Today I decided to listen to two of my favorite rock guitar heros and one great vocalist. Guitarist' Robin Trower, Ronnie Montrose and vocalist Davey Pattison.
I listened to Trower songs: Bridge of sighs, Stitch in time, The fool and me, my personal favorite- Too rolling stoned and others.....
Then I pulled out "Gamma". I listened to: Razor King, Wish I was and Skin and bone and others.....
Davey Pattison hooked has also up with Michael Shenker also. I really enjoyed my day so far. Anybody else heard anything good?
Styx.....one of the best pomp rock bands ever! Have every album on vinyl. Saw them in England when they did a tour to support the Paradise Theater album.
The Grand Illusion and 2112 were on constant rotation in our student common room!
@slaw, I too like the Andrew Gold album. Andrew was (R.I.P.) a real good musician and producer, but a rather unpleasant person (I use to run into him around Sherman Oaks when we both lived there in the 90's). He made an incredible album under the name The Fraternal Order Of The All, entitled Greetings From Planet Love (CD only, 1997). It's mock-psychedelic music, really well done.
@slaw, speaking of Buddy Miller, he and Emmylou Harris have been singing (ha) the praises of a guy named Doug Seegers, whose Going Down To The River album they both appear on. And oh man, is Doug the real deal! A true blue hillbilly, a real Country/Western (as it used to be called) singer. I hear a lot of Hank Williams and a little of Merle Haggard in his singing, and a similarity to newer guys like Wayne Hancock (my former-bandmate Paul Skelton played on his early albums, and then Evan Johns, with whom I recorded one album, played guitar in his road band---small world!) and Hank's grandson, Hank III. He sounds like a man, not a boy, unlike many pseudo-Country singers today---those raised on Rock, but now wanting in on the Country action. I hear that in far too many of the "Americana" bands and solo artists. They haven't lived it, how they gonna sing it?
Some not-really-Country music lovers may be put off by the sound of Doug's voice---it has the nasally/twangy character of hardcore Country singers from the South, heard in a lot of Bluegrass music. The band is the traditional Country/Western lineup---pedal steel, Telecaster guitar, honkytonk piano, fiddle, mandolin, and occasional dobro and banjo, with Doug playing acoustic guitar. For lovers of real Country/Western music only!
Santana - Abraxas -MFSL CD ripped WAV to Server.... always high expectations driven by the artistry.. and then the Sonics just €£%#****** mud city.... i normally make it thru track 3
+++ On Tears for Fears. Both "The Hurting" and "Songs From the Big Chair" were in heavy rotation on my TT back in the mid '80's and spinning on the CDP after that. They still get the occasional spin, but I have a lot more music to choose from now....
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