Jimmy Page Promises 2013 Box Sets For Every Led Zeppelin Album
Well, 2013 is a thing of the past and those boxsets haven't turned up anywhere. I was a bit tired of waiting for these and towards the end of last year, I bought every album as a "Quiex" or a Japanese release vinyl, just because I wanted to have the lot on good sounding analog and replacing some of my earlier LPs. I don't think I'll go for those remastered boxsets now. What I have now (on CD and Vinyl) is good enough. Just shows, that if you go public with announcements, you should deliver.or the buyer will lose all interest.
Cheers
Devon.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Monday, December 23, 2013
King Kurt - Destination Zululand (12") - #154
King Kurt - Destination Zululand (12")
Recently picked up at a record fair in Zurich. In fact, I had a whole load of King Kurt records in my bag. But that's not the point. When I tried to play this thing (both sides), the stylus didn't move an inch towards the center of the record. Quite to the contrary, it slipped right to the outer edge. Took me a while to realise, despite the statement on the label "put stylus here to hear", that this thing is played from the inside out.
Vinyl buying counted in decades and I've never come across an item like this. Double grooves, yes! Banded tracks, yes! But a record playing the other way round? This is a unique item amongst thousands of records here. Quite amazing really, but I suppose there's some more of this gimmick vinyl out there.
Cheers
Devon
Recently picked up at a record fair in Zurich. In fact, I had a whole load of King Kurt records in my bag. But that's not the point. When I tried to play this thing (both sides), the stylus didn't move an inch towards the center of the record. Quite to the contrary, it slipped right to the outer edge. Took me a while to realise, despite the statement on the label "put stylus here to hear", that this thing is played from the inside out.
Vinyl buying counted in decades and I've never come across an item like this. Double grooves, yes! Banded tracks, yes! But a record playing the other way round? This is a unique item amongst thousands of records here. Quite amazing really, but I suppose there's some more of this gimmick vinyl out there.
Cheers
Devon
Sunday, December 15, 2013
The World According To Wilko Johnson - Classic Rock, Issue 192, January 2014 - #153
The World According To Wilko Johnson - Classic Rock, Issue 192, January 2014
Normally I buy very few music magazines at the end/beginning of a year, as they all tend to go the same cheap route, reheating all the "news" that I've read already anyway during the last eleven months. There's nothing as boring as the combined music journalism at the close of a year. English as well as American and German magazines don't give themselves an inch of ground. A waste of time and money really, check your local newsstand again in February.
This is, until a six pager turns up which is entitled "The World According To Wilko Johnson" plus a few additional pictures distributed within issue #192 of Classic Rock Magazine. Then, without a doubt, even one of the retrospective journals has to be bought. I've never, in all those years, read so many articles (and substantial ones at that) about our man, than in 2013.
Which brings up another gripe I have with the magazine industry. Although Wilko is mentioned at length in about every major publication in the U.K., I've yet to see the even tiniest morcel of information in a German or French music magazine. I checked about the whole range of them, at least, the ones that are available at major local newsstands, but came out flat, zero, nada, niente. I did have an idea before that, that Mr. Johnson was not quite fashionable around here, but this is overdoing it. However, sporting the Beatles/Rolling Stones/Queen on the cover for the umpteenth rehashing of their achievements, seems to be the kind of music journalism that's en vogue in Germany and France.
Cheers
Devon
Normally I buy very few music magazines at the end/beginning of a year, as they all tend to go the same cheap route, reheating all the "news" that I've read already anyway during the last eleven months. There's nothing as boring as the combined music journalism at the close of a year. English as well as American and German magazines don't give themselves an inch of ground. A waste of time and money really, check your local newsstand again in February.
This is, until a six pager turns up which is entitled "The World According To Wilko Johnson" plus a few additional pictures distributed within issue #192 of Classic Rock Magazine. Then, without a doubt, even one of the retrospective journals has to be bought. I've never, in all those years, read so many articles (and substantial ones at that) about our man, than in 2013.
Which brings up another gripe I have with the magazine industry. Although Wilko is mentioned at length in about every major publication in the U.K., I've yet to see the even tiniest morcel of information in a German or French music magazine. I checked about the whole range of them, at least, the ones that are available at major local newsstands, but came out flat, zero, nada, niente. I did have an idea before that, that Mr. Johnson was not quite fashionable around here, but this is overdoing it. However, sporting the Beatles/Rolling Stones/Queen on the cover for the umpteenth rehashing of their achievements, seems to be the kind of music journalism that's en vogue in Germany and France.
Cheers
Devon
Monday, December 2, 2013
Live At Rockpalast - CD/DVD Series - #152
Live At Rockpalast - CD/DVD Series
Repertoire has released a number of very interesting CD/DVD combinations in their "Live At Rockpalast" series. You can already find sets with the Blues Band, Mickey Jupp or the Climax Blues Band in the shops. Upcoming releases are for Dr. Feelgood and Rockpile.
Rockpalast being, of course, the cult TV show on German station WDR, which brought a lot of Rock and Blues bands in a live setting. Now we'll have to wait and see, wether they will release the Wilko Johnson one as well. The sets are very affordable (doesn't cost more than a single CD).
Cheers
Devon
Repertoire has released a number of very interesting CD/DVD combinations in their "Live At Rockpalast" series. You can already find sets with the Blues Band, Mickey Jupp or the Climax Blues Band in the shops. Upcoming releases are for Dr. Feelgood and Rockpile.
Rockpalast being, of course, the cult TV show on German station WDR, which brought a lot of Rock and Blues bands in a live setting. Now we'll have to wait and see, wether they will release the Wilko Johnson one as well. The sets are very affordable (doesn't cost more than a single CD).
Cheers
Devon
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Dr. Feelgood - All Through The City (With Wilko 1974-1977) - Part 3 - #151
Dr. Feelgood - All Through The City (With Wilko 1974-1977) - Part 3
The set has been re-released in a standard 4 disc box (not the long form). The shop I bought this from today, had it on offer for less than the equivalent of EUR 15.00 (not even USD 20.00). I guess there's not much of a booklet in there (I won't break the seal and open it just to see that this has been stripped down). In a way, it's a shame that this set has about the value of a pizza at your local Italian restaurant. But then, it's certainly affordable.
Cheers
Devon
The set has been re-released in a standard 4 disc box (not the long form). The shop I bought this from today, had it on offer for less than the equivalent of EUR 15.00 (not even USD 20.00). I guess there's not much of a booklet in there (I won't break the seal and open it just to see that this has been stripped down). In a way, it's a shame that this set has about the value of a pizza at your local Italian restaurant. But then, it's certainly affordable.
Cheers
Devon
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Shamrock Rebels - Irish Rebel Songs - #150
Shamrock Rebels - Irish Rebel Songs
Sometimes you come across a record that's so bad, it's bloody excellent. I've been to Ireland a few times, read up on the Troubles in too many books to remember them all and I've seen the Wolfe Tones live in concert when they were at the very top. I've been to Belfast when it was a war zone, I've had Dart games in villages whose names I can't recall (but where they probably still speak in awe of this stranger who teamed up with a local and put the other team to shame). I've been smashing drunk in some hamlet there, heard of Elvis' death when travelling the country and been to pubs that seemed to cave in, all it needed was a little cough. And I did buy the cheesiest record available to mankind.
Now, this might be a strange record, but I do play it every now and then and frankly, it's a joy to listen to the organ grinding through two sides of this LP, the band acting like they're at a Saturday night dance and couldn't care less about the history that speaks from these songs. I have more "serious" Irish rebel songs LPs in my collection. But this is the one I listen most to, at a rate of one spin every year. And as it should rightfully be, this is accompanied by a Guinness Special Export and a dram of Jameson to toast the Shamrock Rebels who had no shame, back in the 70's to release such a killer record. Sometimes the worst are the best.
Cheers
Devon
Sometimes you come across a record that's so bad, it's bloody excellent. I've been to Ireland a few times, read up on the Troubles in too many books to remember them all and I've seen the Wolfe Tones live in concert when they were at the very top. I've been to Belfast when it was a war zone, I've had Dart games in villages whose names I can't recall (but where they probably still speak in awe of this stranger who teamed up with a local and put the other team to shame). I've been smashing drunk in some hamlet there, heard of Elvis' death when travelling the country and been to pubs that seemed to cave in, all it needed was a little cough. And I did buy the cheesiest record available to mankind.
