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.
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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…