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Post by JerseyGirl on Nov 15, 2021 21:54:05 GMT -5
For some reason this New York band keeps getting tossed into the Southern rock bag where they do not belong... That could be because their music fits in the style of Skynyrd, Allman Brothers and the Outlaws. Wasn't Ronnie considering having Leslie West join Skynyrd until Leslie wanted his name as part of the band's billing.
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Post by MDfan aka The MD Well Man on Nov 16, 2021 4:16:15 GMT -5
PINK FLOYED sucks
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Post by Forum Lord on Nov 18, 2021 16:28:21 GMT -5
Yeah, yeah, yeah... how about Joe Bonamassa??? He has a new one out! blog.dnevnik.hr/zinhof?page=blog&subdomain=zinhofJOE BONAMASSA - Time Clocks (2021) Time Clocks is the fifteenth solo studio album by American blues rock musician Joe Bonamassa, released through J&R Adventures in North America and Provogue Records in Europe on October 29, 2021. Time Clocks slowly comes into focus after the short atmospheric instrumental "Pilgrimage" sets the stage for a moody, cinematic record. In its brief minute, Joe Bonamassa plays a fat, melodic phrase that sounds uncannily like David Gilmour, a tone and aesthetic he'll return to throughout Time Clocks. Other blues and classic rock greats are alluded to on the album – the winding riff propelling "Notches" harkens back to Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac, Clapton is always lurking around the corner – but at this stage of his career Bonamassa is a stylist, tying together recognizable influences into something distinctively his own. Here, he's leaning toward somber introspection, filtering his musings on life and society through a Pink Floyd prism. Listen to the title track, where the stately tempo, backing vocals and stair-stepping minor-key riff all recall Floyd, yet he adds flourishes in his arrangements and solos that steer these astral sounds right down to earth. Much of Time Clocks rambles – six of its ten songs are over six minutes, with another coming close to that mark – but the blustering "Questions and Answers" shows that this wandering provides for a more interesting listen than when Bonamassa keeps things on the straight and narrow. Download: ydray.com/get/l/aT16372655372443/1xBlrIvZsViwww.mediafire.com/file/9w8u67fbhll4tp6/JOEBONAMASSAClocks21.rar/file
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Post by Forum Lord on Nov 24, 2021 8:05:03 GMT -5
Here's a 'go Jim Dandy':' RUBY STARR - The First Four... (1971/77) Ruby Starr, born Constance Henrietta Mierzwiak (1949 - 1995) was a rock singer and recording artist who attained national prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, including for her work with Black Oak Arkansas. Ruby Starr was born to parents Richard Joseph “Dick” Mierzwiak and Henrietta. Her siblings were Richard Jr., and Suzanne Bonita. Known as "Connie" to her family, Starr began performing at the age of nine, singing country music under the stage name Connie Little. Her early bands included Connie and the Blu-Beats, The Downtowners and the Blue Grange Ramblers. She joined the band Ruby Jones in 1969. In 1971 they were signed to Curtom Records and recorded their first album, Ruby Jones. Shortly after that album's release, Black Oak Arkansas lead vocalist Jim "Dandy" Mangrum was partying after a concert in Evansville, Indiana at a club called the Golden Record, where she was performing. He asked her on the spot to join the band. At this point she assumed the stage name of Ruby Starr. Starr toured with Black Oak Arkansas for several years at the height of their success. She was featured in their 1973 Top 30 single "Jim Dandy". In 1974, she began touring on her own again as Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost (members: Gary Levin, Marius Penczner, David Mayo and Joel Williams) and released an eponymous album in 1975, on Capitol Records. Her second album, Scene Stealer, also on Capitol Records, was released in 1976. During this time she continued to open for Black Oak Arkansas and other acts such as Black Sabbath and Edgar Winter. Starr also toured with Blackfoot from 1977 to 1978. Her third and last album for Capitol, Smoky Places, was released in 1977. By the late 1970s, Starr had made Milwaukee her home town and was a popular act in clubs in the region. By the early 1980s, Starr had formed a new band called "Grey Star" by joining with a band that performed in and around Mayville, Wisconsin called "Lucy Grey", featuring Dave "Mud Slide" Gruenewaldt on the drums. They issued several recordings which included 1981's Grey Star and 1983's Telephone Sex. Starr formed her final road band, "Henrietta Kahn", in the late 1980s. After being diagnosed with lung cancer and a brain tumor, Starr returned home to her family in Toledo where she died at age 45. After her death, several archival releases that featured Starr were issued, including the live Black Oak Arkansas recording, Live On The King Biscuit Flower Hour 1976, and a reissue of Ruby Jones's debut album, retitled as Stone Junkie. The song "Ruby", by Raging Slab, is in memory of her. Download: ydray.com/get/l/gG16377551483362/LfsMUTD3y7Pwww.mediafire.com/file/lcnq9501s3xixl9/RUBYSTARR71757677.rar/file
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Post by Forum Lord on Nov 24, 2021 13:23:17 GMT -5
Anyone downloading this go jim dandy stripper? MDfan is for sure!
