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Album review: VARIOUS ARTISTS – I’m A Freak Baby 3

Posted on June 17, 2021 by brianmc
im a freak_3_3cd_box

…tangible. The debut airing of ‘Dazed And Confused’, a live recording of the Yardbirds during Jimmy Page’s membership is here. And of course Page and this song went on to make rock’n’roll history with Led Zeppelin. And so on. Every track has its own story. The “Heavy Psych” side gets its place in the sun with tracks from a whole slew of bands who spent their careers bubbling under, although some, like Hawkwind, The Pink Fa… Continue reading →

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News – BLACKMORE’S NIGHT, H.E.A.T., ORANGE GOBLIN (November 2020)

Posted on October 30, 2020 by jason
DORO - The Tivoli, Buckley, North Wales, 21 November 2015

…ew single ‘Zombie Yelp’. David Coverdale stated in a recent interview that he is working with Jimmy Page on a re-issue of their Coverdale/Page album. Also Whitesnake’s ‘Restless Heart’ album is getting a box set makeover. Crashdiet have signed with a new management and have announced their new album will be released soon. Saga release their new album ‘Symmetry’ on March 12 via earMUSIC. It contains acoust… Continue reading →

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Gig review: THE DARKER MY HORIZON – Dirty Rockers, Dudley, Saturday 24 October 2020

Posted on October 26, 2020 by jason
TDMH Dudley 1

…nough to open during what was already turbulent times. This band have been hit hard, they’ve had their Facebook page hacked, have lost 10,000 followers and 5 years worth of material – are these bands working hard enough without this happening?? Please go check them out on their YouTube channel and give them a follow on social media – I promise you, you won’t be disappointed; they are one of the hardest working bands I have ever met an… Continue reading →

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Book review: MARK BADGEMAN & ANDREW WOLFMAN – Memories of The Market Tavern Kidderminster 1990-96

Posted on September 25, 2020 by jason
Market Tavern

…ampacked with photos, merchandise and memories from the fans and bands that played there, this full-colour, 200 page book tells the tale of Kiddy’s very-own CBGB’s, in all its grisly glory. From the terrifying crush at an overcrowded Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine gig (including a condensation disaster with a DAT tape) to the embarrassing hush of just 123 people watching Radiohead (when the band were already in the Top 40), it’s a… Continue reading →

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Album review: READ OUT LOUD – Read Out Loud

Posted on August 3, 2020 by jason
READ OUT LOUD

…ns about the album, how he got into music and more… How did the album come about? On the band’s bio page you mention Neil Ogden of Demon fame seemed to set the ball in motion for a full band release? I had recorded some demos just for my own entertainment,  but I wanted some drum parts on the tracks which Neil added for me. He then gave me the encouragement to take the next step and book proper studio time and take the songs to the ne… Continue reading →

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News: Get Ready to ROCK! Radio encourages listener participation during self-isolation (March 2020)

Posted on March 23, 2020 by GRTR! HQ
Peter Muir - Get Ready to ROCK! Radio

…idance.” Interested listeners can contact the station with their ideas using the pop up box at the foot of each page at the website. The station is also encouraging listeners to send in their requests for favourite tracks and artists. To participate head over to www.getreadytorockradio.com and make contact using the pop up box at the foot of each web page. Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive m… Continue reading →

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Album review: STORM FORCE – Age Of Fear

Posted on December 28, 2019 by jason
STORM FORCE - Age Of Fear

…hen you could hear the talent in Patrick’s voice. Then during the MySpace era we reconnected & on his page he had samples of some covers he was doing like Aerosmith & Brian Adams etc & I was blown away at how much he could sound like these guys with full power & tone. Fast forward a bunch of years I happened to be watching a local cover band one night having a couple of beers & the guys in the band asked me if I would mi… Continue reading →

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Album review: JIMMY PAGE & FRIENDS – Tribute To Alexis Korner

Posted on December 20, 2019 by jason
JIMMY PAGE & FRIENDS - Tribute To Alexis Korner

…ing giants. No surprise then that this tribute concert (to raise funds for Cancer Research), initiated by Jimmy Page in June that same year, was supported on the Nottingham Palais stage by Paul (Manfred Mann) Jones, Charlie (Stones) Watts, Ian (Stones) Stewart and Jack (Cream) Bruce. And they all play their hearts out. Two hours later, the emotion in the hall is palpable. Yes, it’s tinged with sadness, but the overriding sentiment is one of… Continue reading →

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Album review: YES – From A Page/In The Present Live From Lyon (box set)

Posted on November 16, 2019 by GRTR! HQ
YES - From A Page/In The Present Live From Lyon