Now, this might be a strange record, but I do play it every now and then and frankly, it's a joy to listen to the organ grinding through two sides of this LP, the band acting like they're at a Saturday night dance and couldn't care less about the history that speaks from these songs. I have more "serious" Irish rebel songs LPs in my collection. But this is the one I listen most to, at a rate of one spin every year. And as it should rightfully be, this is accompanied by a Guinness Special Export and a dram of Jameson to toast the Shamrock Rebels who had no shame, back in the 70's to release such a killer record. Sometimes the worst are the best.
Cheers
Devon
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Gypie Mayo - July 24, 1951 - October 23, 2013 - #149
Gypie Mayo - July 24, 1951 - October 23, 2013
RIP - Now playing "As It Happens" LP UA 1C 064-82 638 (Germany)
Cheers
Devon
RIP - Now playing "As It Happens" LP UA 1C 064-82 638 (Germany)
Cheers
Devon
Monday, October 14, 2013
Strypes - Snapshot - #148
Strypes - Snapshot
I don't claim to have my fingers on the pulse of contemporary music. Sometimes I'm lucky and I find myself a band worth talking about. At other times I've to be told. Several times. And then I buy a CD by four young (not even in their twenties) lads from Ireland and ... you might think this is the next hype coming down main street ... you're completely and entirely wrong. This as much a tribute to a band we all love, as it's hats off to early Yardbirds with a dash of the Rolling Stones. In fact, this is so far retro, it's bloody avantgarde.
Forget about me going through the 12 tracks that make up this album (there's an extended version with an additional four songs available) and suffice to say, it's all killer, no filler and lightning should strike me twice if I'm lying. I buy a lot of good to fantastic music, but this one took me back to the British Blues boom of the early sixties (which I know of second hand only, courtesy of my record collection) and the hungry sound of Dr. Feelgood ca. 1975. And not to forget, also a trace of the good old Pirates. I just hate the fact that I only got the standard issue CD, as that was all that was availble at the mail order I bought this from. I believe I have to shell out my cash for the deluxe version as well, then I have to go for the LP and I must have a long hard think about getting the EPs and 7"s. Here we go.
I just read, long after the fact that this was recommended to me, that the Strypes are about the hottest item in today's Rock circus. To me, that's a resounding yes, but I don't know about the market in general. This is not the kind of music that gets the majority of the listeners to crawl out from behind the oven. A shame really. 7 of the twelve songs are originals, with the others being cover versions, of course. But even the self penned tracks sound like classic British R'n'B. Which says a lot about the ability of the band. And if you wouldn't know it, you'd never guess that the band is so young, as they play much like a decades old road tested unit. If you're going to buy only one more record this year, make sure it's "Snapshot". You'll thank me until your dying day.
Cheers
Devon
I don't claim to have my fingers on the pulse of contemporary music. Sometimes I'm lucky and I find myself a band worth talking about. At other times I've to be told. Several times. And then I buy a CD by four young (not even in their twenties) lads from Ireland and ... you might think this is the next hype coming down main street ... you're completely and entirely wrong. This as much a tribute to a band we all love, as it's hats off to early Yardbirds with a dash of the Rolling Stones. In fact, this is so far retro, it's bloody avantgarde.
Forget about me going through the 12 tracks that make up this album (there's an extended version with an additional four songs available) and suffice to say, it's all killer, no filler and lightning should strike me twice if I'm lying. I buy a lot of good to fantastic music, but this one took me back to the British Blues boom of the early sixties (which I know of second hand only, courtesy of my record collection) and the hungry sound of Dr. Feelgood ca. 1975. And not to forget, also a trace of the good old Pirates. I just hate the fact that I only got the standard issue CD, as that was all that was availble at the mail order I bought this from. I believe I have to shell out my cash for the deluxe version as well, then I have to go for the LP and I must have a long hard think about getting the EPs and 7"s. Here we go.
I just read, long after the fact that this was recommended to me, that the Strypes are about the hottest item in today's Rock circus. To me, that's a resounding yes, but I don't know about the market in general. This is not the kind of music that gets the majority of the listeners to crawl out from behind the oven. A shame really. 7 of the twelve songs are originals, with the others being cover versions, of course. But even the self penned tracks sound like classic British R'n'B. Which says a lot about the ability of the band. And if you wouldn't know it, you'd never guess that the band is so young, as they play much like a decades old road tested unit. If you're going to buy only one more record this year, make sure it's "Snapshot". You'll thank me until your dying day.
Cheers
Devon
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