I might like to hear her band, but I do not want to hear her. She can't sing.
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Post by Forum Lord on Dec 1, 2021 7:44:59 GMT -5
Guessing we do not have any Ruby fans? I thought MDfan would download just for the photos. Anyways, zinhof the Croatian blogger has been putting up some interesting music lately... blog.dnevnik.hr/zinhof?page=blog&subdomain=zinhofDEEP PURPLE - Turning to Crime (2021) Full-tilt rock legends Deep Purple show the world how they spent their Covid lockdown time with a new all-covers album called Turning To Crime. The record comes out November 2021 on earMUSIC and marks the first time Deep Purple has put out music that was written outside of the band. Bob Ezrin (Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Kiss, Pink Floyd) produced the songs the group reinvented in their own image. It’s really quite a diverse list that includes selections from Love, early Fleetwood Mac, Little Feat, Cream, The Yardbirds, and Johnny Horton, among others. Purple recorded the songs remotely due to Covid restrictions but the set’s vibe is overwhelmingly live and roof-raising. The group made the best of the bad situation we all woke up in with the pandemic and proved they can still deliver the goods on any song they feel like playing. Turning To Crime is Deep Purple’s 22nd studio effort and continues a body of work few bands will ever equal. Their impact on rock music has been so immense that it’s tough to imagine where we’d be without them. Purple helped create the very ideas of hard rock and metal in the 1970s and, along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and are often considered part of the “unholy trinity” of British rock. Iconic tracks like “Smoke On The Water,” “Highway Star,” “Space Truckin’,” and “Woman From Tokyo” became major parts of the classic rock era and helped Purple sell more than 100 million albums. They were also listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest band in the world. Clearly, a mark has been made. The present Deep Purple lineup of Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey, and Steve Morse still packs a ton of muscle and is nowhere near finished creating epic music. Every track on Turning To Crime seems to come from lifetimes spent loving rock and roll. Download: ydray.com/get/l/tI16383402225515/Zn7pe2EjXYgwww.mediafire.com/file/dyfuxboob8uhkh7/DEEPPURPLECrime21.rar/file
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Post by Forum Lord on Dec 1, 2021 12:51:27 GMT -5
Another worthy mention: blog.dnevnik.hr/zinhof?page=blog&subdomain=zinhofJETHRO TULL - Benefit (1970) [The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition, 2021] Benefit is the third studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released in April 1970. It was the first Tull album to include pianist and organist John Evan – though he was not yet considered a permanent member of the group – and the last to include bass guitarist Glenn Cornick, who was fired from the band upon completion of touring for the album. It was recorded at Morgan Studios, the same studio where the band recorded its previous album Stand Up; however, they experimented with more advanced recording techniques. Frontman Ian Anderson said that he considers Benefit to be a much darker album than Stand Up, owing to the pressures of an extensive U.S. tour and frustration with the music business. Critics were generally unimpressed with Benefit upon its release. Rolling Stone called the album "lame and dumb". Disc and Music Echo was also unimpressed but recognized the band's quality: "This album doesn't advance by such a drastic leap as Stand Up did from This Was. It's more like the Jethro Tull we've seen and heard for the past year. It seems to be a remarkably long album, and shows what an exciting group this is. Exciting because they can have quite long guitar breaks and still retain a very tight and together sound". The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau appreciated the riffs around which all the songs were constructed, but wasn't impressed by the lyrics that he judged hard to recall. The new 4CD+2DVD deluxe set is a belated 50th anniversary edition and offers a significant upgrade on the 2013 2CD+DVD digipak in terms of both audio/video content and packaging. The first CD in the set repeats Steven Wilson’s 2013 stereo mix and offers additional recordings and the second disc collects associated recordings from the years 1969-1970 in both stereo and mono. CD3 contains a previously unreleased Steven Wilson remix of Jethro Tull performing at Tanglewood in 1970, while the second of two DVDs (region 0, NTSC) offers previously unavailable film footage of that show with a new Steven Wilson 5.1 surround mix available. The fourth and final CD4 contains a newly remastered mono version of a previously unreleased concert at The Aragon Ballroom in 1970. The other DVD offers the 5.1 mix of the album, flat transfers of the US and UK LP master and more. Download: ydray.com/get/l/OX16382907636878/TnUVoJxQm1Owww.mediafire.com/file/qid4wzpog3n07gd/JETHROTULLBenefit705021.rar/file
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Post by JerseyGirl on Dec 1, 2021 21:23:21 GMT -5
I have to check out the Deep Purple songs.
