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November 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Jeff Beck: Live At The Hollywood Bowl

Jeff Beck Live At The Hollywood Bowl Eagle Vision Jeff Beck celebrated 50 years as a performing artist with a run of shows at the Hollywood Bowl, guest artists, material from across his career – including a dig back to The Yardbirds, the various versions of The Jeff Beck Group, his seventies fusion, right up […]

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February 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Aerosmith: Awful!

Here’s something you won’t read all that often – but it’s (still) the truth: Aerosmith is really a pretty awful band. Oh, I had Rocks on cassette tape when I was a kid and just learning up on all this stuff. And Pump (the real comeback record for them; they crossed over to the younger […]

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December 1, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1734

Steve Kilbey and Ricky Maymi, Present: David Neil “The Wilderness Years” (2011) Steve Kilbey of The Church dreamed up (with Ricky Maymi of Brian Jonestown Massacre) this bonkers concept album wherein Kilbey is handed down the songs of David Neil (the name coming from David Bowie and Neil Young) and he and Maymi do their […]

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May 23, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1990

Aerosmith, Toys In The Attic (1975) Okay, the impetus behind listening to this again – the first time I’ve listened right through to the album on vinyl actually – is because I’m nearing the end of Steven Tyler’s memoir (out June 11, New Zealand readers). It’s a pretty terrible book, poorly written and Tyler is […]