Refugee | Live In Concert – Newcastle City Hall 1974
So there they were: Lee Jackson and Brian Davison, the rhythm section for
the Nice, left for dead on the side of the road without so much as two shillings
to...
Kansas | Works In Progress
I still turn up the radio every time “Carry On Wayward Son” comes on; and with Israel and Lebanon at each other’s throats, the nuclear power ballad “Dust in...
The Alan Parsons Project | Reissues – CD Review
Beginning as a ‘tea-runner’ at Abbey Road studios, Alan Parsons graduated to engineering albums like the Beatles' Let It Be and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon....
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Emerson, Lake & Palmer & Tarkus (2012 Reissues) –...
Since the 1990s, the Emerson, Lake & Palmer catalog has been passed around and reissued by at least a half dozen labels. Various box sets, compilations and live sets...
Phish | Live At Madison Square Garden | New Year’s Eve 1995
Once upon a time there was a band called Phish. Like the Grateful Dead before
them, Phish was somewhat of a cultural oddity, attracting legions of lazy-eyed,
rabid admirers to their...
John Lennon | 2010 Remasters – CD Review
It’s hard to imagine, borrowing a completely overused pun in this context, what John Lennon would be doing at 70. Speculation from those who knew him best seems to...
Greg Lake | Welcome Backstage – CD/DVD Review
No longer tied to a band, Greg Lake still possesses the talent and fortitude to keep his musical palette salivated and slippery. Like his former bandmates, he relies heavily...
Allman Brothers Band | Fillmore East February 1970 – CD Review
What a difference a year makes!
At Fillmore East, the seminal 1971 ABB classic that gave proper validity to the southern rock genre and made the sextet superstars is our...
Alan Parsons | Eye To Eye: Live In Madrid
With the passing of Eric Woolfson, singer and songwriter of the Alan Parsons
Project, it's hard for me to listen to any APP tunes without a slight skip in
my heart....
Various Artists | This Is The Blues Volume 3 & 4
What becomes apparent listening to This Is The Blues, Volume
3 and Volume 4, is that great blues players can exist,
play and howl at any age, sex or place in...