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Post by MDfan aka The MD Well Man on Dec 4, 2021 4:14:51 GMT -5
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Post by Forum Lord on Dec 6, 2021 7:44:14 GMT -5
blog.dnevnik.hr/zinhof?page=blog&subdomain=zinhofERIC CLAPTON - The Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions (2021) Rock and blues guitar legend Eric Clapton gives his fans a heartfelt career and character retrospective on his new album The Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions. The mostly acoustic set was an in-studio concert performed by Clapton and his band of Nathan East (bass and vocals), Steve Gadd (drums) and Chris Stainton (keyboards). They played unplugged versions of an assortment of Clapton standards along with a selection of other blues, country, and seldom-heard original tunes. Eric’s longtime Grammy-winning producer Russ Titelman (James Taylor, George Harrison, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, Rickie Lee Jones) ran the session, which was captured live at Cowdray House in West Sussex, England. The results of this effort will be available in all conceivable formats, including DVD+CD, Blu-ray+CD, 4K UHD+Blu-ray, 2 LPs pressed on yellow vinyl, and a Deluxe Edition containing the DVD, Blu-ray and CD packaged in a 40-page 12” x 12” hardback photo book, digital video and digital audio. The Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions is a fun, career-spanning set that Slowhand’s faithful will be spinning all winter. Download: ydray.com/get/l/sj16387702838191/5wdk3nBgjfy
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Post by Forum Lord on Dec 19, 2021 7:03:47 GMT -5
blog.dnevnik.hr/zinhof?page=blog&subdomain=zinhofLED ZEPPELIN - RetroActive Promo Box Set (2001) Here's a 3 CD promotional box set issued by Led Zeppelin’s music publisher, Warner Chappell, featuring 40 of the band’s best known songs. Issued in an individually numbered, limited edition of 2500 on Warner Chappell’s in-house Retro Active label, this very rare deluxe box set was sent to music supervisors in an effort to get Led Zeppelin’s music used in film and television. Each CD is packaged in a custom sleeve, with a booklet featuring brief liner notes by Cameron Crowe, all in a beautiful clamshell box. Much has been written about the impeccable mastering on this promo-only virtual greatest hits album. From the Steve Hoffman website: "That set is said to be a unique mastering, different from the original Diament mastered CDs and the Marino remastered CDs. Naturally, since the set is so rare, it is considered to be the best sounding"… "mastered by Dave Collins for Marcussen Mastering. Remastered for a special compilation put together to promote the use of Led Zeppelin music in films." Download: ydray.com/get/l/VL1639850462098/lz7kf2j6AYowww.mediafire.com/file/gutzia73u198a55/LEDZEPPELINRetroActive001.rar/file
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Post by Forum Lord on Dec 29, 2021 9:07:17 GMT -5
Croatian music blogger ZinHof has been posting some interesting music lately including an all new remastered Big Mama Thorton collection I can't wait to hear! Supposedly they repaired the sonic imaging lost in previous inferior formats like vinyl record albums... Now we can hear the bass lines finally! blog.dnevnik.hr/zinhof?page=blog&subdomain=zinhofSANTANA - Original Album Classics (2010) & (2011) ydray.com/get/l/zd16407746383608/pE83Kvgr7Puwww.mediafire.com/file/gkjudbj7fmeo3l2/SANTANAOriginalAC1011.rar/file ------------------------------------------------------- BIG MAMA THORNTON - The Complete Vanguard Recordings (2000) Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton only notched one national hit in her lifetime, but it was a true monster. "Hound Dog" held down the top slot on Billboard's R&B charts for seven long weeks in 1953. Alas, Elvis Presley's rocking 1956 cover was even bigger, effectively obscuring Thornton's chief claim to immortality. That's a damned shame, because Thornton's menacing growl was indeed something special. The hefty belter first opened her pipes in church but soon embraced the blues. She toured with Sammy Green's Hot Harlem Revue during the 1940s. Thornton was ensconced on the Houston circuit when Peacock Records boss Don Robey signed her in 1951. She debuted on Peacock with "Partnership Blues" that year, backed by trumpeter Joe