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News: AUSTIN GOLD, WARREN HAYNES, HOUSE OF LORDS (September 2024)
…ped Suits’, on Off Yer Rocka on 28 January. Guests include Joe Elliott, Chip Z’Nuff, Mike Tramp and Dan Reed. Body Count have finally announced the release date for their forthcoming album, ‘ Merciless’ , which is due for release on November 22 via Century Media Records. Clannad have announced that they will release a 40th-anniversary edition of their ’Legend’ album through BMG Records on October 30. It will be… Continue reading
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Tagged albums, AOR, Austin Gold, blues, folk, gigs, House of Lords, melodic rock, metal, news, re-issues, RIP, special editions, tour dates, Warren Haynes
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Feature: DANNY VAUGHN at Fairycroft House, Saffron Walden, May 24 2024
…tion to readers of this site, be it with Tyketto, solo or more recently as part of Snake Oil & Harmony with Dan Reed. Here he gives us an update on all things Tyketto and what we can expect at the gig… What sort of setlist can we expect at the gig on May 24th? My set lists are never the same from show to show. There are a few songs, of course, that people expect to hear, but I also like to try and cover as much of my album making career… Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, AOR, Dan Reed, Danny Vaughn, Fairycroft House, Friday May 24 2024, gig, interviews, Martin David Porter, melodic rock, Motorhead, rock, singer songwriter, Tim Atkinson, Tyketto, Wurzel
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Feature: The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness – THUNDER (October 2023)
…date early triumphs. We might mention in despatches – and covered regularly at GRTR! – Europe, FM, Dan Reed Network, Gun and Quireboys. We might add also, Thunder. As Pete Whalley put it in 2018: “Thunder came along too late in the day to be part of the Giants Of Rock generation, but as Old Mother Time slowly but inexorably erodes the bands of the sixties/seventies, Thunder find themselves in the relatively unique position of… Continue reading
Gig review: FM/DARE/TYKETTO – Islington Academy, London, 25 May 2023
…ly to FM, closing the night but experienced in the constraints of a triple headliner having toured with Gun and Dan Reed Network in 2019. After the intensity of Tyketto’s set and Dare’s energetic conclusion, there was a danger they would take time to build up a head of steam, and they actually opened a little tentatively with ‘Synchronised’. But that classic keyboard intro from a well-looking Jem Davis heralded a much loved debut album classic in… Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Chris Childs, Danny Vaughn, Dare, FM, Ged Rylands, gig, Harry Scott Elliott, Jim Kirkpatrick, Johnny Dee, melodic rock, Pete Jupp, Steve Overland, Tyketto, Vinny Burns
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Album review: BARNABAS SKY – What Comes To Light
…ilent Rage’s Jesse Damon are back again, who join new guests including Doogie White (Rainbow, Alcatrazz), Dan Reed, Carsten Schulz (Domain, Evidence One, Lazarus Dream) and Lee Small (Sweet, Lionheart, Phenomena). The stand outs are ‘A Dying Song’ which features Carsten ‘Lizard’ Schulz in fine form over a mini-epic melodic metal treat. The guitars on here in particular are a treat. Danny Vaughn shows he has lost none… Continue reading
Gig review: DANNY VAUGHN – The Grace, London, 4 December 2022
…mic had interrupted his usual busy schedule, whether solo, with Tyketto or the Snake Oil and Harmony combo with Dan Reed. Indeed the latter’s shows were among the earliest casualties when covid started to take its deadly grip, and after countless more postponements and with Dan now busy with filming activity Danny took the decision to take his own solo show on the road. The New Yorker opened with ‘The Last Sunset’, one of the Tyketto song… Continue reading
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Tagged 4 December 2022, acoustic, Danny Vaughn, gig, London, melodic rock, The Grace, Tyketto
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News: The Best of 2022 – Get Ready to ROCK! reviewers choose their Top Albums of the Year
…IN EDEN Social Fake After a long hiatus, female-fronted prog rockers return with engaging fourth studio album. DAN REED NETWORK Let’s Hear It For The King Disappointing that the band’s UK tours were repeatedly cancelled this year, as it seemed Dan prioritised film work. One of their best albums, possibly even edging their formative works. David Randall chatted to Vinnie Moore for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, playing tracks from UFO and… Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, albums, best of, blues rock, breakthrough acts, classic rock, live acts, progressive, singer songwriter
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Feature: GRTR!@20 Anniversary – Still Rocking – Primer
…bands reviving after an extended layoff or returning after failing to sustain their career “back in the day”. Dan Reed Network is an example of the former, melodic stalwarts FM the latter. But there are plenty of other bands for whom the millennium has seen a renaissance including Europe (pictured) and Thunder. In the case of the latter, they are making some of their best work. Bands like Marillion command great loyalty and are one of the real… Continue reading
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Tagged 2003-2023, anniversary, history, rock music, summary, survey
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Gig review: RECKLESS LOVE- Electric Ballroom, London, 6 September 2022
