Your last listen
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Re: Your last listen
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow on vinyl. Great playing and excellent natural sound quality
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Re: Your last listen
Elf - Elf
The Kinks - Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround Pt 1
Bob Dylan - Bringing it all back home
John Lennon - Mind Games
Metallica - Hardwired
Richie Blackmore's Rainbow
The Kinks - Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround Pt 1
Bob Dylan - Bringing it all back home
John Lennon - Mind Games
Metallica - Hardwired
Richie Blackmore's Rainbow
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Re: Your last listen
Emerson, Lake & Palmer 'In The Hot Seat' (1994)
The final studio album from ELP followed the powerful and epic 'Black Moon' but suffered slightly from the same contractual-obligation-blues as 'Love Beach'. Keith Emerson was beginning to be affected by the crippling hand problems that would only get worse and Carl Palmer had also undergone surgery on his wrists - so much of the percussion is electronic kits and drum-machines. Greg Lake's singing voice is also noticeably lower register - becoming very similar to John Wetton's baritone, although both were more than capable of superb control and emotional projection right to the end.
That being said, 'In the Hot Seat is an accomplished album with strong songs, excellent production and recording (Keith Olsen) and it's main flaw is that it lacks the fire of early ELP, replacing that with a restrained professionalism. The live albums from this period do show that EL&P could still kick the proverbial ass when necessary, though.
In The Hot Seat - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Verdict: not essential but not bad.
The final studio album from ELP followed the powerful and epic 'Black Moon' but suffered slightly from the same contractual-obligation-blues as 'Love Beach'. Keith Emerson was beginning to be affected by the crippling hand problems that would only get worse and Carl Palmer had also undergone surgery on his wrists - so much of the percussion is electronic kits and drum-machines. Greg Lake's singing voice is also noticeably lower register - becoming very similar to John Wetton's baritone, although both were more than capable of superb control and emotional projection right to the end.
That being said, 'In the Hot Seat is an accomplished album with strong songs, excellent production and recording (Keith Olsen) and it's main flaw is that it lacks the fire of early ELP, replacing that with a restrained professionalism. The live albums from this period do show that EL&P could still kick the proverbial ass when necessary, though.
In The Hot Seat - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Verdict: not essential but not bad.
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Re: Your last listen
Cathedral - The garden of unearthly delights
The Kinks - Misfits
Nightmarish - Decades
The Kinks - Misfits
Nightmarish - Decades
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Re: Your last listen
Ton Steine Scherben 'Keine Macht für Niemand'. German utopists, revolutionary squatter band from the beginning of the seventies. Great song from this album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwkAiZHELlg
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Re: Your last listen
Steve Reich 'Different Trains' Kronos Quartet & 'Electric Counterpoint' Pat Metheny.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1E4Bjt_zVJc
A milestone in contemporary Classical music
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1E4Bjt_zVJc
A milestone in contemporary Classical music
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Re: Your last listen
Aldo Nova - Nova's dream
UFO - High Stakes and dangerous men
Bowling for soup - A hangover you don't deserve
Cats in space - Scarecrow
Ugly Kid Joe - America's least wanted
UFO - High Stakes and dangerous men
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Cats in space - Scarecrow
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Re: Your last listen
Everesence - Lost whispers
Slade - The amazing kamakazie syndrom
Meshugga - The violent sleep of reason
Candlemass - Nightfall
Age of Taurus - Desperate souls of tortured times
Cathedral - The ethereal mirror
Slade - The amazing kamakazie syndrom
Meshugga - The violent sleep of reason
Candlemass - Nightfall
Age of Taurus - Desperate souls of tortured times
Cathedral - The ethereal mirror
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