{"id":3031,"date":"1989-03-01T00:00:38","date_gmt":"1989-03-01T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2012-01-16T17:36:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:36:53","slug":"demo-review-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"FORTUNE &#8211; Demo (1988) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: #c80000;\"><strong>FORTUNE<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"smalltitle\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: #c80000;\"><strong>Fortune (1989)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fortune1988promophoto.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>With an average age of 19, Boston, Massachusetts-based Fortune are a hard rocking sextet who look to be going places. Featuring Bob Vose (vocals), Pete DiStefano and Bill Plourde (guitars), Kevin Belanger (bass), Dave Vargas (drums) and Jeremy Heussi (keyboards), Fortune fall into the commercial end of the rock spectrum blending bluesy rock\u2019n\u2019roll with textured harmonized AOR with a pomp edge.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Wolf Will Survive\u2019, which was featured on last year\u2019s <em>Hard Report Hard Hitters<\/em> CD (a promotional compilation disc that is circulated to all the album-orientated rock stations across the US), is a mixture of Whitesnake and Stryper, while \u2018Open Your Eyes\u2019 is more in the Y&#038;T mould, oozing plenty of melody.<\/p>\n<p>The ballad, \u2018All I Can Do Is Dream\u2019 is pretty dreary and is by far the worst track on the four-song demo, but things are readjusted with \u2018Don\u2019t Lose Faith\u2019; a powerful rocker similar to Stryper but much heavier.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely a band to watch, Fortune have already had label interest, and hopefully it won\u2019t be too long before they get their inkings on a record contract.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 37 (1989)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORTUNE Fortune (1989) With an average age of 19, Boston, Massachusetts-based Fortune are a hard rocking sextet who look to be going places. Featuring Bob Vose (vocals), Pete DiStefano and Bill Plourde (guitars), Kevin Belanger (bass), Dave Vargas (drums) and Jeremy Heussi (keyboards), Fortune fall into the commercial end of the rock spectrum blending bluesy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reviews","category-fortune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}