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This is where I indulge in my passions - VINYL & ROCK 'n' ROLL

Pat Travers 1st Album

Pat Travers 1st Album

Authored By Johnny Blogger
There was a moment in the late 70s when Pat Travers was pretty big in UK. He'd first come over in 1976 supporting SAHB to promote this first album. I saw him on that tour at Newcastle City Hall and loved their set so much that I went to HMV the following day and bought [...]
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My New Novel Is Published

My New Novel Is Published

Authored By Johnny Blogger
On 24th December, King Tees, the 10th Nick Guymer novel was published, initially on Kindle and next month, as a paperback. It's always a strange moment when the words you've spent so many hundreds of hours working on, become a public document, especially when you know people are waiting eagerly for it to be published [...]
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P.F.M. - Cook

P.F.M. - Cook

Authored By Johnny Blogger
P.F.M. where the biggest Italian prog rock band. Their name translates as Award-winning Marconi Bakery, which is a superb name for a group, I reckon. They were signed ot ELP's Manticore label and made some great albums, some with Italian lyrics others with English. Cook is their live album and it's an absolute classic mid-70s [...]
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Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo

Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo

Authored By Johnny Blogger
In the history books, Cockney Rebel and the wonderful Steve Harley deserve more acclaim for their music than they often get. They weren't quite rock, they weren't folk, and they weren't glam. This record is such a unique creation. The hit single Mr Soft is weird and infectious but it is theelegiac closing track Tumbling [...]
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Ten Years After - Sssh

Ten Years After - Sssh

Authored By Johnny Blogger
By 1969 TYA had evolved from being a jazzy blues band into a being psychedelic blues rock experience. Sssh was a top 10 album in UK and featured their classic version of Good Morning Little Schoolgirl and I Woke Up This Morning. There are quirky little instrumentals, a bit of phasing and some wonderful guitar [...]
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Vinegar Joe - Rock n Roll Gypsies

Vinegar Joe - Rock n Roll Gypsies

Authored By Johnny Blogger
They never sold a lot of records but they were a storming band. Two wonderful singers in Elkie Brooks and Robert Palmer, Vinegar Joe were a loud, rambunctious R and B outfit, as the cover of this record suggests. Full of great British rockers at one tine or another like Keef Hartley, Pete Gage and [...]
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It's That Crazy Time Of Year

It's That Crazy Time Of Year

Authored By Johnny Blogger
Ah, 'tis the season. When you're selling stuff on a website, December means only one thing - Christmas. People will tell you that Christmas is great for business and, in one way, it is. Sales increase by 300-400% for three weeks. That's got to be good, right? Well, maybe. I'm a great believer that there [...]
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Canned Heat - Christmas Blues

Canned Heat - Christmas Blues

Authored By Johnny Blogger
What do you think are the chances of an out and out Chicago Blues band having a hit in America in 2015 with a Christmas song? The answer is none. But there was a time when America had great taste. This was a hit in Billboard's Christmas Singles chart in 1968. It was recorded at [...]
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John Mayall - Bare Wires

John Mayall - Bare Wires

Authored By Johnny Blogger
The last record Mayall put out as the Bluesbreakers, this 1968 release was the second to feature Mick Taylor. It completed a run of four transformative blues records which had also featured Eric Clapton and Peter Green. This was his first hit album in America, peaking at 59 on the Billboard chart. It reached 3 [...]
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Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge

Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge

Authored By Johnny Blogger
The Fudge are sometimes forgotten, especially in the UK, a primo, early heavy psychedelic band. Their 'fudged up' versions of songs like Ticket to Ride, You Keep Me Hangin' On and Eleanor Rigby are wonderful excursions into heavy riffing. I often think you can hear elements of Page's Led Zeppelin sound in the Fudge's guitar [...]
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Gentle Giant Compilation

Gentle Giant Compilation

Authored By Johnny Blogger
Picked this excellent compilation up yesterday for £5.00. It's an Italian record and comes with a glossy 12-page booklet. The tracks are drawn from the first 4 Gentle Giant records - which are expensive to buy - so it's a very useful all killer, no filler compilation from a band that doesn't have a lot [...]
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Grateful Dead - Skeletons From The Closet

Grateful Dead - Skeletons From The Closet

Authored By Johnny Blogger
The perfect starter to whet your appetite before consuming the full Grateful Dead dinner. 'Skeletons' was their first and best-selling compilation. It focuses on the Workingman's Dead, American Beauty period, with a few early tracks thrown in. Nice to get the original 2-minute Dark Star here and also The Golden Road(To Unlimited Devotion) This is [...]
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Mott The Hoople - Mott

Mott The Hoople - Mott

Authored By Johnny Blogger
I know a lot of people like the first 4 albums by Mott, but this has always been my go-to record of theirs. Featuring the wonderful, elegiacal Honaloochie Boogie and the driving All The Way From Memphis it is a rock n roll record to its core. I also just noticed it also features a [...]
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Blodwyn Pig - Getting To This

Blodwyn Pig - Getting To This

Authored By Johnny Blogger
Released in 1970, this was the band's second album and sold really well, reaching 8 on the UK album charts. It's a splendid blues rock album with a strong jazz tinge to it and in the 8-minute 'San Francisco Sketches' began to get a bit progressive rock-ish,. Formed by Mick Abrahams after he left Jethro [...]
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Christmas - It's Not For Everyone

Christmas - It's Not For Everyone

Authored By Johnny Blogger
The truth is, I don't really get Christmas. When I was little, back in the 60s, it was definitely all about Jesus. It was a religious festival to celebrate the wee boy. I liked it then. While we were not a religious family in any way, and didn't go to church, I still thought Jesus [...]
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