Rain’s Radio Silence
came recommended today. Giving it a first listen.
What did you think of it? There’s some great guitar and other bits that are good but as a whole it didn’t completely grab me even after several spins. Again, at work listening where I can’t be as crucial as a listener. But it was good enough I might give a home spin later.
I’m on this page going down the list of albums and besides the We Came From Space - none have really thrilled me, but I just started Rick Miller’s Altered States and the first track is awesome!
Its cool but not my favorite. Good list. I’ll check them out. THANKS
Has its ups and downs. It’s like a cross between Riverside and Steven Wilson with some guitar solos like Airbag
I’ll give it a spin over the weekend - I sampled album after album on the aforementioned list barely getting beyond the 3rd track - most were quite awful so today is hair metal day - need me some Whitesnake, Steelheart, Cinderella, Extreme, Great White, Yngwie, Lynch Mob, Van Halen, Winger, Giuffria, Ozzy & Tesla to get my happy joy musical goin again… 
Yes I’m an aging hair band glam metal fan.
Really you ask? An aging fossil who likes hair bands?? I’ll TELLS ya why…
Why do I like hair metal glam rock? Remember that summer or that one party you went to many years ago where there were scads of sexily dressed hot gals, cold beer, hot beaches, cool water, great music, live bands, big solos, real drums, songs about chicks, cars, parties and fun, short skirts, tight jeans, big hair, you flirted a bit, maybe with some success and the fun just never seemed to ebb? That’s what it was like for two decades straight as a hard rock fan DJ during the 80s & 90s. Then along came the Kurt Kobain era, with its whiny lyrics & vocals, infant-like exaggerated guitar strumming, unchanging tempo, over-beaten drumming and three note solos (if any solos at all). And with it, came the end of the care free fun party life and the birth of the social over-scrutinizing uber-aware gloom generation. Grunge. Aptly named. Technical musicianship gave way to ‘just pick it up & bang away on it’, dressing up gave way to frumpy, blazing scale based solos gave way to angry single chord wanking, fun friendly flirting gave way to disgusted sneering if you eyeballed someone , asking someone to dance gave way to hopping about the floor alone in the crowd with eyes closed and arms flailing banging into everybody else, hours spent on hair gave way to unwashed unkempt mats, the sunshine of LA rooted upbeat happy glam rock gave way to the dreary Seattle dark depression angry pissing & moaning, singing gave way to screaming , playing instruments gave way to thrashing instruments, audiences went from smiling and engaging with the band to zombie-dancing and looking at the ground, not pretending to be anything other than fun and sexist gave way to being pretentiousness and self righteousness, take lessons, learn scales and practice practice practice gave way to “just pick up the guitar and suck”
Glam was happy, grunge was miserable – were people just tired of being happy?
So some Steelheart it is!!!
Funny thing is, never been a fan of female (lead) vocals (obvious exceptions to the rule) but yet the higher the dude’s voice - the better… 
And NOBODY beats the range of Miljenko Matijevic! (He’s also the guy who provided the vocals in the movie Rock Star)
Check out Steelheart’s I’ll Never Let You Go or She’s Gone if for nothing but the sheer neutical shriveling Celine Dion rival high notes…
Ok I lost a few of ya here - didn’t I… 
Rock on! Didn’t lose me! One of my brother’s is a drummer and I used to play rythm guitars for him. Ozzy, Sabbath, Dio, Alice Cooper. Cinderella, etc. I drove Ratt and a couple others to from airport, hotel to concert venue when I was in college.
Of the more modern ones (eventhough he has no hair left ha ha ha) Devin Townsend’s Deadhead
Ah-hah! Devin - a Vancouver boy! A rock skip away from my place.
Still My Bleeding Heart Devin/Vai is a favorite.
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I know right? I see The Strawbs and Uriah Heep also have 2023 releases too…
Aging proggers for us aging listeners 
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The Wizard has been a huge favorite of mine along with ELP’s Lucky Man
Back in the early 2000’s i was a guest at the studio. Not knowing that some of the dudes that visited the same pub I had dinner at most nights were Uriah Heep.
Cool dudes. They loved the “American that rode the VRod to dinner nightly”
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Hello, is there anybody in here…
Listening to FROST*
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The new Flower Kings sounds good! So far, very similar to prior offerings. Album comes out 9/8 but you can listen to 2 tracks on Amazon.
Planning on listening to BigBig Train’s Ingenious Devices today
Steven Wilson’s new album, The Harmony Codex, will be released on September 29th, 2023.
Below is a link to the arts released single - ‘Economies of Scale’:
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Wasn’t aware of the Supertramp Tribute album - must check it out! 
So far a bit too “pop” for my taste.
Buddy, John Wesley’s guitar version of Long Way Home rocks!
Not the original but its an interpretation worth listening too.
2nd Steven Wilson single, released today.
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