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Tag Archives: UFO
Album review: MICHAEL SCHENKER – My Years With UFO
earMUSIC [Release date: 20.09.24] Michael Schenker boards the tribute train with an album mildly curious for the trend in that it is dedicated to his own output, albeit with a different band. UFO are, of course, the band in question. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, guitar, guitarist, hard rock, Michael Schenker, My Years With UFO, review, UFO
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Album review : UFO – Covenant + Sharks + Live (3 CD)
Twin reissue package plus a bonus CD, from British rock legends, UFO. Covenant (2000), Sharks (2002) and Live At Blind Melons (1995). The problem with releasing a career high album like Walk On Water (1995), the band’s de facto “comeback” … Continue reading
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Tagged 3 CDs, Covenant, Live Blind Melons, Michael Schenker, New York, Phil Mogg, reissue, review, Sharks, UFO
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Album review: PATTERNS ON THE WINDOW – The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1974 (3 CD Boxset)
Grapefruit (Cherry Red) [Release date : 16.02.24] 1974. The UK seemed to be locked into an endless cycle of political and economic crises. The 3 day week. Fuel shortages, and an unheralded post war recession in full swing. Hardly a … Continue reading
Gig review: MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, 30 November 2023
After various ‘Fest’ and ‘Temple of Rock’ incarnations, Schenker revived the original MSG monicker for a couple of recent albums and has been on a 50th anniversary tour for over two years now. It is something of a divine resurrection. … Continue reading
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Tagged classic rock, Doctor Doctor, gig, guitarist, hard rock, live, Michael Schenker, MSG, review 30 November 2023, Robin McAuley, UFO
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Album review: ELEGANT WEAPONS – Horns For A Halo
Nuclear Blast [Release date 26.05.23] Elegant Weapons may be releasing their debut album, however, the album’s line-up is a bit of a metal supergroup. It features Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner, along with fellow Priest band mate, drummer Scott Travis. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Andy Sneap, debut, Elegant Weapons, heavy metal, Horns For A Halo, Judas Priest, metal, MSG, Nuclear Blast, Pantera, power metal, Rainbow, review, Richie Faulkner, Ronnie Romero, UFO
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Book review: SKY TRAILS & PIE TALES – by Trev Turley
The Cherished Synapse [March 2022] Trevor Turley’s ‘Sky Trails & Pie Tales’ is described as an autobiographical memoir and for the most part that of a semi-pro musician. It’s a heart felt work that celebrates an ongoing musical heritage driven … Continue reading
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Tagged 3AM, author, Autumn, bass, Cactus, Ginger, Jim Simpson, Joe Anderton, King Crimson, Labyrinthus, Larry Homer, Malaya Blue, Nick & The Dogs, Random Earth Project, review, Sky Trails & Pie Tales, Still, Stray, The Beatles, The Blue Bones Boogie Band, The Mojo Preachers, The Shadows, Trapeze, Trevor Turley, Trevor Turley & Friends, UFO
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Album review: UFO – No Heavy Petting (Remaster)
Chrysalis Records [Release date 20.01.23] Re-issues and re-masters are two-a-penny and often there’s marginal benefit in penning a review, much less making an actual purchase. This album was previously remastered in 2007. I have, though, been impressed with the series … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, classic rock, hard rock, Michael Schenker, No Heavy Petting, Phil Mogg, remaster, review, UFO
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Album review: VINNIE MOORE – Double Exposure
David Randall chatted to Vinnie Moore about his career with tracks from his solo albums. First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on 4 December 2022. Mind’s Eye Music [Release date 08.11.22] We were mightily impressed with Vinnie Moore’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues rock, classic rock, Double Exposure, guitar, hard rock, instrumental, review, UFO, Vinnie Moore
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Album review : PETE WAY – Solo Albums 2000 – 2004 (3 CDs)
Cherry Red [Release date: 30.09.22] In 2019, the late great Pete Way and his band played an unannounced gig in my home town, a few miles from Glasgow, just before the pandemic hit and less than a year before his … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, Cherry Red, Michael Christian, Michael Schenker, Pete Way, review, UFO, Waysted
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Gig review: STONEDEAD FESTIVAL – Newark Showground – 27th August 2022
This year’s event was the 4th Stonedead Festival. Since it’s inception back in 2018 the crowd numbers have swelled to around 4500, which site wise is about the optimum number, and the event continues to go from strength to strength. … Continue reading
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Tagged 27th August 2022, David Coverdale, HEAT, Kickin Valentina, Lancaster bomber, live, Michael Schenker, MSG, Newark Showground, Robb Weir, rock, Ronnie Romero, Shane Greenhall, Stone Broken, Stonedead Festival, These Wicked Rivers, Those Damn Crows, Tygers Of Pan Tang, UFO, Vandenburg, Whitesnake
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Album review: WAYSTED : Heroes Die Young – Waysted Volume 2 (5 CD boxset)
Cherry Red/HNE [Release date 29.07.22] Waysted reformed early in the new millenium, just to prove that the world hadn’t ended. This 5 CD boxset chronicles the band’s releases from when they kick started their career in 2000, to the date … Continue reading
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Tagged album, boxset, Chris George, Danny Vaughn, Glasgow, hard rock, Pete Way, review, The Barfly, UFO
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Gig review: MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP – Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 31 October 2021
For many years it seems I was fated never to experience one of my teenage guitar heroes Michael Schenker, at his finest. My only experiences of him in the last millennium were the McAuley Schenker Group’s short support slot to … Continue reading
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Tagged Doro, gig, Michael Schenker, Michael Schenker Group, MSG, Ronnie Romero, Steve Mann, UFO, Warlock
