by talkfromtherockroom | Mar 9, 2021 | Reviews
A compilation album that influenced an entire generation of players and a record that is entrenched as a blues classic and one of the finest recordings ever made. Released in August of 1967, and spinning in the ‘rock room’ today is the stereo version of Albert King’s...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 10, 2017 | Now Playing, Reviews
Now playing in the ‘rock room’ is a historic slice of celluloid featuring the revolving guitar line up of the amazing ‘Yardbirds’. This particular footage finds the group in the midst of their Summer 1966 European tour. The band at this point was...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 23, 2016 | Reviews, Tools of the Trade
One of the psychedelic rock era’s most important pioneers, Robby Krieger, founding member and guitarist of the Doors did most of his sonic damage using one particular make and model of guitar. While the ‘rock room’s’ Tools of the Trade feature...
by talkfromtherockroom | Feb 11, 2015 | Reviews, Tools of the Trade
The forerunner and master of the definitive rock riff. Dave Davies, famed guitarist of the Kinks and disseminator of iconic guitar lines that graced legendary songs like ‘You Really Got Me’, ‘All Day and All of the Night’ and ‘Til the End of the Day’, was also a...
by talkfromtherockroom | Feb 1, 2014 | Reviews
With the abundance of new music being released the last few months, my new copy of Hendrix Miami Pop Festival 1968 has been waiting patiently for a concentrated listening session. As has been previously discussed here in the rock room its a strange...
