If It Wasn't For Bad Luck...

 Here's one that comes in from Gman,thanks buddy.

It's another in the series of dvd-audio discs.

Hard to come by these days and they'll cost you a pretty penny.

I looked up a list of these discs a while ago

and they cover a lot of musical genres.

Found out this is from March 26-1984

West Palm Beach.

As well as Pat the other members are

Jerry Riggs-gu/voc

Pat Marchino-dr

Barry Dunaway-b 

Good old riffy Hard Rock!!

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No One Sees The Tears...

A Soundboard vinyl rip of Whitesnake live at the 

Monsters of Rock Festival 

in Sweden on the Slide It In tour. Good to hear old style 

versions of Fool For Your Loving and Here I Go Again 

with the original hobo lyric.No Mickey Moody or 

Bernie Marsden but John Sykes does a fine job. 

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You Know That Energy...

 

An excellent radio recording of the Pat Travers Band at their 
Rocking best and probably at the peak of their popularity in the States.
Here in the UK  their albums never troubled the charts.
Not even the excellent 1979, Go For What You Know live album.    

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The Terror's About To Unfold...

Spooky...it was 42 ago years to the week since I last seen these guys 

(Marquee Club Oct '82) and I enjoyed them just as much tonight as I did way back then.If there ever was a band name that did not suit the music it's DEMON you can picture Heavy Metal with songs about the devil blah blah but you would be so wrong,These guys play Heavy Melodic Rock of the top order.Another one of those bands that should of been bigger than they were but hey ho, it didn't happen but thankfully they are still around playing the odd gigs and there is definitely a market for them as it was packed tonight even if they do have to rely on playing the songs from the first 2 albums released all those years ago. Enjoy,Ed.

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Into The Sound Of Distant Drums...

 

Now don't get me wrong I like Dare but tonight 
on a 3 bill show (also feat. FM & Tyketto) they were the weakest link.

My problem is vocally I just don't think 

Mr. Wharton is strong enough in that 

department BUT that's just my opinion 

and musically they were excellent and with the other 

bands made it one of the gigs of the year...Enjoy,Ed.

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Riding High And Falling Low...

 

My aim for all you Rockers at HRC is to keep you updated on the latest tours from well established bands we all know & love BUT also to bring you new and exciting bands I think are worthy of an introduction and give you a brief glimpse of what's happening with the Rock music scene over here in the UK.Which is heathier than ever,Here is another band doing the rounds on the small club circuit playing good solid Hard Rock with a funny and engaging frontman.AND what made this gig even more special was the fact it was A MATINEE gig...Perfect for oldies like me who prefer to be home with a hot chocolate and ready for bed by 9pm ha ha ha.But seriously what a great idea with a healthy crowd all going apeshit to the band at 4pm in the afternoon...It's the future...Enjoy,Ed.

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Her Eyes Were Hazel...

 The Stones back in '78 rehearsing

for the Some Girls Tour.

Yeah they did put the work in.

Sounding good,sounding locked in.

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I tried it and it seems to work pretty well)

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Dreams Carry On...

 Bit of a Hard Rock Supergroup now with Badlands.

A band many thought should've went further

than they actually did.

Made up of four shows from 1989.

Quality band.

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Look Back And Turn Back...

Good audience recording of Uriah Heep from Seattle 1973.

For many fans this is the classic period of the band 

with of course David Byron on vocals.

With a setlist very similar to the excellent live in Birmingham album.

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We're Meeting All The Groovy People...

Pretty decent incomplete audience recording from the

Mark 3 line up on the Burn USA tour.

Standard setlist for this tour with of course plenty of long solos.

Amazing to think that this lineup is 

still talked about today over 

50 years later even though they lasted  

less than 2 years together. 

But then again they did record one of the 

all-time classic albums in 

BURN.

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She Told Me My Talk Was Cheap...

 

SUPPORT SLOT #3 

Another exciting young band on the up,

This was the first time I had seen them and I was well impressed,

Playing good solid hard rock in the Led Zep mould 

and other bands of that ilk from the glorious 70's.

If the yanks can find GRETA VAN FLEET 

why can't we find our own version over here...

ONE TO WATCH OUT FOR...EnjoyEd.

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Sometimes Near Dawn I Wonder...

YES I think I found another little gem a 

brand new band playing modern rock with a 

touch of the Doors,Stones,Pixies type rock.

Early days for them and with the 

sound man having his head up his arse and 

not helping them at all tonight they played it like an arena gig.

They have the swagger along with 2 or 3 

future classic songs 

(especially 'Draw Blood For Proof')

 I am hoping they can make it to the next level...Enjoy,Ed.

