4 musical videos, January 2014
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Sebastian
Lately I seem to spend a lot of time on YouTube. A. Lot. of. Time. The amount of videos there that interests me is ridiculous but of course, I don’t have enough time. Just a very long “watch later” list. But why should I alone have all the fun – here are the gems I […]
A musical preview of 2014
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Sebastian
In the last two years music has taken a much bigger place in my life again. That’s a good thing. Although I get great input I usually start the year by checking out other people’s/magazines’s best of lists. I made some on Spotify, feel free to check them out: Mike Portnoy, Eddie Trunk, Guitar World, […]
A musical review of 2013
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Sebastian
I couple of end-of-year/beginning-of-year posts ahead. Album of the year 2013 was a big year for releases of bands I liked, as noted last March. Many were good, some great, all meant something. My top 5 in no particular order: #1: The Winery Dogs – The Winery Dogs / best rock album in years, very […]
Review: Queensryche – Queensryche
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Sebastian
If you left the earth after Queensryche’s Empire or Promised Land album, came back in 2013, went into a record store and bought their current release Queensryche you’d hear exactly what you’d expect: a modern sounding Queensryche record with good lyrics, great riffs, grooving bass lines and of course Rockenfield as Rockenfield on drums. All […]
Review: Joe Satriani – Unstoppable Momentum
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Sebastian
About three weeks ago Joe Satriani released his 14th studio album, Unstoppable Momentum. It is a beauty. I say this with the listening experience of all albums, being a fan since the The Extremist album. Coincidentally, The Extremist is also the album that Unstoppable Momentum reminds me most of sonically. From the opening bars of the […]
Review: Steve Lukather live in Hamburg, Markthalle 03/24/13
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Sebastian
Update: My comments on the overall sound in general and especially bass guitar sound obviously angered Steve which wasn’t my intention, and it’s only my observation – Sabine from Dream Out Loud had no issues with the overall sound, on the contrary. I went back to the text and made sure to be clear that […]