Tag: Stevie Ray Vaughan
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An Alternative best of Stevie Ray Vaughan
Has it really been twenty five years since Stevie Ray Vaughan died? Sadly yes. One of the greatest guitar players of any generation died on 27 August 1990 after the helicopter that was carrying him went down in fog, killing all on board. In the UK the newspaper headlines told me “Eric Clapton Helicopter Crash”…
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The Top Ten Greatest Double Live Albums
Bloated, over-indulgent and long winded. But that’s enough about (insert the name of your least favourite politician here), let’s talk about Double Live albums. When Noel Gallagher talked about double albums to Rolling Stone Magazine recently he was referring to studio albums, but he still made the colourful point that they tend to go on…
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Rock’s Great “Lost” Albums of The Eighties #4: Michael Katon – Proud To Be Loud
Being born and raised in Hell must be quite a problem. It’s a bad neighbourhood. Your neighbours tend to be the sort that don’t mow their lawn (and store shopping trolleys there), seldom sort the recycling bin bags properly and often start needless and provocative boundary disputes with you. It’s also very very hot, all…
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Rock’s Great “Lost” Albums of the Eighties: #2 – Rocky Hill
When you think of rock n roll brothers, you generally picture squabbling siblings, such as Ray and Dave Davies, Noel and Liam Gallagher, Rich and Chris Robinson or Dave and Ed Milliband. Perhaps only Eddie and Alex Van Halen have really made things work apparently smoothly, and that’s possibly because one of them is a…
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Remember The First Time You Heard….Bowie’s A Space Oddity?
Whilst David Bowie hibernates in the winter of his fine and distinguished career “nursing his enigma” as Gary Kemp put it, there is no shortage of people trying to coax him out of retirement. Bowie appears to be a rare case of a rock n roller actually retiring (not that he’s announced any such thing…
Every record tells a story 