THE TWAIN WILL MEET
The news is brief but good for all the RENAISSANCE fans. Having decided to take some time off his concert duties with different projects, IQ keyboardist and Giant Electric Pea label head Martin Orford negotiated the European release of RENAISSANCE’s “In The Land Of The Rising Sun” live album (the tracklisting’s here). So there’s no need to spend a fortune on the Japanese copy anymore – just wait until September.
BILE ERUPTION
This could be expected: David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar have cut up their Sam & Dave tour. Hagar accuses Roth of all the deadly sins – big ego, small voice and growing baldness. VAN HALEN fans didn’t care though, and the duo’s trek was a success.
NOT FRIGHTENED OF SAYING IT
Towards the first year of George Harrison passing, his infamous autobiography, “I, Me, Mine”, is to be re-issued, prefaced with George’s widow Olivia introduction. Originally published in 1980, the book enraged John Lennon, strangely not mentioned by his former bandmate. Beside of narrative, “I, Me, Mine” features lyrics to many of Harrison songs with his own commentaries and is a unique portrait of an artist so mysterious. A timely step now, when many speculative books on the subject emerged.
THE LULLABIES IN AN ANCIENT TONGUE
It’s been a long waiting to be over on August 19th. KING CRIMSON Collectors’ Club is finally putting out the band’s legendary Hyde Park performance that took place on July 5th, 1969. That’s the same free concert headlined by THE ROLLING STONES which saw Mick Jagger mourning the death of Brian Jones – but it also gave the audience a taste of the beast that was CRIMSO’s first line-up of Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, Greg Lake, Mike Giles and Pete Sinfield. So here it is, the recording of the historic event, the ensemble’s earliest live document to the date.
1. 21st Century Schizoid Man
2. In The Court Of The Crimson King
3. Get Thy Bearings
4. Epitaph
5. Mantra
6. Travel Weary Capricorn
7. Mars
bonus tracks:
8. Band reunion meeting (Epitaph Playback, London March 15th, 1997)
9. 21st Century Schizoid Man: instrumental version (Morgan Studios, June 12th, 1969)
MOUNTAIN FIRES
They love to rock, Leslie West and Joe Lynn Turner, but sometimes they rock together. And not only as parts of VOICES OF CLASSIC ROCK formation. Some years ago Joe covered “Mississippi Queen”, then he helped Leslie with the guitarist’s solo album, “As Phat As It Gets”, so it’s only logical that the singer made it ontoMOUNTAIN‘s latest album, “Mystic Fire”, providing vocals for the title track and “The Sea”. As a whole, the record looks like this:
1. Immortal 2. Mystic Fire 3. Fever 4. The Sea 5. Mutant X 6. Better Off With The Blues 7. Mountain Express (Oh Boy) 8. Marble Peach / Rotten Peach 9. Johnny Comes Marching Home 10. Nantucket Sleighride |
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WRING THAT BOX
It seems, the previous news of the DEEP PURPLE box set called “Listen, Learn, Read On” that EMI are to release soon were significantly less appetizing than the truth is. The 120-page book is not the case, though it will offer an exhaustive story of the band’s first – and the most glorious – coming to life in 1968-1976. The main attraction is the wealth of tracks which appear here for the first time ever, like those recorded for BBC and a song by David Coverdale‘s early combo, GOVERNMENT, among the pre-DP pieces on the first CD out of six. Hopefully, there’ll be some other outlet for rarities because the rest is the material the real fans are long in posession of.
CD1: Pre-PURPLE & DP MK11. Keep A Knockin’ – THE OUTLAWS |
CD2: DP Mk 1 & 21. Why Didn’t Rosemary |
CD3: DP Mk 21. Mandrake Root |
CD4: DP Mk 2 & 31. No No No |
CD5: DP Mk 31.Sail Away |
CD6: DP Mk 3 & 41. Stormbringer |