5 comments about Dreamboat Annie.

1. THE CD DREAMBOAT ANNIE BY THE GROUP HEART HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FAVORITE OF MINE AND WE'RE GOING BACK OVER 30YRS. AMAZON.COM DID VERY RIGHT BY ME. I RECIEVED MY ORDER RIGHT AWAY AND THE PRICE WAS RIGHT. THANK YOU AMAZON. I WILL ORDER AGAIN IN THE FUTURE. DGS



2. If you'd like to have a female Led Zeppelin band, then Heart is for you. This is a great hard rock album. The songs "Magic Man", "Crazy on You", "Sing Child" are fantastic like all of the songs. The only trouble is the song "Dreamboat Annie" which is three times in the album. Still, if you love 70's hard rock sound, then "Dreamboat Annie" is for you. It's maybe their best album. Those two girls really had a great influental affection for fem-rock. This music has a heart and a soul!
   Stars: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Sing Child



3. This is Heart at its best - a great rock and roll album. This one belongs in every true rock fans' CD collection. White Lightning & Wine is a GREAT tune, worth the cost of the record by itself.



4. I love almost every song on the record.
   Love their vocals and arrangements, great band.
   Wish they had more like this...



5. The first and best Heart album. This is an essential and must own album for any fan of rock music.

5 comments about Paper Money.

1. This album is great. I was an early Montrose fan and growing up as a teenager in the 70's in the SF Bay Area, I was fortunate enough to see Ronnie several times - mostly at the long defunct Winterland Arena in SF.
   
   The first time I saw Montrose, it was after Album 1 and yes, did he ever rock. The last time I saw Ronnie, it was a pure acoustic set. He definitley mellowed with age. I had most of his albums at one time.
   
   This second Album is fantastic as he explored beyond the hard rock mantra of the time. It was more in line with some of Journey's early stuff (which you will never hear on the radio). Very tasty and one of my favorites.
   
   Definitely a buy!



2. Here is where the original guitar licks were
   stolen from. Ron Montrose is America's
   unsung guitar hero!



3. Ronnie Montrose had a heavy metal classic with his first album; so what was the logical next move? Evidently, turn down the guitars, add synthesizers, and put some boring slow ballads into the mix. What could have been a monster 70's act instead quickly (and deservedly) faded into obscurity. I recently bought the CD to see if it was as disappointing as I remember it back in '77. It was.



4. PAPER MONEY isn't quite as good as Montrose's self-titled debut (how could they EVER match THAT ONE), opening with two cover versions, but it's still a five-star CD. There are plenty of great songs here, which show the band becoming more adventurous musically, but the best thing here is the perennial sports anthem "I Got The Fire", which I quoted in many a promise to stay in shape for young women I was close with in my younger days. The fact that Sammy Hagar and Ronnie Montrose, the group's two leading lights, advocate sanctions against Indonesia in retaliation for that country's trumped-up 2005 drug-smuggling conviction of a young Australian tourist, as well as increased funding for law enforcement and capital punishment or life without parole for kidnappers, makes PAPER MONEY an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.



5. The Stones' song "Connection" on this album is the way it was supposed to be recorded in the first place.

5 comments about Derringer Live.

1. This CD is a great example of what Rick Derringer could do live. With the more fusion-oriented Danny Johnson as foil for Derringer's bluesy style, this band created great music that Derringer had trouble equaling with 80s albums such as the heavy metal disaster GOOD DIRTY FUN, which was a total waste of the talent that G-d gave him. This, along with ALL AMERICAN BOY, DERRINGER, LIVE AT THE PARADISE THEATER, and Derringer's work with Johnny and Edgar Winter, are the ultimate Rick Derringer library.



2. Rick Derringer' s impressive talent became him a true living legend, despite of the fact he lived literally in one of the most significant decades the Rock has ever known about.
   
   His fabulous fingering, audacious riffs were always supported by his mesmerizing inspiration and extraordinary arrangements.
   
