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 […]
March 19, 2013
My Ibanez Jem 555 switch-job: out with the Lo-TRS II – in with an original Floyd Rose Tremolo as replacement
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Sebastian
So, about 8 weeks ago I saw a used Ibanez Jem 555 in my music shop and as luck would have it I was actually looking to buy one. It looked old, had some stains on the hardware and the original Lo-TRS II tremolo didn’t stay in tune face with ‘regular’ abuse, but it played […]
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Review: Neal Morse and Flower Kings live in Hamburg, Markthalle 2/25/2013
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Sebastian
I had originally planned to interview Neal Morse and Mike Portnoy for Backstage in Hamburg but my request wasn’t even answered. So I changed plans, spent the afternoon with the kids, arranged with the neighbors to take the baby monitor once they were asleep and then headed to the Markthalle. I did catch the last […]
What a musical year ahead: Releases by KSE, Satriani, Soilwork, Adrenaline Mob, Sebastian Bach, Dream Theater
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Sebastian
At one point last week I began collecting album release dates from bands I like and I have to say, 2013 is going to be a big year: March 1st Soilwork March 8th Bon Jovi March 11th Amplifier March 12th Adrenaline Mob March 26th Sebastian Bach, Sevendust April Spock’s Beard April 2nd Killswitch Engage April […]