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Album review: ERIC GALES – Middle Of The Road
Provogue [Release date 24.02.17] Eric Gales is a former child protégé and post Hendrix disciple who isn’t so much enjoying a comeback as pouring his big toned licks and life experiences into meaningful songs. ‘Middle Of The Road’ isn’t the … Continue reading
Gig review: 2016 ROADSTARS – 02 ACADEMY, Islington, London, 7 December 2016
The 2016 Roadstars triumvirate is a triumph of musical hunger and passion over cultural and musical diversity. Mancunian powerhouse Federal Charm have a punk like fervour that taps into classic rock sensibilities with an occasional bluesy undertow. Aaron Keylock is … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 Roadstars, Aaron Keylock, Adam Abrashoff, blues, Cream, Eddie Hinton, Elad Shapiro, Fatal Charm, Federal Charm, funk, George Clinton, gig, guitars, JD Simo, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, Keith Richard, Paul Bowden, Paul Bowe, psychedelia, review, rock, Rory Gallagher, Simo, Sonny Greaves, soul
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Album review: SIMO – Let Love Show The Way
Provogue [Release date 26.01.16] Sometimes a new band needs a relevant context to make a splash. Happily for Simo, they seems to be in the right place at the right time to explode on to the contemporary blues-rock scene with … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Abrashoff, album, Allman Brothers, blues, Cream, Elad Shapiro, Grateful Dead, guitar, JD Simo, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Mountain, Peter Green, psychedelia, review, Simo, soul, Ten Years After, Zeppelin
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Gig review: SIMO – St.Moritz Club, London, 23 November 2015
Sometimes you just have to dip into the past to make sense of the present and such is the case with alt. Nahville’s psychedelic tinged improvisational jam trio Simo. Their intense improvisational spirit draws from a wide variety of classic … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Abrashoff, blues, Cream, Elad Shapiro, Fleetwood Mac, gig, J.D.Simo, JOE COCKER, Leo Lyons, Let Love Show The Way, Mike Bloomfield, Mountain, Nashville, Peter Green, Phish, Pink Floyd, psychedelia, review, rock, Simo, soul, Ten Years After, The Allman Brothers. Grateful Dead, Umphrey McGhee, Vanilla Fudge, Widespread Panic
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Album review: THORNE – At The Edge
CD Baby [Release date 20.06.15] Thorne is an international combo spanning three continents, whose members have never met. They are a prog and classic rock band with psychedelic edges, who met on line via the music collaboration site http://www.kompoz.com and … Continue reading
Album review: TEN YEARS AFTER, THE BLUE AEROPLANES (Access All Areas)
Edsel [Release date 29.06.15] CD/DVD Right up until his untimely passing in March 2013, Alvin Lee always bemoaned that he’d been typecast after Woodstock. And this 1990 TV concert demonstrates that he still carried the albatross of ‘Good Morning Little … Continue reading
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Tagged Access All Areas, Alvin Lee, blues rock, CD, Central TV, concert, DVD, Gallon Drunk, Matchbox, pop, psychedelia, punk, rock, rockabilly, Ten Years After, The Blue Aeroplanes
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Album review: GONG – I See You
Madfish [Release date 10.11.14] Daevid Allan’s Gong unexpectedly return with a musically complex album, full of biting lyrics and dense but enjoyable music that straddles the jazz and psychedelic, space-rock divide. ‘I See You’ has internationalist … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cardiacs, Daevid Allan, Dave Sturt, Eno, Fabio Golfetti, fusion, Gentle Giant, Gill Scott Heron, Gilli Smyth, Gong, Hawkwind, I See You, Ian East, jazz, Jethro Tull, Kavus Torabi, King Crimson, Orlando Allan, Pierre Moerlen, Pierre Moerlin, Pink Floyd, psychedelia, review, rock, space rock, Steve Hillage, Tangerine Dream
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Album Reviews: DODSON & FOGG – Dodson & Fogg,Derring Do,Sounds Of Day And Night
Wisdom Twins Records [Released 2012/2013] wisdomtwinsbooks.weebly.com/dodson-and-fogg.html Despite having a name that sounds like an engineering firm making flanges for the automotive industry, Dodson & Fogg are essentially one person. His name is Chris Wade – a multi-instrumentalist par excellence who … Continue reading
Album review: I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. – Mystery Drug
Blue Rose Records [Release date: 01.05.13] Alt-country outfit I See Hawks In L.A. are “dabblers” says their guitarist Paul Lacques. “There really are about 20 different ways to chop up country roots music”, he adds, while singer Rob Waller summarizes … Continue reading
Album review: STEVE BONINO – Peace Rocks
Self release – www.stevebonino.com – out now They say you should always start with your best and balance things out afterwards. Well Steve Bonino obviously missed that initial piece of advice, as this excellent album builds from an inauspicious opener … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's rock, harmony vocals, Peace, Peace Rocks, Progressive Rock, psychedelia, rock, Steve Bonino, The Beatles, Tod Rundgren
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