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Creative Rock Drummers

I’ve always thought that the very best rock bands have a great, creative drummer. Ordinary...

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Pedal steel man for hire...

Pedal steel guitar isn't most people’s idea of rock n roll. It was always associated...

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So good live…

I first fell in love with live albums early on....

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Glam Rock or Brickie's in Lippy...

For a time from the early to mid-70s, the British charts were dominated by glam...

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The thrill of cheap records is a thing of the past...

I worked out that to have a collection of albums of about 10,000 amassed by...
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Feel and embrace the records...

I have a phobia when it comes to buying and collecting albums; polythene or plastic...
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Bootlegging...

Some of the most expensive records today are bootlegs from the glory days of the...

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Old fart music and the arrival of punk rock...

If you were a teenager like me in the mid-70s and were going to gigs...

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The Rabbit Holes of Rock...

There are bands, often a bit obscure, whose records I only bought because of a...

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All part of the culture we embraced...

In these days of consolidation and fragmentation, record labels don’t have any individual vibe the...

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Their blues rock always delivers...

Ten Years After are a band that I return to time and again with their...

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Seen Them Live...

Remember when bands used to tour their new album. It was one of the few...

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