…ad of the band’s 2020 UK tour. One-time Yes keyboard player Oliver Wakeman has put together ‘From A Page’, featuring four studio recordings from 2010.  This was the line-up with Benoit David on vocals and they are essentially outtakes from the album that became ‘Fly From Here’.  David left the band in early-2012.  Bear in mind Wakeman only contributed to three tracks on that album so this collection is understandably… Continue reading →

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News: WIN weekend camping tickets to REWIND SCOTLAND,19-21 July 2019

Posted on June 12, 2019 by GRTR! HQ
FOREIGNER - Manchester Apollo, 12 May 2018

…ntil 30 June.  (You don’t have to be camping to participate in the competition) Head over to our Facebook page to enter! Festival website Competition page incl. T&C 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. Check out videos here: https://www.facebo… Continue reading →

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Book Review: DOUG MACLEOD –The Authorized Compact Biography by Vincent Abbate

Posted on April 30, 2019 by petefeenstra
DOUG MACLEOD - Vincent Abbate

Create Space Independent Publishing Platform [Published 18.09.18] Vicente Abbate’s 143 page paperback ‘Doug MacLeod: The Authorized Compact Biography’, takes a unique approach in his appreciation of his blues hero. Abbate dives straight into the first time he came across the acoustic musician’s emotive storytelling blues in Dresden 2002, when: ‘his music spoke to me’. It isn’t until page 82 that MacLeod’s transition from electric to acoustic in… Continue reading →

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Gig review: LED ZEPPELIN MASTERS – Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 13 April 2019

Posted on April 14, 2019 by jason

…, this time I was lucky enough to see them perform in Led Zeppelin’s home territory of the Midlands (okay Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were both born down south). Plus the Led Zeppelin Masters were celebrating fifty years since ‘Led Zeppelin’ and ‘II’ were released. After a short orchestral intro (according to Vince Contarino 95% of the orchestra were from Birmingham), it was straight into the riffing monster that is ‘Good Times Bad Times’ and… Continue reading →

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Album review: ERIC CLAPTON AND THE YARDBIRDS Feat.SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON

Posted on November 19, 2018 by petefeenstra
ERIC CLAPTON AND THE YARDBIRDS Feat.SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON

…d ‘Eric Clapton And The Yardbirds with Sonny Boy Williams’ (Williamson) and a few tracks from Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. This material will always hold some interest for the student of British blues-into-rock and psychedelia, plus of course the real deal in the shape of Aleck “Rice” Miller aka Sonny Boy Williamson, (actually the second blues man to operate under the moniker of Sonny Boy Williamson). What we get in this re-i… Continue reading →

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Album review: JOE BONAMASSA – British Blues Explosion Live

Posted on May 24, 2018 by petefeenstra
JOE BONAMASSA – British Blues Explosion Live

…ignificantly drew on material by Rory Gallagher, Free, Ian Anderson, Beck and Stewart, Steve Winwood, Plant and Page, Alvin Lee and even John Martyn, so while his own song writing has grown significantly he’s imperceptibly dragged the old Blues Invasion crowd with him. This brings us to the ‘British Blues Explosion Live’, a double CD/DVD pack which finds Bonamassa indulging himself in personal favourites from as far back as 1966… Continue reading →

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Book review: JIM McCARTY with DAVE THOMPSON – Nobody Told Me: My Life With The Yardbirds, Renaissance and Other Stories

Posted on May 18, 2018 by petefeenstra
JIM McCARTY with DAVE THOMPSON – Nobody Told Me: My Life With The Yardbirds, Renaissance and Other Stories

http://www.jamesmccarty.com/ 305 pages paperback ISBN 978-0-244-96650-8 [Publication date: May 2018] ‘Nobody Told Me’ is a suitably titled autobiography that documents the life and times of Jim McCarty, The Yardbirds founder member, drummer and rock and roll hall of fame inductee. He’s also a former member of Renaissance and Box of Frogs and continues to be a creative singer-songwriter who has just released a new album called… Continue reading →

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DVD review: JEFF BECK – Still On The Run: The Jeff Beck Story

Posted on April 17, 2018 by jason

…nce his rise to fame in the mid 60s, and this DVD tells the story, from comparing record collections with Jimmy Page in their school years, right up to the present day. At the launch for this DVD, at the Curzon in Mayfair, we were joined by Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page for the screening, along with several other ‘Names’. The story goes from the school days through to the Yardbirds (in which Page famously switched to bass so that he could play with Je… Continue reading →

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News: WISHBONE ASH – Limited Edition ‘Vintage Years’ 30-CD Box Set out 20 April 2018

Posted on March 17, 2018 by GRTR! HQ
WISHBONE ASH - The Vintage Years (1970-1991)