   If you still don't know this fabulous guitarist, it's time for you to get close him. Don' t miss this album, because we are talking the basic roots of the Rock & Roll in hands of one of its more important Ambassadors.



3. Very good CD, After hearing this for the first time since 1978, It brought back some memories of another time. When I first heard the record back then, I was amazed how well Rick played. We use to play air guitar and talk how we wish we could play that good. Makes a great addition to my ever growing collection.



4. This was a club date in 1977 at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in LA on the Sunset Strip. If I remember correctly, KLOS also broadcast it live, so I always had a tape of this concert. I loved this concert. I had no idea it was released as an album or CD.
   
   The Whiskey is a very small club, maybe 300 people max, and everyone there was there to see Derringer. He did not disappoint. Every song was right on the mark and the crowd was totally into it.
   
   Derringer and his band had written many great songs, and though it was a short set they pack a big punch. This concert, and a night at the Roxy with Peter Gabriel are 2 of my all time favorite concerts (number 1 was Frampton at Winterland).
   
   Way to go Rick!



5. I owed this album on vinyl for a long time but I am glad this is available on CD also (with no extras though). Apart from the short setlist, a mere 8 songs are performed, this is one of the best offerings in the Rick Derringer range, a coherent live recording, around 1976, when he and his band gained high heights. Culled from a broad repertoire, with classics like "Teenage Love Affair" and "Still Alive and Well", the latter also from the Johnny Winter roster, and closer, a long version of "Rock and Roll, Hootchie Koo" (also performed by the Johnny Winter Band) plus 3 songs taken from "Derringer" and - sadly only one - from the outstanding "Sweet Evil", on which the same members are present, they played a highly energised set with room for guitarsoloing for both guitarplayers Derringer himself and Danny Johnson. This surely is one of the highlights of the (hard)rockscene in the midseventies. The band certainly showed they could entertain and deliver with no holding back. The album belongs in the long row of excellent seventies live-albums. A true classic, albeit a short one.

5 comments about Live in New Haven 1983.

1. For a television production (originally), I think this came out pretty good. Despite the comments of others, I found the sound quality to be excellent. Myron Grombacher's pounding drums and his ants-in-the-pants antics are a highlight, as is Neil Giraldo's precision guitar playing - especially the subtle nuances he throws in to round out the band's sound. Bassist Roger Capp is virtually ignored in this video, while keyboard player Charlie Giordano gets maybe too much time. Then there is Pat, who looks to be 19 here instead of the 29 that she is, and seems a little bit uncomfortable on stage. But she and the band put together a solid show, and in the middle of the set string together Looking for a Stranger, I Want Out, and We Live For Love in a powerful rock medley. The scenes of Pat dancing in front of the drum set alone or with husband Giraldo are a treat. The audience is literally in the dark, so there is little interaction with them we can see, but camera shots from the stage let us in on how it must look to a performer to sing out to an invisible crowd. Five stars to counter those naysayers who can't just turn up the volume and enjoy a good show!



2. This doesn't make up for not seeing her in concert, but it's the next best thing. Pat Benetar rocks and is smokin' hot while doing it. A must see for true Benetar fans.



3. I find this video very easy to watch and listen to. It is not what I call "over-clipped", in other words the camera shots don't just constantly hop around. There is of course a reasonable amount of camera changes, but it's not extremely excessive like a couple of the concert videos I've seen. There are a decent amount of shots of "the rest of the band" which is another thing I like to see in a concert video. There are not a lot of crowd shots (are there even any?) which is fine with me, but if you like a lot of crowd shots that may disappoint you.
   
   This is a basic concert video in that there are not streams of extra dancers flitting around the stage, no real costume changes, not a lot of "production". It's just Benatar and Band doing their thing which is also just fine with me.
   
   I saw some of the other reviews referring to "bad sound" and that concerned me while I was shopping for this. I think it's fine. I would like to point out that there are audio settings on the DVD for Dolby 5.1 or Dolby 2.0 (stereo) and I'm wondering if some of the sound criticisms come from not making the proper sound selection from the menu. If I try to play Dolby 5.1 on my stereo-only equipment it does of course sound like garbage, kind of similar to what I think some of the other reviews are describing. Anyway if I play it as stereo it sounds fine, perhaps not excellent, but it was after all recorded in 1983.
   
   As a casual Benatar fan I did not notice Benatar suffering any substantial vocal fatigue, but that may very well be something a more dedicated Benatar fan might hear. I can't say whether or not this is one of Benatar's better performances as I haven't seen any others, so again I'll have to leave that to the more serious fans. It did seem like they were putting their hearts into the performance, not just trying to get through it. At any rate I'd have to consider it to be better than a "good" performance.
   
   Sidenote: I really enjoyed watching them in their classic early 80's look. It wasn't necessarily one of my favorite era's but it certainly brought back some memories.
   
   I have no regrets whatsoever about buying this DVD. Heck, I've already watched it more than I've watched a couple of music DVD's I've had longer.



4. I was very please when I received the Live in New Haven DVD the other day in the mail. I've always liked Pat Benatar's music and this was the first time I've scene her perform. (other than music videos)Pat is an amazing live performer who both looks and sounds great. The concert is a bit short. (about one hour)
   However it was still great value for the money. Eventhough it was filmed over twenty years ago the sound and video quality was very good...I'm going to follow up and purchase the Summer Vacation concert as well..



5. First Off,anyone remember her first couple of albums when she hit the scene? Answer..They Smoked!She had the looks, and the Pipes, Presence, and Attitude all her own, there was no one like her..end of story.Enter Neil Giraldo...His antics and Goofy stage Movements are enough to make you want to Hurl, I suppose he wanted to reign as the undisputed King of Macheese-mo'(No, that wasn't a type-o either! : ) , Basically, the decline of her career can be traced back to her Direction from her guitarist/husband Neil, the albums got stupider, the material she used to 'Belt Out', became, well..Giraldofied! Why couldn't he have opened up a nice little Ristorante', or Sold his own home-made Provolone, and Proscutta in a nice deli in Little Italy or something, Instead, the shmuck managed to weasel into music somehow (Probably a 'Johnny Fontaine and the Bandleader' similar Family oriented affair via a .38 at some music execs temple!) Before we knew it, she was doing a 'Shadows of the Night' video..wearing a WWI helmet and goggles, flying around in a bi-plane on some kind of mission..and all I could remember was..What the Hell Happened to that Hot Chick, With an Amazing voice that Blew us away??, Anyway, The Cocert and Footage is Cool, (but short), and she sounds great, BUT the Audio mix is probably the Worst I ever heard, If you buy this, the only thing I can recommend is>>Turn the Bass all the way Down, and Raise the Treble, and you'll get through it! Incidently,..*"Music produced and mixed by NEIL GIRALDO" -BADA-BING!

5 comments about Frampton.

1. I went into this album expecting a pleasant listen, because the few songs I know from Peter Frampton have shown me that he is a pretty good songwriter who just writes nice music. That's exactly what this album is- a nice listen. I didn't hear any wild guitar playing (not that I went in expecting to) but I did hear a listenable collection of nice tunes.
   
   The way Peter Frampton seems to *almost* write ballads, but insists on throwing in *just* the right amount of guitar playing as a way to seemingly trick the listener into thinking he's writing a ballad when in fact it's actually somewhere in between a ballad and a rocker, is probably his trademark sound. That's the thing I always remember about him, anyway.
   
   Another thing- the back of the album says this album was recorded in a castle, and Frampton comments on how freaky that is, and how the music reflects that. Not really. Now, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is an album recorded in a castle that really SOUNDS like it was.
   
   Anyway, this album is just what I expected- a nice listen with nice songs coming from a nice guy. It's nice to hear versions of "Show Me The Way" and "Baby I Love Your Way" that AREN'T from Frampton Comes Alive. In the case of "Show Me The Way", there's a certain empty vibe about it that the live version seemed to fill, and surpass. "Penny For Your Thoughts - (I'll Give You) Money" is a really good, energetic way to end the album, too. The former being a good instrumental, and the final song being a pretty decent rocker. Good music.



2. Do you want to hear great tunes by Peter Frampton? Do You Want ROCK ?
   Then don't buy this cd. Purchase ' Frampton Comes Alive '
   You won't regret it! Unless you purchase this cd of course!



3. This is Peter Frampton's best studio album!!! It was recorded recorded on location at Clearwell Castle in Gloucestershire,England!!! Captured on tape inside the late Ronnie Lane's "Reels On Wheels"!!! This great album is chock full of awesome tracks including the original versions of "Show Me The Way" and Nassau/Baby, I Love Your Way",as well Day's Dawning,One More Time,(I'll Give You)Money,and five more!!! Great remastered sound too!!! Two thumbs up!!! Five stars!!! A+



4. Yeah, I'll add a vote here too, I was just writing about Frampton era Humble Pie, and noted that the first four Frampton albums were fine music. This one was a disappointment to me at first. I liked the light touch on the first three albums, especially the garage sound of "Something's Happening", and the rather bombastic title and more serious tone here put me off. But after a couple listenings it was apparent that this was his best effort, and a really fine album. It should have been the start of an interesting and musically rewarding career, the maturity of his craft.
   
   And then . . . pink hair and screaming teenies, the live album and appearances in drek like the Sergeant Peppers movie, any crass superstar junk you could imagine. Classic rock and roll ruin, an instant joke among all males. Can you imagine this guy used to crunch and his guitar could scream? Do you feel? Yeah, sick to my stomach. Wow, were the seventies lame until punk saved the day, and Frampton's image unfortunately went right along with white suits and the word "boogie". Unbelievable.
   
   Anyway, if you can't imagine someone with fuzzy pink hair is worth a listen, I can sympathize, but check this out and you'll be rewarded.



5. My best friend Josie gave me this as a surprise gift and I haven't stopped playing it. Frampton is an excellent guitarist as this cd illustrates. This is a must have for any Frampton fan.

5 comments about VOA.

1. After years of touring, releasing cd's, Sammy finally acheived commericial success with VOA. His biggest song of his carreer "I can't drive 55" is on here, along with other classic tracks. My personal favorites are "Rock Is In My Blood," "Burning Down The City" and "Swept Away." Sammy joined Van Halen after this cd was realeased. He was at the height of his career as solo artist. Sammy's best cd.
   If you get any Sammy cd, this is the one. A timeless classic.



2. VOA is Sammy Hagar's seventh great solo album in a row from his Capitol and Geffen years combined, and it's great to see it finally get the deluxe reissue treatment it deserves. It's unfortunate that STANDING HAMPTON and THREE LOCK BOX haven't gotten similar treatment, but that's probably because they're still in print, whereas this one went out of print a few years ago. Fortunately, the good folks at American Beat Records saw fit to reissue VOA, restoring it to Hagar's catalog. Hagar's advocacies of sanctions against countries that falsely convict foreigners, capital punishment/life without parole for kidnappers, and increased funding for law enforcement make this CD an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.



3. Killer Album.
   Someone called "Dick in the dirt" sophomoric, but you just can't beat a good ol' dick song! I love it, you just have to have a sense of humor, albeit a slightly twisted one!
   
   The whole thing kicks butt, the title track may well be cheesy on the lyrical side, but you have to look at the lyrics in the context of the existing Cold War tensions of the time.



4. In general, I don't consider myself a Sammy Hagar fan. Prior to picking up a copy of 1984's "VOA", I'd been listening to 1986's "5150", the first Van Halen album with Sammy, and was seriously turned off by Hagar's unimaginative, 'straight-down-the-middle' wailing, not to mention his extremely tasteless obnoxiousness in spots such as the beginning of "Good Enough".
   
   Despite all that, I was reminiscing fondly over the unforgettable, gloriously 'dumb' rock classic "I Can't Drive 55", the first track here, so I grabbed a copy of "VOA", thinking, "what the heck, let's give it a try", and I'm pleasantly surprised indeed. The excellently crafted "Swept Away" alternates dreamy acoustic guitar-laden verses with driving hard-rocking choruses. "Rock Is In My Blood" is an irresistible, intoxicating rocker with an anthemic singalong chorus. The title track is a hook-heavy, fast-paced rocker that really gets the blood flowing, although the 'patriotic' lyrics are a tad much in spots. The downbeat album closer "Burnin' Down The City" is solid as well.
   
   The major sore spots of the album arrive in the form of a couple 'pop'-flavored tunes. "Two Sides Of Love" is a cringe-worthy, screamingly generic 'power ballad'; "Don't Make Me Wait" is in the same general mold and also forgettable.
   
   Overall though, if rock is indeed in your blood [sic], "VOA" is a highly worthwhile album.



5. While this cd is quite short it is also quite good. Oddly enough, this cd is powered by none other than Ted "Van Halen" Templeton. I often wonder how much of a coincidence this all was since not more than a year later Sammy would join Van Halen.
   
   The cd has many winners and all but one "loser". "Dick in the Dirt" just never measured up to the greats like "Rock Is In My Blood" or the much overlooked "Swept Away". While "55" would of course be the staple and the selling point of this cd songs like "Don't Make Me Wait" would be the ones I come back to more often. Oddly enough the title song "VOA" is as lyrically vital today as it was in '84. I suppose because the people by and large in the middle east have no interest in peace, and likely never will.
   
   If you are looking to start a Sammy collection on cd I would first have to reccommend "Standing Hampton" and then possibly ''Marching to Mars'' which I consider both 5 star discs. For what it's worth VOA is a good cd which could have been great with a few more songs and a little less Dirt.

5 comments about Unmasked.

1. I think this a good solid album, but it isn't by the same band that released "Hotter Than Hell," that's for sure! The bubble gum sound here comes from their greed for money, not because they really like sugar coated rock. KISS was always trying to re-invent themselves to stay on the radio after "BETH." It was mostly Paul Stanley doing this. Notice how he started hiring people to co-write "hits" with him? Before "BETH" they rocked harder because it came from their hearts not their wallets. KISS always seemed to find a loophole no matter what they did, though. Their loyal American fans hated this album, but kids in Australia started liking them more because of it. I personally like the fact that KISS has a variety of different sounding albums. It makes their catalog interesting.



2. The eighties had to be a hard time for bands, music like everything else was changing and Kiss went right along with that and tried to do something original, and they did it.Fans may not like it, and later they changed back to the original sound, but if you listen to this album, which i like by the way, you hear the influences they had on later to come bands.Some guitar riffs and styles i can hear in later Bowie sounds, also bands like Journey,Boston etc. ,and i can even hear a little of the mid eighties Joan Jett.So while it may have been not to fans liking, it was innovative for what it is.



3. first off by this time kiss had dropped peter criss and once again use anton fig too record this. also the type of sound on here is really just disco and by this time they were a kid band. its just okay its not really that good at all only for the kiss fan who needs everything by kiss but for most kiss fams steer away from this cd.



4. The comic strip cover of this album is perhaps the best part of this album from the hard-rock band Kiss, because it reminds me of one of the popular fascinations fans had with the group: what the heck did these guys look like without the makeup on. Here we have our snoopish photographer trying to get pictures of each of the members without their makeup, with no success -- Paul blocks his face with his hand; Ace gets Peter to duck back into the car; Gene wears a scarf. Finally, the photographer gets them right in the middle of the concert to take off their masks and -- guess what? -- their "unmasked" faces look the same as their "masked" faces, and the crowd goes wild while the photographer heckles them! Of course, we don't ACTUALLY get to see their faces unmasked until 1983, and by then it was just Gene and Paul -- Peter had left around the time of this album, and Ace would follow suit in 1982.
   
