Revolver Music

Hey well i have 2 bootlegs here and i believe they are both from the ride the lightning tour. Well well who could this band be? huh probably one of the most criticized bands of the last 2 decades. Well I’m giving you the highly respected Metallica bootleg here, and yes they aren’t wearing make-up or have their haircut. Enjoy these classics of the band in their younger days, it ended to soon. All though Metallicops would of never existed if Metallica didn’t take that different path.

England 1984:

1. Fight Fire with Fire

2. Ride the Lightning

3. The Four Horsemen

4. Bass Solo

5. For Whom the Bell Tolls

6. No Remorse

7. The Call of Ktulu

8. Seek & Destroy

9. Whiplash

10. Creeping Death

11. Metal Militia

Donnington 1985:

1. Creeping Death

2. Ride the Lightning

3. For Whom the Bell Tolls

4.  The Four Horsemen

5. Fade To Black

6. Seek & Destroy

7. Whiplash

8. Motorbreath

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England 1984

Donnington 1985

They never received the same airplay that Lynyrd Skynyrd and Marshall Tucker enjoyed. This was truly a shame as this is quite simply the some of the best music of the genre. The vocal harmonies comparison to the Eagles is inevitable but this too, is not a logical comparison. The music is just too different to compare.

From the opening licks on There Goes Another Love Song until the last chords of Green Grass and High Tides, the beat is non-stop and the guitar playing is quite simply, and there’s no other way to put it, AWESOME. Hughie Thomasson, Billy Jones (RIP), and Henry Paul have a way of making you pull out your air guitar and jamming along side them, or wishing you actually knew how to play. The softer sounds of It Follows From Your Heart and Song in the Breeze compliment the harder edge signature songs and no one is immune from toe tapping to Waterhole and Knoxville Girl.

1. There Goes Another Love Song

2. Song For You

3. Song In The Breeze

4. It Follows From Your Heart

5. Cry No More

6. Waterhole

7. Stay With Me

8. Keep Prayin’

9. Knoxville Girl

10. Green Grass & High Tides

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The Outlaws

Here’s another thrash metal band from the San Fransisco Bay Area, these young thrashers really know how to play and this album has a similiar sound to Metallica’s “Ride the Lightning.” This is a classic thrash metal release and this was a young band not to mention; the youngest memeber at 14 and the oldest at 19 and these young kids have alot of talent, with killer guitars that shred through all the songs like a hot knife through butter, excellent booming bass playing by Dennis Pepa, and hardcore drumming by Andy Galeon, who was only 14 when this album was produced, and the screamer, head man, vocalist Mark Osegueda.

Track Listing:

1. Thrashers

2. Evil Priest

3. Voracious Souls

4. Kill As One

5. The Ultra-Violence

6. Mistress Of Pain

7. Final Death

8. L.P.F.S.

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The style on this CD is British influenced, hard rock/progressive music. It is a lot like early Deep Purple (first three albums) or early Uriah Heep. It reminds me most of Armageddon (Kieth Relf’s band after the Yardbirds and Renaissance). If you really like this album, you should definetly check out Armageddon’s one and only CD.

Midnight Lover, with its keyboard and guitar solos sounds like it was pulled right out any one of a hundred British progressive rock albums.

This CD even includes an obligatory Beatles song. Almost all early British progressive bands (Yes, Deep Purple, etc.) included a Beatles song on their first or second album. It must have been a law in Britain.

This isn’t the softer, art-rock kind of later type of progressive music of Yes or Emerson, Lake and Palmer. This is the early style of progressive rock (like Deep Purple before Ian Gillan joined) that is harder. In concert, Journey played much harder and noiser than this album. When I first saw them, I couldn’t believe it was them (I thought it was another group).

As you probably know, Journey was a spin off from Santana. Neal Schon was a teenage guitarist that Santana stole away from Eric Clapton, who appeared on the third and fourth Santana albums. He was joined shortly by Greg Rolle the singer and keyboardist on the first 3 Santana albums. The original drummer, Praire Prince (who now plays with Jefferson Starship) was replaced by Ansley Dunbar (a British drummer who played with Frank Zappa and a number of progressive bands in UK).

Greg Rolle’s unique voice and keyboards gave both Santana and Journey a rich atmosphere to the music. I feel that Steve Perry’s high pitched, screeching, corporate rock vocals ruined the band. But, obviously, my tastes in music isn’t what reaches the masses or sells albums. (Customer Review)

1. On A Saturday Nite

2. It’s All Too Much

3. Anyway

4. She Makes Me (Feel Alright)

5. You’re On Your Own

6. Look Into The Future

7. Midnight Dreamer

8. I’m Gonna Leave You

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Journey - “Look Into The Future”

With 2003’s Impossible Figures, Magellan remain one of the most died-in-the-wool and compelling prog rock bands. Given their embrace of technology — endless layers of keyboards and drum machines — and their insistence of the “rock” side of prog with big churning guitars and fat, muddy basslines, they are an anomaly. While they are a truly original act, their roots lie somewhere between Volume IV-period Black Sabbath, King Crimson’s Larks’ Tongues in Aspic and Starless and Bible Black, and Genesis’ Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. There is so much bombast in their music — including the tympani sound from 2001: A Space Odyssey — that helps to introduce the album’s opener, “Gorilla With Pitchfork.” But never has a band put this kind of symphonic rock excess to such fine use. When “Killer of Hope” commences with its distorted vocals and blazing power chords caught in riff battle with a wall of keyboards, all bets are off. There isn’t anything previous about Magellan’s use of volume and overdrive. Lyrically, their themes are of the classic human condition and the irony of living in the 21st century. There are spiritual battles, emotional conflicts, sexual ambiguities, levels of battle with darkness, and more, all of it dealt with expertly and passionately. And that is the other difference between Magellan and their contemporaries: there is no academic distance between their compositions and their performance of them. Irony is black and biting, romance is lush and sincere, and struggle is paramount — it is not detached. There is true high conceptualism on Impossible Figures, but that is for the listener to discover, because to write about it here would only be pretentious. This is an amazing record, and one that will challenge and delight anyone who encounters it with an open mind. (All Music Guide)

