For many prog-rock fans, the German band Nektar hit their grand slam with the 1973 concept album Remember The Future – essentially one song spread across two album sides. The band’s 1974 follow-up, Down To Earth, takes a wacked-out circus as its theme; Nektar tighten the song structures and hit another one over the fence. [...]
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The Keef Hartley Band were one of those relative rarities in music: a rock band led by a drummer. A couple of Hartley reissues (The Time Is Near and Overdog) from Esoteric Recordings surfaced earlier in 2008 – my pick being 1970’s The Time Is Near. This horn-driven R&B-influenced jazz/rock (or is that rock/jazz?) took [...]
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The Black Crowes waited years before getting into the DVD game, and their first, Freak ‘N’ Roll Into The Fog, is a glorious glimpse into America’s last great rock band working a San Francisco Fillmore crowd into a frenzy. What makes the Crowes special is their ability to bridge the best of the ‘60s and [...]
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Steve Walsh’s solo project Shadowman has been playing a lot on my CD player lately. Shadowman was released originally in 2005, and was reissued in 2008 by ProgRock Records/SPV. The latest version is bolstered with two bonus tracks: “Faule Dr Roane” and “Dark Day,” previously available as digital downloads only. Both songs are equal to [...]
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Roger Dean is one of rock music’s most original and respected cover artists. He’s best known for the artwork that graced the covers of so many great Yes albums in the 1970s. But if you know his work only from Fragile or Tales From Topographic Oceans, read on. Here are 10 of my favorite Dean [...]
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In 1999, music fan Jeb Wright took it upon himself to breath life back into the world of classic rock. With little more than an idea and a lot of enthusiasm, he launched Classic Rock Revisited in August of that year as a vehicle to share his love of the artists that made an impact [...]
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Mahogany Frog are a four-piece progressive rock outfit from Winnipeg, Manitoba, composed of Graham Epp (keyboards, guitars, trumpets), Jesse Warkentin (guitars, keyboards), Scott Ellenberger (bass, keyboards, percussion, trumpets) and J.P. Perron (drums, electronics). Mahogany Frog’s most recent release, DO5 (Moonjune Records), is their fifth, and served as my introduction to the band. DO5 features nine [...]
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If you ever wondered what happened to old-school hard rock – the kind you used to plunk into the car’s 8-track or cassette player before dropping the pedal on a Friday night – you’ll find it in spades on Iain Ashley Hersey’s latest album, Nomad. Iain Ashley Hersey, you ask? Granted, Hersey is no household [...]
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Hoyt Axton is one of those songwriters like Jimmy Webb whose music I know best from others’ interpretations. Axton penned classic tunes such as “Joy To The World,” “Never Been To Spain” and “The Pusher,” of which the first two became huge hits for Three Dog Night, while Steppenwolf’s John Kay put his inimitable spin [...]
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Wisconsin in the ’60s is the latest installment in Gear Fab Records’ Psychedelic States series (now totaling 17 releases), each showcasing local acts from a specific state. Wisconsin in the ’60s contains 31 tracks from 45 rpms recorded from 1965-69. Most of these bands never broke beyond the Badger State, although some members went on [...]
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