Snakes+alive

In 1975, there was an album that quietly vanished after pressing only 50 copies without a cover. This album was recorded by Snakes Alive and released by themselves. Their self-titled album contains an exquisite combination of progressive rock and jazz rock, also its high quality easily showed the magnificent talent of the members…

Australian band SNAKES ALIVE was a short-lived band project consisting of Michael Vidale (bass), Peter Nykyruj (drums), Alex Ditrich (keyboards), Boris Peric (guitars), Jonas Thomas (sax, flute, vocals) and Colin Campbell (trumpet). Their sole album was recorded and privately released in a limited number of copies back in 1974…

Massive 41 disc (vinyl and CD plus memorabilia) set from the Scottish rock legends. Includes 180gm vinyl edition of Rampant (1974), picture disc of Expect No Mercy (1977), vinyl LP pressing of BBC Rock Hour - Live At Hammersmith Odeon 1980, and double vinyl LP pressing of Turn On Your Receiver - The BBC Bob Harris Sessions 1972-74. Also includes CD pressings of 23 original studio albums and two original live albums…

here is something about this album that, from start to finish, makes the listener want to move! Maybe you want to dance or jump or run or fight, but the music dares you, goads you until you have to move. The music has such a power and flow to it you might as well try to swim against the current of a waterfall, there is no escape — nor do we want one. The mood of CRASHDIET is infectious, viral and inescapable. It makes the listener feel alive and mighty…

Sweden played a crucial part in the progressive rock revival of the 1990s, but amid dark-sounding King Crimson-influenced bands like Anekdoten and Anglagard, the positive-thinking Yes-enlightened act the Flower Kings felt almost out of place. Yet, the Flower Kings became, along with the American Spock's Beard, the '90s prog rock band with the largest fan base, the biggest sales, and the widest international appeal…

Nazareth are a Scottish hard rock band, founded in 1968, that had several hits in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, and established an international audience with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog. Perhaps their best-known hit single was a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts", in 1975. The band continues to record and tour…

This concert was filmed over two nights at the 013 in Tilburg, Holland in October 2008…