated that the project was merely a chance to write some less serious, more stylistically unified songs, as opposed to the material he normally writes for Ayreon.

[edit] Album line-up

Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Guitars, bass, keyboards
Ed Warby - Drums
Sir Russell Allen - Vocals
Damian Wilson - Vocals
Dan Swanö - Vocals
Floor Jansen - Vocals

[edit] Additional musicians:

Jens Johansson - Keyboards
Erik Norlander - Keyboards
Gary Wehrkamp - Guitar
Robert Soeterboek - Backing vocals
Dave Brock - Lead and backing vocals ('Hawkwind Medley' only)

[edit] Live line-up:

For the live shows, Arjen Lucassen played guitar and synths. In addition, he reprised his vocal role as the "Hippie" character for the songs from Ayreon's "Into the Electric Castle" concept album. Furthermore, Dan Swanö could not commit to the tour, being in the middle of work on Nightingale's "Alive Again: The Breathing Shadow Part IV". (It's interesting to note that Arjen Lucassen contributed a guitar solo to this album.) Swanö's vocal parts and certain sections of the Ayreon material were handled live by Robert Soeterboek, who has appeared on several previous Ayreon albums. Apart from this, the central line-up was unchanged. The following guest musicians took part in the performance: