Death May Be Your Santa Claus is the second album by British underground group Second Hand. Released in 1971, parts of their music had also been used for the controversial 1969 film of the same name. The fact that Mott The Hoople had a track by the same name on their 1971 album Brain Capers […]
The most polarizing Stones album of all, despite its melodic, fun-filled Psychedelia. It’s mostly criticised for jumping on the Psychedelic bandwagon and ripping off the Beatles after Sgt. Pepper. I guess you’re never allowed to rip off your contemporaries but you are allowed to rip off your heroes as both The Stones and The Beatles […]
The last post on his website was six years ago, his music reaches from dense complex grooves, raw innovation to eccentricity. I love an intellectual with a self deprecating sense of humour, Czukay’s and his former band CAN’s massive influence on me and the world is hard to gauge. Here he is in 1979 riding […]
Oh no not The Scorpions! Well, like so many bands that changed for the worse, once there was a vein of magic that ran through them even if it was simply in the guitar tones and the mood of the Rock music they made. There was some kind of dark sticky fluid that mixed with […]
Whether you actually need to have read Aldous Huxley and agree with the outcome of this record might depend on how seriously you take a concept album – after all, it is an impression not the actual work that inspired it. And really, if the album had been called Impressions On Reading George Orwell would anyone […]
A month in Germany that has taken us to Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, Cologne, Loreley, to Meschede on Saturday to play and to Breitenbach am Herzberg on Sunday to see Patti Smith. We have been staying mostly in the Rheinland in a secret 1022 year old village where all the great German bands keep their guitars, […]