I'd like to take a moment to mention guitarist Tim Calvert of Nevermore (Dead Heart in a Dead World, Dreaming Neon Black) and Forbidden (Twisted into Form, Distortion, Green) fame who had passed just today. He was an excellent musician and his playing had a lot of character, complexity and precision which made the albums he was on truly special works. It's sad to see him go at the age of 52 but he left behind some fantastic work.
Yeah, it saddened me to see that. The man lived a fulfilling life though so that's at least something.
Brutal. ALS always makes me think of the legend of how Lou Gehrig’s streak started. Tim did not end like Wally Pip becoming a pilot and captain after Nevermore.
It really is. It’s painful to see guys like him and Jason Becker stricken with this awful disease. It makes me mad. I’ll stop here before I get on a rant ...
Sad to hear this about Tim. As a guitarist myself that listened and analyzed so many players ,Tim was on my radar as I liked his solos but, a bigger trait he had was creating some really cool interesting riffs as a rhythm guitarist too, that many great lead guitarists fall short on. Hope that makes sense? Bummed about reading all this on here...
Let’s do something with this thread! Let’s start posting some reviews again. I’m an old fart, but I’ll get it going again. I’m thinking Saxon’s Crusader. Anything is welcome but that’s what I’m going to do. Cheers, all.
Please do! I have a small pile of recent metal/hard rock releases I've been wanting to mention/review but just no time to do it. Not even the way I had been doing recently with posting other people's reviews....
I just played my newly created needledrop of Motley Crue’s Too Fast For Love on the way to work this morning (original US Elektra pressing). It’s a better record than I remembered. Cowbell featured prominently
I'm not really a metal fan, but I got to shoot the Judas Priest show a couple weeks ago and it was a blast to cover. Saxon opened for them, which was also entertaining. The lead singer Peter Bayford looks more crazy professor than rock star these days, but his banter with the crowd in that thick accent was a lot of fun. Judas Priest Rocks Casper (PHOTOS) - Oil City News I also got to talk to new-ish Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner via phone before the show. He was really nice and patient with me, which I appreciated. 'Metal Is Sill Conquering the World': Priest Guitarist Talks with Oil City News - Oil City News Rock shows do really well in this town. More band should stop here. dan c
There is a separate thread but in case you guys missed it...Bandcamp has put up the King Diamond/Mercyful Fate catalog in what appears to be original pressings for lossless download. I picked up Abigail and can confirm it's great. Dynamic Mercyful Fate on Bandcamp
It’s Peter “Biff” Byford. He’s apparently releasing a solo album pretty soon.. Glad you enjoyed the show.
I've just watched a BBC documentary on Jeff Beck. It featured plentiful contributions by luminaries such as Clapton, Jimmy Page, D. Gilmour, Slash, Joe Perry and long time collaborator Jan Hammer plus various, gushing fetings from several earnest musicians who seem to have carved out a living by bathing in his munificent radiance. The guy is clearly a technician from another planet and his fusings with Jazz are undeniably remarkable. However, towards the end of the prog, someone referred to that smelting pot of the 'Hendrix/Page/Clapton' axis* with quite possibly JB conducting matters from slightly above... The thing that struck me about some of the eulogising was an identification with constantly seeking out new horizons: not just via the phenomenal, 50+ year development in interplay of his left and right hands which seemed to befuddle even the mighty Slow Hand himself but a determination to embrace disparate musical inspirations and new musicians alike. Thus, it was this 'variation' which contributed greatly to setting him apart from guitarists who were 'churning out the same stuff for ever' or 'making a career out of two basic riffs.' Hmm... Naturally, my thin skinned Metal detector started gently thrumming as the "No Blackmore? No Blackmore?!" warning light began to glow and as I reconsidered the prog's reference to the constitution of that 'axis'* the 'Ignoring Iommi' dial started arcing close to the red... Naturally, Schenker is/was a nobody... Which brings me to the meat of my petty chagrin o'er this matter: the damn Mainstream and it's simply continent-levelling ignorance of (our) 'Man In Black' and A. F. Iommi - even in passing reference - when it comes to this pathologically selective analysis of guitar greats whose geniuses matured at some point during the 1960s and/or early 70s. There's only one thing for it - Sorry.
BBC site said the program is an hour and a half. Did they adequately cover his 60 year career in 90 minutes?
As I'm listening to this, it compelled me to do a top ten for 2003: 1. Adagio - Underworld 2. Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine 3. Galneryus - The Flag of Punishment 4. Hypnotheticall - Thorns 5. Kamelot - Epica 6. Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath 7. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller 8. John Arch - A Twist of Fate 9. Fairyland - Of Wars in Osyrhia 10. Thalidomide - Le Paradis du Mal Progressive and power metal pretty much dominated 2003. It's remarkable how unchanged my list is from before.
TransLates, by Lates (melodic hard-rock, full-length, released April 14, 2018, Beograd, Serbia) Favourite track: Explode
Wow, blast from the past! Saw them open for Extreme at Iguana's(Tijuana)waayyy.....back in the day. This was the debut album tour (as openers)I believe? Extreme (Pornographitti Tour) as I recall? Venue holds 1,200+ there was maybe 40 people there. We were right up against the stage for this show in a very, very empty venue! To contrast this ,I saw Lynch Mob's debut tour (a few months before or after?) and it was stuffed well beyond capacity with people jumping off the third level railing into the floor crowd resulting in Lych Mob's Manager coming on stage cutting off George during a solo in a song.Grabbed the mike and told everyone someone had just died from jumping and the Federales(Military Police) were on alert to to crack down on the venue if we didn't stop being so out of control.KGB FM was talking about it the next day saying there was in excess of 1,500 there if I remember correctly.It was shoulder to shoulder everywhere in that place.So, you can imagine the same venue-40 people was like a ghost town.None the less a great show.
Thanks for posting this. Decent song, but not as good as the Black Gives Way to Blue album. I'll be interested to see how the whole new album sounds. Here's one that I've been enjoying a lot, new Graveyard - Please Don't. Album comes out May 25.