by talkfromtherockroom | Feb 21, 2019 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
Just prior to the Technicolor bloom of 1967’s ‘Summer of Love’;and 2 weeks before Monterey Pop was The Spalding Festival Barbecue 67. Featuring a line up comprised of ‘The Move’,‘Pink Floyd’, ‘Ram Jam Band’ and the headliners, Cream and the ‘Jimi Hendrix Experience’,...
by talkfromtherockroom | Oct 15, 2017 | Reviews, Take One
Originally composed as an extended hallucinatory epic and then edited down due to vinyl restrictions to fit on the ‘A’ side of a 7’ singles, The Pretty Things November 1967 single ‘Defecting Grey’ initiated the ‘Pretty’s’ move from revolutionary British R & B to...
by talkfromtherockroom | Aug 6, 2017 | Now Showing, Reviews
Flickering in the ‘rock room’ today is the 2014 video collection R-Evolution featuring the Doors, always a band delicately balanced on the cutting edge, the DVD immortalizes the band as they made forays into the media of film, while highlighting their influential...
by talkfromtherockroom | Mar 19, 2017 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
Today in the ‘rock room’ I am enjoying one of the few and rare recorded live documents of The Doors to circulate from their first year of major popularity, 1967. Early recorded performances are at a premium in the case of the Doors with the recently released...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jul 10, 2016 | Reviews
Today in the ‘rock room’ I am taking a courageous jump into the substantial 2014 Small Faces box set, Here Come the Nice. After years of sub-par compilations, best of collections and generally below-standard packaging and repackaging of their recorded...
