by talkfromtherockroom | Aug 17, 2021 | Now Showing, Reviews
Some special rock footage guaranteed to blow your mind has recently come into circulation and for the time being is available for review online. In 1974 Ravi Shankar and George Harrison undertook a 45 show concert tour across the US running concurrent with...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 1, 2021 | Reviews, Take One
One Valentine’s Day 1974, English folk legend and musical oddity Roy Harper officially released his seventh LP, the aptly titled Valentine. Supremely talented and stunningly lyrical, but equally underrepresented in the UK and virtually unknown in the US. On his...
by talkfromtherockroom | Oct 1, 2020 | Reviews
On August 29th, 2020 the first of this year’s Record Store Day drops was made, including a few exciting David Bowie audio releases. The subject of today’s ‘Talk from the Rock Room’ rant is the CD/LP release ChangesNowBowie, which documents an acoustic based nine song...
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 | Mar 5, 2017 | Reviews
Spinning in the navy of the early evening tonight in the ‘rock room’, is one of the finest and most famous of the revealing ‘singer songwriter’ records to emerge from the 1970’s. Joni Mitchell’s Blue illustrates through its honest human expression...
