1972 - Rock is boss: Prog is at its peak, Glam is on the rise, and nothing works without guitars.
If 1971 had been the year when the seed was planted, then rock music was in full bloom the following year: some of the greats of the decade experienced their creative peak, first and foremost the giants of progressive rock. There was progressive rocking, there was hard rocking, and there was glamorous rocking, with lyrical lyrics, soulful singing and elegant dancing
Di Meola/de Lucia/McLaughlin - The Day After
Al Di Meola's, Paco de Lucia's and John McLaughlin's 1981 release "Friday Night In San Francisco" is one of the most famous and important acoustic guitar albums in music history. Some 41 years later, "Saturday Night In San Francisco" has now been released, a recording of another concert by the three guitar reros on the following day. In an interview, Al Di Meola told how it came about and what it was like back then
ASIA - Made in Japan
That a band records its best live album with a substitute frontman and not with its original singer, who on top of that is one of the main songwriters, sounds unlikely at first. However, when this substitute goes by the name of Greg Lake and the whole thing happened almost 40 years ago, then it becomes a shoe-in: Carl Palmer remembers the event at that time, which is now re-released opulently and well restored as "Asia In Asia".
JOURNEY - Looking For Freedom!
In the course of their now almost 50-year musical journey, the band Journey, founded in 1973 in San Francisco, not only went through many skins - massive disagreements were not left out either. For example, their current main protagonists, guitarist Neal Schon (the only remaining founding member) and keyboardist Jonathan Cain (architect of the band's mass success in the '80s), are not exactly of one heart and soul.
TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND - To the moon and back
The Tedeschi Trucks Band, one of the few big bands in the history of rock, always liked it big. With their last project, a live homage to the legendary album "Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs" by Derek And The Dominos, the group around guitarist couple Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks already laid it on very thick. With "I Am The Moon" the large formation now goes a clear step further.
ARTHUR BROWN is still well ahead of the game at the age of 80
The legendary "God of Hellfire" has given himself and his worldwide fan community a perfect musical surprise for his 80th birthday with "Long Long Road". Reason enough to arrange a Zoom meeting with the tireless rock legend.
MARIUSZ DUDA goes in search of electronic traces of his youth
It was not easy to get Mariusz Duda on the microphone during the last months. Already during Riverside's US tour various appointments fell through, another interview appointment failed at the last second because the ship of the "Cruise For The Edge" prog cruise left earlier than planned and sailed into the internet-free zone...
CRYSTAL PALACE talk about their new album, dodgeball and alter egos
As dramatic as the story of their new album "Still There" may seem, a conversation with Crystal Palace can be just as entertaining. Singer and bassist Yenz Strutz in Berlin was joined by keyboardist Frank Köhler and guitarist Nils Conrad for a FaceTime interview. Thereby a lot of things come up ...
Guitarist SNOWY WHITE is on the home stretch of his career
Snowy White never belonged to those dazzling rock personalities who underline their guitaristic abilities with effect-heavy poses. This irritated especially during his time with Thin Lizzy (1980 to 1982), because next to the other guitarist Scott Gorham and the charismatic frontman Phil Lynott, the fans missed a certain show effect ...
ANNE PACEO connects several worlds on "S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S." with each other
Shamans and artists have one thing in common, Anne Paceo finds: They open windows into worlds that would remain hidden without them. The Paris-based drummer and composer does nothing else on her seventh album "S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S."
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