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A Message From Eddie

 

To all the good folks who click onto HRC.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
What a great year for me personally gig wise.
138 GIGS
309 BANDS
35 VENUES

A feat I have not achieved since the 80's and i can honestly say I have enjoyed every rockin' minute of it...THANK YOU LOCKDOWN!!! Let me explain...I stopped going to gigs during the late 90's...I just lost interest,The buzz that first attracted me back in '81 had gone I found myself more interested in the bar than the bands so I just stopped going UNTIL lockdown where like everyone else in the world we were stuck indoors and it just hit me " I WANT A GIG IN MY LIFE AGAIN" and as soon we were allowed out again and bands got back on tour I was in,slowly at first (it had been 20 years) but then SMACK my mojo was back .The hunger and the buzz had returned and I have not looked back since.The NEED to hear THAT song and WATCH that band new or old playing LIVE is back in full swing and I am feckin' lovin' it and finding a place to share these gigs just adds to the buzz especially when you take the time to leave a message even if you didn't like the music it's always good to hear from you.THANK YOU SMOKER for keeping the site going and here's to 2025 and the calendar is filling up nicely ….Bring it on...Ed.

MY  TOP TEN GIGS OF THE YEAR (in no particular order)
1.THE MOLOTOVS - Dingwall's
(young,fresh & exciting...gonna be HUGE me finks)

2.DEVERE - Lower Third
(new young band playing old school Hard,Sleaze Rock)

3.SOPHIE LLOYD - The Underworld
(amazing gutarist,what a future she has)

4.GEOFF TATE - o2 Academy
(outfeckinstanding performance)

5.Y & T - o2 Academy
(totally professional with a setlist to die for)

6.SAXON - Wembley
(brilliant, Tatler has added a new hunger)

7.THE HEAT INC. - Camden Assembly
(another new band to watch out for)

8.THE HIP PRIESTS - Black Heart
(sadly their second to last gig ever,will miss these speed Punksters)

9.ZAC SCHULZE BAND - Grace
(taking old school blues to the next level)

10.SOUTHERN RIVER BAND - o2 Academy
(the next bunch of convicts from down under doing what all Aussie bands do,excellent Hard Rock)

Gonna Make You Sting...

 Led Zep incomplete from two different sources.

Virginia & Toronto.

But sounding pretty good.

Playing songs from IV which wouldn't be released until November.

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They're Not At Home...

 Welcome back everybody for (hopefully)

another year of Rock 'n' Roll.

We start with some sleazy Rock from the

early 90's.Touted as the next big thing,

The Throbs outta New York.

Signed to Geffen and their only album was produced by Bob Ezrin.

I like it...still. 

But I think these demos have a little more urgency and aggression.

As we all know Grunge was making a splash 

and it was harder for new bands to make that breakthrough.

Tape Rip.

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The End Of The Year Message.

 

Well we've done it again reached the end of another
Rockin' year here at HRC.  

Maybe not as productive as some years but we're still

hanging in there.

So thanks to all visitors & commenters,

there'd be no point doing this without you. 

Plus special thanks to UFO Steve & Eddie for

all their contributions,cheers guys.

For those wondering what's happened to Rocket.

I've emailed him a few times and had no reply.

As I said a year ago maybe he'll turn up,fingers crossed.

So we'll wish you all a Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year.

We'll do it all again in 2025.

C-YA Then!!

Don't You Mess Around With Me...

 Something that's been up before.

From a dvd audio disc I picked up years ago pretty cheaply.

If you find it now it'll cost a pretty penny.

No info with this but I did look it up and 

it seems it's from Austin,Texas 1981.

Anyway great sound and performance on this gem. 

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Someone Bound To Take A Look...

 Another band that had to give it up recently,

American legends Aerosmith.

They have left us with a great body of 

work (for the most part).

Anyway back to 1983 and the turmoil within the band.

Perry and Whitford have left.

Replaced by Crespo and Dufay.

Now I love this era it's when I really started to get 

into the band.Rock In A Hard Place is one of my

favourite Aerosmith albums after all.

Here we find the band on that tour Rockin' up a storm.

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The Angel Opens Her Eyes...

 Here's one of my favourite alternative bands,Live.

Recorded in the USA in 1994 and that's all

the info I have.1994 was the year of their biggest selling album

Throwing Copper.And a lot of those tunes are here.

There's also a couple of repeated songs.

Sounds like it's concert and TV performances.

I dunno?bootlegs,huh!

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Take It all...

A Scorpion's vinyl bootleg rip of a French radio 

FM broadcast live at the Hippodrome,Paris 1980 on the Animal Magnetism tour.

It's a 2 track mp3 file.Sides A and B.

A really good setlist with songs from the Lovedrive and 

Animal Magnetism albums with a few old Uli John Roth era classics.

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We're The Only Ones...

 

Amazingly even to this day people think UFO 

ended when Michael Schenker left in 1978.

Here's proof if proof were ever needed (not by me)

a compilation of live UFO songs from the 

Chapman era I put together a few years back.

18 tracks recorded between 1980 to 1983.

All tracks are recorded from the original bootleg source. 

What a great live show this would have made,

the sound is excellent apart from 

The Writer which is the best version I could find.

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