The 4th album by Lou Reed and his most selling one, reaching top 10 in the USA. It was his first album not to include songs by Reed's former band The Velvet Underground and the first to be recorded in the USA. Reed was not much involved in the production and he was very dissapointed of the sound of the songs and since it was a hit-record the recordcompany wanted to release another one as fast as possible. Reed then handed over a tape of reverbs and noises that defenitely was not going to be a hit!

Guitarrist Danny Weis is a founder member of Iron Butterfly. Harmonica-player Steve Katz is a former member of Blood Sweat And Tears. Drummer Pentti Glan had played on Steppenwolf John Kay's two first albums prior to this album.

1)Ride Sally ride (6,0) Sounds very Eric Claptonish slow rock.

2)Animal language (7,0) Bluesy rock'n'roll.

3)Baby face (7,0) Slow and bluesy with nice feeling.

4)N.Y. stars (7,0) Slow sleazy rock.

5)Kill your sons (6,0)

6)Ennui (5,0) Slow ballad and quite boring.

7)Sally can't dance (6,5) Very much alike the other rockers on the album. Sounds a bit like Bob Dylan.

8)Billy (5,0) Acoustic and saxophone-based singer-songwriter music.

Score: 6,19

Lou Reed-vocals and guitars (1942-2013)

Danny Weis-guitars and tambourine

Doug Bartenfeld-guitars

John Prakash-bass (b.1946)

Pentti "Whitey" Glan-drums (b.1946)

Michael Fonfara-keyboards (b.1946)

Steve Katz-harmonica (b.1945)

For the 3rd time I visited this hardrock- and metalfestival in my hometown.

ELECTRIC RELIGION:

A band with a female singer that plays very heavy and with powerful vocals that sounded too much inside the old brickbuilding at the site. The guitarrist is appearently a known musician and he looked older than the others. They had a bit of progressiveness in their music and the singer were clearly enjoying the moment. Okey but not more!

FREEDOM CALL:

Out in the warming sun, there were a bunch of happy germans playing happy happy trala-la-metal and it sounded really good! The singer has a very good voice and the audience and band were enjoying some good afternoonentertainment!

SKINDRED:

A crossoverband from Wales with a great (and big) caresmatic black singer. A mix of hiphop, reggae and metal that really got the audience waking up in the afternoon. The singer is a great bandleader and has a great conversation with the people watching and the looks of the other members of the band is worth seeing! Entertainment!

CLOSE QUARTERS:

Sleaze-hardrock band from Vadstena. Well they tried to be glammy and dirty but the songs were not very good and they seemed a bit unused to beeing on stage. They are maybe better in a few years.

NAPALM DEATH:

2:nd time I see this band of uncompromizing high speed crushing bulldozer metal that I have some hard time listening to for more than a few songs. All of the members of the band look like total idiots.

SONIC SYNDICATE:

Great to see this band on a sundrained stage; a band that gives it all and a singer that has a strong voice and is a good frontman in this band that plays heavy american-inspired "modern" heavy metal. Good!

AIRBOURNE:

GREAT to see this "new" band tearing down the stage with their wild flirt with AC/DC! This is as rock'n'roll as it gets! A band that lives and breathes hard rock-music and gives the audience a entertaining and total wild show. Great live-band!

BIGELF:

Had hardly heard this band but when I heard that it's progressive I had to go and see the show and I was NOT disappointed! Good organ-based progressive, sometimes heavy, variated rock and hard rock. Good stuff!

Last year me and my woman discovered this artist from Finland when we were in the country on vacation. We decided to go to a concert with him this summer and it also happened to be a beerfestival as well, lucky me! We saw 3 songs by the female singer Erin that combines pop with folkmusic and I supposed it sounded ok but not my cup of tea. It was an interesting mix though of musical styles and not the ordinary toplist pop.

Juha Tapio and his band played a one hour show that was okey and very nice to see and hear but there was not much action and connection with the audience from the stage. It seemed like a day at work for them. The music is kind of dark and melodic mix of rock and pop taht takes of here and there but mostly is more mellow with balladlike songs about love and misery, like many other finnish artists.

It was an new experience to see a concert in Finland and I hope there will be more since my woman and I have finnish relatives over there.

For the 2nd time I got the chance to see hardrockveterans Aeromith live, the 1st time was at the Sweden Rock Festival some years ago.

First out this evening at the newly buildt stadium was a bit younger band called Rival Sons which have released 5 albums and are an up and coming act who have got some good critical claim in the world of rockmusic. They played a 45 minute-set with 70's inspired enerigic rock'n'roll with a good sense of melody. I really liked it and I will follow this band forward.

As I suspected Aerosmith sticked to their formula by playing all their hits and I suppose it was was the audience wanted. The audience was not the standard rock'n'rollers but just ordinary people who have heard Aerosmith on the radio. The "real" rockers were preparing for their highlight of the year, the Sweden Rock Festival in southern Sweden. The show did not take off until the last songs and there was no conversation between the band and the audience, something that is very important to make a liveshow an really good experience for the watchers who have paid a lot of money. For the band it seemed like a day at work but surely Steven Tyler is really fit and a good performer for being 66 years old! Maybe this was the last chance to see Aerosmith live, I have enjoyed their music for 27 years and the albums will always be there, ecspecially their albums from the 1970's.

