March 2012 Blog Posts (9)

First in a row of EP's, of varied thematical content, "Arc of a Romance", already promoted months ago, with it's first song,  "I Only Have Eyes For You", which was written some 78 years ago by Harry Warren & Al Dubin and got covered by a numerous artists (Marilyn Scott and Timothy B. Schmit did it too), but was most popular in Flamingos performance, offers 3 more, as he described it himself as "re-imagining of songs that were influential to me"!

"For The Love Of You" comes second,…

Rhino France has done it again, first LaBounty and now Michael Franks retrospective, 73 songs on 5 CDs, 4 thematical entities and one "elegedly rare" live recording with Australian band Crossfire - this one coming in LP replica sleeve, 16 pages booklet with foreword and track by track liner notes by  Michael Franks and photos.

Supervised by Michael Franks, covering all of his works and more... unreleased songs/takes, guesting performances and duets only released in Japan before, other…

Next Of Kin is an English rock band consisting of the three brothers Nate Bass (vocals, drums), Mark Bass (vocals, guitar) and Kieran Bass (bass) who will soon release their self titled debut album. On the CD there are a variety of talented musicians such as Michael Landau (guitar), Leland Sklar (bass) and John JR…

D Drive is gearing up for a for some upcoming spring and summer shows the first one announced for 2012 is going to be held at the Pelican Nest In Rochester, NY other shows to be announced as dates are confirmed. In the works are 2 new album releases the first is a 15 track anthology tentatively titled “RECONSTRUCT”, to be released as a…

Long time out of print and much sought after, the abums got finally remastered from analog tapes and with CD technology nowdays available, promising much better sound than originally...so whether you have the originals or not, these are a must for you!!!

Available from Pop Plus One as  special offer, both for 20$ + shipping.. http://www.popplusone.com/gilbert.html…

Vad vore David Foster utan Jeremy Lubbock ?

Någon som vet hur man kan få tag på hans CD - Awakening.

Det värker i hela kroppen över att den inte går att hitta - Hjälp !

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Only available on CD in Japan before, soulmusic.com records releasing it on our continent now and if you fell short of it then, it's within reach now...if you still have your doubts, because you're not familiar with this one, let me say that the title says it all..with David Foster, Bobby Colomby and Benjamin Wright, each one producing, arranging and playing his part of the album together with his own musicians and orchestra.

Foster has Champlin, Lukather, Graydon and Ed Greene-just…

Ronnie Montrose. R.I.P.
Ronnie Montrose, Guitarist extrodinaire passed away yesterday. (Saturday March 3, 2012). He is who many of us guitarist's idolized in the 70's and 80's.. He was a monster with the AX!!. My all of our Westcoast Fans Condolences go out to Ron and  his extended Family.

I know it's early in 2012 but my pick for album of the year has to be Sonic Station.

From it's Intro to the last song, It's an amazing piece of work done by an amazing musician.

Alexander Kronbrink is truly a star and a helluva Guitar Player, Producer, Writer, etc.

It's gonna take one strong effort from another Westcoast AOR Group to top this piece.

But don't just take my word for it.. Run out and Buy it.. You will not be…