Arjen Lucassen
Arjen Anthony Lucassen (born April 3 1960) is a composer and musician from the Netherlands. He sings and plays a large variety of instruments, including guitars, flutes and synthesizers. Although he cannot read or write music, obviously as a guitar player, he knows chords and specific chord arrangements. In bands like Ayreon, he gathers a large group of musicians and records albums with them. He is often credited with having revived the rock opera genre.
Recent bands
Past bands
- Bodine
- Vengeance
Guest appearances
- Pythagoras - After the Silence (1981)
- Anthony - Pools Of Sorrow, Waves Of Joy (1993)
- Ian Parry - Symphony of Dreams (1993)
- Alex Bollard - Pink Floyd Songbook (1994)
- Ian Parry - Thru the Looking Glass (1995)
- Strange Hobby - Strange Hobby (1996)
- Biscuit - Between you and me (1996)
- Veralin - Opposites (1997)
- Helloise - A Time And Place For Everything (1998)
- Block Busters - Powder to the People (1999)
- Ian Parry - Consortium Project (1999)
- Peter Daltrey - Candy (1999)
- Ian Parry - Shadowman (2000)
- Glass Hammer - Chronometree (2000)
- Within Temptation - Mother Earth (2000)
- Lana Lane - Secrets Of Astrology (2000)
- After Forever - Emphasis (single) (2002)
- Nolan / Wakeman - The Hound Of The Baskervilles (2002)
- Wicked Sensation - Reflected (2002)
- Nightingale - Alive Again (2003)
- Ars Nova - Biogenesis (2003)
- Gary Hughes - Once And Future King - Part 1 (2003)
- Space Mirrors - The Darker Side of Art (2004)
- Amadeus' Spell (2004)
- Elfonía - This Sonic Landscape (2005)
Notes
Arjen is known for loving to get emails from his fans, and answers them rather diligently, as quickly as he can in his hectic schedule. He also opened a line of communication on the Ayreon website known as "Ask Arjen Anything", where fans could ask whatever they'd like to him, to which Arjen answers, and the completed list can be seen on the site itself.
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