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Category: Hard Rock

1537 Buys A Birthday Card
Black Sabbath, Culture, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Pop, Record collecting, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

1537 Buys A Birthday Card

Now I’m not one of those obsessed types of fellas who has to buy an LP wherever he goes, no … Continue reading 1537 Buys A Birthday Card

Now Honey Please (Now Honey Please)
Culture, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl, Wildhearts

Now Honey Please (Now Honey Please)

Now honey please (now honey please) Now honey please (now honey please) Now honey please (now honey please) Now honey … Continue reading Now Honey Please (Now Honey Please)

Subliminal Drug Reference #1
Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Record collecting, Sleep, Stoner rock, Vinyl

Subliminal Drug Reference #1

Maybe I am just a suspicious dude, as John Lennon sang, but I cannot help thinking sometimes that some rockers … Continue reading Subliminal Drug Reference #1

Hey I Know What To Do, I’m Gonna …
Culture, Grunge, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Soundgarden, Vinyl

Hey I Know What To Do, I’m Gonna …

Maybe as part of my ongoing mid-life crisis I am having a full on (Kevin’s mom) grunge revival at the moment … Continue reading Hey I Know What To Do, I’m Gonna …

Dead Men Smell Toe Nails
Culture, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Motörhead, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Dead Men Smell Toe Nails

… which was how Lemmy often used to introduce the opener of Bomber at gigs, ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’.  … Continue reading Dead Men Smell Toe Nails

Taste The Band’s What?!!
Culture, Deep Purple, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Taste The Band’s What?!!

True rude story: a nameless friend of mine* had been doing a lot of driving and ‘parking’ with his girlfriend … Continue reading Taste The Band’s What?!!

No Dice Honey, I’m Livin’ On The Astral Plane
Aerosmith, Culture, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

No Dice Honey, I’m Livin’ On The Astral Plane

It’s the dawn of the day and I’m crashed and I’m smashed As it is I’m feelin’ like my chips … Continue reading No Dice Honey, I’m Livin’ On The Astral Plane

Clutch Control
Clutch, Culture, Hard Rock, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

Clutch Control

And on the drums, Gemini On bass guitar, presenting, Pisces On lead guitar, we have Aries And on the microphone, … Continue reading Clutch Control

She’s A Woman, You Know What I Mean
Culture, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl, Wolfmother

She’s A Woman, You Know What I Mean

She’s a woman You know what I mean One of my mate Ste and my favourite lyrics right there, from … Continue reading She’s A Woman, You Know What I Mean

Absinthe Antelopes
Culture, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Stoner rock, Vinyl

Absinthe Antelopes

I genuinely have no idea why I bought Holy Mountain Ancient Astronauts, I’m guessing it must have been recommended to … Continue reading Absinthe Antelopes

Brunette Blondie
80's, AOR, Culture, Music, Pat Benatar, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

Brunette Blondie

You really do know how to strut that stuff You really do know how to act tough Your body’s just … Continue reading Brunette Blondie

Mutant Sinatra Syndrome
80's, Culture, Hard Rock, Iggy Pop, Music, Punk, Record collecting, Vinyl

Mutant Sinatra Syndrome

I’m a product of America From the morgue to the prisons Cold metal, when I start my band Cold metal, … Continue reading Mutant Sinatra Syndrome

The Global Pants 11
Culture, Hard Rock, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

The Global Pants 11

January eh? apart from my birthday at the end of it, what a pants month. In fact, given the events … Continue reading The Global Pants 11

Hammy Horror
Bloody Hammers, Culture, Goth, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Hammy Horror

As the UK’s second-best writer once wrote in Sonnet 43: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. … Continue reading Hammy Horror

The Basement Traipse
Culture, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

The Basement Traipse

Gorgon-solar, anyone? here is the self-proclaimed ‘cosmic rock’ of Medusa: 150 gram vinyl slab of infinite blackness? Psychedelic sorcerer mind … Continue reading The Basement Traipse

The Goat In The Machine
Brit rock, Culture, Goat, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

