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GUNS N’ ROSES ROCKS GREAT CLASSIFIEDS – Bass Player Wanted

Posted: February 26, 2015 in MUSIC
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Bass player needed for band influenced by Aerosmith, Alice Cooper. Call Slash

In his 2007 autobiography, Slash recalls getting a few calls answering the ad he and drummer Steve Adler placed in “The Recycler”, circa 1983. But the only prospect they wanted to meet was some dude named Duff McKagan who’d recently relocated to Los Angeles from Seattle. Duff “sounded cool on the phone,” so Slash had the bassist meet him and Steve Adler and their girlfriends at Canter’s.

When Duff showed up, neither party was exactly what the other was expecting, looks-wise. Duff skewed punk, Slash blues-metal. But Slash and Duff vibed together. “The five of us went upstairs, piled into the bathroom, and broke out the vodka,” Slash wrote in his book. The trio of musicians immediately formed a band. They named it Road Crew, after the excellent Motorhead track “(We Are) The Road Crew.” Slash, Duff and Adler spent the next month or so looking for a frontman — but couldn’t find the right fit and soon went their separate ways. At least for the time being. Still, Slash’s ad connected three-fifths of what eventually formed Guns N’ Roses’ quintessential lineup, once they joined forces with the Janis-Joplin-caught-in-a-meat-grinder-voiced singer Axl Rose and Keef-esque guitarist Izzy Stradlin. During the Road Crew period, Slash and co. also created the main riff for the now-classic Guns track “Rocket Queen.”

BOB SEGER and the SILVER BULLET BAND – ” Against The Wind ” Released 25th February 1980

Posted: February 26, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band released their classic album “Against The Wind” on Feb 25, 1980. It is Bob Seger’s only number-one album, spending six weeks at the top of the American chart. To get to be the #1 album on the chart, they knocked Pink Floyd‘s “The Wall” from the top spot. The album also earned two Grammy Awards. Seger got a little help from some friends of his for the vocals on the record, the Eagles members Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit. all added vocals.

“Against the Wind” is a song by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band from the 1980 album “Against the Wind” is the highest ranking single from the album,  Glenn Frey of the Eagles sang background vocals on this song. The song is about trying to move ahead, keeping your sanity and integrity at the same time

During an interview on  Bob Seger said that “Against the Wind” came about from his days as a high-school cross country runner. The line “Let the cowboys ride!” towards the song’s end is a reference to the closing lyrics of the song “Santa Fe/Beautiful Obsession” by Van Morrison.

Seger later said that the line “Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then” bothered him for a while, but that everyone he knew loved it, so he left it in. He also said that it has since appeared in several other hits by other artists, so that proved it was o.k

DIRE STRAITS – ” Dire Straits ” Classic Debut Albums

Posted: February 20, 2015 in MUSIC
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Dire Straits Start Their Studio Adventures

Dire Straits had no easy ride en route to the multi-million-selling domination of their later years. The group had to endure plenty of low-profile gigs that paid next to nothing and lots of travelling to their own shows in a van or on public transport in their formative months. But right around this time 37 years ago, the band knew they were on the right path, as they started recording their debut album at Basing Street Studios in London in February 1978.

Having had the help and support of a much-respected broadcaster and author, they now turned to a former member of the Spencer Davis Group. Writer and BBC Radio London DJ Charlie Gillett had been the early champion of Dire Straits, largely creating the momentum that led to their record deal with Vertigo by playing their demos on his show.

Now, as they entered the studio to start recording Mark Knopfler’s songs, they were working with Muff Winwood, who had enjoyed great success himself as bassist in the Spencer Davis’ group, with brother Steve, in the 1960s and was now an in-demand producer (with an earlier notable triumph at the helm of another notable breakthrough album, Sparks’ ‘Kimono My House’) and A&R man.

