by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 29, 2012 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
Sitting in the dimmed “rock room”, a solitary candle burning well after midnight, a moody thirty eight year old audience recording crackles into life. The recording starts with the MC announcing the band, and a noisy crowd apprehensive for...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 21, 2012 | Rock Room Reconstruction
Today in the rock room I have reconstructed a legendary “unreleased” record by rock legends The Kinks. Fortunately, all of the tracks for this record are available on other official releases. So, this LP is not a “bootleg” so to speak, but an...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 16, 2012 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
This edition of “Put the Boot In” is inspired by an amazing and well known live recording by The Band, recorded shortly before their retirement as a group in 1976. The recording I am listening to was taken from an “off air” master FM reel. The...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 13, 2012 | Reviews
Recorded at the legendary Fillmore East on November 28 and 29th 1969, “Sweeping Up the Spotlight” captures the Jefferson Airplane at their tightest and most hallucinatory, having already approached legendary status in the rock pantheon. This archival...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 9, 2012 | Reviews, Uncategorized
Spinning in the “rock room” today is a shadowy and distorted record that was released without much fanfare in 1968. It has since become a well respected and important part of music history. Released as a follow up to 1967’s...