…e doing headline shows. There had been a change to the tour just a few weeks before when original co-headliners Dan Reed Network pulled out on health grounds and The Treatment were called in at short notice. As a result, at the start they didn’t have too many of their own fans but, having seen some very impressive festival performances over the last 12 months, it came as no surprise to me that they grabbed the audience by the throat. From the sam… Continue reading
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Tagged Collateral, gig, glam rock, Jalle Verne, melodic rock, Oli Herman, Pepe, Reckless Love, The Treatment
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News: SAMMY HAGAR, RINGO STARR, GINGER WILDHEART (August 2022)
…cember entitled ‘The Band Rolls On…’ and it features guest appearances including Joe Elliott, Dan Reed & Chip Z Nuff. Ringo Starr releases a four song EP ‘EP 3′ on September 16. Status Quo release a compilation, ‘Quo’ing In – The Best Of The Noughties’, on September 16 via earMUSIC. Streetlight Circus release their third studio album titled ‘Super Fine Sugar’ via Escape Music on September 23. Su… Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, blues, folk, gigs, Ginger Wildheart, metal, news, prog, Ringo Starr, rock, Sammy Hagar & the Circle, Sunjay, tours
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Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD) January 2022 – June 2022
…217; 17th THE BEACH BOYS ‘Sounds of Summer’ (expanded re-issue) CIVIL WAR ‘Invaders’ Napalm Records DAN REED NETWORK ‘Let’s Hear It For The King’ Drakkar Entertainment (delayed from March 4) DERAPS Metalville Records DRIVE AT NIGHT ‘Echoes Od An Era’ Pride & Joy Music FOALS ‘Life Is Yours’ HIT THE GROUND RUNNIN’ ‘Lost In translation’ Pride & Joy Music ICONIC ‘Se… Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, album, blues rock, Bluray, CD, classic rock, DVD, hard rock, heavy rock, melodic rock, metal, New releases, Progressive Rock, reissue, singer songwriter
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Album review: RADIOACTIVE – X.X.X
…rom Tommy. ‘If Today Was Your Last Day’ is a grower with a fine chorus and a funkiness reminding me a little of Dan Reed Network and Bon Jovi-ish ‘heys’ and a big drum sound. Tommy Denander even persuaded Mutt Lange to co-write (though not produce) a couple of songs and the arrangements and big chorus with gang vocals of the Robin McAuley-sung ‘Move It’ is pure Def Leppard, though the other, ‘I Have a Dream’ is altogether different, unpredictable… Continue reading
News: SKID ROW, STEELHOUSE FESTIVAL, BOWLING FOR SOUP (March 2022)
…;, on July 22 via Shelter Records/BMG. Ne wly announced UK tours (2022 unless stated): A-Ha, Ian Brown, Clutch, Dan Reed Network (extra dates), Focus, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Justin Hayward, Incubus, Marillion, Porcupine Tree, the Pretty Reckless, Public Service Broadcasting, Rival Sons, the Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Skid Row + Winger, Squeeze, Stereophonics, Rod Stewart (extra dates), Sweet, Steve Vai, Von Hertzen Brothers, Yes, Upco… Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, blues, Bowling for Soup, folk, gigs, melodic rock, metal, New releases, news, prog rock, rock, Skid Row, Steelhouse Festival, tour dates
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News: SAXON, ALICE COOPER, THE UNDERTONES (February 2022)
…Alice Cooper is currently working on two new albums, one of which should be ready for release later this year. Dan Reed Network’s new album ‘Let’s Hear It For The King’, originally scheduled for March 4 release, has been moved to June 17. The band’s upcoming UK & European tour dates have also been moved to Aug & Sep. Evergrey will release their thirteenth studio album, ‘A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Test… Continue reading
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Tagged albums, Alice Copper, AOR, blues, February 2022, folk, gigs, melodic rock, metal, New releases, news, prog, rock, Saxon, The Undertones, tours
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Album review: DAN REED NETWORK – Let’s Hear It For The King
Drakkar Entertainment [Release date 17.06.22] In 2022 all we need is some live music and a Dan Reed Network album. This is the band’s third album of their more recent renaissance following 2018′s ‘Origins’ which sprinkled some new stuff along with re-workings. And if they’ll never quite recapture the sheer novelty and vibrancy of 1989′s ‘Slam’ this comes pretty damn close. Always with great song… Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dan Reed Network, funk, Let's Hear It For The King, review, rock
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Gig review: NOZFEST – The 1865, Southampton, 14 August 2021
…ion even if signature song ‘Midnight Queen’ was missing. Next up were Hollowstar who since I last saw them with Dan Reed Network and Mason Hill in 2018 have released their debut album and become one of the most critically acclaimed NWOCR bands. Singer and bassist Joe Bonson is a refreshingly individual character and, though his voice is gruffer, in some of his stage movements and vocal phrasing he had the air of a young Glenn Hughes. They made a… Continue reading
Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD) July 2021 – September 2021
…SOFT CELL ‘*Happiness Not Included’ TEARS FOR FEARS ‘Tipping Point’ Concord Records March 4th DAN REED NETWORK ‘Let’s Hear It For The King’ Drakkar Entertainment SABATON ‘The War To End All Wars’, on March 4 via Nuclear Blast STEREOPHONICS ‘Oochya!’ 11th BRYAN ADAMS ‘So Happy It Hurts’ BMG Steve Grimmett’s Grim Reaper ‘Reaping The Whirlwind – Live British Steel Festival 2018′ 18th FEEDER ̵… Continue reading
