10/13/2025

Best Little Woman That I Ever Had...




Short-lived blues jazz rock band,  
formed by former Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams in 1968. 
Despite their first two albums being top 10 hits in the UK 
and some succes in the USA it was all over by the end of 1970.
 Here is a fine example of what they 
sounded like live at the famous Fillmore West 




 

Baby Let The Music Flow,Yeah...




Here's a well-known Bad Company bootleg said to be their
 first ever concert soundboard recording in Newcastle 1974. 
And probably for me even to this day one of their best live recordings.




 

10/12/2025

Eagle Flew Out Of The Night...


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 Ex Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel from Rockpalast,1978.
Forged a successful career away from the band.
Guess we all remember the ground breaking 
Sledgehammer video from the album So.
This is before that.
Anything that features Solsbury Hill is fine by me.

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Gotta Keep On Rockin'...


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Foreigner touring their massive 4th album.
Produced by the man with the Midas Touch 
back then Mutt Lange.
Rocking harder live here than they do on record.
One of the top Melodic/AOR Bands ever.
Silver cd Rip.

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It's Been A Long Time Since I Did The Stroll...


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 Cool little show from Heart back in 1982.
From the German RockPop TV show.
They're in fine form and with Ann Wilson singing
you can't go far wrong.
What a talent.
They finish things off with a cover 
of the Led Zeppelin classic.

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...at Brighton Polytechnic


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 Here's Cheap Trick from the BBC Broadcast 
of Rock Goes To College from 1979.
Riding high on the Budokan album at the time.
(Another that's in my Top 10 Live Albums)
Great little show as you would expect 
from one of the greats. 

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"So This Is Canada,Huh?"...


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 Classic Era Motorhead from '82.
Audio is taken from the old VHS recorded to DVD.
And it's head shakin' good.
From the Bomber Tour with a cracking setlist.

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I May Not Change The World...


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 A soundboard recording here from,
Blackberry Smoke.
Back in Kansas 2012.
Southern Rock with a good 
lashing of Country if you're
into that,
old school Rock 'n' Roll.

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Do You Know The Way To...


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 Dio from the Holy Diver Tour.
What an album that is...still.
They play songs from the album
some Sabbath & Rainbow.
These times won't be repeated
(unless they do that hologram thing!)
Relive it!!

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And The Sword By My Side...


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This one is up already but this would appear to be 
the full concert.
From classic 70's Rockers,Angel.
Live in Fresno '78.
It's an enjoyable audience recording.
A great band with an interesting sound.
Proggy,Hard & Melodic Rock.
I thought their image was pretty cool too.


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And I Don't Know Just Where I''m Going Tonight...


A secret show from Bruce to announce a new album
and tour.A tour without the E-Street Band tho'.
Still,as usual the man puts his heart and soul
into his music.

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I'm A Cool Rockin' Daddy In The USA,Now...


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 The album and tour that broke
Springsteen and his band worldwide.
From the Born In The USA Tour from 1984.
A mega setlist full of excellent tunes
and half a cd worth of bonus tracks.
An excellent audience recording.
AND!!...the Boss is still out there doing it.

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10/06/2025

It Hits You Like A Hammer...



John Sykes reforms Blue Murder with an all Star Line Up of ,
Marco Mendoza,Tommy Aldridge & Derek Sherinian.
Live in Japan 2004 a country where they were always very popular.
Excellent audience recording full of John Syke's guitar solos.




 

Sit And Smile Into Your Beer...



Very good audience recording of UFO on what 
would turn out to be the last tour with  Michael Schenker 
Great set list and a very enjoyable 
show but probably fair to say Schenker is not at his very best.
A 2 track mp3 file.




 

10/04/2025

See The Horse And The Gun...


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 A cool band that's highly rated at Hear Rock City.
Cry Of Love,quality Blues Rock.
Managed to find some more stuff from them
a while ago.Got 'round to digging it 
out and making covers etc.
So we've got a Radio Broadcast and a very good
 (excellent) audience recording to enjoy.

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You Want to Ride in my Big Black Car...

 


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Cry Of Love - Live in Hollywood, CA!

A Band that was Formed in North Carolina...
So They had Some Southern Roots, Along with Hard Rock!

Here they are Tourin' Their First Album: Brother!

They Play songs from That Album and Close with 
a Cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's On The Hunt!

Oh, and, Audley Freed is Here, 
Before He'd Go On To The Black Crowes...

A Good Solid Hard Rock Band - In The Studio and Live!

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When I Woke Up This Mornin'...


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 Since we've got a run on Cry Of Love here's 
one Rocket seems to have forgotten.
A Blues/Rock Band of the highest order,
FM Broadcast a great listen.

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Here I Am...


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 Back to 1985 and a Killer Kompilation from
Kerrang! magazine.
Some of the big hitters at the 
time and some nearly there bands.
Vinyl was a little rough on this one but,
great times and memories.

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The Night Was Clear,And The Moon Was Yellow...


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 Another great compilation from K-Tel.
This time some of the Rock 'n' Roll pioneers.
A massive 25 tracks on one album.
Admittedly most of them are pretty short.
The story behind this is it was one of those records
that was in the house when I was younger.
Due to moving and whatever else was going on
it disappeared.
A few years ago I tracked it down on ebay.
And here it is in all its glory.
Expect a few pops and crackles there's only so 
much I can do before I ruin it!
Released in '72.

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Fill Your Heads With...


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 There hasn't been a vinyl compilation put up since
mmm,yesterday!So here's another.
From French record label Carrere Records. 
It's one that was pretty familiar back in the 80's.
Five bands are represented and it's Most Excellent!
From 1982.

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It Was Alright 'til She Came Along...


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 Another various artists vinyl rip 
(we know you love 'em!).
From 1987 and on the BR Music label,
yeah I've never heard of it either.
Featuring a decent selection of bands
and songs you're sick of or haven't heard for a while.
Strangely Golden Earring get two songs on the record.
Yep one of them is THAT song (I love it tho').

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