Category: 1979
‘Face To Face’ was Trevor Rabin’s second solo album and once again he played everything bar the proverbial kitchen sink…
Axe – after having annoyed the mid-west press everywhere between Minneapolis and Milwaukee, Babyface skulked into hiding, and popped their…
Going by Aerosmith’s history books it would be easy to deduce that the 1978-1980 timeframe was the most traumatic period…
With ‘Head Games’, Foreigner ventured into the studio with Roy Thomas Baker at the helm. There are some of his…
Even decades after its release, UFO’s ‘Strangers In The Night’ is still considered to be one of the definitive live…
Gamma was the new project put together by San Francisco guitar god Ronnie Montrose during 78/79, as a whole, this…
Helix’s earlier albums weren’t as ‘timber-wolved’ as efforts by fellow Canucks Bachman Turner Overdrive, Iron horse and Trooper, there’s an…
It was obvious that Saxon’s NWOBHM sound on their second and third releases was something of an anomaly or a…
Breathless, a Cleveland based band were an accident just waiting to happen, that’s how the story goes according to main-man…
To be honest, ‘Dynasty’ as a whole is uneven stylistically, even with a few classics on board, it just proved…
I feel ‘Evolution’ is a much forgotten part of Journey’s discography, and deserves kudos alongside their other much more popular…
Judas Priest along with U.F.O’s magnificent ‘Strangers In The Night’ live album from 1979, you can also add this wee…
with changing times and attitudes, prog rock would go on a backburner, impacting bands like Kansas, but this album along…
Fans of Styx, Airborne, Alexis and the first Tycoon album will go ga-ga over the debut Oak album as every…
I have never considered this Van Halen album to be throwaway. This LP was thrashed by yours truly back in…
Late 70’s soft rock never sounded so good with these guys, Couchois (pronunced Ku-Shwa) were an Alabama based band blessed…
For fans of 70’s hard rock, Gulliver mix up some searing guitar-work on their heavier moments, and vocal harmonies a…
For what it’s worth, Bullseye’s ‘On Target’ is a thoroughly likeable album that will find a ton of fans here…
Buckeye have their soft rock origins in Los Angeles, where a bunch of other bands playing a similar style like…
Undoubtedly Led Zeppelin were the biggest hard rock act of the 70’s, but it cannot be denied that ‘In Through…
The third Roadmaster album ‘Hey World’ was a continuation from ‘Sweet Music’, whereas that album had two distinct sides of…
I recently reacquainted myself with this album. It's much better than I remembered it by. Good to hear 'Can't Stop…
I like the storyline but not much else. 👎
Have added a new video into the review. 'Breaking Me Up'. These gals look and sound great. 💛
Carmine Appice is also involved with the band Ruffyunz, and appears on their 2023 album 'III'. https://raritetno.com/hard-rock/210584-ruffyunz-iii-2023.html
30 years on, the song 'Foreclosure Of A Dream' can be directly aimed at former Dutch PM Mark Rutte and…
There is one unofficial release on YouTube Music from around 2008/2009 with a load of Unreleased tracks. It's called Post…
I would agree this isn't one of Queen's best. Jazz which followed after this wasn't much better. Live Killers from…
I have this need to revisit the first two Argent albums for review. Argent and Ring Of Hands. Watch this…
I recall buying this in 98 and foolishly expecting another Midnight Madness. It doesn’t sound like Night Ranger at all,…
Billy Joel should have revisited this type of sound years later and added some guitars. What a classic.