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Neil McCormick meets guitarist Jimmy Page and finds the band sounding more thrilling than ever http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/10862455/Jimmy-Page-We-knew-that-no-band-had-ever-sounded-like-Led-Zeppelin.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BvXBwtrs_k 1,420,259 views so far “This DVD reminded me why I was an REM fan in the first place. Recorded in Germany in 2003, the concert features plenty of hits (Man on the Moon, One I Love), some obscurities (Begin the Begin, Maps & Legends) and some recent songs I hadn’t paid enough attention to […]
Limited Edition(3500 copies) 4×180 Gram High QualityAudiophile Virgin Vinyl LP Bernie Grundman Remaster Pressed at Pallas, Germany Housed in Telescoping box Time Fades Away On The Beach Tonight’s The Night ZumaThis limited edition box set includes the classic albums: Time Fades Away, On The Beach, Tonight’s The Night and Zuma, each remastered from the original […]
Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album. The LP allowed popular […]
“The maverick and eccentric Percy Grainger rated himself more highly than Mozart and Tchaikovsky” MORE
They tell us ….. Following the hugely anticipated Early Years collection, Pink Floyd now release the 6 individual collections that were first released as part of ‘The Early Years 1965-1972’ box set. Whether a fan of the early Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, or to the final moments before ‘The Dark Side of The Moon’, […]
A short documentary asking the simple question- Why Vinyl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUIMbwvYVOI A few viewer comments: Buying a CD is like throwing money away. The CD is a dying medium, the sales decline since many years, while downloads, streaming and vinyl sales are growing strong. Who needs a physical copy of digital data anyway and even pays […]
In this lesson we’ll be exploring the idea of the two-chord jam, specifically a Dorian jam, using the chords Am and D. If this jam sounds familiar, it should. Dorian is the sound Santana used in “Evil Ways” and “Oye Como Va.” Even Frank Zappa used it in the aptly titled composition, “Variations on the […]
Paul Lester (The Guardian) writes: The spotlights and the shoulderpads, the bushy moustaches and the floppy mullets, the vests, the soft-focus, the dry ice … no one who lived through the 1980s will be able to forget a Hall & Oates video. In I Can’t Go for That, for example, tall, blond Daryl Hall and […]
In the late sixties, earning their spurs at the legendary Grande Ballroom in Detroit alongside The Stooges as a house band, the MC5 blasted their way into my affections, producing some of the loudest, baddest, heavy rock music ever heard at that time. Having given their support to a left wing, anarchist movement called the […]
Suzanne Vega, Live at the Bottom Line, New York May 24th 1986. The release of Suzanne Vega’s debut album in 1985 heralded the arrival of one of America’s most striking singer-songwriters. It is performed in its entirety on this set, broadcast on WNEW-FM in her native New York a year later. Also featured are numerous […]
JESSE S writes … Chuck Berry had this to say about Elvis. “ Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.” “Blacks didn’t have the air-waves that Elvis had. He delivered what he had beautifully.” SD writes .. There was a rumoured rift between them and Chuck did […]
NEIL A writes … I’m not sure it’s the most misunderstood song in history, but surely a contender is Born In The USA. With its big major chord structure and pounding rhythm it has a triumphant sound. Bruce’s delivery is rather mumbled making the lyric rather hard to make out. This has given many a […]
ERIC F writes … None of the songs from any period of history are any more or less appropriate than any others from any other era…, because the concept of “appropriate” is as much a form of fashion (or delusion) as the music itself. Instead, maybe we should ask what makes some folks think they’re […]
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Reissue of 1963 Columbia LP /Sony Music/Analogue Productions Miles in hi-res 3-channel audio! Seven Steps to Heaven SACD Miles Davis, trumpet; Victor Feldman, piano; Herbie Hancock, piano; George Coleman, tenor sax; Frank Butler, drums; Anthony Williams, drums; Ron Carter, bass) This is the classic Miles session when he was still being fairly tonal and straightforward. […]
Songwriter Roland Orzabal and singer Curt Smith recall channelling their domestic troubles into a song that tried to match Duran Duran and ended up on the Donnie Darko soundtrack. Continue HERE
By Stephen L. Betts July 15, 2015 Two trade lines on the haunting folk ballad, ‘I Never Will Marry,’ in this 1969 clip from ‘The Johnny Cash Show’ http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-see-linda-ronstadts-heartbreaking-duet-with-johnny-cash-20150715
Vol. 1 SIDE A1.Intro2.Badlands3.Streets Of Fire4.Spirit In The Night SIDE B5.Darkness On The Edge Of Town6.Factory7.The Promised Land SIDE C8.Prove It All Night9.Racing In The Street SIDE D10.Thunder Road11.Jungleland12.The Ties That Bind Vol. 2 SIDE A1.Intro2.Santa Clause Is Coming To Town3.The Fever SIDE B4.Fire5.Candys Room6.Because The Night SIDE C7.Point Blank8.Mona / Preachers Daughter9.Shes The One […]
What can one say about Jimi Hendrix that hasn’t already been written? This man died in London in September 1970 – that’s 44 years ago – yet you will still find his face on the front cover of dozens of music magazines every year where his life story, his music, his guitars, are documented in […]
JOHN K writes … Most of the Stones’ best songs are real collaborations between Mick and Keith as songwriters. Often Keith came up with the musical core and the main idea for the lyric. But Mick would “flesh” out Keith’s lyric idea in a very brilliant way! So when they go solo, they have weaker […]
RICK B writes I remember when ‘Free As A Bird’ first came out, my God it was mind blowing. It was the Beatles sounding like the Beatles and OMG those delicious harmony vocals, I mover thought I’d hear that sound again. I just kept listening to it over and over again. Oh and of course […]