Tag Archives: Asia

Interview with Chris Slade

August 28, 2024

To headbangers, he’s this bald-headed thunder-god from AC/DC; to more discerning listeners, he’s a groove master from MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND; to Chris Slade, it’s all parts of his spiritual path. And, as Chris reckons, those parts were not too … Continue reading →

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Interview with CHRIS SLADE

August 28, 2024

August 2024 To headbangers, he’s this bald-headed thunder-god from AC/DC; to more discerning listeners, he’s a groove master from MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND; to Chris Slade, it’s all parts of his spiritual path. And, as Chris reckons, those parts were … Continue reading →

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DBA (DOWNES BRAIDE ASSOCIATION) – Halcyon Hymns

April 23, 2021

Magical Thinker 2021 Masters of melody and melodrama venture towards the end of days to bring back hope and glory It’s been almost a decade since and Chris Braide embarked on a joint journey which, charting the course between pop … Continue reading →

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DBA (DOWNES BRAIDE ASSOCIATION – Live In England

January 8, 2020

Magical Thinker / Cherry Red 2019 Preserved for posterity in audio and on video, a humble concert debut of a pop-prog ensemble who defy vanity. Even though the stage didn’t seem off-limits to DOWNES BRAIDE ASSOCIATION, and Chris Braide never … Continue reading →

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WETTON-DOWNES / ICON – Zero

April 28, 2018

Stallion 2001 / Epicon 2017 No rest for the wicked: power pop drivers recover the path to their backroads and untrodden tracks to reveal the tunes that never stopped flowing. ASIA may have run the band’s course by 1986, but … Continue reading →

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