Saturday, 5 November 2016

Discipline - The return of King Crimson, 1981

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The shock of the new - that's how it felt to behold the reformed King Crimson in 1981. My ticket for the Discipline show and a recording...
Sunday, 24 July 2016

Zappa/Mothers - One Size Fits All, reviewed in Sounds 1975

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Fans of Frank Zappa's early and mid 1970s albums rate 'One Size Fits All' as one of several career high points. Featuring some...
Wednesday, 29 July 2015

August 1970 and a new supergroup emerges - Balls

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One can only imagine the excitement and the buzz in the music world in the summer of 1970 as the latest in a long line of ...
Sunday, 10 May 2015

Did someone film Hendrix recording Electric Ladyland?

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I am reading the booklet that came with the Experience Hendrix mid 1990s CD reissue of Jimi's 1968 masterpiece Electric Ladyland. I...
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Wednesday, 31 December 2014

A Marvin Gaye bargain from the early days of CD

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File under: Before the record companies knew how to market their back catalogue in CD format. Again, no idea how much this one is wort...

Rediscovering old CDs - RCA's Bowie releases

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Due to a change of living arrangements (working in Hong Kong for an extended period) I am revisiting my CD collection. Have to say these old...
Monday, 1 September 2014

Vegetable Man - where are you?

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(NOTE: Since I wrote this, it has been announced that a new boxed set of early Floyd material is being made available, including Vegetable...