Dire Straits’ self-titled debut album was recorded over the next few weeks and released the following October, after they had supported both Talking Heads and the Climax Blues Band on UK tours, and become headliners themselves for the first time. The LP contained the later hit single ‘Sultans Of Swing,’ as well as ‘Southbound Again,’ ‘Down To The Waterline’ and other examples of Knopfler’s fine writing and guitar work, and how they meshed perfectly with the band’s tight playing. The roots of one of the most potent sounds of the 1980s were being laid down.

PUSSY RIOT – ” I Can’t Breathe “

Posted: February 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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The video , claustrophobic and haunting described as an “industrial ballad”, in the words of Pussy Riot, inspired by the death of Eric Garner and dedicated to all of those “who can’t breathe”.

On Wednesday, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina released their first song in English. Titled “I Can’t Breathe”, it shows Nadya and Masha dressed in the blue uniform of Russia’s OMON riot police, lying in a grave. They are slowly buried alive.

they said the song was written after taking part in street protests against Eric Garner’s death at the hands of NYPD officers in Staten Island, New York last July. It was dedicated to Garner and to “all who suffer from state terror – killed, choked, perished because of war and police violence, to political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change”.

Their own first-hand experience of police brutality in Russia meant “we can’t be silent on this issue,

I Can’t Breathe is also a powerful protest against the political situation in Russia, and President Vladimir Putin’s bloody undercover war in Ukraine. The video echoes the secret night-time burials of hundreds of Russian soldiers who have perished in the conflict. Their families are not told how their loved ones have died or where, Pussy Riot said, adding that such information “is forbidden”. The Kremlin officially denies that its army is fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Nadya and Masha spent 16 months in a Russian jail, following their anti-Putin “punk prayer” in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour cathedral. They visited New York in December.

The song was composed and recorded in a New York studio over a single night, as protests gripped cities around the US following a decision not to indict a white New York police officer over the death of Garner, an unarmed black man whom the officer placed in a chokehold.  “The genre of this isn’t like other Pussy Riot songs. It’s an industrial ballad. Dark and urban. The rhythm and beat of the song is a metaphor of the heartbeat, the beat of a heart before it’s about to stop. The absence of our usual aggressive punk vocals in this song is a reaction to this tragedy,

The ROLLING STONES – ” Got Live If You Want It ” Great Live Albums

Posted: February 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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They’ve Got (Mostly) Live If You Want It,

The tale behind the first Rolling Stones’ live album, released by London Records in the US and ABKCO records in the UK on 10th December 1966 is neither simple nor straightforward and it’s one that has its origins in an EP of the same name released in the UK nearly 18 months earlier.

The band was inspired to name this somewhat strange titled release after a song from one of their favourite bluesmen, Slim Harpo, who recorded ‘I’ve Got Love If You Want It’ back in 1957. The four complete tracks, an excerpt from ‘Everybody Needs Somebody To Love’ and the crowd chanting “We Want The Stones”, making a sixth one, were recorded in London, Liverpool and Manchester over three nights in March 1965 by engineer Glyn Johns.

According to the press release that accompanied the record, “The EP, captures on wax the unadulterated in-person excitement of a Rolling Stones stage show.” And no better than on ‘Route 66’ which rocks and rolls as it’s driven along by Bill & Charlie. By the time it was released in the US as an LP, rather than an EP, ‘Route 66’ had been dropped and other tracks had been substituted making it a 12 track album in total.

On the original album liner notes it said that it was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on the Stones’ Autumn tour of England with Ike and Tina Turner and the Yardbirds. In truth the recording was mainly done in Newcastle and Bristol, not the Royal Albert Hall in London, with a couple of tracks either having been recorded in Liverpool and Manchester. Just to add to the confusion, some tracks were not even live at all. – ‘I’ve Been Loving You To Long’ was recorded in Los Angeles in 1965 and then overdubbed at IBC Studios in London, which was also where ‘Fortune Teller’ was also cut.