   As for the music of this album, it sounds like Kiss trying to do a soundtrack album for a Saturday morning live-action show in the same vein as "The Krofft Supershow" from the 1970s with their Kaptain Kool and the Kongs. Most of it is basically lightweight disco/pop rock with only a few songs that even try to rock hard like "Is That You" and "Naked City". Not that it's bad, but it just isn't the Kiss people came to love hearing. Interestingly surprising is that Peter Criss, though featured on the cover, had no input whatsoever on this album -- even all "his" drumming was done by someone else! Fortunately, this version of Kiss only lasted until the next album, which though was an attempt at a concept album (Music From "The Elder"), was a step in the right direction for them to return to their hard rock.



5. This album regularly gets slagged because KISS wasn't as popular in the United States during this era, but this album still has lots of good songs to recommend it. "Tomorrow", "She's So European", "Two Sides of the Coin", "Talk To Me", and "Easy As It Seems" are still great KISS songs.
   
   As one reviewer said earlier, the production/recording on this one is a little bit more Pop than some of the earlier and later albums by KISS. But I, personally, didn't find that detrimental. And I'd say that I actually prefer this album over later ones like: "Lick It Up", and "Animalize" that, to me, have a murky/muddy big Rock production/recording sound.
   
   This could be the one KISS album that fans of sort of Hard-Pop bands like: Cheap Trick, The Knack, 3rd Eye-Blind, and The Fountains of Wayne might enjoy.

5 comments about Loaded for Bear: The Best of Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes.

1. This is about what I expected. It can't replace the 2 albums I used to own, but it had the songs I wanted to hear most. The band I was in back in high school(37-38 yrs. ago)used to play "Good Natured Emma" and "Migration" so I'm particularly happy to have those again. I really wasn't interested in and don't really care for the stuff from the first album, but that doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the rest of the CD. Not bad for a compilation.



2. Let me first state my bias: "Journey to the Center of the Mind" is the song that convinced me I needed to become a guitarist, so it's the most important song in my own personal history...a genuinely life-changing thing, so it should come as no surprise that the Amboy Dukes were my favorite band in that time period. The music on this CD is all drawn from the three albums (and one single) released on the Mainstream Records label (when the band was still known only as The Amboy Dukes, without Ted Nugent's name being featured) and purports to be the best of that time period. For my money, the stuff from the first album is interesting from an historical perspective but is definitely the weakest material presented here (tracks 2-6). Tracks 1 and 7-12 come from their second album ("Journey...") featuring a stronger line-up of musicians and a lot of their best stuff (one glaring omission from this album is the song "Surrender to Your Kings": one of the RIPPING-EST Dukes tunes ever, it SHOULD have been included). Track 13 ("You Talk Sunshine...") was their attempt at a follow-up to their hit "Journey...". It's a decent song in-and-of-itself, and I'm glad it's included here, but if you listen to "Journey..." and then listen to "You Talk Sunshine...", it's almost hilarious to hear how these guys practically broke their own necks trying to re-create "Journey..." and score another hit. I've never heard a more blatant example of self-plagiarization. Tracks 14-18 come from the "Migration" album, and the compilers managed to get all the best stuff from this album. HOWEVER (and this is my biggest bitch with this collection), someone decided to re-edit the great "Prodigal Man" to disastrous effect. In the original recording, the solo section starts off with a beatiful drum solo by Dave Palmer; bassist Greg Arama then joins him and takes a bass solo that 99% of all rock bassists would never have been able to accomplish; those two are then joined by Andy Solomon playing some of his exquisite Jimmy Smith-inspired jazz organ stuff; and finally Ted Nugent comes in with one of his most blistering guitar solos ever. This section has a very organic flow to it that just builds and builds and is one of the Amboy Dukes finest moments. So some MORON comes along and shuffles the solos around and completely destroys the flow! This might not be so noticeable to someone who's never heard the song before, but to someone familiar with the original, it's absolutely JARRING.
   
