larsman
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| It Was Twenty Years Ago Today! @bassbuyer - early Montrose was amazing; one of the first shows I saw when I moved to San Francisco was Montrose at Winterland; I'd never heard of them; their first album had just come out, but holy cow they blew me away. I remain convinced that i... | |
| Top 10 Live Albums Not that much into live albums (except my large collection of Grateful Dead box sets, but that's a whole nother thing), but I'll throw in a vote for UFO 'Strangers In The Night' as well, with an honorable mention to Blue Oyster Cult's 'Extraterres... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @go4vinyl - funny you mention those American bands like Angel, Starz, Legs Diamond, etc; I've got a friend in England, and that was totally what he was in to! Also what he termed '-er bands', like 'Player' and any number of others with similar nam... | |
| Whole Lotta Led I first saw them headline the first night of the Laurel Pop Festival in Laurel, MD in the summer of '69; to say that blew me away would be an understatement. Saw them in Syracuse in the early 70's and Oakland in '77, but I also went to a couple of... | |
| It Was Twenty Years Ago Today! I saw the James Gang open for Led Zeppelin in Syracuse in about 1970 or 71. That was not their first US tour; in fact, I'd seen them a couple years before that at the Laurel Pop Festival in Laurel, MD. Starting around 2006, I started keeping a s... | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? I give it a 6-minute cycle in my DeGritter with distilled water. | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @drbond + 1 - That's just what I do; distilled water in my DeGritter; works great! @lewm + 1 | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @stuartk - not so much albums as individual songs; wish I could find that list I made up a few years ago of 'prettier Iron Maiden songs' as I had 6 or 7, but two I could suggest right offhand would be 'Still Life' off of the 'Piece of Mind' album,... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @stuartk - ah yes, that old bugaboo about categorizations - one person's metal is another person's hard rock and yet another person's 'classic rock'. I think it starts getting a bit silly after awhile; there must be at least 10 sub-genres just und... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @stuartk - Oh, I know you wouldn't, Stuart. I was just curious as to what themes you prefer for hard rock and metal, but now I see that this isn't really your preferred genre anyway. It's all good! Enjoy your week.... | |
| For fans of John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra Loved 'Inner Mounting Flame' and 'Birds of Fire' - some jazz guys at college turned me on to those; that's about as far as I get into 'fusion'. Only saw them once, on the tour where they co-headlined with Jeff Beck back in '75 or so. | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @stuartk - out of curiosity, what themes do you think they should explore instead for aggressive music like this? | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @kingbr - I've always loved the wordless singalong part of that song; they used to get the roadies up there to sing on that part, too.... | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @slaw - Completely agree about the Sadies; saw them open for Black Mountain in San Francisco about 20 years ago and was blown away; been a fan ever since. Such a tragedy about Dallas, RIP. | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters There is just some insane pedal steel going on by the great Buddy Cage on the New Riders of the Purple Sage song 'Death and Destruction'... . |