Scott's band. But it was her third Peacock date with Johnny Otis' band that proved the winner. With Pete Lewis laying down some truly nasty guitar behind her, Big Mama shouted "Hound Dog," a tune whose authorship remains a bone of contention to this day (both Otis and the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller claim responsibility), and soon hit the road a star. But it was an isolated incident. Though Thornton cut some fine Peacock follow-ups -- "I Smell a Rat," "Stop Hoppin' on Me," "The Fish," "Just like a Dog" -- through 1957, she never again reached the hit parade. Even Elvis was apparently unaware of her; he was handed "Hound Dog" by Freddie Bell, a Vegas lounge rocker. Early-'60s 45s for Irma, Bay-Tone, Kent, and Sotoplay did little to revive her sagging fortunes, but a series of dates for Arhoolie that included her first vinyl rendition of "Ball and Chain" in 1968 and two albums for Mercury in 1969-1970 put her back in circulation (Janis Joplin's overwrought but well-intentioned cover of "Ball and Chain" didn't hurt either). Along with her imposing vocals, Thornton began to emphasize her harmonica skills during the 1960s. Thornton was a tough cookie. She dressed like a man and took no guff from anyone, even as the pounds fell off her once-ample frame and she became downright scrawny during the last years of her life. Medical personnel found her lifeless body in an L.A. rooming house in 1984. This wonderful three-disc set brings together everything Willie Mae Thornton recorded for the folk music label in the mid-'70s. It's comprised of her two released albums from 1975, Jail and Sassy Mama, and a complete unreleased album, Big Mama Swings. Thornton was still in good voice on these sessions and while not as powerful as her Peacock sides, the production is solid and these recordings make an excellent addition to her scant discography. Compilation engineered for release by Jeff Zaraya from the original analog tapes, converted to 20 bit digital audio using the DCS 900. Sonic Solutions software was used to process the digital audio. The bass that was rolled off the original vinyl release has been restored. The final CD was turbo bit mapped. back Download: ydray.com/get/l/ug1640678163415/HFtlLbVWpfDwww.mediafire.com/file/lwes6eij464nz0f/BIGMAMATHORNTONVanguard000.rar/file
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Post by Forum Lord on Dec 30, 2021 8:29:44 GMT -5
Does anyone here listen to Gary Moore? If you are not familiar with Gary Moore maybe you SHOULD be! There are only a few guitarists I collect everything they play like Joe Bonamassa and Walter Trout are at the top of my list, but Gary Moore is also there along with Rory Gallagher... And I can tell you these guys can fool me to this day because there is a song Joe Bonamassa recorded a few years ago after the death of Gary Moore, and I swear every time I hear that song my mind does not relate it to Joe Bonamassa but to Gary Moore because the guitar tone and playing style and vocals are a dead ringer for Gary Moore. Its as if Gary Moore was being channeled back into this world from the great beyond by Joe Bonamassa. So grab this one if you have never listened to Gary Moore. I think you will be an instant fan! blog.dnevnik.hr/zinhof?page=blog&subdomain=zinhofGARY MOORE - Parisienne Walkways: The Collection (2020) One of rock's most underrated guitarists (both from a technical and compositional point of view), Gary Moore is arguably one of the finest musicians that Britain has ever produced, with a career that dated back to the 1960s, there were few musical genres that Gary Moore had not turned his hand to. From his early beginnings in a local rock group called Skid Row, that featured a young singer by the name of Phil Lynott, Gary has been a resolute guitarist in music industry. His paring with Lynott was rekindled when Phil Lynott went on to form Thin Lizzy. Gary Moore went on to have a successful solo career with eleven UK Top 40 single releases. Here we present 28 tracks of some of his greatest work including Parisienne Walkways (Live), Nuclear Attack, Run To Mama, and Stormy Monday to name a few. Download: ydray.com/get/l/cs16408592873575/hPQFyClNnr6www.mediafire.com/file/svcvibshd91jp6z/GARYMOOREWalkways020.rar/file
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Post by Cagey on Jan 26, 2022 17:38:18 GMT -5
I can't wait to hear this one!
