Humble Pie – Performance, Rockin the Fillmore
Recognized as one of the earliest of the rock supergroups, Humble Pie released this live double album in 1971. Never has an album rocked so hard or heavily.
Thunder – Stage
Thunder are now bigger and better than ever, no longer a support band or even playing theatres, but arenas and headlining festivals. The new songs blend in seamlessly with the old. I mean, of course, they are Thunder songs, so it would be disappointing if they didn’t. Laughably, Danny Bowes, in between song banter, has not changed in thirty years. The crowds lap it up, so why should it change?
Mott the Hoople – All The Young Dudes
Mott, under David Bowie’s guidance, produced an absolute corker. This was a ground-breaking album setting Mott the Hoople on the fast lane to Rock ‘n’ Roll stardom.
Slade – Slade Alive
Recorded in 1971 and released in 1972, this album caught the Rock ‘n’ Roll fun machine that was Slade on the crest of a very big wave, metaphorically a veritable tidal wave. Upon release, this album went straight to number one in the U.K.
Greg Lake In Concert – King Biscuit Flower Hour
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.”
Dragonforce – The Power Within
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.
Ten Years After – Essential
“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.
Hawkwind – Take Me To Your Leader
“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.
The New Wave of Progressive Rock from the late 1980s to the early 1990s
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.
Gary Moore – We Want Moore
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.
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