Freddie Waters began his musical career in Nashville, Tennessee in the mid 60's as the lead singer of the group The Haytones. This is Freddie's last recording. It is a mix of very soulful songs and good blues-songs. Seems like he liked both styles. I'm not much of a soul-fan so I don't like the soulsongs very much but the bluessongs are quite good and powerful with nice clear guitarplaying. Waters voice on the album is very soulful, almost sounds like he is a woman. Waters died the same year this album was released.

1)Full moon on Main street (7,5)

2)Tough as nails (7,5)

3)My mistakes (6,0)

4)Nobody knows (6,0)

5)Tend to your business (7,5)

6)Reality (5,0)

7)I'm living good (5,5)

8)Why do you treat me like I'm not your man (5,5)

9)I love, I love you (6,0)

10)Nobody can love me (6,5)

11)It tears me up (4,5)

12)Everyday needs love (6,5)

13)One step closer to the blues (5,5)

14)A stronger man (7,5)

Score: 6,21

Freddie Waters-vocals (1942-2000)

Fred James-guitars, piano and organ

Andy Arrow-drums

Bryan Owings-drums

Billy Earheart-piano and organ

Steven Herrman-trumpet

Jordan Rudess was the keyboardist in the progressive metalband Dream Theater and he recorded this album in 14 days prior to him going on tour with Dream Theater. Like Dream Theater, this is music that combindes hardrock, heavy metal and proggressive music. Of course it contains a lot of keyboardplaying but I really enjoy the way Rudess can make good songs with the help of his instrument. Kip Winger's singing on 2 of the songs is really good and there is many wellknown artist performing on the album. It's definitive an album worth having.

1)Time crunch (7,5)

2)Screaming head (7,5)

3)Insectsamongus (7,5)

4)Beyond tomorrow (8,0)

5)Bar hopping with Mr. Picky (7,5)

6)What four (7,5)

7)Ra (8,5)

8)Tear before the rain (8,0)

Score: 7,75

Jordan Rudess-keyboards (b.1956)

Kip Winger-vocals on 4 and 8 (b.1961)

Daniel J.-guitars

Joe Satriani-guitars on 2 and 3 (b.1956)

Steve Morse-guitars on 5 and 6 (b.1954)

Greg Howe-guitars on 4 and 6 (b.1963)

Vinnie Moore-guitars on 1 and 7 (b.1964)

Dave La Rue-bass on 2,4 and 5

Rod Morgenstein-drums (b.1953)

In my musicblogg there ain't many albums from the 90's. Why? Well, bacause there weren't many albums to write about, at least not from the years 1992-1998. Grunge ruled the world of rockmusic and the music I grew up listening to were all of a sudden just...not there. I have nothing against grunge as such, I listened to quite a lot of those bands. But there was also something else happening in the rockworld; the dark and heavy Stoner rockbands became popular and i liked some of them, ecspecially Kyuss 3rd album Welcome to Sky Valley wich is a punch right in the face. The album is so alive even though it's so dark and mysterious. I just can't sit still to this music, I just have to play airguitar and headbang! The band disbanded in 1995 but reformed in 2011 with the exception of Josh Homme.

Josh Homme is also a founder of the wellknown band Queens Of The Stone Age and plays in the band since 1997. He is also in the band Them Crocked Vultures wich also features John Paul Jones (ex.Led Zeppelin) and Dave Grohl (ex.Nirvana and currently Foo Fighters).

This is the 1st Kyuss-album to feature Scott Reeder. He replaced Nick Oliveri who played on the two previous albums.

Brant Bjork played in the stoner rockband Fu Manchu between 1997 and 2002.

1)Gardenia (8,5) Was there anything like this in 1994? Extremely dark sound and guitar tuned low like hell. Slow but still rocking and the bass pounding while the guitarist plays wah-wah. For me, stonerrock was born with this song and I wanted to hear more. Damn good!

2)Asteroid (7,0) The song expodes into a heavy riff and then goes into a psychotic mess and then starts over again with an chaotic ending.

3)Supa scoopa and might scoop. (8,0) Not much singing in the song, mainly heavy riffing and cool bass- and drumpounding.

4)100 0 (8,5) Short, heavy and it rocks like hell!

5)Space cadet (8,0) Superb acoustic guitarplaying partly with the drums keeping a slow pace.

6)Demon cleaner (7,0)

7)Odyssey (9,0) Another killer song! Frenzy and heavy and a calm middlesection builds up the end part in a great way.

8)Conan troutman (8,0) Like song 4. but too short.

