This is the right answer. And mend where you can. Then, when you do need to replace, the bugs have been out, and it’s mass produced and cheap. Flash kit is a sucker’s money pit. I’ve known hifi buffs.

“worthy but a little boring”: hammer/ nail.

I reckon the mystique of ‘Ver Zep is now passing hugely. You needed to be an adolescent in the 70s to really get them. The worst things about them (viz., screechy vocals, cough Axl, Coverdale, cough) were […]

On that recommendation, I’ll revisit these. Gotta remain open-minded.

I adore the first five Roxy Music albums, but “Manifesto” onward, think they are spotty. Ferry’s 70s solo albums are delightful, and I rather enjoyed his “The Jazz Age”, too. “801 Live” is one of the most primo […]

Hasn’t the FGTH WTTP already had a couple of fancy re-releases? All this re-releasing seems like a fire-sale rather than the discovery of undiscovered gold.

When the Rolling Stones had been going 25 years, Charlie Watts said “it was 5 years of work, and 20 years hanging around”. Bored in the next 5 years, he had a brief heroin habit to fill in the time before their […]

Musically, that sounds great. Quite fancy it if it comes back to the UK. But GC’s presence sounds a bit sad, really.

Sorry, I realise I may have been too prescriptive , and you do eloquently show the lack of much going on here. Maybe it was the unnecessary reference to Styx. But I do hold to my basic point: an analysis of the […]

It’s a step to far for me, and I can hear the merit in the first Boston album.

This plodding forced third division rock was dire, and I’m not one to dismiss 70s shite generally. Take Styx – especially in the mime trousers era, – a camp classic Kiss or Angel could not sponge the velvet […]

I think when I discovered Yes has produced 18 live albums, plus a box set with 7 shows from the same tour in 1972, I just felt ennui. I’ve seen them many times; at their best, they are sublimely tight and Steve […]

The completist true fan who must have EVERYTHING and an official release is SO over. Lets see: Sell whatever archival crap to unswitched-on folk unaware of bootlegs or sugarmegs/ whatever, who buys the gimmicky […]

To be fair, the Stones do “roll” (swing) in a way that straightforward “rock” bands don’t. It’s an important distinction. I felt that KM was so busy beating the crap out of the skins that the “roll” was lost.

Shane the songwriter and lyricist I like, and the music and band I adore. But as I’ve aged, Shane the rock ‘n roll mess into his heroin and booze jakey-chic becomes increasingly sad. I also feel the same about […]

Sounds like a good example of “modern stadium entertainment”; slick, and using every entertainment tech trope to make it work. Not my sort of act, but I suspect I may have seen it in other bands who affect to be […]

Brilliantly put. Have a thumbs up, Bingo.

Exactly. Glib point scoring and projection of original sin onto white males who are not allowed to fight back. No wonder they want to join the gang that appears to stand up for them. The other way this goes in […]

A bit like all leftists and progressives being spiteful Mutants in the pay of Russia or billionaire Jews like George Soros, you mean? Polarised thinking is part of the problem here, I suspect. Unhappy people find […]

I feel that about Meshuggah (quite like the music, its the vocals), “Metal Music Machine”, and Pat metheny’s “Zero Tolerance for Silence”. I really don’t get on with skronk or up-itself self-consciously […]