I remember seeing the Oni-fronted Lynch mob back in the day, supporting someone (Dio perhaps?) in the Uk in the early 90s. Competant enough but didn't really seem anything special. George looked fu@king miserable as well. Played all right though. I am one of those who rates the Lynch Mob album above Wicked Sensation in every respect. Really like Rob Mason's vocals. Mason in Warrant? Sorry t
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I love Rescue You. So many great songs and JLTs performance is superb, as is the production. I have to say the follow up Nothing's Changed was a major disappointment for me and even though he was certainly one of my favourite vocalists at the time, I didn't really feel he was doing himself any major favours for years after the Yngwie period. The Usual Suspects however is a definite return to f
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Just listened to the clip linked to the front page. This is great stuff! Great to hear John and Roger working together again, Artension fans will love this. World class musicianship and great melodies. Nice clear production. Can't wait for the album!
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Oh, I love to see stuff like this. He's really tight with great timing and will be a monster if he keeps it up. Thanks for this. Rock will never die with kids (and probably parents!) like this.
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They didn't play this in Auckland... :( But looks like Melbourne didn't get one of the other newbies :) And to be honest I reckon we got the better performance. Ozzy is struggling a bit on the clip here. Bless him. Still awesome.
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Nice.
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I saw them play this year with Journey and was very, very pleasantly suprised. Thought they'd be competent, sure, but they blew me away at how good they were. Just listened to Hell To Pay and that is a fine track. I will at least get some of the songs on iTunes if not the whole album.
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I did wonder after a comment from Robert Downey Jr. that he may not return to the franchise if he was disappointed with IM3, and if the film was pants. Well, if you enjoyed the first 2 films and The Avengers, I reckon you'll enjoy this. In many ways it's the best in the series IMHO. Not gonna spill any juicy details but the story has some nice twists, great characterisation and fantastic action s
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I agree with David mostly. I never saw the Ozzy-fronted Sabs and thought they played a stormer. A great set, great sound and great performances. The only thing I disagree with David on is that they blew Deep Purple and Journey out the water. I thought all of these bands were amazing actually, very little between them in terms of performance etc. The new Sabbath songs? The live performance of
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Born in London England, lived in Denmark from 1994-2005 then moved to New Zealand which is my current home.
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Do you think so? I've been listening to a lot of old Sabbath and Brad sounds pretty "traditional" rock here. I'm not knocking that at all but can't really hear the jazz influences Bill often brought on board. Not a bad song though. Real old early 70s kind of vibe.
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That is pretty darned authentic!
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Hypnotically bad!
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At the end of the day Andrew it's your party your rules. People don't like it, they can start their own site. I followed some of the sillier threads sometimes and found myself thinking "folks it's just a message board, just an opinion...". I've seen really good sites actually closed down because of the antics of a few, so good policing is sometimes required. I am seeing the threads more
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I hope they play a couple of songs live next week! I'll post some sort of review regardless :)
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Not great but I've seen worse. The music is what matters. I am looking forward to the album and indeed their first EVER performance on this tour in 2013. Auckland, New Zealand 20th April....! If they do new stuff we will be among the first to hear it!
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Interesting thread. I've been musing lately about the musos who back in the day were full time in up and coming bands, a trillion names but for example - Warren De Martini, Share Pedersen, Shane Gaalaas. And shedloads from the shred scene who could really, really play but never became household names. How do they pay the bills? How do they now make a living? I guess teaching is an obvious route,
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Great start! But also check out Mechanix and Making Contact. The Paul Chapman years are tragically underrated but to these ears contained possibly the most consistant songwriting of all the UFO era. No Place To Run has its moments but the production is a bit dull. Better would be IMHO Radio 1 Live In Concert - superb versions of Letting Go and No Place To Run (the song).
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Oh goodness, I was lucky enough to have seen MSG on their first tour. And second. Magical stuff. Armed & Ready, Ready To Rock, Lost Horizons, Victim Of Illusion, Looking Out From Nowehere, On and On, Secondary Motion, Cry For The Nations, Attack Of The Mad Axeman... yeah I reckon the Barden era. Has Mike's writing ever generated that many classic songs since then?
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PT isn't as consistent as the first two or three MSG albums but there are some fantastic songs on there. "Love Is Not A Game" is one of my all time MSG faves. Save Yourself was... OK. Didn't like the one after much and then kinda lost interest.
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I was in my teens in 1980, living in London, and had just got majorly into hard rock. There was the explosion of the NWOBHM and suddenly in the charts there were all these great bands. I distincly remember on one episode of the UK's (then?) major music programme "Top Of The Pops" in 1980 there was nothing else but rock/metal - Def Leppard, Rainbow, Whitesnake, Motorhead. This was unprec
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Probably not. I am far from a fan but the impression I have is that Gene and Paul dominate the writing and even more so from the 80s. Why would they have rescinded that control? The only Kiss stuff I own is with VV though from COTN and I have VVI stuff but I wouldn't class VV as an outstanding songwriter. I found this YT vid w/ VV on guitar. Lousy sound but pretty interesting. http://www.y
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I missed seeing this incarnation live and really my favourite eras were with Dio and Tony Martin (this material is very underrated IMHO). But there is no question that some of the older, Ozzy-era material is just damn good. My favourite album from that era is Sabotage closely followed by Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, but my opinion is heavily tainted by the production of the early albums which simply d
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Sad news. He was all too young to go.... Saw him with Maiden several times in the 80s, good tight drummer. RIP and condolences to his familiy.
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Bit tame. It's all right but having seen them open a gig with Fireball...! Nice solo though.
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I have more inclination to check it out since their gig in Auckland last week with Journey. They really suprised me - in a good way. They were superb. As were Journey - but I wasn't expecting Purple to be THAT good...!
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Love the classic sounding stuff like Priest, Sabbath, a few power metal bands too, was a huge fan of the neoclassical genre but the newer stuff tends to leave me pretty cold. Downtuned guitars and grunty singers? No thanks.
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Wow there have been a lot of views on this which I can understand. My responses to a few (need to paraphrase, sorry!). Huge back catalogue, could play that forever - agreed. see Jon's point especially since he commented on the Eclipse sales. But Eclipse was sh!te. I concur. Loved City of Hope but nothing else. Shouldn't produce new music? Well I hope they continue at some point. Arrival
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Could be here for hours. Not gonna be :) so at this time I'll lay out the songs that quite possibly mean the most to me for different reasons: Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force. I remember putting this record on for the first time thinking...my fave guitarist and one of my fave vocalists...please don't let this be sh!t...! It wasn't. Remains one of my top 5 songs of all time. Yngwie's solo is qu
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They'd have to pay me a bit more than that before I thought about it....
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