1. Gorilla With A Pitchfork

2. Killer Of Hope

3. Bach 16

4. Late For Church

5. Confessor’s Overture

6. Hymn For A Heathen

7. A World Groove

8. Counterpoints

9. Feel The Cross

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Magellan - “Impossible Figures”

Somewhere between heavy metal and psychedelica, with a bit of J. Geils-style blues thrown in, Trapeze rocked its way into obscurity in the early 70’s. Its members went on to fame with other groups but their own albums continue to be ignored. There’s a nice balance of riff-rockers (”Black Cloud”, “Your Love Is Alright”) and moody, scorching ballads (”Jury”, “Seafull”, “Medusa”). The lyrics are unusually thoughtful for hard rock but the group mostly manages to avoid pretension, letting you just sit back and groove to the music. If you like Alice Cooper, Free, or Blue Oyster Cult, consider this one for your collection. (Unknown Source)

1.  Black Cloud
2.  Jury
3.  Your Love Is Alright
4.  Touch My Life
5.  Seafull
6.  Makes You Wanna Cry
7.  Medusa

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Trapeze - “Medusa”

His playing has developed considerably more soul and style over the years. The stand out track on this album has to be “If I Could Fly, it is chilling. We all love the chunky funk riffs, of which there are a few here. I just love hearing great guitar leads, and there are more than enough on this CD to make it a nice addition to the collection.

Tracklist

1. Gnaahh

2. Up In Flames

3. Hands In The Air

4. Lifestyle

5. Is There Love In Space?

6. If I Could Fly

7. The Souls Of Distortion

8. Just Look Up

9. I Like The Rain

10. Searching

11. Bamboo

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Joe Satriani - Is There Love In Space?

UFO had soul (something that separates “hard rock” from “metal”, in my opinion), and with the songwriting of Phil Mogg and Pete Way, you got a variety of themes and emotions expressed through the songs. Mogg does not have the most dynamic vocal abilities, but what he does, he does very well. The faster, rocking tunes have just the right edge to them, and his ballads have a haunting, hypnotic quality to them. “Crystal Light” is one example, that always felt like a rock and roll sea shanty, to me. He also does a great job on the cover of the old blues tune, “Built for Comfort”. One thing I absolutely agree with is that they were far underrated and should have gotten far more notoriety. So if you want “in” on the secret, give it a listen!

Track List :
01. Oh My
02. Crystal Light
03. Doctor Doctor
04. Space Child
05. Rock Bottom
06. Too Young To Know
07. Time On My Hands
08. Built For Comfort
09. Lipstick Traces
10. Queen Of The Deep

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UFO - Phenomenon

Petra is a rock group that has obtained a wide, dedicated fan base because their sound never sounded out dated. They always kept the music fresh by staying with the times. This collection is roughly songs from the first three albums (Petra, Come And Join Us, Washes Whiter Than-Never Say Die) and songs from the albums No Doubt and Jekyll & Hyde. Tracks like “Gonna Fly Away” show guitarists Bob Hartman and Greg Hough’s ability to incorporate sounds similar to the California country-rock of The Eagles. Than their are tracks like “Jekyll & Hyde” which hit’s you with the opening riff and grabs you and doesn’t let go. Petra’s career stretched from 1972 to 2005 and it was 33 years enjoyed.

Tracks:

Ask Him In

Chameleon

Come And Join Us

Get Back To The Bible

God Gave Rock And Roll To You

Gonna Fly Away

I’m Not Ashamed

Jekyll & Hyde

Life As We Know It

Lucas McGraw

Magic Mirror

Mountains And Valleys

Perfect World

Right Place

Storm Comin’

The Coloring Song

Think On These Things

Two Are Better Than One

Wake Up

Walkin’ In The Light

Where Can I Go

Without You I Would Surely Die

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Petra - “Collection”

Every song is a highlight with great, memorable lyrics: the Freedom Song (inspiring), Ballad of the Hard Man (”I’ve been beat up, cut-up, told ’sit down’ and ’shut up’ … but I’m a hardman”, “They’ve got a scheme to sell your dreams to silver screens and glossy magazines” - got to love it!), For those who love to live (”you gotta take a little bit of hate from those who love to live. Take that hate…”). For me, this is better than the other Lizzy albums, including the highly acclaimed Jailbreak album. Awesome harmony guitar work and wah-colored leads from Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham decorating Phil Lynotts unique and wonderful lyrics — Thin Lizzy at their very best. Not forgetting the Brian Downey’s distinctive and inventive use of unusual rhythm changes and Phil’s pushed melodies and “lazy” vocals.

1. “Rosalie”
2. “For Those Who Love to Live”
3. “Suicide”
4. “Wild One”
5. “Fighting My Way Back”
6. “King’s Vengeance”
7. “Spirit Slips Away”
8. “Silver Dollar”
9. “Freedom Song”
10. “Ballad of a Hard Man”

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Thin Lizzy - “Fighting”