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Before the first number, ‘Under My Thumb’ the voice of singer Long John Baldry can be heard introducing the band. On the CD version it is a different intro and recording of ‘Under My Thumb’ than appears on the original vinyl pressing. Despite everything, it stayed on the best seller list for close to a year.

As Keith said at the time, “We all knew that the sound that we were getting live and in the studio was not what we were getting on record – the difference was light years apart.” There is some indication of the difference on this record, but the limitations of the recording techniques are also there to be heard. Nevertheless it is a fascinating glimpse of mid 60s Rolling Stones playing live. – even so, the band remained unhappy that it was released as an album and always referred to 1969’s “Get Yer Ya-Yas Out” as their first live album.

HUMBLE PIE – ” 30 Days In The Hole “

Posted: February 14, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Speaking of frequently covered songs, ’30 Days in the Hole’ ranks with Humble Pie’s most oft-revisited tracks since it was first unveiled as the second-side opener on 1972’s ‘Smokin’’ LP. Not only does the song absolutely cook with a funky vengeance, but its virtual catalog of chemical bad habits makes it an irresistible fix for bad boy rockers of all ages. Indeed, Humble Pie never sounded more addictive, and we therefore had no choice but to tap out ‘30 Days in the Hole’ as one of the Top Humble Pie songs.

Smokin’ comes as close to any Humble Pie LP ever did to achieving classic status. My advice to the neophyte is to check out Eat It, Smokin’,and 1971’s Rock On (the last Humble Pie LP to feature the work of Peter Frampton)

Band members

  • Bass, Vocals – Greg Ridley
  • Drums, Keyboards – Jerry Shirley
  • Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals – Clem Clempson
  • Vocals, Guitar, Harp, Keyboards – Steve Marriott

HUMBLE PIE – ” I Don’t Need No Doctor “

Posted: February 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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Rock history isn’t exactly littered with cover versions that became more definitive than the originals (though Joe Cocker’s “With a Little Help From My Friends” comes to mind), but Humble Pie delivered scores of them. None more definitive, we believe, than on the live album the ‘Rockin’ the Fillmore’s’ positively scorching reinvention of the classic R&B side ‘I Don’t Need No Doctor’ turned into a heavy rock powerhouse. From this point forward, arguably more artists have covered Humble Pie’s arrangement of the song than the Ashford/Simpson/Armstead original.

HUMBLE PIE – ” Shine On “

Posted: February 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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Pete Frampton’s primary motivation for joining Humble Pie was to escape the teen idol status he’d been pegged with by his former band, the Herd, and indeed, his songs provided a welcome, milder foil for Steve Marriott’s wild-eyed, irrepressible energy. ‘Shine On’ remains perhaps the best case in point, Listen to the organ sound and, as the chosen single and opening track on Pie’s fourth album, ‘Rock On,’ signaled Peter Frampton’s readiness to step out from under Steve Marriott’s shadow and embark eventually on his own (hugely successful) solo career.

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The ACTIVE LISTENER – ” Sampler No 28 “

Posted: February 6, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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DRENGE – ” We Can Do What We Want ” on David Letterman Show

Posted: February 2, 2015 in MUSIC, NOTTINGHAM CITY VENUES
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Drenge are an English two-piece grunge / post grunge band based in Castleton in Derbyshire. The band is made up of Eoin Loveless, on guitar and vocals, and his younger brother Rory, on drums  the band Drenge on David Letterman show earlier this week,

In many ways, it’s the same old Drenge. ‘We Can Do What We Want’ is still the sound of two cool-ass brothers making ridiculously grimy riffs that snake every-which-way like a punk viper. There’s even the obligatory war cry for a ridiculously dangerous/fun moshpit where most bands would slip in a middle-eight. But there’s something different this time round. it’s all centred around a demonically addictive stomping groove.

‘We Can Do What We Want’ all pivots on elephantine dirty hooks, and lyrics that tell the #haters to fuck right off, along with a newfound swagger that envelopes the whole track in lashings of confidence and boldness. It’s made the prospect of an upcoming new album ludicrously exciting,

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