   In closing, I think it's important to note that, although Ted Nugent is featured prominently in these recordings (and rightly so: he WAS a brilliant and unique guitarist and the evidence here is ample), the Amboy Dukes were a great BAND, and Ted WASN'T the only virtuoso therein. If you're a fan of the arena-rock Nuge of the late 70's, you might not be too interested in this music, but if you want to hear a great and largely-overlooked progressive rock band from the late 60's, this collection is well-worth checking out.



3. Ted Nugent and Steve Farmer had to be one of the strangest combos in rock history, and it still amazes me how well they sounded together. Nugent's early guitar work was distinctive, fluid and original, more refined than much of his later stuff. Farmer's songwriting antics were just as original, although his attempts at psychedelic "deepness" were sometimes hilarious. (And he hasn't changed much, check out his "Journey to the Darkside...")
   
   Nugent claims he didn't know the songs were about drugs... does anyone believe that for a minute?
   
   This disc is missing some notable songs, including "Surrender To Your Kings" and "Inside the Outside". Also, for no good reason, this version of "Prodigal Man" has been remixed, with instrumental passages out of their original order. Who would do such a thing?
   
   But this music is definitely worth hearing... the Amboy Dukes showed WAY more imagination and talent than your average 60's American garage band.



4. This is a very good compilation of the original Amboy Dukes! The sound quality is excellent and nice packaging as well with the Mainstream logo present on this Sony release. Most of the tunes on their 67' debut and their 68' release "Journey To The Center Of The Mind" are awesome garage/psych rock and are included here on Loaded For Bear. Songs NOT included that I would loved to have had on this CD are: "I Feel Free" and "Missionary Mary". I mainly bought this because it contains "Colors" and "Why Is A Carrot More Orange Than An Orange?" which are omitted on other Dukes' compilations for some reason. Two examples of fine ACID ROCK. Ted Nugent's guitar playing during the Dukes' era is among the best of any guitar player in the country. His conviction and execution is almost flawless and the flaws lend very well too. Check out their 3rd album Migration (CD on Repertoire), Nugent is fantastic. I love the Amboy Dukes' first 4 LP's on Mainstream, but sadly, Mainstream producer Bob Shad did very little to promote the groups on the label. He eventually dropped every group from the label, even sold away Janis and Big Brother to Columbia in 68' for a hefty sum. Consequently, most of the rock groups that released a full length album on the label commands high prices and are sought after collector's items! Mainstream signed some other great psychedelic bands, most notable: Big Brother and The Holding Co., The Tangerine Zoo, The Jellybean Bandits (See my Amazon review of this classic), The Art Of Lovin' and The Stone Circus. My favorite Amboy Dukes' tune without a doubt is D.O.P.E. This music was made to be played LOUD!



5. Great Heavy Metal music on this compilation from Ted Nugent's self-contained band, the Amboy Dukes. "Journey Through the Center of the Mind" is one of the best songs ever made and "Baby Please Don't Go" is a great cover also done by the band Them with Van Morrison. The rest of the CD has great music that is and was ahead of its time before the existence of Led Zeppelin and the rest of Heavy Metal. Great music from a great musician, Ted Nugent, because it is worth the price of admission.

1 comments about Back in Black.

