"rock Instrumentals"

After the breakup of Deep Purple in 1976, guitarist Tommy Bolin wasted little time beginning work on his second solo album, Private Eyes. While it was more of a conventional rock album than its predecessor, Teaser (which served primarily as a showcase for his guitar skills and contained several jazz/rock instrumentals), it was not as potent. The performances aren't as inspired as those on Teaser or even those on Bolin's lone album with Deep Purple, Come Taste the Band, although there a few highlights could be found.

After the breakup of Deep Purple in 1976, guitarist Tommy Bolin wasted little time beginning work on his second solo album, Private Eyes. While it was more of a conventional rock album than its predecessor, Teaser (which served primarily as a showcase for his guitar skills and contained several jazz/rock instrumentals), it was not as potent. The performances aren't as inspired as those on Teaser or even those on Bolin's lone album with Deep Purple, Come Taste the Band, although there a few highlights could be found.

Top studio, touring and recording artist, Jeff Scheetz cooked up five essential formulas for busting out of that proverbial rut. Spinning your wheels with those same old pentatonic licks? No worries … sprinkle a little of Jeff's "secret sauce" into your blues-rock bag for ear-to-ear grins! Scheetz travels the world over demonstrating his "secret sauce" in private standing-room-only clinics. The collection of blues-rock video guitar lessons in Jeff's Blues Rock: Secret Sauce course equips you with five essential concepts and techniques that you can apply in any blues-rock setting.

First album for this German band which is playing a heavy psychedelic rock deeply inspired by Purple Mark I and to a certain extent the heavy keys play is rather similar to the one of Hensley (Heep)…

Imagine a cross between early Chicago and early Santana, with a rougher touch of blues and a dash of progressive jazz, all performed by no less than eight musicians at a time, although that number could climb up to 20. That was the Ville Emard Blues Band, a collective active around Montreal in the early to mid-'70s. The lineup featured lots of active session musicians (with Robert Charlebois and Raôul Duguay, among others) and members of Contraction, Toubabou, and Harmonium (Robert Stanley and Denis Farmer would join the latter to record the epochal L'Heptade). This two-CD set culls all of the group's recordings: its double LP Live à Montréal, its studio LP Ville Emard, and two singles. VEBB's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness: variety. The group could switch from folk-based progressive ballads to scorching blues-rock, from quirky jazz-rock instrumentals to world fusion and experimental jams…

Taking their name from the 1960s B-movie Satan's Sadists, Portland, Oregon's Satan's Pilgrims' spirited blend of retro-surf and foot-stomping garage rock evokes the raw power and instrumental prowess of the Ventures, the Sonics, the Wailers, and the Kingsmen – it also draws from horror movies, Joe Meek productions, and the British Invasion. Like contemporaries and labelmates the Fathoms and Space Cossacks, the band caught the resurgent early-'90s surf rock wave brought forth by the arrival of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, which reintroduced the world to Dick Dale's "Misirlou," and rode it to nominal commercial success via essential outings like Around the World with Satan's Pilgrims (1997) and their eponymous fifth studio long-player (1999).

VA - The Ultimate History Of Rock 'N' Roll Collection (10CD) 1997
MP3 320 CBR kbps | Tracks: 155 | 06:45:22 | 934 Mb
Genre: Rock & Roll, Soul, Disco, Rhythm & Blues, Rockabilly, Doo Wop | Label: K-Tel International (USA), Inc.

The surprising thing about K-Tel's staggering ten-disc box set burdened with the title Ultimate History of Rock & Roll is that it actually approaches delivering on its huge promise. Of course, a collection of this sort of any size is immediately sunk by lacking the presence of Elvis Presley or virtually any British act (only the Troggs and Tornadoes leap to mind). The focus here is on early rock & roll and rockabilly (Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chubby Checker, Duane Eddy), the girl groups (the Angels, the Shirelles, the Shangri-Las, Lesley Gore, the Dixie Cups, the Chiffons) and an almost overwhelming concentration on the R&B side of rock (the Coasters, the Drifters, the Platters, the Del-Vikings, Ben E. King, the Clovers, the Duprees, the Olympics, the Penguins). Also well-represented is the increasingly white-bread '60s pop/rock artists: the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Ventures, and the Association. For fans of the above types of music, Ultimate History of Rock & Roll is an immensely rewarding set which delivers with all the best tracks from the biggest artists. Just don't expect to find "Heartbreak Hotel" or "Can't Buy Me Love."