The Goat In The Machine

Goat Live If You want It Udder The Bridge If You Want Blood, You Goat It Goat To Get You … Continue reading The Goat In The Machine

Ballfire
Culture, Deep Purple, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Ballfire

Funny what you can learn from blogging isn’t it?  I’ve learned all manner of things about architecture, Bulgarian death metal, … Continue reading Ballfire

Baldness, Beach Keyboards, Bras, Bullrushes
80's, Culture, Dan Reed Network, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

Baldness, Beach Keyboards, Bras, Bullrushes

Wow.  I have just seen the light.  I was a boy 5 minutes ago, now I’m a man.  ‘Make It … Continue reading Baldness, Beach Keyboards, Bras, Bullrushes

M.I.L.F
Culture, Hard Rock, Mother's Finest, Music, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

M.I.L.F

… Mothers I’d Like to Funk, obviously – I’m not one of those crude chaps from one of those new … Continue reading M.I.L.F

Red Fang – Shadows
Culture, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Red Fang

Red Fang – Shadows

There I was trying to write a wonderfully crafted, finely nuanced review of something or other on a Friday night … Continue reading Red Fang – Shadows

Extended Howling Mix
Cult, Culture, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

Extended Howling Mix

Picture a scruffy skinny long-haired student walking home from university – big white Hi-Tec baseball boots, religion-revealing ripped jeans and a … Continue reading Extended Howling Mix

Holiday Like It’s 1990
Culture, Hard Rock, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Rock, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

Holiday Like It’s 1990

Tired? Listless? Lost your savoir faire and your sang-froid and your soupe de jour? Feel like it’s all a bit … Continue reading Holiday Like It’s 1990

A Side Order Of Slide, Lorraine
Brit rock, Culture, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Rock, Temperance Movement, Vinyl

A Side Order Of Slide, Lorraine

I’m a bit conflicted.  I’ve been just served a meal.  It has been cooked really well.  It has some of … Continue reading A Side Order Of Slide, Lorraine

Swearing Just To Swear:  An Interview With Jed Maheu From Zig-Zags
Culture, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Interview, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl, Zig-Zags

Swearing Just To Swear: An Interview With Jed Maheu From Zig-Zags

I really have a new favourite band, Zig-Zags, their Running Out Of Red LP saved a day for me when … Continue reading Swearing Just To Swear: An Interview With Jed Maheu From Zig-Zags

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na!
Culture, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Rock, Thunder, Vinyl

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na!

On 28 February 1990 I came back from an open day at Leeds University with a vague idea I quite … Continue reading Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na!

Okay, The Allman Brothers Band
Allman Brothers Band, Culture, Music, Record collecting, Southern Rock, Vinyl

Okay, The Allman Brothers Band

My absolute favourite thing about Allman Brothers At Fillmore East album is the introduction by the MC, Michael Ahern, he … Continue reading Okay, The Allman Brothers Band

Maaaaaannnnn!
Culture, Hard Rock, Harsh Toke, Music, Record collecting, Stoner rock, Vinyl

Maaaaaannnnn!

Harsh Toke Light Up And Live; am I alone in thinking there may be some kind of subliminal stoner-weed-endorsement thing going … Continue reading Maaaaaannnnn!

Dead Man Rawking
Culture, Hard Rock, Josefus, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Dead Man Rawking

It’s old, it’s rock and there’s a skull on the cover – that’s pretty much all the careful reasoning I put … Continue reading Dead Man Rawking

Uncle Sam: Heaven or Hollywood (Reissue)
Hard Rock, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam: Heaven or Hollywood (Reissue)

So, where to start?  Okay, meet my new friend, the gorgeously packaged 2015 reissue of Uncle Sam Heaven Or Hollywood CD. … Continue reading Uncle Sam: Heaven or Hollywood (Reissue)

All That Festers, Is Not Mould
Culture, Doom, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Kadavar, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

All That Festers, Is Not Mould

Welcome to 1971 folks! Look at the dudes on the cover.  With their far-out lady fabrics and their strung-out 1000 … Continue reading All That Festers, Is Not Mould

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