9)N.O. (7,5)

10) Whitewater (8,0) 8 minutes of enjoyment. Typical Kyuss-song but with a long Led Zeppelin/Doors jam/dope-part.

Score: 7,95

John Garcia-vocals (b.1970)

Josh Homme-guitars (b.1973)

Scott Reeder-bass (b.1965)

Brant Bjork-drums (b.1973)

Airbourne, from Australia, was founded in 2003. They released a 8-track EP in 2004 and this is their 1st full albumrelease. They might be from Australia like AC/DC and they might be playing hardrock in the same vein as AC/DC, but the fact is that this album sounds VERY much AC/DC. Just not as good. The album won "Best debut" on the magazine Metal Hammers Golden gods awards in 2008.

1)Stand up for rock'n'roll (8,5) Damn! Rock'n'roll!!

2)Runnin' wild (7,5) Good but too repetitive.

3)Too much, too young, too fast (7,0) Is this a new AC/DC-song?

4)Diamond in the rough (6,0) They have stolen the introriff from AC/DC and it sounds like another AC/DC-coversong but not as good as the original and the screaming pig-vocals is beginning to get on my nerves.

5)Fat city (5,5) AC/DC-sounding bands like Krokus and Bullet have their own style but this band is a total copy of their favourite band and the songs are just repetitions of the refrain over and over and over and over again.

6)Blackjack (7,0)

7)What's eatin' you (5,0)

8)Girls in black (7,0)

9)Cheap wine and cheaper women (6,0)

10)Heartbreaker (7,5)

11)Hellfire (6,0)

Score: 6,64

Joel O'Keeffe-vocals and guitars

David Roads-guitars

Justin Streets-bass

Ryan O'Keeffe-drums

The 1st album from this progressive band from England. It reached nr. 7 on the UK chart. The music is progressive rock/pop and the production is unfortunately very plastic and flat. The first 3 songs sound like one, with the same rhythm and some progressive elements. The album could have been so much better with better production and songs with more substance. It's very light, almost pop. The fold-out cover is really nice.

Fish is born in Scotland and his nickname comes from the amount of time he spent in the bathtub. After he left Marillion he has released many soloalbums, the 1st in 1990.

Pete Trewavas is also a member of the progressive band Transatlantic with Mike Portnoy (ex.Dream Theater), Neal Morse (ex.Spocks Beard) and Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings).

Mick Pointer played only on this album by Marillion. He founded the progressive band Arena after he left the band.

1)Script for a jelsters tear (7,5)

2)He knows you know (7,0)

3)The web (7,5)

4)Garden party (6,0)

5)Chelsea monday (7,5)

6)Forgotten sons (7,0)

Score: 7,08

Fish (Derek William Dick)-vocals (b.1958)

Steve Rothery-guitars (b.1959)

Pete Trewavas-bass (b.1959)

Mick Pointer-drums (b.1956)

Mark Kelly-keyboards (b.1961)

Confusingly this is the 4th album from Rolling Stones in the UK but the 6th in USA. This is the UK version. It was a breakthroughalbum and the first from the Stones to be recorded in USA. The album is notable for it's musical experimentation but it is grounded in Chicago electric blues. It spent 8 weeks at nr. 1 on the UK albumchart. It's hard to make a aquate description of an album that is 46 years old because I don't know how the musicscene was at the time. Also it's hard to judge the quality of songs that were made with such technical limitations compared to today. Anyway, in 1965 the rocknrollscene had been all about Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and other rock'n'rollstars that had been playing their simple rockabillytype of rock for quite some years. There had to be somthing new, and Beatles, Yardbirds and The Rolling Stones were making the change to a harder and rawer sound even though they still were influenced by the old type of bluesbased rock. Blues was, and still is, the foundation in rockmusic. There are some okey song here but I think there were other bands that were better at the time and have never understood the greatness of The Rolling Stones.

Ian Stewart was a co-founder of the band. He was dismissed from the band in 1963 but remained as road manager and pianist. He responded to a advert from Brian Jones that seeked musicians to form a rhythm and bluesgroup. Ian used to play boogie-woogie piano at a jazzclub prior to joining the band. In 1963 he was told by the manager that he could not go on stage with Rolling Stones anymore. Ian (Stu) accepted this but remained with the band anyway. He also played with Led Zeppeling, Howlin' Wolf and George Thorgood And The Destroyers. Ian died of a heartattck in the waitingroom of a clinic in 1985.

