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For those of you who dig Ozric Tentacles with a dash of Hawkwind, but with slightly chunkier guitar riffs, then a project called Head Spin might interest you.

Second album, Refractor, is just out...

This excellent box set celebrating Hawkwind's "Charisma Years" seemed to slip out under the radar last year, but with the band about to tour the UK again, here's an opportunity to revisit this set,...

If you dig the Woodstock '69 movie and want to hear more of the music, where do you go beyond the original 3LP soundtrack?

Well, if you're minted you might try tracking down the 38 disc box set...

I picked up a very nice 50th anniversary edition of Catch A Fire a couple of weeks ago, mainly for the live material on the bonus discs. But it also turns out that the main album sounds like it's had...

It's that time of year again where Dead.Net offer thirty free downloads across thirty days, and if you're still new to the band and are looking for a quick and cost-free way in, this might be the...

Yes indeed. Bought on Friday, listened to intensively on Saturday (including comparisons with the 2009 stereo cds, the recent 50th remixes of the Pepper etc albums, and the 2015 remixes for the "1"...

Naughty....but unfortunately a fact.

It would have been interesting if the band had also let LaBrie go and Portnoy had brought Jeff Scot Soto in with him. When I saw Sons Of Apollo, he was such a...

I gather that the rest of that show wasn't great quality, and the bonus disc is more of a sweetener to encourage punters to buy the Here Comes Sunshine box set of several complete 1973 shows.

You...

You'd be surprised how quickly 2025 will come around. When I started getting into the Dead two years ago, "Wake" was one of the cds I struggled to find anywhere, so I just resigned myself to waiting...

I came across the first of those box sets a few weeks ago while on vacation in London. It was just sitting in a glass case in a used record store, but the price was obscured. Dude just said £100, and...

My copy of the Wake Of The Flood (50th anniversary edition) finally arrived a couple of days ago, and having now listened to both discs several times, I'm of the view that it was worth it for me.
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Yes, I had that experience with In Rock and Machine Head back in the days of cassettes. In Rock was full on and really clear sounding while Machine Head sounded muffled in comparison. I was convinced...

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Sorry for the dead link. Must be my clumsiness in formatting into this thread. Should be fixed now.

My first introduction to Purple was Made In Japan, back in the early 80s, and it became a touchstone album for me over the years. But recently, as I've been listening to complete shows like...

I hadn't heard any live Doors before, so I thought I'd give this set a go. As a casual fan, I really enjoyed it, and was inspired enough to write up a blog review to guide readers towards trying this...

I noticed that too, across a couple of the shows. It comes and goes in places, but it didn't really bother me. I remember hearing something similar when Jon Lord plays his organ intro to "Child In...

I started getting into Jefferson Airplane last year, and really enjoyed the first five albums. So when I spotted Kantner's first solo effort - Blows Against The Empire - in a record store, I decided...

The Dead have just released another of their box sets of live shows, this time from 1973. It's a 17 disc/5 gig affair, but for those of us with smaller wallets, the RFK show has been released...

I bought the 40th anniversary set ages ago, but never really got round to listening to it properly until recently.

I decided to give another go, having read the detailed liner notes, and also...

Now that the price has come down on this set, I decided to go for the blu-ray edition. I had read comments elsewhere that the results were barely an improvement on the 2006 dvd, but having sat...

I saw them last year, going along with moderate expectations, and thoroughly enjoyed the show.

Review here:
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Geoff Barton was actually quite a big deal as a journalist in the UK rock/metal scene in the early eighties, perhaps as influential in that scene as say, Lester Bangs was with the bands he wrote...

For those of you interested in exploring the albums of studio material and box sets released by the Experience Hendrix team between 1997 and 2018, I've put together a summary review of each release,...

If any of you enjoyed my article on the live albums, I've now just published a companion piece on the albums released by the Experience Hendrix team between 1997 and 2018.

You can find the article...

I took a quick look at my Winterland albums, and there's a version of AYE on disc 2 (11 October) that runs for 12.12.

The bonus disc has a version from 10 October, but it only runs to 7.27.
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You're quite right. An oversight on my part, which I'll remedy shortly.

Thanks for taking the time to point this out.

I don't know what the thinking is within the Hendrix estate, given the overwhelming demand for the Albert Hall show. Although it might still be mired in legalities.

I have a bootleg of that show,...

A couple of years ago, I published a blog article offering a beginner's guide to Jimi's live albums. Nothing heavy or overly analytical - just a fun way of working out which albums to go for, if you...

I've just spent the last few weeks going through every Cream album, from the mono to the stereo versions, the live releases, the BBC sessions and the box set Those Were The Days.

It's been a lot...

I hadn't realised that it's the anniversary of David Bowie's passing, when I wrote this review of the new Moonage Daydream documentary on blu-ray and cd today.

So it feels fitting to share some...

