OT: The Music Thread Part 8

[Alicat]

Please just reunite and tour. Justin's new album is fantastic as is the new *NSync single "Paradise"

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

 

[caz16]

Slash's new album coming out in May features different artists on vocals. This is going to be great - hard to believe this is Brian Johnson's voice!

 

[aguineapig72]

Monty, Johnny Beecher is the missing piece that's been under the couch for the last couple months.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

 

[JAD]

The Heart Of Rock & Roll


Dancing With Myself


Joy To The World

 

[EvilDead]

After Ronnie James Dio quit the band to join Black Sabbath as a response to Ritchie Blackmore giving keyboard player David Stone and bassist Bob Daisley the boot, with Daisley joining up with Ozzy and Stone becoming the keyboard player for Max Webster, the band Rainbow were in an odd position after a decent chunk of their band essentially left following the release of Long Live Rock 'n' Roll in '78. Blackmore replaced Daisley pretty quickly, calling upon former Deep Purple bassist Ronnie Glover to join the band in January of '79 and then recruiting keyboardist Don Airey on a suggestion from drummer Cozy Powell soon after. All that was left was to find a singer, which...how hard could that be? In the end, Blackmore had two options: former Fable and Trapeze frontman Peter Goalby or his former bandmate from Deep Purple in Ian Gillan. That was until Blackmore took a flyer on a name put forward by Ronnie Glover in former pop singer Graham Bonnett, who was doing advert jingles in the UK after his career originally fizzled out in '69 and had only one actual album release in the past ten years. Once Bonnett sessioned with Blackmore and Powell, he was hired on the spot. The album that came out of this new line up? Arguably Rainbow's most commercially friendly release to date in 1979's Down to Earth, which features the band's first hit single "Since You've Been Gone." But don't think that this grab for commercial success means the tunes didn't come along for the ride. Tracks like Eyes of the World, Lost in Hollywood, Love's No Friend, and Danger Zone are just some of the absolute bangers on this album. A big part of this comes from Bonnett's out of nowhere vocal performance on this album, singing with an amazing range and snarl that one would expect from Judas Priest's Rob Halford. He passed the test with flying colors on this album. Powell and Blackmore sound tight as ever on the drums and guitar respectively, with Glover doing his job maintaining rhythm on bass and Airey putting in some good work on the keys. What should've been a step back for a band rebuilding itself ended up becoming a massive step forward and I can't recommend this album enough. Sadly...this incarnation of the band wasn't built to last. Cozy Powell and Graham Bonnet left together after this album as part of Bonnett's solo band with the latter being rejuvinated career wise from this album. They then later joined the Michael Schenker Group and after that, Bonnnett created another excellent band by the name of Alcatrazz. The group featured Bonnett, former Alice Cooper drummer Jan Uneva, Gary Shea and Jimmy Waldo from the band New England, and a Swedish prodigy on guitar you may have heard of in Yngwie Malmsteen.

 

[Troublesome 85]

What a babe

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

I find these guys interesting.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

 

[JAD]

Jason Aldean
Tattoos And Tequila


After You


Tough Crowd

 

[Orr Fourever]

 

[Bleached]

Mark Knopfler got 54 musicians together to re-record "Going Home - The Theme from Local Hero" (one of my favorite movies) to raise money for the UK Teenage Cancer Trust.

How Mark Knopfler assembled the world’s biggest supergroup for a charity single

Cover song raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust stars Roger Daltrey, Nile Rodgers, Brian May, Sheryl Crow and the late Jeff Beck

www.independent.co.uk

The full list of contributors is as follows: Joan Armatrading, Jeff Beck, Richard Bennett, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Brown, James Burton, Jonathan Cain, Paul Carrack, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Jim Cox, Steve Cropper, Sheryl Crow, Danny Cummings, Roger Daltrey, Duane Eddy, Sam Fender, Guy Fletcher, Peter Frampton, Audley Freed, Vince Gill, David Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Keiji Haino, Tony Iommi, Joan Jett, John Jorgenson, Mark Knopfler, Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, Greg Leisz, Alex Lifeson, Steve Lukather, Phil Manzanera, Dave Mason, Hank Marvin, Brian May, Robbie McIntosh, John McLaughlin, Tom Morello, Rick Nielsen, Orianthi, Brad Paisley, Nile Rodgers, Mike Rutherford, Joe Satriani, John Sebastian, Connor Selby, Slash, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr and Zak Starkey, Sting, Andy Taylor, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Ian Thomas, Pete Townshend, Keith Urban, Steve Vai, Waddy Wachtel, Joe Louis Walker, Joe Walsh, Ronnie Wood, Glenn Worf, Zucchero.

 

[JAD]

Taxman


Birthday


Speak To Me

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Gilmore Girls?

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

 

[JAD]

In my best Monty Python voice ,

And now for something entirely different ...



Lol

Didn't know whether to put it here or in the funny thread.

 

[JAD]

The Chior
Bloodshot Eyes


Hurricane


Good Morning, Shadow Weaver

 

[JAD]

Tom Petty
You And Me


I Won't Back Down (live)


Surrender

 

[Orr Fourever]

 

[JAD]

Tom MacDonald
Fighter


Ghost


Facts

 

[Alicat]

Came across this on twitter from following ESPN's Kayla Burton. Her cousin, Roman is an incredible piano player. I could listen to this all day

 

[Babajingo]

I knew about Shanes death.
Just came across this funeral. Apologize if it's already been posted.

 

[hrdpuk]

Levon Helm - Atlantic City

 

[JAD]

The Lost Dogs
Certain Love


Imagine That


Ghost Train To Nowhere