Jack Nitzsche worked with many wellknown artist like Phil Spector, The Beach Boys and The Monkees. He produced many albums and was a comoser of filmmusic. He suffered a stroke in 1998 and died in 2000.

1)Mothers' little helper (5,5)

2)Stupid girl (7,0)

3)Lady Jane (6,0)

4)Under my thumb (7,0)

5)Doncha bother me (6,0)

6)Going home (2,5)

7)Flight 505 (6,5)

8)High and dry (5,0)

9)Out of time (5,5)

10)It's not easy (6,0)

11)I am waiting (5,0)

12)Take it or leave it (5,0)

13)Think (5,5)

14)What to do (6,0)

Score: 5,61

Mick Jagger (Sir Michael Philip Jagger)-vocals, percussion and harmonica (b.1943)

Keith Richards-guitars (b.1943)

Brian Jones-guitars, steel guitar, marimba, bells, sitar, koto, harmonica and keybaords (1942-1969)

Bill Wyman-bass, organ and marimba (b.1936)

Charlie Watts-drums and marimba (b.1941)

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Jack Nitzsche-percussion, piano, organ and harpsichord (1937-2000)

Ian Stewart-piano and organ (1938-1985)

The Californian band Circus Of Power was founded in 1986 and was heavy on motorbikes, tattoos and leather and has a sleazefeel to their music. Their 1st album from 1990 is a hardrockclassic but this album, thier last, hasn't the quality of that album. There are some songs that are getting towards the raw heaviness and melodic qualities of the past but I don't feel like playing this album anymore since there are so many better ones. Also 1993 was really the wrong year to release a hardrockalbum. The rockworld was all about grunge then.

Alex Mitchell has recorded with a few other bands since Circus Of Power disbanded and is also a author and writer.

Victor Indrizzio has after Circus Of Power recorded and worked with Depeche Mode, Queens Of The Stone Age, Chris Cornell, Beck, Willie Nelson, Gwen Stefani, Alanis Morisette among many others.

1)Swamp devil (7,0)

2)Evil woman (7,0) Typical heavy, slow and sleazy Circus Of Power.

3)Heaven and hell (6,5)  Additional vocals and guitars by Jerry Cantrell from Alice In Chains.

4)Circles (7,0)

5)Poison girl (7,0)

6)Shine (5,0) Co-vocals by Ian Astbury from The Cult.

7)Dreams tonight (6,0)

8)Mama tequila (6,5)

9)Black roses (7,5)

10)Waitin' for the wizard (6,5)

11)Outta my head (6,5)

12)Slip away (6,0)

Score: 6,54

Alex Mitchell-vocals

Ricky Beck Mahler-guitars

Gary Sunshine-guitars

Marc Frappier-bass

Victor Indrizzio-drums (b.1967)

See also album nr. 47) Foghat-Foghat (Rock'n'roll) 1974

This is Foghat's debutalbum. The cover looks promising and it certainly looks like this could contain some good rockin' music. But does it? Well, the first two songs impress with raw boogierockpower but after that it doesn't get very exiting. Like all of Foghat's albums, this one also lacks someting and it's no wonder they never got as big as some of their likes like ZZ Top for example.

Lonesome Dave, Tony Stevens and Roger Earl had been playing with Savoy Brown before the formed Foghat.

Lonesome Dave died in 2000 from cancer but he went on a last tour even though he was beeing treated for his illness.

Rod Price had before he joined Foghat released an album with Black Cat Bone in 1969. He also released 2 soloalbums in the 2000's. He died in 2005 at home from a heartattack.

1)I just wanna make love to you (Willie Dixon) (7,5) A Willie Dixon bluescover re-made into a heavy and raw boogierocker. Very raw!

2)Trouble trouble (7,5) A good bluesy rocker.

3)Leavin' again (Again!) (6,0) Rather boring song that hasn't got much substance.

4)Fools hall of fame (7,0) Heavy bluesboogie. The guitarplaying is so far quite boring...

5)Sarah Lee (5,5) Slow rocker. Typical Foghatsong. Nothing happens in a song that could have been so much better.

6)Highway (Killing me) (4,0) Boring slow song.

7)Maybelline (7,5) Good rockin' version of the Chuck Berry-song recorded in the 50's.

8)A hole to hide in (7,0) An okey song but there's something missing.

9)Gotta get to know you (3,0) Really really boring 8 minute-end to this album.

Score: 6,11

Lonesome Dave (Dave Peverett)-vocals and guitars (1943-2000)

Rod Price-guitars (1947-2005)

Tony Stevens-bass (b.1949)

Roger Earl-drums (b.1946)