…all of the original band members – is loaded with rarities, memorabilia, a new interview and a lavish 156-page hardback book.  A third of this new collection features previously unheard and unreleased material. This box set is strictly limited to 2,500 copies and includes all 16 studio albums between 1970-1991, all of which feature bonus material including rare album outtakes, B-sides and 12 previously unreleased studio tracks. These are pr… Continue reading →

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Book review: PETE WAY – Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock’s Most Dangerous Man

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Davoski
PETE WAY – Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock’s Most Dangerous Man

…k the reader with extravagant tales of debauchery, drug abuse and excess. Pete achieves this objective by about page 20 (and pretty much exhausts it, for my money, by about page 40). The benchmark of the genre is surely Ozzy Osbourne’s hilarious ‘I Am Ozzy’.  Way’s book follows that template closely, though without the same humour, self-deprecation and unique Ozzy-isms. That said, ‘Fast Ride Out of Here’, co-written by Paul Rees, is far from a ba… Continue reading →

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Album review: EXIST – So True, So Bound

Posted on June 25, 2017 by GRTR! HQ
Exist - So True, So Bound

…amazing job. I then find out his main band was called Exist. Sadly, as is what I typically do, I liked his band page on Facebook and promptly never thought about it again. Jump ahead again to late last year/early this year when I heard that legendary Tech Death band Gorguts was going on tour with this band Exist. Since I didn’t check them out it didn’t register with me until my friend Dennis told me who was the main guy behind the ban… Continue reading →

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Welcome to Get Ready to ROCK! (GRTR!)

Posted on June 25, 2017 by GRTR! HQ
Saxon - STEELHOUSE FESTIVAL, Ebbw Vale, 30 July 2017

…E USERS If you are viewing this on a mobile device the complete list of navigation links is at the foot of each page. The menu system gives access to the main category headings.  For embedded video please re-orientate your mobile device (e.g. smartphone) if necessary.  Larger screen smartphone and tablet users may wish to switch to desktop setting. See the link on the main menu. You can switch back using the link on the top right hand side of the… Continue reading →

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Interview: UNCLE SID (Dale Salive)

Posted on May 31, 2017 by jason
Uncle Sid

…our new songs a listen. If you like what you hear like us at unclesid.rocks. You can do this with your Facebook login ;) We love our Fans! Sidizens unite and join us with our mission. See you all when we go on tour this Fall! Keep Rockin with Uncle Sid you’ll be glad you did! ;) 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 recordin… Continue reading →

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Book review: MARTIN HANNETT – His Equipment And Strawberry Studios by Chris Hewitt

Posted on April 17, 2017 by petefeenstra
MARTIN HANNETT – His Equipment And Strawberry Studios by Chris Hewitt

…eaningful context for its usefulness in terms of Hannett’s  linear musical progress. This is followed by some 8 pages of technical manual stuff, which may or may not be of interest to sound engineers, but which will surely try the patience of the average reader. It’s almost best if you start reading from back to front with the Hannett’s obituries, which give you an overall picture of his importance in the development of sound and production techn… Continue reading →

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News: Man Doki Soulmates (incl. Ian Anderson, Chris Thompson, Randy Brecker) play London gig, 3 March 2017

Posted on February 17, 2017 by GRTR! HQ
Man Doki Soulmates

…pair of tickets.  N.B. You can still enter the competition even if you miss the radio show. See the competition page for more details. Competition Page 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. Check out videos here: https://www.facebook.com/getreadytorockra… Continue reading →

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News: First big UK rock festivals of 2017 – GREAT BRITISH ROCK & BLUES and GIANTS OF ROCK (January 2017)

Posted on January 9, 2017 by GRTR! HQ
STEVE HARLEY - Giants Of Rock, Minehead, Somerset, 29-31 January 2016

…re priced from £99. More information Festival review (January 2016) Selected interviews (opens link to Mixcloud page) Nine Below Zero (September 2016) Joanne Shaw Taylor (September 2015) Toronzo Cannon (April 2016) Popa Chubby (December 2016) Rainbreakers (February 2016) Moreland & Arbuckle (July 2016) Laurence Jones (August 2016) The following weekend, Giants Of Rock takes place at Butlins resort in Minehead, Somerset from Friday 27th to Mon… Continue reading →

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EP review: MOHAWK RADIO – Shoot From The Hip

Posted on December 19, 2016 by GRTR! HQ
MOHAWK RADIO - Shoot From The Hip

…s that got to do with a Manchester 4 piece rock band fronted by a girl from Bermuda?’  Well, vocalist Mia Page has those same soulful tones, but in the case of Mohawk Radio fronting an altogether more explosive proposition. Shoot From The Hip is the follow up to the band’s 2014 debut EP Halfway To Heaven, and one they regard as defining their sound.  It kicks off, literally, with the lead single ‘On Your Knees’ – a d… Continue reading →

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