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NINETEEN pages before anybody remembered me?? Pah! You guys are all dead to me!! :doh

Seriously though, I do miss this place, but I kind of drifted away after the Great Migration - I used to love...

Geeze - I guess you've seen my thoughts elsewhere. I haven't been on here for an absolute age, but hearing about this news has brought me straight back. I'm profoundly shocked, and so is Janet. We...

OK, interesting fact which came up when I interviewed Roger Hodgson recently...

Brother Where You Bound and Cannonball were originally intended for this album. However, tensions in the band were...

Nazareth - This Flight Tonight. Even Joni Mitchell introduced it live as 'a Nazareth song', so taken was she by it


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ88OCJYSmE

And has anyone heard the version...

There's some pretty good stuff on the first White Lion album. In The City and El Salvador are great songs, and as far removed from vapid Motley Crue shit as you could find.

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Favourite country rock album - that would be Gene Clark - No Other. All time classic.

Plenty of great individual tracks:
Poco - Rose Of Cimarron (my favourite country rock song ever, bar none)...

Both versions of the song are horrible, and the bottom line for me is that it should never have gone within a million miles of the Yes name, end of story. Rabin's is no worse though.

Oh no, you're going too far with VHS over DVD! Poorer sound and picture quality, having to fast forward to find the bit you want, AND to top it all the packaging was in most cases inferior to DVD,...

Probably Black Country Woman. I never hated it, but I certainly appreciate the grove of it far more nowadays. Never did 'get' Down By The Seaside though, and still don't - it's one of the few Zep...

The short extract from Seven Seas Of Rhye on the first Queen album. Made even more redundant when the completed version appeared on Queen II (complete with its own pointless singalong of I Do Like...

I was 16 in the UK in 1977 when Punk was at its height, and I was really into it for a while (in fact, I was pretty schizoid - I had long hair and a safety pin in my school blazer lapel! I'd listen...

No, I've tried and I just can't get it. It's like nails down a blackboard (or a chalkboard for the colonials among us) to my ears. I've read and heard all the theory about why it fits the music,...

Best example yet!

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I find this an incredible statement! I can see the point with maybe War Pigs or Black Sabbath itself for example, but how it could be 'all over' with lengthy masterpieces such as Wheels Of...

Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan. Jesus H Christ on a unicycle... :doh

And I'll call Emperor's new Clothes on James Joyce as well. Finnegan's Wake isn't 'challenging' or 'boundary-breaking', it's...

Hmm, good question, let me think back...

Tommy Bolin and Jon Lord (Deep Purple)
Frank Zappa
Cozy Powell (Rainbow)
Ronnie Dio (Rainbow, Sabbath and Dio)
Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy and Grand Slam)...

Not 'prior' - she's still a member of Mostly Autumn. Only does backing vocals though, along with keyboards and flute.

Current MA vocalist Olivia Sparnenn is becoming pretty damned impressive now,...

I have this, signed by Lake. Haven't read it yet, however...

Absolutely! I was another who lived and breathed the books in my teenage years, but the directors cuts of the films are essential! Great job.

No, but you sure as hell fanned the flames. :roll

Anybody heard Return Of The Artisan by Final Conflict by any chance? Fucking awesome!

Saw them at the weekend, great live band as well.

If Redknapp can get Wright-Phillips playing with something approaching the confidence and flair that he used to have, and has lost during his time at QPR, he can be the key to them staying up. His...

Crash Barrier Waltzer is sublime.

Both of these are points I was going to raise. The former is the main factor which has always led me away from plasma.

You absolutely NEED external 5.1 sound (7.1 isn't worth the extra IMO)....

Ditto here. Huge fan, and they were one of my few remaining 'bucket list bands'. I was hoping the new line-up might at last make it to the UK on this current round of touring. Tragic, and truly...

OK, here's a few random ones, omitting the Sabbaths and Purples of this world:

Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride or Twin Peaks
Nazareth - Loud n Proud or...

Actually... I haven't seen Silver Shoes here. As I recall... he was never away from PE v2... ;)

Worst thing about groups is the absence of 'Go To First Unread Post' or the proper Quote function, as per threads. The former in particular is going to be REALLY annoying when a group discussion...

Correct - which is why you will see I took pains to refer to it as the 'classic' line-up in my response :)

Steeleye Span, with possibly their most sublime moment


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heK4ZMANA68

That's precisely how I feel. I like some of their stuff fine, have about 8 or 9 albums, but I'd love to be really into them, as the whole mystique is just so cool. The reality doesn't fit with the...

I'm currently reading Deke Leonard's 'Rhinos Winos & Lunatics: the Legend Of Man', which is hilariously and quite brilliantly written. One of the best rock books I've ever read, along with Ian...

I was and still am a huge fan of the classic 'frantic four'. I'm old enough to have seen that line-up first time around, and they were awesome.

I just can't really see this though, beyond...

Leaving aside the Dio era, which IMO is light years in front in terms of both material and vocals, I make the Graham Bonnet and JLT eras a tie. I much prefer JLT as a vocalist over the ghastly...

Yes, that is good, and I also like Birthday Special and Shingle Song, and the title track is OK, but otherwise the least essential of his 70s albums for me.

I am, as I was, The Silent Man. Still British. Greetings, Earthlings.