Recorded on Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th, 1981, this concert was certainly full of fireworks. Recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, England, during the world tour for his first solo album (simply titled “Greg Lake”), the show presented Lake on a London stage for the first time since the demise of his previous band “Emerson, Lake and Palmer.”
If you like to bang your head to the beat of heavy metal rock’n’roll, then Dragonforce should litter your music collection. Formed in London in 1999, they have been screaming through the skies of heavy metal since.
“Essential” by Ten Years After is something of a rarity as I find it faultless in collecting together on one CD what are the “Essential” recordings. In other words, a true “Bests Of” Ten Years After.
“Take Me To Your Leader” was the 21st all-new studio album to come out under the Hawkwind banner since the band’s conception in 1969. It is also a fine return to form by the original lords of Space Rock.
As the 1980s drew to a close, hair metal died away to be replaced by grunge, hip hop and rap. But underneath this was a small but determined surge of Progressive Rock. Here are a few debut albums from this period.
The songs from the main set don’t let up for a second, and in true eighties tradition Moore just blazes his fingers over them. All of the songs are over seven minutes long with extended solos.
Formed in Bristol, England in 1968, Stackridge was one of those wonderfully quaint rock bands that could only have been British in their frightfully stiff upper lip way on the recorded plain.
No other recording shows The Who in the entirety of their talents. Listening to Pete Townshend, at his most explosive leading the band through the shattering rock ‘n’ roll medley at the end of the set is nothing short of jaw-dropping.
Arriving out of a band called Sisyphus, with the addition of singer Sonja Kristina, the band Curved Air rose to prominence in the early seventies and captured the attention of both the British press and the growing rock audience with some of the great musicians of the age.
