VaTAga / Classic Rock In My Life

  Spectrum / Indelible Murtceps "Testimonial" (1973)    Spectrum were an Australian progressive rock band of the 1970s. They played in large concert halls and at rock festivals. In the early 1970s, pub rock became popular on the Australian rock scene. Because of this, the band moved to simple dance music, and the group was renamed Indelible Murtceps ("murtceps" is "spectrum" if you read it backwards). But in fact, there was a mix-up and there were two lineups: the "Murtceps" lineup with straightforward boogie numbers, but with keyboards, and the "Spectrum" lineup with heavy mid-tempo numbers, but also with keyboards and synthesizers.    The subsequent album "Testimonial" was not very successful and the group was on the verge of breaking up after Ray Arnott left it. On April 15, 1973, Spectrum played a farewell concert and broke up. The live album "Terminal Buzz" was released after the band's dissolution.    In th...

  Ghost Of The Machine "Empires Must Fall" (2025)    A melodic progressive rock band from Yorkshire, UK. 'Empires Must Fall', the eagerly awaited follow-up to the award winning 'Scissorgames' releases on 7 March 2025 and is sure to delight prog rock fans with its dark, dense arrangements and melodic hooks. The band began when 5 former members of This Winter Machine joined forces with vocalist Charlie Bramald.

  Were These The Tragic Final Words Of Ronnie Van Zant?    The evening after Ronnie Van Zant and the rest of Lynyrd Skynyrd performed at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina, they boarded their private plane to head to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They were touring in support of their newest album, "Street Survivors," and they were in high spirits. But all was not right on October 20, 1977. Guitarist Allen Collins had a bad feeling about the twin-engine Convair 240. Two days earlier he'd seen a huge plume of fire shoot from the right engine while they were midair. He didn't want to board the plane that night. Neither did the band's backup singer, Cassie Gaines. Read More

  The Running Man / Mouse: Find Yourself – "The Complete Recordings" 1972-1973, 2CD Лейбл "Strawberry" решил под одной обложкой издать два замечательных альбома: дебютный альбом (без названия) группы The Running Man 1972 г. и альбом группы Mouse "Lady Killer" 1973 г. Оба альбома относятся к числу тех, чему я выделил места в своей коллекции.    Объединить оба релиза помог тот факт, что и в том, и в другом случае участвуют гитарист и автор песен Ray Russell, вокалист и клавишник Alan Greed (aka Al Clare) и ударник Alan Rushton (все бывшие участники коллектива Rock Workshop).   Мне известно, что Рэй Рассел заменил парня по имени Vic Flick в The John Barry Seven, гастролировал с Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, руководил собственной джазовой группой The Ray Russell Quartet, а затем привнёс импровизацию в стиле джаза в рок-музыку с помощью восхитительных Rock Workshop, которые стали первопроходцами в захватывающем и инновационном жанре джаз/фанк/рок-фьюжн. П...

  Find Yourself "Friendship" EP Find Yourself - прогрессивная поп-группа из Плейсервилля (штат Калирфорния, США). Квартет исплняет энергичную музыку в сочетании с приятными звуковыми ландшафтами и техническими приёмами.