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    Review Coverdale*Page - Coverdale*Page (1993)

    Memo to self: play this damned album (I often look at it in my record collection but haven't played it for about 20 years). I can't even remember any of the material!
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    Paul Buckmaster Dead At 71

    So many great string or orchestral arrangements on albums (particularly of the 1970s). Judie Tzuke's "Welcome To The Cruise" being one of my favourites.
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    Who is the greatest musician who died before reaching his full potential?

    Hmmm. Haven't seen Phil Lynott mentioned yet. Sure, Lizzy had produced some great stuff during the 70s but I'm sure that there was better yet to come. A waste.
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    Child in Time or Stairway to Heaven?

    Torn both ways - both superb songs. However, "Child In Time" has never had me shouting at the radio "Oh. Not again".
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    So now we have two YES?

    As a Yes fan through the Seventies and Eighties, I lost a lot of my interest after "Talk". I just felt that after being progressive for so long, they then subsequently fell back into a kind of pastiche of the early Seventies material and it didn't appeal to me, particularly. The departure of JA...
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    Deep Purple Confirm Release Date and Track Listing for New Album, ‘inFinite’

    Just dived in to see what others have thought of the new Purple album and was astounded to find no new postings since I last looked in! For me, "Infinite" continues the improvement that we saw with "NOW What!?". Nice to hear more Steve Morse in the mix and to see the guitar tone hinting more at...
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    The Mob Rules

    Much as I like the 1970-76 albums, the dynamic on "H&H" and "Mob Rules" is just sensational. On both tours there was a very special magic in the air. Both albums contain a couple of 'not quite there' tracks, I think. For me, I reckon that "Mob Rules" shades it slightly. Not quite as tightly...
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    RIP Overend Watts

    Sad, indeed. I didn't see this one coming, I wasn't even aware that Overend had been ill. Ian Hunter did a couple of interviews recently and he did make it clear that there would be no more Mott reunion shows. At the time I put it down to the loss of Buffin and Mick Ralphs' recent health...
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    Friars Club, Aylesbury, UK

    Thanks to the sterling efforts of the Friars team, Aylesbury is now set to be the home of the very first statue of David Bowie in the world. As well as a litany of other bands of the 60's, 70s and 80s, Friars Club was where David gave the world premiere of both "Hunky Dory" and "Ziggy Stardust...
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    Marillion (Official Thread)

    A sensational piece of work. I'm surprised that there's so little comment anywhere on this forum. Infinitely better than the last album, which is one of my least favourite Marillion albums ("Gaza" and "Power" aside). Only "White Paper" leaves me a bit cool off this one. It was good to see them...
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    Deep Purple revisited

    Interesting. In the mid-70s my mates (and some of us still) were massive Purple fans. I can't say that I ever noticed any significant anti-Purple sentiment here in the UK. Most of us were equally enthusiastic about Zeppelin and Sabbath - and to a lesser degree bands like Heep. Our musical tastes...
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    Electric Light Orchestra (Official Thread)

    Infinitely better than all of the sub-standard post-OOTB stuff. Some good live shows as well, still with Richard Tandy well to the fore.
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    Best album of 1976

    Some really crackers in this lot. It was a good year. Between "Rainbow Rising", "Hotel California", "A New World Record", "Wings At The Speed Of Sound" and Genesis "A Trick Of The Tail" for me.
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    Best album of 1978

    Good choice!
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    Best album of 1979

    Interesting that the first nomination is an album that I, even as a Floyd fan, loathed, despised and detested in 1979 (and still do). An album of three rateable tracks and a load of Roger Waters self-indulgent nonsense (IMHO). After the early promise I also wasn't impressed with The Clash's...
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    Friars Club, Aylesbury, UK

    The Friars website has recently had a refresh (Welcome to the Friars Aylesbury website). Friars was a highly respected club, predominantly during the 1970s and 1980s but, sporadically, since. Still going, it is promoting two nights of King Crimson this summer. Most famously, it was where...
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    The return of... Ritchie Blackmore?

    I'm sure that we'd all like him to do an extensive set of rock dates but we have to remember that he is over 70 now. A few dates around the world now and again is, realistically, all that we're ever likely to get. Hopefully he'll remember his roots and we'll get a UK date (please, God, let it...
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    Marillion (Official Thread)

    The Christmas gigs last year were probably the best that they've ever done. A good mix of material (surprisingly nothing from "Brave", "Radiation", "marillion.com", "Anoraknophobia", "Marbles" or "Somewhere Else") which included a reappearance after a long, long time of "Warm Wet Circles" in...
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    The Move (Official Thread)

    Bev Bevan has recently been touring as part of "Stand Up And Rock", a music and comedy show with his best mate, 70s/80s stand up comedian Jasper Carrott. I caught up with them last year. The format of the show is two sets, both starting with half an hour of stand up from Carrott before the Bev...
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    Review Status Quo - Aquostic (2014)

    I was at the recording of the Radio 2/Red Button gig at the Roundhouse. The additional guitarist was Freddie Edwards, son of bass player John (aka Rhino). In general I think it's an interesting and well executed album. However, I do think that there are two or three songs that don't work in...
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    Deep Purple (Official Thread)

    I believe that was true - but then Gentleman Jon was a very tolerant man. He spoke not long before he died about having dinner with Ritchie. I think that Ritchie respected Jon's classical training and his ability to act as a foil to almost anything that Blackmore threw at him when soloing.
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    Killing Joke (Official Thread)

    Have been a fan for most of their career. First saw the band headline the Friday night at Reading Festival in 1986. The best performances, IMO, were the Pandemonium tour in '94. Watford Colosseum on that tour remains one of my all time favourite gigs by any band. I've been a bit nonplussed with...
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    Ian Hunter - Diary of a Rock'N'Roll Star review

    I must read the review! I bought the original paperback (which I've still got) in the 70s. I replaced it a few years ago with the republished edition, just because the pages were falling out of the original. The site of the printers in Aylesbury (Hazell, Watson & Viney) is now a Tesco Extra...
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    The Old Grey Whistle Test

    Old Grey Whistle Test (and subsequently Whistle Test) were essential viewing for anyone not wanting chart fodder thrust at them. Who can forget the classic performance by John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett in which Otway leapt onto the speaker stack, slipped with his legs either side of it and...
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    Steve Hackett (Official Thread)

    For anyone who can't resist a sneak preview, to get an idea of the set, check out setlist.fm Search for setlists: steve hackett | setlist.fm

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