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February 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Bashing Out: My Top 10 ‘Drum’ Albums

I was hooked on Modern Drummer magazine as a teen. And I always liked reading the record reviews at the back of the Modern Drummer, they focused on drums and ‘drum’ albums or at least highlighted the drums and drumming on pop and rock records when they reviewed them. They might write-up a pop album because of […]
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February 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Win A Double Pass to the Eric Clapton Documentary – Life In 12 Bars

To celebrate the New Zealand theatrical release of Life In 12 Bars the new feature-length Eric Clapton documentary Madman NZ has given me five double passes for fans. The film will be screening in New Zealand from February 15-28 at selected theatres. To be in to win it is this simple: Write a comment below […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 5 Tickets, 5x Double Passes, Alcoholic, Alcoholism, Be In To Win!, Blues, Bluesbreakers, Competition, Cream, Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and The Dominos, Doco, Documentary, Double Passes, Drugs, EC, Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton Documentary, Film, Giveaway, Guitar, Guitarist, http://www.madman.co.nz/actions/channel.do?method=view, Life In 12 Bars, Madman, Madman NZ, Movie, Recovery, Rock, Win, Win A Double Pass to the Eric Clapton Documentary, Win A Double Pass to the Eric Clapton Documentary – Life In 12 Bars, Yardbirds, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Clapton WAS God: The Last 30 Years…Turgid

In a word. Well, lifeless. Or lazy. Uninspired. Dull. Meaningless. Take your pick I guess. I was an Eric Clapton fan. Was. He was the first international big-name act I saw and it was amazing. On a good day I’m still happy with most of that first decade of work he did – I have a soft spot […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blind Faith, Blues, Bluesbreakers, Clapton Is God, Clapton WAS God, Clapton WAS God: The Last 30 Years…Turgid, Cream, EC, Eric Clapton, Forever Man, From The Cradle, God, Guitar, Old Sock, The Last 30 Years…Turgid, Unplugged, Yardbirds ·

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April 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Metal on Metal – That’s What I Crave: Ten ‘Gateway Drug’ Metal Albums In My Life

Recently I posted this – about “Ten important hip-hop albums”. I’m going to repeat the opening paragraph from that post: We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top 10 albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top 10” […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged AC/DC, Ace of Spades, Aenima, Angel Dust, Appetite For Destruction, Black Sabbath, Crack The Skye, Cream, Deep Purple, Dirty Deeds Done DIrt Cheap, Faith No More, Guns n Roses, Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden, Lateralus, Led Zeppelin, Mastodon, metal, Metal on Metal, Metal on Metal - That's What I Crave: Ten 'Gateway Drug' Metal Albums In My Life, Motorhead, Paranoid, Ride The Lightning, Ten 'Gateway Drug' Metal Albums In My Life, That's What I Crave, The Number of the Beast, The Razor's Edge, The Real Thing, Tool ·

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March 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 726

Eric Clapton, Slowhand (1977) One of very few solo albums by Eric Clapton where he actually pulls finger and gives it a go, a proper go…and yet, it has not aged well. I had this album in the late 1980s/early 1990s, when I was one of the biggest EC fans on the planet…into him for […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1977, Clapton, Cream, EC, Eric Clapton, God, Guitar, LP, Record, Slowhand, The Core, The Vinyl Countdown # 726, Vinyl ·

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June 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Eric Clapton: Forever Man

Eric Clapton Forever Man Reprise There are – of course – far too many Eric Clapton compilations on the market, more than he probably knows (or cares) about. But this one is particularly vile, a 3CD set to showcase his Reprise Records years, a 30 year holding pattern up to and including 2013’s dismal, fusty […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 30 YEARS, 3CD, Album Review, Clapton, Compilation, Cream, Eric Clapton, Forever Man, Hits, Reprise ·

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December 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jack Bruce: Silver Rails

Jack Bruce Silver Rails Esoteric Antenna It was the sad news of Jack Bruce’s passing that pushed me toward what is now his final studio album, 2014’s Silver Rails. I wasn’t too worried about hearing it, but I’m glad – bittersweet/silver-lining – that I did. For it’s a solid effort. Okay, it’s not a career […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Cream, Jack Bruce, R.I.P., Silver Rails ·

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July 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1076

Cream, Disraeli Gears (1967) Weird – but this was my favourite album for a long time, or one of, before I’d even heard it. How does that work? Fucked if I know – but here goes, I’ll try take you back to how that played out…You see, I loved Cream (still do, some days at […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Benjamin Disraeli, Cream, Disraeli Gears, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, LP, Outside Woman Blues, Strange Brew, Vinyl ·

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July 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Ginger Baker: Why?

Ginger Baker Why? Motema Music If you’ve seen the 2012 documentary film Beware of Mr. Baker (and if you haven’t – you really should) you’ll be somewhat excited and nervous at the thought of new music from Mr. Baker. Actually, Why? – you could easilyt be convinced the title is his hi-hat’s only response to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Abass Dodoo, Airforce, Album Review, Alec Dankworth, BBM, Beware of Mr Baker, Blind Faith, Cream, Drums, Ginger Baker, Jazz, Pee Wee Ellis, Sandy Nelson, Why ·

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December 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 1: Eric Clapton, Auckland, 1990

Let me start this new series by telling you – for a fact – there’s no one Best Gig Ever. If there had been then I’d not be continuing to attend concerts; maybe I keep going in the hope that one day there will be a Best Gig Ever. But I also know there can’t […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1990, Auckland, Blind Faith, Cream, Derek and The Dominos, Eric Clapton, It Was The Best Gig Ever, It Was The Best Gig Ever # 1, Phantom Billstickers ·

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August 4, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Beware of Mr. Baker: Film

Beware of Mr. Baker Director: Jay Bulger Vivendi Entertainment This film, a documentary of legendary Cream/Blind Faith tub-thumper, Ginger Baker, gets off to a flying start with Baker butting the filmmaker with the end of his cane – a bop on the nose as if a mad flam intro and then off into a 5/4 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Beware of Mr Baker, Blind Faith, Cream, Doco, Documentary, DVD, Eric Clapton, Film Review, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Music Documentary, Stewart Copeland ·

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November 18, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1472

Cream, Best of Cream (1969) This record was a life-changer – and I never owned it. I had a long-term loan of what was left of my uncle’s record collection. He had some great stuff, metal, hard rock, blues, blues-rock, some prog and all the things that fit in the spaces in-between. And I took […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Best of Cream, Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Swlabr ·
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