Omega was founded with a concert at the university of Budapest in September 1962 shortly after the Rolling Stones had their first performance. Sad day for all rock music lovers. Omega's charismatic, long blond-haired singer is dead. On September 01st, 2017 Omega visited the Stones Pavilion, a little Rolling Stones museum, in the Saxon town of Bautzen.









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RIP Kóbor János

Sad .... Omega lost now their 3rd member in just 13 months - Wikipedia.

RIP

Would someone who knows and likes this band post a youtube link or two? Thanks.

From the wikipedia link...

János Kóbor died on December 6 2021 after contracting COVID-19.[25][26] He earlier noted his refusal to get vaccinated, despite supporting the vaccination in general, but is unknown if he later took vaccine.

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Would someone who knows and likes this band post a youtube link or two? Thanks.

video: [www.youtube.com]

OMG, this sounds like Europe

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Strike
OMG, this sounds like Europe

I came across this song on YT: Omega

Now tell me how European this sounds.

Supposedly it's from 1971. Heavy nugget, indeed.

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TravellinMan
Would someone who knows and likes this band post a youtube link or two? Thanks.

video: [www.youtube.com]

Thanks.
Youtube pushed this to me. Same song with captioned English lyrics.

[www.youtube.com]

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Omega was founded with a concert at the university of Budapest in September 1962 shortly after the Rolling Stones had their first performance.

Re-release: Omega / III - 28-Jan-2022 - [www.jpc.de] :



"More than 50 million records sold, LP productions in Hungarian, German and English, tours and festival appearances all over Europe and Japan, at least 50 cover versions or rewrites of the world hit "Gyöngyhajú lány" exist - Omega are Hungary's number one rock export. in 2022, the band celebrates its 60th stage anniversary, making it one of the longest-serving rock formations in the world.

On St. Nicholas Day, December 06, 2021, singer and founding member Janos Kobor died of the corona virus. Now the Omega albums from the well-known and successful Bacillus phase are re-released in their original and complete form on CD, vinyl and digitally. The 1973 LP "Omega I" was the compilation of songs from "Élö" and from the album "Omega 5", which was released in the same year in the Eastern Bloc. To fuel the sales of this first record of the Hungarian flagship rockers on Peter Hauke's Bacillus label, it was flanked by two singles that included the ballad "Gyöngyhajú lány" in English ("Pearls In Her Hair") and German ("Perlen im Haar").

After a few excursions into psychedelic rock realms, Omega presented itself more gripping again on III at the end of 1974: nine crisp hard rock numbers, only one exceeded the four-minute mark. For this, Hauke as continuing executive producer and Omega had not only used current material, but had also fallen back on songs that had already appeared on record in the Hungarian original in 1969: "Stormy Fire" and "Spanish Guitar". In order to appeal to a wider audience in the future, the pieces had been pared down, instrumental solo efforts were kept within limits.

With "Stormy Fire", "Go On The Spree" and "Fancy Jeep" the five Hungarians had rather hautrauf rockers in the list, which could also please a glam rock fan who just consumed with enthusiasm the single hits of The Sweet and Slade. The series with reissues of Omega from the catalog of the rock label Bacillus continues." - [www.jpc.de] .