I'm guessing any Dead fans on this forum will have already downloaded their freebies for 2022, but for anyone reading this who's at all curious about the Grateful Dead, but not wanting to shell out...

For those of you interested, there's a new deluxe hardback book set just been released, with some excellent insight into the band's writing and recording process, along with remastered cds from...

“I’ll bring you Lightning To The Nations!”

Diamond Head’s 1980 debut album finally gets the remastering it deserves, with this new edition. Yes, there have been umpteen reissues over the years...

Thought I'd throw my tuppence worth in here with a blog review I've just published, based on the two-disc edition, and doing three-way comparisons between the remix and the 2009 stereo and mono...

I bought this earlier today, and assumed it was an eighty minute set crammed on to one disc. Not even thirty minutes according to my cd rip.

I wonder if there's been some sort of cock-up, because...

Glad you're enjoying the shows.

I saw Misty In Roots once, 1986 I think, and bought their Musi-o-Tunya LP, but their stuff is hard to find on cd. No such problem with Steel Pulse though. I...

For those of you hankering for some more live Bob, his four night stand at London's Rainbow Theater in June 1977 has now been officially released as a series of high quality downloads.

I'd heard...

I wasn't sure whether to open the thread in this forum , or the off-topic one, as the Airplane fall kind of between psychedelic/prog and more mainstream rock.

But here we go - a piece I put...

As a fan of the Dead, I've come across some interesting releases while scouring the racks in second hand stores, and last week I purchased the Grayfolded album.

Essentially a sonic experiment,...

If you're into the spaced out rock and ambience of the likes of Ozric Tentacles or Hidria Spacefolk, then you might find this new release of interest.

Head Spin is a one-man project, but it's so...

I was a little sceptical when this release was announced, as I thought the original 2012 edition was good enough that it didn't need to be revised.

However, having dug into the new 2022 edition...

I'm afraid the sleeves are not gatefold in this set. The gatefold artwork is reproduced in the booklet, but the cd sleeves are single cardboard.

If you buy the cds separately, you'll get gatefold...

I'd always enjoyed TYA's spot in the Woodstock movie, but hadn't really explored their music until last year, going for Ssssh and Cricklewood Green. I really liked what I was hearing, so I dived in...

So, the wait is finally over, and Rush fans finally get the holy grail of live albums – a complete show from the Moving Pictures tour!

Oh, and the studio album isn’t too shabby either…

I’ve...

It's nice to see Lerxst dipping his toes into new musical waters post-Rush, and his new project Envy Of None hit record shelves yesterday.

After a couple of spins, I think it's a winner, and have...

Link fixed - apologies for that.

I caught the band live in Edinburgh last night, and of the three TD gigs I've seen down the decades, this was by far the most enjoyable.

I've just published a review of the show, which you can...

I'm a bit late to the party with this one, but I finally tracked a shelf copy last week.

For my thoughts on the contents and audio quality, from a newbie's point of view, you're invited to visit...

I'd never heard any live performances from Can before these two albums came out, but after hearing them being played over the speakers in my local record store, I was tempted and bought them. I've...

The book-set has now been released, and it's a really nice piece of work.

I've put together a review of the contents (and there are a lot), together with comparisons of the new remasters vs the...

Pretty much the law of diminishing returns for me. In the early days I used to enjoy the cds, and they had a bit of heft with a mix of newcomers and more established artists (ie Wilson, Arena, IQ),...

If ever an album arrived in my collection at the right time, it's this one. It's not been a great year, and for me, it's ending on a note of sadness and loss due to a parting of the ways. But...

A recording of Jimi’s early show at Berkeley in 1970 recently showed up in my stores, and I decided to take a punt on it. Sourced from an FM radio broadcast, it’s actually quality stuff with good...

Those of you in the know will be aware of the Grateful Dead’s annual tradition – 30 Days Of Dead – where they offer a free download each day for the duration of November. But if you haven’t heard the...

I might have ended up in that situation with Rush, but for obvious reasons that chapter has now closed, and I'm pretty happy with their overall legacy. (Clockwork Angels was a very satisfying album...

From what I've read in interviews with Akerfeldt, Axe was one of those rural guys that lives very remotely in the woods, literally, and only comes out when it's time to record and tour. So there may...

I'm not sure how many of you follow the Facebook Group for readers of Prog magazine, but editor Jerry Ewing has shared some inside info on the upcoming PT album:

The reason for the seven month gap...

I picked up the two disc edition of the 50th anniversary of Let It Be the other day, and am really enjoying it.

If anyone is interested, it's the subject of a blog I've just published:
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For those of you who enjoy the spaced out bliss of the Ozrics, Kscope have just announced a new box set for 14 January.

This will include Ed Wynne's remasters for the Pungent, Erpland,...

Nad walked past us, twice, while we were waiting to get in. Looking tanned and healthy. If I'd had any merch on me, I might asked politely for an autograph, as he seemed quite relaxed and most folk...