VA – Pink Floyd In Jazz A Jazz Tribute To Pink Floyd (2021) Posted on January 26th, 2022 at 11:26 pm in Album,Music by Kingman Tracklist: 01. Pink Turtle – Money (3:40) 02. Nguyên Lê, NDR Bigband, Micheal Gibbs, Youn Sun Nah – Breathe (2:33) 03. Gero Koerner Trio – Another Brick in the Wall (4:44) 04. Ulita Knaus – Have a Cigar (2:54) 05. Birds on a Wire – Wish You Were Here (2:59) 06. Laurent Fickelson, Stéphane Belmondo – Set the Control for the Heart of the Sun (6:59) 07. Michele Garruti – Cymbaline (4:22) 08. Jordan Rudess – Grantchester Meadows (3:08) 09. David Neerman – Us and Them (5:57) 10. Max De Aloe Quartet – See Emily Play (2:26) 11. Kirlian Camera – Julia Dream – KCPF1 (4:10) 12. I.Overdrive Trio – Matilda Mother (4:49) 13. Pink Turtle – Another Brick in the Wall (4:28) 14. Voices On The Dark Side – Any Colour You Like (3:33) 15. Nguyên Lê – Money (6:12) 16. Michele Garruti – Time (3:50) Release Name: VA – Pink Floyd In Jazz A Jazz Tribute To Pink Floyd (2021) Size: 159.94 MB Genres: Smooth Jazz, Contemporary Jazz Va Pink Floyd In Jazz A Jazz Tribute To Pink Floyd (2021) MP3 rar size: 159,94 MB Dropapk: dropapk.to/wvwgsh8gjk8l/VA.Pink.Floyd.In.Jazz.A.Jazz.Tribute.To.Pink.Floyd.2021.MP3.rar.html DailyUploads: dailyuploads.net/352jhe8xedwl/VA.Pink.Floyd.In.Jazz.A.Jazz.Tribute.To.Pink.Floyd.2021.MP3.rar.html DDL: ddownload.com/nqnaq8lb84ny/VA.Pink.Floyd.In.Jazz.A.Jazz.Tribute.To.Pink.Floyd.2021.MP3.rar.html FileDown: down.mdiaload.com/va0arddsq42k/VA.Pink.Floyd.In.Jazz.A.Jazz.Tribute.To.Pink.Floyd.2021.MP3.rar.html FastClick: fastclick.to/siy0tdxdvqjx/VA.Pink.Floyd.In.Jazz.A.Jazz.Tribute.To.Pink.Floyd.2021.MP3.rar.html . wineo January 26th, 2022 at 11:26 PM Va Pink Floyd In Jazz A Jazz Tribute To Pink Floyd (2021) MP3 rar size: 159,94 MB Rapidgator: rapidgator.net/file/cc78c7b10dc8d560151f5fb7e17f1332/VA.Pink.Floyd.In.Jazz.A.Jazz.Tribute.To.Pink.Floyd.2021.MP3.rar.html Speed-Down: down.fast-down.com/bey7kggypn0h/VA.Pink.Floyd.In.Jazz.A.Jazz.Tribute.To.Pink.Floyd.2021.MP3.rar.html .