Album review: HEAVY WATER – Red Brick City
…ong with Biff’s distinctive tones and adds a second layer groove that wouldn’t be out of place on an Extreme or Dan Reed Network album. The titular ‘Red Brick City’ is another tour de force, punching hard and heavy, a big and ballsy canyon deep blast, the vocals full of passion and power as giant Led Zep riffs peel off into the sky. As well as the more subtly bombastic tracks, there’s also room for some slower, more reflective numbers and ‘Tree I… Continue reading
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Tagged album, Biff Byford, hard rock, Heavy Water, metal, Red Brick City, review, rock, Saxon, Seb Byford, Stereophonics
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Album review: LEVARA – s/t
…ssive- ‘Heaven Knows’ epitomises the busy nature of their sound, with squeals of guitar, a touch of funkiness (Dan Reed was a comparison I drew more than once across the album) and a chorus with some layered high harmonies. ‘Automatic’ has an unusual song structure yet a hook big enough to carry its single word chorus, and ‘Ever Enough’ is even better. Its atmospheric opening builds into a big chorus which became lodged in my brain with massed b… Continue reading
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Tagged album, Josh Devine, Jules Galli, Levara, melodic rock, Trev Lukather
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Album review: FM – Tough It Out Live
…the gig highlights of the winter before the pandemic struck was the Big-Three-O tour in which FM, together with Dan Reed Network and Gun, celebrated 30 years of a landmark album by playing it in full. In FM’s case it was their sophomore effort ‘Tough It Out’, which was their most slickly produced and commercially successful album, albeit not to the level they deserved. Now the first disc of this 2CD set preserves for posterity that performance, o… Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, FM, live album, melodic rock, Steve Overland, Tough It Out
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News: Get Ready to ROCK! announce Best of 2020 Popular Poll winners
…listeners could vote in two categories this year: Top Albums and Breakthrough Act. Snake Oil & Harmony (aka Dan Reed and Danny Vaughn, pictured) were voted Top Album for ‘Hurricane Riders’. In his original review, News and Reviews Editor Jason Ritchie commented about “songs that draw the listen in and create images in your head based on the lyrics and music.” Also in the top five line-up this year were albums by Legacy Pilots, AC/DC, Deep Pu… Continue reading
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Tagged 20/20, AC/DC, album, best of, Blue Oyster Cult, breakthrough act, Collateral, Deep Purple, Hollowstar, Jessica Lynn, Legacy Pilots, music, poll, rock, Snake Oil & Harmony, vote
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Album review: DAN REED – Liftoff
…Zero One Entertainment [Release date 04.12.20] At the end of a horrific year for humanity, and also for music, Dan Reed’s latest solo album arrives to provide the perfect antidote. Dan’s solo works since the “comeback” – ‘Coming Up For Air’ in 2010 – have always been introspective and spiritually driven, not in a pseudo-religious way but with a personal doctrine hewn over many years and underscore… Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Dan Reed, Dan Reed Network, Liftoff, melodic rock, review, singer, songwriter
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News: The Best of 2020 – Get Ready to ROCK! reviewers choose their Top Albums of the Year
…SNAKE OIL & HARMONY Hurricane Riders (Zero One Entertainment) Teaming up two top singer songwriters, namely Dan Reed and Danny Vaughn, provided one of this year’s mellower offerings and songs that stand the test of time. 3. LITTLE RED KINGS The Magic Show Part One (indie) Worth getting for the excellent ‘Harry’s Town’, however, the rest of the album is of a high standard. No second album woes for this band who are one… Continue reading
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Tagged 20/20, album, best of, blues rock, breakthrough act, melodic rock, Progressive Rock, reissue, reviewer.top albums, singer songwriter
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News – BLACKMORE’S NIGHT, H.E.A.T., ORANGE GOBLIN (November 2020)
…dio they record is moving premises, recording will resume next summer. The album is planned for a 2022 release. Dan Reed releases his new album ‘Lift Off’ on December 4. Guests include Richard Hilton (Chic) and James Bird (Mason Hill). Inglorious release their new album ‘We Will Ride’ on Frontiers on February 12. Thunder’s new album is called ‘All The Right Noises’ and is out on March 12 via BMG. Foo Figh… Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Brown, Blackmore's Night, classic rock, Crashdiet, H.E.A.T., Massive Wagons, metal, news, Orange Goblin, prog rock, rock
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Book review: On track…GENTLE GIANT (Every album, every song) – Gary Steel
…otable musicians including Jakko Jakszyk (King Crimson), Billy Sherwood (YES), Lee Pomeroy (ELO/Steve Hackett), Dan Reed (Dan Reed Network), Richard Hilton (Chic) and Mikey Heppner (Priestess). Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, streamed via Facebook. In 2023 he signed a recording deal with Sony in Canada and released a new single on 15 September. Next session: Sunday 1… Continue reading
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Tagged book, Gary Steel, Gentle Giant, On Track, review
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