In its original meaning, a fetish is an object to which magical powers are ascribed. Today, however, this refers to certain preferences, especially of a sexual nature. Marek Arnold, keyboarder and saxophonist of Seven Steps To The Green Door, also sees the album title "Fetish" as a suitable generic term for a gripping collection of songs about addiction, consumption and questionable media coverage.

eclipsed: "Fetish" deals primarily with media consumption and all its positive and negative effects. What made you decide to make this concept work?

With "Showdown!", a test of strength between Robert Cray, Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland, the American suddenly arrived in the blues rock mainstream in 1985. The Grammy for the work was a year later. 1986 also marked the second great hour of the 62-year-old's career. There he released "Strong Persuader", his most successful album so far.

At the latest from then on the Bluesrock map is no longer complete without his name. Even though some may find his combination of traditional blues, soul and rock pop too smooth, Cray always manages to touch his listeners - be it through his partly hard, but also often ingratiating guitar sound or through his wonderful and immediately audible voice.

eclipsed: Whose idea was "4 Nights Of 40 Years Live"?

Robert Cray: My management persuaded me to do this. But I can live with the result very well.

eclipsed: At 62, don't you feel too young for a retrospective?

John Densmore, a white-haired 70-year-old, takes a deep breath: "When Jim was in Paris, we continued to work on new songs that we wanted to record with him when he returned," said the Doors drummer. "The longer he stayed in France, the more material it became. When we got the news of his death, we were in the studio. My first reaction was: He's probably drunk on the beach in Haiti. Then we continued to play until we realized the full implications."

Graveyard are regarded as masters of well-hung bluesy heavy rock. With their second album "Hisingen Blues" four years ago, they made people listen to them internationally for the first time. Even though the quartet didn't act on the level of this Brocken album anymore with the record "Lights Out" in 2012, they have been counted among the elite of retro bands ever since.

Together with bassist Rikard Eklund, with whom he had previously played in the musically more playful bands Norrsken and Albatross, albatross drummer Axel Sjöberg and guitarist Truls Mörck, Nilsson founded the band in 2006. The following year, even before the self-titled debut album was recorded, Graveyard and Mörck parted ways, followed by Jonatan Larocca-Ramm. On the new album "Innocence & Decadence" Mörck returns to the band as bass player, but Eklund has now said goodbye.

40 years ago the Vietnam War ended, also known as the "Rock'n'Roll War". He influenced countless bands, and their music influenced the warriors. The protests against the war led to the golden era of rock music and Woodstock. While this still has an effect in the West today, it looks quite different in the former war country Vietnam. eclipsed reports from Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

The evening street sound of Ho-Chi-Minh City, the former Saigon, is still full of moped rattling as exotic music sounds slide in between. They come from a city park. You can clearly hear a hint of Asian pathos. A singer, dainty, steadfast and rushing with red flags, sings patriotic pop. "Nhạc Đỏ", Red Music, glorifies the heroic deeds of men and women who left their families to join the struggle against the French and Americans.

When married couples form a band together, this often seems strange to outsiders. And you're instinctively suspicious of saying, "It's only good!" This is Ritchie Blackmore's brief assessment of "musical family businesses", while Candice Night says in more detail: "So we can always be together, and if Ritchie has an idea, he can come to me and try it out with me right away"

CALIGULA'S HORSE - Marigold (6:17)
Album: Bloom (2015)
Label/Distribution: InsideOut/Universal
www.caligulashorse.com

Already on the predecessor "The Tide, The Thief & Riverʼs End" the Australians had shown amazing maturity. But "Bloom" goes a long way further, combining the strengths of Porcupine Tree, Haken, Periphery and Opeth. Jim Grey is also once again a hot candidate for the "Singer of the Year". (RELEASE: 16.10.)

Perhaps the myth of "Wish You Were Here" began that Thursday, June 5, 1975 - with the mysterious visitor at Abbey Road Studios. Pink Floyd were working on the final mix of the core of their upcoming album, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a song about their former frontman Syd Barrett and his unstoppable mental decay. Suddenly a bald, fat, confused-looking man stands in the room, all dressed in white, with shaved eyebrows and a white plastic bag in his hand. At first the musicians thought it was an unknown EMI employee, but on closer inspection David Gilmour became suspicious: "Do you recognize him? Look at him closely," he whispered to Nick Mason with tears in his eyes. The band had not seen their former colleague and friend for several years. The last contacts were in 1970, when Gilmour and Roger Waters and Gilmour and Rick Wright Barrett had helped out with his two solo albums.