The great eclipsed annual review 2017
2017 will not enter the rock annals as the year of musical upheavals. It doesn't have to be, because it was the 50th anniversary of the musical revolution, the greatest progress the rock world has experienced within a year. What's left of "1967"? Are the old heroes of that time still active and how was this anniversary celebrated? Various tours - above all the Rolling Stones -, interactive rock exhibitions (Pink Floyd), opulent Reissues of the 67 milestones (The Beatles, The Doors and others) or various new albums of the "old heroes": all this makes the here and now seem like a lively rock museum, even the protest song returned.
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Music as medicine
She is highly regarded in her native Canada, but in her adopted country, the USA, she has been largely ignored since the beginning of her career, which has now lasted five and a half decades: because she tirelessly raises her voice against warmongers, environmental pollutants and discrimination of all kinds. Now Buffy Sainte-Marie, who wrote "Universal Soldier", one of the most famous protest songs in music history, has recorded an album containing new versions of some of her most impressive songs. She called it "medicine songs."
KAYAK - Flying high after the near-crash
The new kayak album "Seventeen" is for bandleader Ton Scherpenzeel like a liberating blow. Three years ago, the 65-year-old was gonna quit. Problems in the business and the exit of several musicians had thoroughly spoiled his mood. But he proved perseverance and surrounded himself with new musicians to bring the most important Dutch prog band next to Focus back on track. Kayak's seventeenth studio work leaves no doubt that the group, founded in 1972, still has a lot to offer.
SCORPIONS - Ballad for Adrénaline
The Scorpions have polished up their hard rock image with their last two studio albums. However, there was also a component there with which the Hanoverians repeatedly divide the community and at the same time celebrate their greatest successes: the ballad. "Born To Touch Your Feelings" is their latest compilation of rock ballads, on which two new songs can be found besides the well known. A must, as Rudolf Schenker stresses.
THE MOODY BLUES - In Search of the Lost Chord
Instead of composing new music, The Moody Blues prefer to celebrate with their fans what they created especially in the late sixties. Their song "Nights In White Satin" recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and in 2018 the group can look back on half a century of "In Search Of The Lost Chord". As pioneers of prog and art rock, the Moody Blues created symphonic rock albums between 1967 and 1972 that sprang from the zeitgeist and yet seem timeless in an exciting way. In 2018 the band is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
ALICE COOPER - died ten thousand times
Alice Cooper turns seventy on the fourth of February. For more than five decades, he has often offered bizarre, sometimes dramatic, always entertaining rock theatre, at the climax of which the stage character Alice Cooper loses her life. It is often forgotten that Cooper wrote rock history with a good dozen albums during this time. It is also often overlooked that the US-American, along with his early mentor Frank Zappa, was the one who established sarcasm, irony and humour as a means of expression in rock music.
JOE SATRIANI - Aliens unwanted
Joe Satriani is a master of melody, tone and sound. Electric guitar aces such as Steve Vai or Andy Timmons have been apprenticed to him. He has performed with Deep Purple and has also proven himself with Chickenfoot in the band context. Now the 61-year-old US-American presents his sixteenth studio album "What Happens Next", in which he has imposed a Sci-Fi ban on himself, and in March, together with John Petrucci and Uli Jon Roth, brings his G3 guitar extravagance back to German stages.
BOB SEGER - The Eternal Voice
Bob Seger's back. With force. The voice of the 72-year-old from Detroit bubbles on the current release "I Knew You When", where an elemental force continues to rage. After the shirt-sleeved man with the great charisma had already been admitted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, he received the "Billboard Legend Of Live Award" in 2015. You're right.
WHITESNAKE - Forty years of winding through
From the ashes of Deep Purple some of the most exciting bands in rock history emerged in the mid to late seventies: after Rainbow (1975) the Ian Gillan Band (1975), which mutated into the NWOBHM group Gillan in 1978, Paice Ashton Lord, PAL for short, (1976) and finally Whitesnake (1978). David Coverdale's troupe should sometimes climb the ladder of success higher than the mother ship. The snake charmer's band has skinned itself several times since its foundation forty years ago, but has remained a dangerous rock reptile to this day.
Advanced course "Growing up" - Three years after the album "Songs Of Innocence" U2 released the sequel
No other U2 album has been dissected by the press as maliciously as "Songs Of Experience". Some critics may have judged with a greater sense of proportion, but the fourteenth studio work of the Irish superstars will certainly not go down in history as a masterpiece. U2 play it safe with their contemporary stadium sound, but at the same time try to appeal to younger listeners. Bono admits this bluntly. So he recently explained that in times of Spotify you have to work more on the quality of the single song to get it on the radio...
Musical Outlaw - ERIK COHEN combines Hardrock with German Lyrics
Erik Cohen is an artificial figure, as the singer, who listens to the middle-class name Daniel Geiger, emphasizes time and again. "He's definitely a musical outlaw, who also goes through the wall with his head. Like 'Theo against the rest of the world'," he explains in allusion to the 80s film with Marius Müller-Westernhagen. Meanwhile, Geiger knows his way around artificial figures, and for many years he has headed his band Smoke Blow as frontman Jack Letten. When Smoke Blow decided to go into partial retirement in 2010 - they no longer release albums but still play concerts here and there - Erik Cohen was born...
Dear "All"-present - Master Yoda has influenced the new album of BLACK SPACE RIDERS
Thematically, this time everything revolves around the eternal battle of good against evil. It burns up around "Amoretum", according to the album title, a Garden of Eden somewhere in space, the last place of its kind. A concept album then? "No, more like a song cycle around an idea," singer and guitarist JE explains. Like "Refugeeum", the title "Amoretum" is also an artificial word that refers to its content; it is composed of "Amore" (love) and "Aboretum" (a protected garden or park).
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