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    It's a Sammy Hagar-Off!

    Hagar set the standard high with Montrose, and it was a height he struggled to reach again. Ronnie Montrose made the fine Warner Bros Presents album (with Bob James, another strong singer lost withoutout trace), and went on to form Gamma, which were at least as good as Montrose if not better...
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    Review Max Webster - "The Party" (box set)

    The first album I bought was A Million Vacations, which is consistently good. The remainder and Kim Mitchell's solo albums are pretty good too.
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    Santana Duet

    I found more footage, which shows Santana, Greg Rolie (who returned for the Freedom album in 1987), SRV, his brother and Cesar Rosas. I think the one I thought was Rosas is Jimmy Vaughan with the quiffed hair. Rosas has a goatee beard, and SRV is wearing a wide-brimmed hat and plays a twin-neck...
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    Santana Duet

    I bought Carlos Santana and Alice Coltrane's Illuminations when it was released, thinking it was a rock album (I did not know Alice Coltrane at the time). I got a bit of a surprise, but liked it nonetheless. This is Bill Laswell's remix of Angel of Sunlight from Illuminations: This is...
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    Santana Duet

    This is really good. You just don't imagine Latin and saxophone fitting together.
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    Cover Versions : love 'em or hate 'em...

    Three Santana covers that are at least as good as the originals are Peter Green's Black Magic Woman and Rod Argent's She's Not There, both from Moonflower in 1977, and Buddy Holly's Well All Right from Inner Secrets, released the following year. All three are sung by the versatile Greg Walker...
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    Eddie Van Halen or Brian May?

    I was never a fan of Van Halen's tapping style, whereas I like Brian May's picking technique and pure tone (I know he is not averse to a bit of tapping). May is slightly underrated because of his loyalty to Mercury and Deacon's disco dancey tracks and distractions like his politics and eventual...
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    Cover Versions : love 'em or hate 'em...

    ^ It is funny how that track was often left off the Chicago best ofs or greatest hits. It must have been something to do with the songwriting copyright.
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    Black Sabbath: Vol. 4 or Sabotage?

    I would probably vote for Sabotage on the strength of Symptom of the Universe alone, but the whole album is consistently strong and heavy. Ironically, while the band were at a creative peak, they were experiencing management and record company problems, so this was the last great Osbourne-era...
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    Cover Versions : love 'em or hate 'em...

    ^ You really need to hear Gamma. Davey Pattison also teamed up with Michael Schenker for the Summit covers albums. I'd Love to Save the World is as good as TYA's original 'hit'. All of Manfred Mann's covers are outstanding, especially by the Earth Band, but even going back to the Manfred Mann...
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    Battle of hard rock albums from 1979: Lovedrive or Van Halen II?

    Lovedrive. The Scorpions hit a purple patch in the late seventies, although I liked the Uli Jon Roth material. With the return of Michael Schenker, they could not go wrong.
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    Cover Versions : love 'em or hate 'em...

    This version of Baby, Please Don't Go is definitely better than any other. It is from the Never Turn Your Back on a Friend album by Budgie. I am not sure if this Gamma version is better than the Hollies original, but it is extremely good: Ditto Gamma's version of Mickey Newbury's I Wish I...
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    Santana Duet

    No footage, I'm afraid, but a good quality recording. Santana with Eric Clapton, who was familiar with Eyesight to the Blind, from the LA Forum in 1975. It is perhaps not as unusual as implied in the YT comments. This twenty five minute recording proves that Santana can play R'n'B as well as...
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    Santana Duet

    One can only wonder what this unusual duet with Rod Stewart, when they were touring together, would have been like with a bit more rehearsal. I Would Rather Go Blind:
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    Santana Duet

    I am not so much a fan of Santana's pop duets, but always a fan of his playing. I always liked this, not only for Santana's guitar tone, but also because Michelle Branch has a lovely voice. I understand she is a country singer (?) and do not think I have ever heard her on anything else.
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    Santana Duet

    The critics never really liked Carlos Santana's jazz rock material, but here he is with John McLaughlin and the twin guitars are effortlessly ferocious. The Montreux album is one of my favourite jazz rock albums. You can hear McLaughlin's solo at around the five minute mark. I think I saw...
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    Santana Duet

    Santana with SRV and the guitarist from Los Lobos. The latter is an atmospheric player.
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    Santana Duet

    I could not find the Santana thread so I created one for this duet with two of the most fluid guitarists together: Carlos Santana and George Benson on Breezin' (1976). Just watch Santana's fingers at around the two-and-a-half minute mark. I really like trawling YouTube for footage of Santana...
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    Thread Closed What Are You Listening To?

    Made a mistake!
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    Cover Versions : love 'em or hate 'em...

    I agree with you about Jimi. Here's My Back Pages, which is beautiful despite the most difficult to learn lyrics ever: I do not like Maria Carey's cover of Badfinger's Without You, which was a hit when Harry Nilsson died. The record companies should have put their weight behind Nilsson's...
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    Cover Versions : love 'em or hate 'em...

    Noteworthy covers: All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix (Dylan cover). Panoramic imagery, rearranged and combined with Jimi's fiery guitar solo. Jimi was as close to perfection as a guitar player as it is possible to get, and on this song he shows himself as an emotive singer too; My Back...
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    Are we allowed to talk about disco?

    I would like to have seen this group live when they were playing with Santana:
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    Thread Closed What Are You Listening To?

    The Rock Candy remastered in 2014 version of the first Toto album (from 1978). I bought the vinyl album around the time Hold the Line was a hit single, but the CD sounds really good if not better. Hold the Line and its b-side Taking it Back are still the best tracks, but David Hungate's bass...
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    Are we allowed to talk about disco?

    Eagle by Abba: I'm a Marionette by Abba:
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    RIP Malcolm Young

    In the early days, I remember thinking, 'Why isn't this band more highly rated?,' and fearing that they would disappear without a trace. Although live they seemed a bit raw and almost eccentric, their material was original, self-written and underpinned by strong musicians: Angus Young was a...

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