1. It's the best AC/DC has to offer, which is ironic because there's no Bon Scott on it - he choked on his vomit and died before these sessions. And the B.S. stuff is usually better than the B.J. stuff. Hey, "B.S."? "B.J."? Yeah, I'm mature... anyway, this is about as good as hard rock can ever get. It rocks 'em good `n' hard! Hits? Radio staples? Oh, I don't know, how about the entire album? You're guaranteed to have heard at least the superlative strut of the title track (with its amazing riff and mind-blowing solo) and my favorite AC/DC song ever, the catchy, so-stupid-it's-brilliant, high-octane rocker "You Shook Me All Night Long" if you've been outside your own bed. You might also know the hilarious, mock-scary (oh, I'm sorry, you were serious when you wrote the line "Satan's coming to you!"? That reminds me of that scene in Spaceballs when Lone Starr, Pizza the Hutt, and Vinnie are talking and Vinnie threatens Lone Starr with "Or else Pizza's gonna call out for you!" Then he starts eating Pizza and says, "You're delicious, boss!" And if you've never seen that movie, that exchange probably will mean nothing to you. So see Spaceballs! It's funny!), still awesome "Hells Bells," with yet another fantastic riff and an ominous tolling church bell intro. Of course, the evangelicals got all in a huff about it. Can't they tell the song is not meant to be taken seriously at all? And you probably also know "Shoot to Thrill," another fantastic song, where Angus channels this awesome guitar tone and the band brims with all kinds of energy. You also may know the over-the-top misogyny of "What Do You Do for Money Honey" (great chorus!), and the slow, creeping "Rock `n' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution". These songs, along with the alcoholic hilarity of "Have a Drink on Me" ("don't worry about the bill, we'll have hell to pay!") make up the best of the record, but even when it's lesser, it's good! Check out the wonderful bursts of horny schoolboy enthusiasm "Shake a Leg" and "Given the Dog a Bone". Or the not-so-subtle pseudo-ballad "Let My Put My Love into You," where the group actually uses very little distortion! It's a bit of variety, at least. And it's good! You pretty much can't lose with this album, now that I think about it. This is the standard I judge all hard rock by, and it's definitely AC/DC's peak.

5 comments about Deep Purple - They All Came Down To Montreux: Live At Montreux 2006 (2DVD).

1. The 1st show & 2nd second both Smoke but the keys at the London Hard Rock are very very low in the mix.
   Low enough to annoy this listner...who ever was on the mixing board messed up a quality show.
   We should'nt have to strain our ears to here those keys !
   The keys in Purple are necessary & needed.
   
   still 5 stars though



2. One of the greatest band of all time. Gillan is not the same, but still Rocks. A little short but good.



3. Awesome live show. The video is sharp, the editing is perfect, the sound is clear and loud, and the band look and are playing great. Nice to see the band still keeping on, and they've really trimmed alot of the excess noodling and extended solos from earlier incarnations to now just rocking and jamming away. 5 stars



4. Live At Montreux 2006 is really one of my favouritest shows not only from deep purple. The band of 60 years musicians delivers such a great sound, such a heavy sound that many other modern band can't.
   
   I guess that Deep Purple is the King Of Live Performances!



5. I have been a Deep Purple fan for over 25 years and own many records, cds and dvds of them in concert. This particular dvd is one of their best period. Whenever Deep Purple plays at Montreux, it is bound to be a special event, and this show lives up to any expectation anyone could have. The band is tight w/ all their arrengments yet loose enough that they can improvise on some of their most known and popular songs and maintain the essence of what Deep Purple has always been. Steve Morse's guitar playing is immpecable, presice and fluid. Don Airey had some big shoes to fill w/ the departure of Jon Lord, but he shows on this dvd that he is on par w/ any keybord player in the history of rock music (as well as classical and jazz). Ian Gillan's legendary voice still rocks like it did when he first sang about the Montreux Jazz Festival back in '71. Ian Pace and Roger Glover show us why they still are one of the best drum and bass combos ever. In short, if you are a Deep Purple fan you will like this dvd. After all, can the 40th Anniversay of the Montreux Jass Festival get any better then Deep Purple headlining it?