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Archive for the 'rock' Category
16th September, 2009 | 46 views
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One of the first pieces of vinyl that I bought, after deciding that the cassettes that I had been buying from this mail-order music retailer, didn’t cut the mustard any more. I like the wah-wah guitar and the psychedelic undercurrent with a hint of folk rock from the fiddle.
12th September, 2009 | 24 views
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Had a hard week at the office coal-face? Time to let off some steam, it’s the weekend – make like a Mod from the sixties and head out on your mirror-laden Vespa scooter down to the coast for some all-night amphetamine fuelled partying. If you happen to come across some Rockers, some trouble may ensue… Another track heard out down Brick Lane, this time at 93 Feet East; again, despite the distractions that being inebriated can bring, I managed to doorstep the DJ and note it down.
10th September, 2009 | 22 views
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Don’t know anything about this artist, heard this track being played on a Sunday afternoon at The Vibe Bar a few years back. I had to don my anorak and ask the DJ what it was and remembered to put a note in my phone before I forgot, then acquired a copy online by the power of the internets. Funky blues rock, appears to be fairly sought after in it’s original seven-inch release but is also available on this compilation collated by the nice folks at Harmless, who have released some educational selections of music over the years. It’s the kind of music that would follow you stumbling out of a bar on a hot muggy moonlit night somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line, brain soaked in bourbon.
8th September, 2009 | 109 views
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Massive selling album in the seventies but apart from the hit singles taken from it, you have this dreamy piece of post-psychedelia progressive rock. Sounds like something that Steve Hackett would have composed at the beginning of his solo career but without the overt mystical references to wizards, princesses etc. Instead it reflects the mellow vibe of the West Coast rather than the Old World of the United Kingdom.
31st July, 2009 | 27 views
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Bluesy funk-rock from a band that contained Tom Fogerty, ex-guitarist of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Track that swaggers along with the occasional stab of what sounds like a vocoder. Best suited to being played live in a suburban pub populated by leather-clad bikers… maybe.
