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One of the great could have, should have, made it bigger bands. Live from the Paradiso, Amsterdam 1979. The audience don't sound too up for it, but the band give it a John Perry who plays that great opening riff on "Another Girl another Planet" often tours Ireland with Martin Stephenson (...

Sorry to read about your mate. The first time I heard Black Sabbath was in primary school. Our teacher had told us he was bringing in a record player on Friday and we could bring what we wanted to play. One of the lads brought his older brothers copy of "Black Sabbath" (1st LP) needless to...

https://www.dominomusic.com/res/GxZ/720_720/king_creosote_jon_hopkins_diamond_mine_packshot.jpeg This may have been up before but deserves bump. Diamond Mine from King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, a sublime recording released in 2011, I have the Jubilee Edition from 2012. It has a few extra tracks, ...

Can’t find the one I’m looking for (BTWOS) so this’ll have to do. Nice one Dermot, that must have been close enough to the end for Sabbath. Probably has Tommy Clufetos on drums, he'd been with Ozzy's band. Mind you after reading the book I realised, I really didn't know who was in the band at any g...

Having just finished reading Geezer Butler's - "Into The Void" this is going down a real treat.

Currently being played, Bleedin' Loud, nothing pedestrian about it.

Almost made me lose my coffee through my nose.
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Ivor wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:49 pm

cybot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:48 pm Never ever tire of this.

It's an incredible LP and criminally unknown to many.

I knew Stan back in the day, really sound guy.

I've been disturbing the dust off of my speakers earlier today, plenty of punch and drive, wants to be played LOUD!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1wYDohUJEL._AC_SX679_.jpg I must have been missing for years, first listen ever and love it. A decent test of the electronics too. I remember using this to shake out some new additions to my system. Haven't played it in a looong time, I'll remedy that tomorrow.

Elbow are a band that always seem to just skirt past me. I’ll have to make an effort to get a real listen to some of their music.