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Album review: VARIOUS ARTISTS – I’m A Freak Baby 3
Cherry Red Records [release date 25.06.21] The immortal words of Edgar Broughton – I’m A Freak Baby – have reached their third iteration in Cherry Red’s estimable series of “The British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-1973” collections. … Continue reading
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Tagged 3 CD Boxset, album, British Heavy Psych And Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-1973, Deep Purple, Free and Trapeze, Hawkwind, Mott, Nazareth, review, Spooky Tooth, The Deviants and the Edgar Broughton Band, The Pink Fairies, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Uriah Heep
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Album review: DAVE BURN – Nothing Is As It Seems
www.daveburn.net [Release date 01.06.21] ‘Nothing Is As It Seems‘ is the 17th solo album from guitarist Dave Burn and first to feature vocals, a departure from previous solo albums which were all instrumentals. Dave Burn has toured and recorded as … Continue reading
Album review: WAYSTED – Vices
Rock Candy Records [Release date 12.02.21] In 1983, after an enduring love affair with UFO, a brief flirtation with Ozzy, and a frustrated liaison with Fastway, bass player extraordinaire Pete Way founded Waysted. Around him, he assembled a shit hot … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, Fastway, Ozzy, Pete Way, remaster, Rock Candy Records, sleaze rock, UFO, Vices, Waysted
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Book review: On track…UFO (Every Album, Every Song) by Richard James
Sonicbond Publishing [Release date 26.02.21] It was a sad day when UFO announced their ‘Last Orders’ tour in 2018, even sadder when a couple of weeks after the UK leg long-standing keyboard/guitar player Paul Raymond died of a heart attack. … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Every Album, Every Song, Michael Schenker, On Track, Pete Way, Phil Mogg, review, Richard James, UFO, Vinnie Moore
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Album review: MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP – Immortal
Nuclear Blast Records [Release date 29.01.21] You would forgive Michael Schenker if he announced he was about to step back from music for a bit and take things easy. Now 65 and celebrating not only 50 years in the business but 40 … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Doogie White, Gary Barden, Immortal, Joe Lynn Turner, metal, Michael Schenker Group, Michael Voss, MSG, Nuclear Blast, Rainbow, Ralph Scheepers, review, Robin McAuley, rock, Ronnie James Dio, Ronnie Romero, Scorpions, UFO
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Album review: LIAR – Sunset Plaza Drive
Escape Music [Release date 20.03.20] Liar originally formed in 1975 and recorded two albums prior to this one, with extensive UK and European tours. Now after 42 years, the long-lost Liar album from 1978 finally gets its debut appearance on … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's rock, album, classic rock, Liar, melodic rock, review, Steve Mann, Sunset Plaza Drive, Triumph, UFO
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Album review: DATURA4 – West Coast Highway Cosmic
Naturalsounds Records [Release date 17.04.20] Feels like only five minutes since Datura4 anointed us with their blessed brand of down-under boogie and yet here they are already with their fourth album release, “West Coast Highway Cosmic”. As consistent as white … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, boogie, Datura4, Dom Mariani, review, rock, UFO, West Coast Highway Cosmic
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Album review: GRAND SLAM – Hit The Ground
Marshall Records [Release date 22.11.19] Great things should have happened for Grand Slam when they emerged in 1984 from the dust that settled after the tangled and anti-climactic end of the great Thin Lizzy, who themselves were just seeing a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, Grand Slam, hard rock, Hit The Ground, Laurence Archer, Mark Stanway, Phil Lynott, review, rock, Stampede, Thin Lizzy, UFO
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Gig review: PETE WAY BAND – Camden Underworld, 24 October 2019
Everyone wants to be a lead singer these days. Burnt Out Wreck, who emerged to the bouncy theme music from the kids’ TV programme ‘Rhubarb and Custard’, are fronted by Gary Moat who used to be the drummer in Heavy Pettin’. … Continue reading
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Tagged 24 October 2019, Burnt Out Wreck, Camden Underworld, classic rock, Clive Edwards, Gary Moat, gig, Heavy Pettin', Laurence Archer, live, Pete Way, UFO
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Album review: VINNIE MOORE – Soul Shifter
Mind’s Eye Music [Release date 09.10.19] What does a still-relevant guitarist do when his main band says farewell? You keep releasing solo albums, that’s what. Vinnie Moore’s last solo outing was in 2015 – Aerial Visions – but in fairness … Continue reading
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Tagged album, funk, guitar, hard rock, instrumental, Jordan Rudess, metal, review, Rudy Sarzo, Soul Shifter, UFO, Vinnie Moore
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Interview: PETE WAY
Ahead of his UK tour Darren Johnson talks to the former UFO bass supremo Pete Way. It wasn’t that long ago that the only news we’d be reading about Pete Way was in connection with his various ongoing health battles. … Continue reading
Gig review: UFO – Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 4 April 2019
Can this really be the end? Whilst part of me dearly hopes not, there is something of a delicious irony about ever-present vocalist Phil Mogg choosing to fold the band on his own terms. During a ride that for about … Continue reading
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Tagged 4 April 2019, gig, Last Orders, live, Michael Schenker, Paul Raymond, Phil Mogg, review, Shepherd's Bush Empire, UFO
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Album review: MICHAEL SCHENKER – A Decade Of The Mad Axeman
[Release date 28.01.18] A completely mad axeman indeed, Michael Schenker is one of the world’s shining lights when it comes to rock and metal guitar. Whether with Scorpions, UFO, the Michael/McAuley Schenker Group, UFO again, solo or his own Temple … Continue reading
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Tagged A Decade Of The Mad Axeman, album, best of, classic rock, collection, Gary Bardens, guitarist, review, rock, Scorpions, UFO
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