Rick Wakeman – Can You Hear Me?

This album is a must have. Although this is Cross over Rock, Atheists like me self need not fear. You don’t have to be Christian to like this. This album contains 5 tracks originally from the Prayers Album but they have been augmented with a new choir. I love it.

Scorpions – Taken By Force

For some reason this disc has been out of print for years. I have never understood why and now that I have finally got my hands on it I am even more perplexed. This was the last Studio album to feature Uli Roth on Lead Guitar and it is an excellent all round effort. I […]

Scorpions – Tokyo Tapes

My first Scorpions album was ‘Animal Magnetism’ back in 1980 or so. I really liked that so I got something else. I suspect it was ‘Tokyo Tapes’. I must have been one of my first Cd’s. I think I had recorded it off a friend prior to that but from that date on this has […]

ELO – Zoom

Well this is an unfortunate day for me to be writing my opinion of the new "ELO" album. But I am at the end of my endurance of the disc and I promised to comment to a couple of friends. If I remove the disc from my carousel I will never get to the review […]

Motoi Sakuraba – Force Of Light

I saw this advertised as using lots of keyboards old and new and I must have been in an adventurous mood as something made me decide to order it. I did first I look for reviews and the only one I found put me off a bit as it mentioned the sleeve notes talking about […]

Francis Monkman – 21st Century Blues

When I first got this I hadn’t a clue what to make of it. It is a very unusual but interesting album. Poisonality – The album opens with a very simple riff as the loud theme. Under it there is some terrific guitar and good atmospherics. The track is very long, well 9.42, and by […]

New bands grabbing my attention

My tastes in music are it seems rather dated. Most of the bands I like originated in the 70’s. In fact it was quite some time until I found a band I even wanted to try that originated after 1985. Suddenly though in the last couple of years I have started to find new bands […]

Band Reviews from 2002

I have been keeping this list of gigs I have attended and often written reviews for friends. It might interest someone so I have decided to put it online. I have tried to go to a lot of gigs in recent times as that is the only enjoyment worth aggravating my ME for but I […]

Mostly Autumn/Karnataka – Mean Fiddler, London – 12 Jan 2002

Well tonight I was supposed to be in Rotherham for a Damian Wilson concert. Unfortunately he was taken ill and the gig was cancelled the day before. This thus allowed me to make this gig, which I had been gutted about having to miss when it was announced. With luck the Damian gig will be […]

Remasters – The Official Anthology – Uriah Heep

In recent times the affairs of Uriah Heep have been very ably handled by their new label Classic Rock Legends. Unfortunately this time I feel they have made a mistake. Or several. The album title implies these tracks are remastered originals i.e. Old mixes cleaned up for a new release. They are not and this […]