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Talisman
12+ albums
hard rockmelodic rockAORrockreggae
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There are at least four bands called Talisman: 1. TALISMAN are a hard rock band characterized by an international melodic/powerful sound. TALISMAN started off more or less as the brainchild of the amazing bass player Marcel Jacob. He played with bands like Rising Force, John Norum Group and Power. On the first self titled album, TALISMAN were not really a band: Marcel was playing with John Norum when he started working on the tracks he thought would end up on the second Norum's solo album after he left Europe. The singer on those demos was Göran Edman, also in John Norum Group at that time. But John rejected the songs and, in the meantime, Göran was offered to join Yngwie Malmsteen. Marcel was later contacted by a guy who had previously worked for the label which had originally showed some interest in the demos. This guy was pretty much sure that a couple of tracks could easily become hits. This was very good but Marcel didn’t basically have anyone lined up. So he started looking around for musicians, while the auditions done to some Swedish vocalist contenders were unsuccessful. Cary Sharaf (ex Wasa Express guitar player) suggested the name of Jeff Scott Soto: he was called, he got the material and said yes! Both Jeff and Marcel had played on Malmsteen's "Marching Out" in 1985, hitting the road to support the album and making quite a stir in Japan. In February of 1989 the recordings for the first album took place in Stockholm with Christopher Ståhl (Power) and Mats Lindfors
