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Interview with MICHAEL SCHENKER – 15 November 2013
If ever there was an example of looking to the past for a catalyst for the future, then ‘Bridge The Gap’ is it. Award winning guitarist Michael Schenker is back with some familiar faces on an album that plays to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridge The Gap, Doogie White, Francis Buchholz, guitar, guitarist, Herman Rarebell, interview, Michael Schenker, Michael Voss, November 2013, Pete Way, Robin McAuley, Temple Of Rock, UFO, Wayne Findlay, William Shatner, Yngwie Malmsteen
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Album Review: MICHAEL SCHENKER’S TEMPLE OF ROCK – Bridge The Gap
Inakustik [Release date 02.12.13] Michael Schenker over the last few years has risen phoenix-like from what appeared at one point to be the ashes of a glittering career. Gathering together the musicians that form ‘Temple Of Rock’ … Continue reading
Gig review: STEVE HACKETT – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 29 October 2013
Perhaps because he’s never been the archetypal flashy rock guitarist, and perhaps because he’s largely plied his solo career away from the spotlight, Steve Hackett’s almost become the ‘forgotten man’ from the classic 1971 to 1977 Genesis line up. Until … Continue reading
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Tagged 29 October 2013, Genesis Revisited II, guitar, guitarist, Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall, prog, progressive, review, rock, Steve Hackett
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Album Review: JEFF HEALEY BAND – Live From NYC
Eagle Rock [Release Date: 14.10.13] It’s beginning to look like every time Jeff Healey walked onto a stage that someone, somewhere was recording the event for posterity. In the last four years alone there’s been ‘Songs From The Road’, ‘Live … Continue reading
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Tagged 1988, album, blues, guitar, guitarist, Jeff Healey, Jeff Healey Band, Live From NYC, review, rock
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Album review: DEL BROMHAM – Nine Yards
Angel Air [Release date: 02.09.13] Del Bromham is best known for his output with Stray. Hook-laden bluesy hard rock, Stray had their heyday in the mid-70’s. Despite some decent selling albums, mainstream success seemed to evade them. Bromham has kept … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, DEL BROMHAM, guitar, guitarist, Nine Yards, review, rock, Stray
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Gig review: ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO – Jazz Cafe, London, 29 September 2013
This always promised to be a curious night, but if some of the audience were taking a leap of faith they were amply rewarded by a band who clearly relished a challenge as much a sharing their enjoyment with their … Continue reading
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Tagged 29 September 2013, Alex Skolnick Trio, fusion, guitar, guitarist, jazz, Jazz Cafe, London, rock, Testament
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Interview with JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – 27 September 2013
‘One night, one shot, no safety net’, such was the background to Joanne Shaw Taylor’s eagerly anticipated live album and DVD. Surprisingly perhaps, it’s her first live album in a career built on the back of incendiary live shows that … Continue reading
News: Get Ready to ROCK! Radio – September 2013 Highlights
September 2013 Highlights More information at the dedicated website All times, GMT Saturday 14 September, 18:00 In Session for GRTR! HENRY PARKER & THE VELVET LOONS/DANI WILDE Recorded live in the UK More information Sunday 15 September 18:00 The Guitarists: … Continue reading
Album review: ERIC STECKEL – Dismantle The Sun
Eric Steckel Music [Release Date: 31.10.12] Eric Steckel’s ‘Dismantle The Sun’ was originally released in the States towards the end of last year, but is being belated promoted in the UK on the back of his first proper UK … Continue reading
Album review: JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – Songs From The Road
Ruf [Release date 04.11.13] There’s nothing like a live album to deliver the bacon. I don’t mean a doctored product with overdubs and the like, but simply a live recording with an expectant audience, a hot band and the recording … Continue reading
Album review: IVAN MIHALJEVIC & SIDE EFFECTS – Counterclockwise
Zeta Factory [Release date 01.04.13] ‘Counterclockwise’ is a concept album of sorts. It’s not an album with a single overbearing theme as such, but more of a cerebral examination of the state of our collective consciousness. Front man Ivan Mihaljevic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alen Frijak, Counterclockwise, Croatia, guitar, Ivan Mihaljevic, Marko Karacic Karo, metal, prog, review, rock, Side Effects
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Gig review: STEVE VAI – O2 Academy, Glasgow, 31 August 2013
This was the first time in a long time that I had ventured out to catch Steve Vai on stage. In fact the last time I saw him live he still had Devin Townsend up front and was confusing the … Continue reading
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Tagged 31 August 2013, Dave Weiner, gig, Glasgow, guitar, Jeremy Colston, live, O2 Academy, ock, Philip Bynoe, review, Steve Vai, The Story Of Light
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Album review: ALVIN LEE & TEN YEARS LATER – Live At Rockpalast
