First installment though I won’t promise to write an impression for each of Arcam’s discs (I’m sure you are heart broken over that!!!). I tried Spock’s Beard first...listened to a good bit of "The Oblivion Particle". Then a couple tracks from "X" and then "Snow". Yeesh...In general, I like prog and can tell these guys are good musicians but for whatever reason they don’t light me up. X was most interesting to me. I’m going to re-visit that one. I was kind of anxious to see how much better Snow might be given that was the last one w/Neal Morse. Didn't listen to X all the way through.
Velvet Revolver - "Contraband". Okay. But for me nothing extraordinary. Very competent but pretty average. Not much incentive to stick with it and get through the entire album. Some big names in the lineup but not sure they deceived the big noise VR got.
Mother Love Bone - I’m hearing something I like here. Didn’t spend a lot of time with "Apple". Will re-visit. Heck of a thing about Andrew Wood.
Rival Sons - OKAY! now we’re talking. I don’t know what it is that I like about them, but I like it a lot. Some of that Led Zeppelin thing going for sure. Very good drummer. Listening to "Time & Pressure". Recording sound quality (at least on Spotify) is a bit muddy but this band kicks a**. Looked them up. Jay Buchanan is a great vocalist much in the style of Eric Burdon but possibly with greater range and dynamics. That 2nd track "Young Love" coulda been done by the Animals back in the day. Wish the sound was better.
That’s it for today’s exploration of Acman’s arcane list of obscure albums. Want to dig into Rival Sons a bit more tonight.
Lot’s more to sample tomorrow, Lord willing.