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Post by heathinvader on Jan 26, 2022 22:25:01 GMT -5
Does anyone here listen to Gary Moore? If you are not familiar with Gary Moore maybe you SHOULD be! There are only a few guitarists I collect everything they play like Joe Bonamassa and Walter Trout are at the top of my list, but Gary Moore is also there along with Rory Gallagher... And I can tell you these guys can fool me to this day because there is a song Joe Bonamassa recorded a few years ago after the death of Gary Moore, and I swear every time I hear that song my mind does not relate it to Joe Bonamassa but to Gary Moore because the guitar tone and playing style and vocals are a dead ringer for Gary Moore. Its as if Gary Moore was being channeled back into this world from the great beyond by Joe Bonamassa. So grab this one if you have never listened to Gary Moore. I think you will be an instant fan! blog.dnevnik.hr/zinhof?page=blog&subdomain=zinhofGARY MOORE - Parisienne Walkways: The Collection (2020) One of rock's most underrated guitarists (both from a technical and compositional point of view), Gary Moore is arguably one of the finest musicians that Britain has ever produced, with a career that dated back to the 1960s, there were few musical genres that Gary Moore had not turned his hand to. From his early beginnings in a local rock group called Skid Row, that featured a young singer by the name of Phil Lynott, Gary has been a resolute guitarist in music industry. His paring with Lynott was rekindled when Phil Lynott went on to form Thin Lizzy. Gary Moore went on to have a successful solo career with eleven UK Top 40 single releases. Here we present 28 tracks of some of his greatest work including Parisienne Walkways (Live), Nuclear Attack, Run To Mama, and Stormy Monday to name a few. Download: ydray.com/get/l/cs16408592873575/hPQFyClNnr6www.mediafire.com/file/svcvibshd91jp6z/GARYMOOREWalkways020.rar/file Yes! My dad has a CD copy of his Still Got the Blues album, and introduced me to it when I was about three or four years old. Amazing guitarist and songwriter! He was also a member of Thin Lizzy for a while, from what I understand. Such a talented musician!
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Post by Cagey on Mar 2, 2022 8:14:52 GMT -5
Well this interesting! The Scorpions new album was recorded live in the studio in precisely the same way Allen Collins chose to record his new song That Smell in Criteria Studios...
SCORPIONS - Rock Believer [Deluxe Edition] (2022) Legendary rockers Scorpions return with their new album Rock Believer, which was created in the studio during the lockdown in their home base Hannover. “The album was written and recorded in the style of the classic Scorpions DNA with core Schenker/Meine compositions. We really went back to the essence of what defined us in the first place”, says front-man Klaus Meine. He goes on to explain how the new songs came to have such incredible, fresh energy and fervor: “We recorded the album as a band, live, in one room, like we did back in the Eighties. We can’t wait to get started and finally play for our fans again.” The sound of the new album has massive energy, delivers a real adrenaline rush, and shows uncompromising quality. The record consists of awesome tracks, each one of them a lyrical short story, minimal poems in prose, presented in a lavish sonic guise, featuring the SCORPIONS’ characteristic trademarks from the early 1980s, yet produced from a 2020s perspective. The wealth of inspiration from their longstanding career is an overflowing treasure chest that forges an arc between yesterday and tomorrow. Rock Believer is perhaps the group’s most characteristic album to date –a recording by a band at the pinnacle of their musical art. The new album Rock Believer on 2 CDs in a 6-panel digipack with a 20-page booklet including 16 tracks. back Download: ydray.com/get/l/ge16462237052903/w4YQVGg6R3Zwww.mediafire.com/file/n06qwtyxale96q6/SCORPIONSRockBeliever22.rar/file
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Post by Cagey on Mar 13, 2022 7:22:16 GMT -5
Here is a very rare bit of music to finally come to light and it includes Dickey Betts and other Southerners, but the project cannot be considered as Southern...
LAING, HUNTER, RONSON, PAPPALARDI - The Secret Sessions (2011)
In 1978 Corky Laing (of Mountain), acting on a suggestion from his record company, put a "supergroup" together featuring himself (drums/vocals), Ian Hunter (ex Mott The Hoople) on keyboards/vocals, Mick Ronson on guitar and Felix Peppalardi (Mountain) on bass.
They started recording, but shortly after the record company lost interest and funding stopped. The sessions were completed at a different studio, but remained in the can - until now. The CD opens strongly enough, with the superb Easy Money, but soon descends into ordinaryness.
Although all the tracks are complete versions, they sound rushed or demo-like, with little standing out, apart from a brilliant, lengthy version of The Outsider, which of course Ian recorded for his Schizophrenic album.
The CD is filled out with two tracks from Corky's 1978 solo album, perhaps because originally once funding had stopped there wasn't the time or money to record a full album's worth of material. In summary, a CD mainly of historical interest only. Ian Hunter completists will want it, ditto Corky Laing/Mountain fans, but I doubt if the casual fan would be persuaded to part with his cash.
