Marillion – Fugazi “I’m the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun” Script For A Jester’s Tear was a success in the UK hitting number 7 in the charts and both singles charted as well, so an auspicious beginning. They did a UK tour and released a VHS titled Recital Of The …
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Marillion – Formation through Script For A Jester’s Tear “I found smog at the end of my rainbow I found my thoughts shift slowly into phase “ My older brother is two years older than me. He was born in 1966 and me in 1968. When I started High School in the fall of 1982 …
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Genesis – Calling All Stations “Can anybody tell me, tell me exactly where I am” Following the release of We Can’t Dance the band embarked on a 55 date tour from May through July 1992 in North America and Europe and another 16 UK dates in October and November. This featured arenas and huge stadiums …
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Fucked Up are a Toronto Hardcore punk band that by any accounts I would never be interested in based on my general music preferences. However over the past few years I’ve really come to like them a lot. They have some absolutely amazing albums such as David Comes To Like, Glass Boys, The Chemistry Of …
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David Bowie – Diamond Dogs Tour I find it amazing that David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs Tour was so poorly documented considering it is now considered the mother of live music/stage production. Here is what is written in The Complete David Bowie about the stage show for The Diamond Dogs tour – see pics below: “A …
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Loggins and Messina Loggins and Messina’s Sittin’ In album is one of maybe four albums I can recall that my parents used to listen to a lot in the early/mid 1970s and as a result are some of my earliest musical memories. Before albums like Dire Straits and Billy Joel’s The Stranger and 52nd Street …
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Genesis – We Can’t Dance “Leaving us all behind, lost in a changing world” All right moving on to Genesis’ fourteenth studio album which was the last one with Phil Collins and my 17th album review post. I’m gonna try to keep this one under 3000 words. That being said I never imagined I could …
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Little Feat Sometimes I find I know almost everything about a band whether I like them or not. Other times I may find myself knowing about only an album or two by a band. And other times I find I know almost nothing about a musician or a band and I KNOW I really should …
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America At the time I think America were unfairly treated as a bit slight by the music press. Most bands would kill to have a hit single as big as any one of the ones on this album. And there are a lot of them, all of which are great. Some were even mistaken for …
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Alphaville This is an excellent record – from A Victory of Love through The Jet Set every song is a winner. Totally unique sounding new wave record. The vocalist Marian Gold has an interesting voice with a huge range going from low tenor to high falsetto sometimes within a single sentence. It is one of …
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