Repertoire [Release date 10.06.13] Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later actually came 5 years after the dissolution of Ten Years After. It was essentially a virtuoso power trio who relentlessly toured The US and Europe and on this live DVD … Continue reading
Album review: SAMANTHA FISH – Black Wind Howlin’
Ruf [Release date 23.09.13] Samantha Fish makes much of her growing maturity on her second solo album ‘Black Wind Howlin’. Given the wide variety of relationship songs and a mix of reflective and self confident narratives, it appears she’s taken … Continue reading
Album review: MORELAND & ARBUCKLE – 7 Cities
Telarc [Release date 26.08.13] Moreland & Arbuckle are a power trio with a difference. They hail from Wichita Kansas and their blend of riff driven, southern influenced roots rock is shot through with essential blues influences, but not in the … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, boogie, guitar, harp, Kendall Newby, Moreland & Arbuckle, review, rock, roots, Tears For Fears, The Allman Brothers, The Yardbirds
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Album review: GORDON GILTRAP – Reissues
Esoteric [Release date 29.07.13] Gordon Giltrap should be certified A National Treasure. He’s laboured tirelessly since the late-1960′s honing and preening his guitar style, dipping into various genres including prog, and generally maintaining the highest quality standards. These new reissues … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classical, Fear Of The Dark, Gordon Giltrap, guitar, guitarist, John G Perry, Perilous Journey, reissue, review, rock, Simon Phillips, Visionary
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Album review: MARTIN BARRE – Away With Words
Edifying Records [Release date 30.09.13] Perhaps the most constant revolving door of rock is that of Jethro Tull, and all the more intriguing for the recent ‘loss’ of Martin Lancelot Barre. For several centuries, it seems, Ian Anderson’s right hand … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Away With Words, Dan Crisp, folk, guitar, guitarist, instrumental, Jethro Tull, Martin Barre, review, rock
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Book reviews: ERIC CLAPTON – All You Need To Know FAQ and Day by Day
Published by Backbeat Books Normally reserved for the ranks of more obsessive fans and anoraks (and before you ask, I am one myself- KISS, Rolling Stones and Hanoi Rocks) of late these kinds of books have taken on a whole … Continue reading
Album review: TOMMY BOLIN – Whirlwind
Cleopatra Records [Release date: 26.08.13] Guitarist Tommy Bolin has an interesting pre-Purple history and this 2-CD set is an excellent chronicle of the band he formed in 1972 after Zephyr and before James Gang. Energy, with a mix of rock … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Billy Cobham, Deep Purple, Energy, guitar, guitarist, James Gang, jazz fusion, review, rock, Tommy Bolin, Whirlwind
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Album review: JONNY LANG – Fight For My Soul
Provogue [Release date 02.09.13] It’s a measure of Jonny Lang’s maturity that he’s slowly but surely repositioned himself in the music scene as a dance friendly, contemporary white boy soul singer at the ripe old age of 32. I say … Continue reading
Album review: STEVE CICHON – Meltdown
Stephen Andrew Cichon [Release date 03.06.13] Florida’s prog/fusion guitarist Steve Cichon’s last instrumental album ‘Cranial Feedback’ was notable for its inventive guitar playing, shifting tone colours and vacillating twists and turns. ‘Meltdown’ extends his penchant for relentless guitar pyrotechnics with … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Zappa, fusion, guitar, Jethro Tull, Joe Satriani, metal, prog, review, space rock, Steve Cichon, Steve Hillage, Steve Vai
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Album review: THE RIDES – Can’t Get Enough
Provogue [Release date 26.08.13] It’s ten years since the release of the re-mastered ‘Super Session’ on CD, with Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills, and it’s a startling 45 years since its original release. And while it would … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Kooper, Barry Goldberg, blues, Buffalo Springfield, Chris Layton, Double Trouble, Elmore James, guitar, Iggy Pop, Jerry Harrison, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Kevin McCormick, Mike Bloomfield, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, piano, review, Stephen Stills, Super Session, supergroup, Talking Heads, The Rides
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Album review: DAVE DAVIES – I Will Be Me
Cleopatra [Release date 04.06.13] Partly autobiographical and partly fictive imagery but always routed in a spiritual feel, Dave Davies’s ‘I Will Be Me’ is an uneven but ultimately enjoyable album. He veers from the past – referencing his riff driven … Continue reading
Gig review: ANDY FRASER – Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 6 July 2013
The return of Andy Fraser was as unexpected as some of the material he played tonight. Yes, he glanced back over his shoulder at some of the best of Free, while guitarist Chris Spedding weighed in with his hit ‘Motorbiking’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Fraser, bass, Boom Boom Club, Chris Spedding, Free, guitar, John Mayer, Malcolm Bruce, review, rock, Sutton Utd FC, Tobi
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Gig review: GOV’T MULE – Under The Bridge, London, 4 July 2013
Although their reputation as primary jam band is well merited, Gov’t Mule is much more than that. Their improvisational core takes them across genres and into constantly evolving new areas that gives shows like this its cutting edge. At the … Continue reading