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Post by Cagey on Mar 13, 2022 7:26:02 GMT -5
And for Thin Lizzy fans, this one is a must!
THIN LIZZY - At The BBC (2011)
This release is collated from all of the BBC owned Lizzy recordings that still exist in the archive and charts the inexorable rise of the band: from the first steps as a three piece on the Decca label, to the glory days as one of the greatest live acts of all time.
The BBC gave the band a platform and support at crucial stages in their career and thus "Thin Lizzy Live At The BBC" could be seen essentially as an alternate Greatest Hits, a musical growing up in public. This incredible archive represents a great set of previously unreleased recordings in the Lizzy catalogue. The collection has been brought together by trawling the BBC archives, but also by inviting contributions from fans.
The BBC had a habit of wiping tapes after they were broadcast which has meant that some of the Corporation's output has been lost for ever. However thanks to fans recording broadcasts at home a couple of gems have been reclaimed here for this set. This collection brings together a raft of sessions and live recordings form through-out the band's career including the last concert with Phil Lynott from the Reading festival in 1983.
Included also is a DVD of the bands sought after appearances on Top of the Pops and the Old Grey Whistle Test a well as concerts from throughout the band's career. This is a first for the band as these recordings have never been available in one place before. With comprehensive notes by Classic Rock's Malcolm Dome who tells the story of the bands history at the BBC Fully supported and endorsed by the band - the current line up but also the original thin Lizzy Live At The BBC" is a triumphant collection of the defining moments of a truly seminal British rock act, as witnessed, broadcast and archived by the voice of the nation, the BBC.
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Post by Cagey on Aug 20, 2022 9:39:46 GMT -5
Walter Trout is at the top of my list. One of the greatest unknowns of all time. This guitarist is seriously overlooked but not underrated that is for sure. Those who know. Know. And his latest album Ride just came out yesterday- scheduled release August 19- and has already hit the blogging scene in Croatia... or Russia in this case...
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Walter Trout announces new album, Ride, shares haunting lead single, Ghosts By Jackson Maxwell published April 15, 2022 The blues guitar veteran's 30th solo effort is set for release in August Walter Trout performs at the Grammy Museum on January 15, 2020 in Los Angeles, California (Image credit: Timothy Norris/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Blues guitar veteran Walter Trout has announced a new full-length studio album, Ride. Set for an August 19 release via Provogue/Mascot Label Group, Ride is Trout's 30th solo effort, and was written and recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Eric Corne. In tandem with the announcement of the album, Trout premiered the LP's stinging opener and lead single, Ghosts. Fittingly named, the high-gain rocker shows the guitarist wrestling with his troubled past, and is highlighted by a pair of piercing, top-tier solos, packed with some big-time bends and awe-inspiring displays of vibrato. You can hear it below. As Trout explained in a statement, Ghosts originally began as a poem. “It starts off with the lyric, ‘Sometimes I hear a familiar song and it brings back memories’ – that’s the truth," Trout said. "I’ll be riding in my car, a song comes on the radio and I have to pull over and sob for a while. Ghosts sums this album up, y’know?” The album as a whole is shaped by Trout's memories, particularly his rough childhood. “This album is obviously what I was going through mentally and emotionally,” Trout says of how he dug into his past during Ride's creation. “All I did was express it. "I spent a lot of time crying, because I would dig down into my emotional core. I want my songs to have some sort of truth to them.” The record's title, he added, could be interpreted in a number of different ways. “This album is definitely a musical ride and I certainly tried to cover a lot of ground," he said in a press release. "But, really, life is kind of a ride too, isn’t it? And I want to live mine to the fullest.” To preorder Ride, visit Trout's website (opens in new tab).
