Most fans had the band of singer/guitarist Ty Tabor (Kingʼs X), bassist John Myung (Dream Theater) and drummer Rod Morgenstein (Dixie Dregs) probably not really on screen since their album "2" (2004). Reason: the release of the comeback album "Shall We Descent" (2011) took place in principle under exclusion of the public. "At that time we had no record contract, but we still wanted to make music together and record songs," Tabor looks back.

RIVAL SONS - Tied Up (3:25)
Album: Hollow Bones (2016)
Label/Distribution: Earache/ADA/Warner
www.rivalsons.com

When the Californians gather for their recording sessions, a lot of 70s stuff - musically meant - has to race through their brains; grooves, vocals, song construction seem to come directly from that time. Beside Bluesrock there are also soul and psychedelic parts like in this song.

17.6.2016 Loreley: "I have a feeling we´re not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the Rainbow."

All the mud and rain became instantly irrelevant as Ritchie Blackmore with his Rainbow on the Loreley, re-formed for three concerts, after this sequence from "The Wizard of Oz" starts with "Highway Star". Previously, Thin Lizzy and Manfred Mann´s Earth Band had rung in the new edition of the "Monsters Of Rock". Blackmore, who hadn't played a rock concert for 19 years, was the "Master of Cermony", and led the 15,000 visitors sovereign through a 13-song classic set with tracks he wrote for Rainbow and Deep Purple. The Chilean singer Ronnie Romero became the "best Ronnie since Ronnie (Dio)" and the version of "Stargazer" was breathtaking.

In this day and age, in which advertising for oriental influences is often equated with Islamism and cultural hostility, a formation like Blaak Heat is not easy. So Thomas Bellier, singer and guitarist of the trio, feels, because right at the beginning of the interview he has to make it clear: "We have nothing to do with this IS madness. We simply integrate Arabic sounds into our sound. And that's because we're absolutely fascinated by it. We want to integrate them into western harmonies in order to bring the cultures together. Who knows, maybe with this approach you can bring peace instead of war to this currently crazy planet?!"

"For 'Refugeeum', as always, we all got together, collected and developed ideas together and then recorded them," reports Black Space Riders singer/guitarist JE. "A good 110 minutes of material were created in this way. We noticed that there were some pieces that just didn't really fit into the overall concept - but weren't completely removed from it either. So we decided to put them aside and do something different with them later." And the time to introduce the runaways was now ripe. Four unreleased tracks and two remixes combined the riders to the EP "Beyond Refugeeum". The closeness to the mother album is not only shown in the title, but also in the artwork: The same image of a refugee camp in a desert landscape is immersed here in psychedelic tones.

"With the new album we wanted to prove that we can do more than bluesy and soulful rock", singer Colleen Rennison shows herself self-confident. The 2013 "Boo Hoo Hoo" wasn't from bad blues rock parents and Colleen drew comparisons with almost every great old lady of blues and soul. "Now you can call me a female Robert Plant," she even adds.

The Canadian's debut album was actually an EP from 2011, which was enhanced with more titles and reached Europe two years later. Old Habits Die Hard", on the other hand, is a classic album with twelve songs that covers the entire range of styles from blues to soulful rock and hard rock. "We are not afraid of anything, as long as it has feeling or goes forward. And handmade it should be." The former actress Rennison - read "No Sinner" backwards - has of course no problems standing in the limelight.

We know that without the Beatles the topography of popular music would be different. This has a lot to do with the fact that the four Liverpoolers - a quartet as painted for the optimistic and innovative sixties - were in the right place at the right time, namely in London, and were thus able to rise to shining icons of a decade whose achievements have shaped our world to the present day. Much, perhaps even much more, but this had to do with the unique musical talent that was bundled in the Beatles and was supported by a brilliant producer in the form of George Martin, who also had the best recording studio to be found in the kingdom.

The man's in a good mood. He has a good time, owns a farm in the English county of Devon. His wife Kris, his dogs and other "amenities" around him. No wonder that he seems deeply relaxed, laughs just as often as he speaks, does not always hit the core of the questions with his answers. After all, he'll soon be seventy-five. He knows the past very well, and the future does not seem to affect him.

eclipsed: You've just completed a tour of England. How are you now?

Dave Brock: Thanks for asking. Kris, my dogs and I are sitting here in the garden of our farm. The weather is fine, jazz music plays in the background. We drink wine and smoke marijuana. The dogs, of course not. So I'm fine.

eclipsed: On the tour you put the new album in the spotlight. How'd it go?