Opinion
I thought it might be fun to place all my music, book and tech type reviews under one banner. Hence OPINION. Use the main menu to find specific sections you might be interested in.
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Deep Purple: Now What?! (2013)
Artist / Title: Deep Purple: Now What?! (2013) Month Reviewed: May 2013 Format: CD Buy: [featured-img] It’s been a good while since the marvellous Rapture of the Deep album . . . so it was with baited breath that I listened to the new Purple album, wondering what they could possibly come up with to top one of my…
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Opeth: Heritage (2011)
Artist / Title: Opeth: Heritage (2011) Month Reviewed: October 2011 Format: CD Buy: Opeth have been building up to this album for years and tested the waters a bit with the beautiful, haunting and stunning Damnation album a few years ago.. There were hints of what was to come in…
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Guitar Rig versus Amplitude
Those of you following me at twitter will have spotted the odd remark about me testing Native Instruments Guitar Rig and IK Multimedia’s Amplitude. If you don’t already know, these are virtual guitar amp simulations. Possibly, the two leading products in this particular field of music technology. Anyway, for years I have…
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Joe Bonamassa: Dust Bowl (2011)
Artist / Title: Joe Bonamassa: Dust Bowl (2011) Month Reviewed: May 2011 Format: CD Buy: Take away three tracks away from this albums 12, you would likely have the best (or certainly one of the top 5) blues-rock albums of all time. Man, this is a seriously brilliant record. I…
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Abel Ganz: Shooting Albatross (2008)
Artist / Title: Abel Ganz: Shooting Albatross (2008) Month Reviewed: April 2011 Format: CD Buy: Abel Ganz are one of those bands that seem to have been around forever. First time I heard them was on some cassette sampler and they were also mentioned in the book of British Progressive…
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Black Sabbath: Technical Ecstasy (1976)
Artist / Title: Black Sabbath: Technical Ecstacy (1976) Month Reviewed: March 2011 Format: CD Buy: Reviled by most folks as a record by a band missing the ‘spark’, this is one of my favourite Sabbath albums, if not my all-time favourite. Only Rock N Roll Doctor mars the ultimate Sabs…
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Barclay James Harvest: Everyone is Everybody Else
Artist / Title: Barclay James Harvest: Everyone Is Everybody Else Month Reviewed: February 2011 Format: CD Buy: This was my first BJH album, bought because it was just .50p in a second-hand record store in Leeds! I had never heard of the band (I was a staunch Metal-Head at the…
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PFM: Cook
Artist / Title: PFM: Cook Month Reviewed: December 2010 Format: 3CD Box Set Buy: When people talk of great live albums from the seventies, you never hear this one mentioned. Perhaps if it had been released in the form of the version I now have in my hands, things may…