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Post by Cagey on Sept 13, 2022 9:45:03 GMT -5
Ozzy Osbourne: Patient Number 9 review – immortal king of heavy metal cheats death again
Ozzy Osbourne in 2022 ‘Flicking skilfully between Sabbath-esque sludge, glossier pop-metal and the odd intriguing detour … Ozzy Osbourne. Photograph: Ross Halfin (Epic) The irrepressible rocker offsets his usual forays into the occult with moving contemplations of illness on a star-studded return
Alexis Petridis Thu 8 Sep 2022 07.00 EDT ‘I’ll never die, because I’m immortal,” sings Ozzy Osbourne on the second track of his 13th solo album. It’s not the last time Patient Number 9 mentions cheating death: “I’m coming out of my grave … you’re going to see my face,” he sings on No Escape from Now, while One of Those Days has him “killing myself – but I never die”. You could say all this seems par for the course, more of the supernatural hokum that has been part of the Ozzy Osbourne brand since Black Sabbath first appeared. There’s a lot of said hokum here, albeit with its tongue more obviously lodged in its cheek than it was 50 odd years ago: Patient Number 9 is an album that comes decorated with pantomime villain cackles, grown men’s voices crying “Mummy! Mummy!” in fear and what sounds like the bad guy in a campy horror flick shouting, “Somebody stop me!” A song that mentions decomposition, meanwhile, concludes with the words, “I like worms,” in a thick Brummie accent.
You can understand why Osbourne might be preoccupied with cheating death or rising from the grave in 2022. It’s not just that he has been plagued by health problems in recent years – Parkinson’s disease and surgeries after a fall at home and to combat nerve pain among them – it’s that every project Osbourne has involved himself in recently has had an air of finality about it. A farewell tour, a reunion album with Black Sabbath motivated by concluding his career with the band “in the right way”, a subsequent Sabbath tour called The End: even Osbourne’s last solo album, 2020’s Ordinary Man, was reviewed as if it was his last. But here he is, two years on and reunited with Ordinary Man producer Andrew Watt, who’s audibly a fan and thoroughly enjoying himself, slathering on the Planet Caravan-esque vocal effects during No Escape from Now and getting Eric Clapton to play on One of Those Days in a wah-pedal heavy style that’s, thrillingly, closer to his work with Cream than his solo oeuvre. Clapton is part of an all-star supporting cast: Tony Iommi, Jeff Beck, Osbourne’s longstanding guitarist Zakk Wylde, Josh Homme, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, and the late Taylor Hawkins. The sound of the album, meanwhile, manages to be current – there’s a daringly glaring use of Auto-Tune here and there – while flicking skilfully between Sabbath-esque sludge, the glossier pop-metal of Osbourne’s 80s albums Bark at the Moon and The Ultimate Sin and the odd intriguing detour, most notably the string-laden A Thousand Shades, which delves into Osbourne’s lifelong Beatles fandom.
The songs are tightly written even when their structure tends to the episodic or their tempos shift gear. They’re also finely balanced, the choruses big and bold enough to attract attention but not overshadow the main attraction’s essential essence. Osbourne’s bleakly desperate wail is front and centre, his lyrical preoccupations intact: as well as the occult, there’s a lot about mental illness – “They tell you you’re insane, do you believe their lies?”– and a light sprinkling of War Pigs-y stuff about the futility of conflict and the evil of those in power: “a circus of madmen running the show”, “destruction never leads to change”.
Occasionally, you wonder if the lyrics might not be rooted in Osbourne’s medical travails: it doesn’t seem beyond the realms of possibility that Evil Shuffle’s “madman living inside me” that “won’t let me go” is inspired by his experience of Parkinson’s. And occasionally the lyrics boggle the mind, which brings us to Degradation Rules, musically the album’s highlight: it features Iommi and, like Damaged Soul from Black Sabbath’s final album 13, peers past that band’s “godfathers of metal” tag to their roots as a kind of warped, heavy blues-rock band. It’s also a song on which Osbourne counsels his listeners against the dangers of excessive wanking. When he starts wailing about “masturbating fools” you initially think it’s a metaphor, perhaps for self-interested politicians – maybe the masturbating fools are in league with the circus of madmen running the show – but no: he’s literally talking about people who can’t stop masturbating. “The hand that feeds you also turns you blind,” he warns. Not that old chestnut. By way of contrast, Patient Number 9 draws to a close with God Only Knows, a beautiful stadium rock ballad that features Osbourne contemplating his own mortality in terms that are alternately starkly affecting – “I don’t know if I’ll make it, but I’m giving up control” – and theatrical: “It’s better to burn in hell than fade away,” he sings, a perfectly Ozzy-esque retooling of the old Neil Young lyric that ended up part of Kurt Cobain’s suicide note. It’s tempting to say it sounds like an elegiac farewell, and that the album it concludes would be a fine way to say goodbye. But then again, we’ve been there before with Osbourne, several times.
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