Hard Rock

Classic Lost Tracks: The Black Crowes: Feathers

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 8, 2014 • ( 3 )

You know when you hear a song that stops you in your tracks? Let me tell you about The Black Crowes’ track “Feathers”….. This was a song I had only ever read about. It was referred to in hushed tones… Read More ›

Faith No More: Live at BST Hyde Park

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 5, 2014 • ( 11 )

It is 25 years almost to the day that one of the best rock albums of the eighties was released. Faith No More’s “The Real Thing” sprang from nowhere and won huge critical praise at the time, finishing in Kerrang!’s… Read More ›

Soundgarden Play Superunknown In Entirety “For Last Time”: Joined by Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 5, 2014 • ( 2 )

Returning – this time second on the bill – to a stage they headlined two years ago when they first reformed, Soundgarden unveiled something a little different at Hyde Park yesterday. Having supported Black Sabbath throughout the latest stretch of… Read More ›

A Recovering Lemmy Braves It Out As Motörhead Play Hyde Park

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 5, 2014 • ( 1 )

Let’s face it, even if he had lived fast and died young, he’d never have had a good looking corpse, so it’s just as well Lemmy has been as good at Grim Reaper-dodging as anyone. Having left Hawkwind ostensibly not… Read More ›

Foamfoot And Sweet Pickle Salad – The Black Crowes’ Bootleg Recordings

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 23, 2014 • ( 7 )

I’m going to take a quick look at some obscure recordings by The Black Crowes, but if your interest in this band has inexplicably yet to stretch to their officially released recordings (and apparently there are one or two people… Read More ›

Flared Cords And The Truth: The Black Crowes Hit Their Strides

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 12, 2014 • ( 11 )

In September 1991 Guns n Roses released their double-double album set “Use Your Illusion”. A week later Nirvana released Nevermind. As GnR peaked and fell into a squabbling decline, by January 1992 Cobain and co topped the US charts and… Read More ›

The Black Crowes’ First London Show: The Marquee, 1990

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 9, 2014 • ( 13 )

The Marquee Club, London. June 1990. I was there to see a band I had only ever read about, who were on the tiny stage just three feet in front of me, lean as rakes, hungrily playing up a storm… Read More ›

First Prince, Now Dan Reed Network: The Return of Funk Rock

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 6, 2014 • ( 2 )

What with Prince mid-way through a hit and run tour in the UK playing small venues like a one man musical Bonnie and Clyde (he played the Roundhouse this week), it appears that funk – and its offshoot genre funk… Read More ›

Led Zeppelin: A Vinyl Buyer’s Guide

By Every Record Tells A Story on March 3, 2014 • ( 125 )

The “Do What Thou Wilt” inscription on Led Zep III Want to know why some Led Zeppelin vinyl LPs sounded better than most other rock LPs? Read on… It is received wisdom that the earliest Led Zep UK pressings –… Read More ›

A Look At Led Zeppelin’s Covers

By Every Record Tells A Story on February 25, 2014 • ( 57 )

The forthcoming reissues of Led Zeppelin will probably cost, oh, at least a few pounds. Or something. So before we all trample over London’s tourists like brainwashed consumers in a desperate panic to buy new vinyl in whatever is left… Read More ›

Led Zeppelin’s Re-Masters: To Buy or Not To Buy?

By Every Record Tells A Story on February 9, 2014 • ( 12 )

The news that Jimmy Page has completed his work remastering Led Zeppelin’s back catalogue bodes well for a 2014 release. Page has confirmed this, saying to Rolling Stone Magazine that the first three Led Zeppelin albums will be released in… Read More ›