Back in 1992, Hawkwind released ‘Electric Tepee,’ a sensational album of space rock combining intergalactic orbital rockers with huge chunks of Hawk dreamscapes that whisk you off on a sonic journey, clocking in at one hour and fifteen minutes.
Busting at the seams with creative energy, The Clash’s stunning 1979 double album, “London Calling,” digitally remastered from the original production tapes, puts both vinyl albums on one CD.
At this stage of his career, Bruce Springsteen was just a new upcoming kid from the Jersey Shore. After this album, he became the Boss and could do no wrong in the eyes of working America.
Fire and Water was a smash hit all over the world, selling over two million copies and climbing to number four on the Billboard chart. This was even more remarkable as although by then veterans of the circuit, they were all still under twenty when this album was released.
In early 1971, Jethro Tull went into the newly opened Island recording studios for three weeks to record their new album (the other band in residence at Island at the same time was Led Zeppelin, who were laying down tracks for their fourth album). When they came out again, they had recorded one of rock’s great moments. “Aqualung” was released to its adoring public, and in reality, it gave Ian Anderson and his bunch the right to lifetime superstardom.
This is the story of the Welsh rock ‘n’ roll band ‘Man,’ not the people. This Dog can understand rock ‘n’ roll; people are a lot trickier. Part one revolves around the recently released live greatest hits album sensibly titled ‘Man Alive.’
Jeff Beck, one of the most skilled, admired and influential guitarists in rock history, died on Tuesday, 10January, 2023. in a hospital near his home at Riverhall, a rural estate in southern England. He was 78.
“So, in the mornin’, please don’t say you love me;” ‘A Nod is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse’ is pure Faces’ style good time music.
Listening to this album 53 years later on, does it live up to the hype? Has it stood the ravages of time? Is a Dalmatian a beautiful dog? Of course it has; the brilliance of diamonds does not dim over a few years.
What a glorious band. Formed out of the ashes of ‘The Small Faces’ and ‘The Jeff Beck Band,’ nobody could have predicted the influence this lovable bunch of rogues would have on rock ‘n’ roll history.