For me this was and "Hello and welcome!" to Rival Sons and "Thank you and goodbye!" to Aerosmith.

Selling 5 million albums in the USA alone, this album marked the great comeback by, by now veteran rockers, Aerosmith. For the first time they used professional songwriters like Desmond Child and Jim Vallance to make this an album full of hit-songs reaching top 20 in the Billboard chart. Did they do in in cost of good songs? Actually no. This album rocks but has more melody and catchy refrains, but anyway manages to be an really good hardrockalbum that stands the test of time and that I find enjoyment to listen to whenever! They also still put their somewhat weird trademark songwriting on the album, like in the song Simoriah. If you don't have this album you ought to buy it!

1)Hearts done time (8,0)

2)Magic touch (8,0)

3)Rag doll (8,0)

4)Simoriah (7,5)

5)Dude (Looks like a lady) (8,0)

6)St. John (8,0)

7)Hangman jury (7,5)

8)Girl keeps coming apart (8,0)

9)Angel (7,5)

10)Permanent vacation (8,0)

11)I'm down (7,5) (The Beatles-cover)

12)The movie (5,0)

Score: 7,58

Steven Tyler (Steven Victor Tallarico) -vocals (b.1948)

Joe Perry-guitars (b.1950)

Brad Whitford-guitars (b.1952)

Tom Hamilton-bass (b.1951)

Joey Kramer-drums (b.1950)

The canadian heavy-party-rockers released their 6th album and it sounds... Danko Jones! Heavy and furious tunes mixed with slower ones that are seldom very good... They should stick to their partyanthems but I suppose they need to vary their songs a bit? I hear a bit of Thin Lizzy here and there and that's NO bad thing! Danko Jones still rocks and this album is worth having, as all their albums, but they don't create new ground, but who needs it when it's this good? Some songs are not as good so the final score gets a bit low.

Danko Jones drummer Dan Cornelius quit prior to this album. He was reaplaced by american Atom Willard who plays on this album and does it with pondus! He played with Rocket From The Crypt between 1990 and 2000, with The Special Goodness, Offspring and Angels & The Airwaves from 2005. In 2009 he joined Social Distortion and in 2011 Danko Jones, so this guy can play fast drums, that's for sure.

1)Terrified (7,5)

2)Get up (8,0)

3)Legs (7,5)

4)Just a beautiful day (7,5)

5)I don't care (8,0)

6)You wear me down (6,0)

7)Type of girl (7,0)

8)Always away (6,0)

9)Conceited (8,0)

10)Don't do this (7,0)

11)The masochist (6,5)

12)I believed in god (8,5)

13)I believed in god (reprise) (-)

Score: 7,29

Danko Jones-vocals and guitars

JC-bass

Atom (Adam David Willard)-drums (b.1973)

This the debutalbum from "Tremolo"-founder Floyd Rose and Jonathan K. who quit the Seattle-band C.O.R.E to form Q5 together with TKO-members Rick Pierce, Gary Thompson and Evan Sheeley. When my friend Christian played this album for me in the middle of the 80's I was immediately strucked by the fantastic songs and sheer power, melody and heaviness that is all over it. Two of the best metalsongs ever are on it and I can't get enough listening to this all over and over again. This is one of the best albums in rock'n'roll history, whitout doubt!

1)Missing in action (9,5)

2)Lonely lady (9,0)

3)Steel the light (10,0)

4)Pull the trigger (10,0)

5)Ain't no way to treat a lady (9,0)

6)In the night (8,0)

7)Come and gone (8,0)

8)Rock on (8,0)

9)Teenage runaway (7,5)

Score: 8,78

Jonathan K. (Scott Palmerton)-vocals

Rick Pierce-guitars

Floyd Rose-guitars

Evan Sheeley-bass

Gary Thompson-drums

Reaching nr. 36 on the Billboard chart wasn't very good even though they got some good reviews for the album in 1985. It had gone 3 years since the last album and a comeback from Aerosmith wasn't the most interesting in the musicworld at the moment. However Ted Templeman who had recorded with Van Halen produced a full tilt rocking hardrockalbum with Done With Mirrors and I must say there are some really good songs on it, even some of the best they have recorded. The album really "lives" and there is an new found energy that was heard as far back as 6 years ago with the Night In The Ruts-album. Anyway, they toured the album well into 1986 when Tyler and Perry appeared on hip hop-band Run DMC's cover of Aerosmith's song Walk This Way and with that song reached nr. 4 on the charts and again, Aerosmith was on the map again!

1)Let the music do the talking (8,0) Originally a Joe Perry Project-song and a good kick-ass rocker.

2)My fist your face (8,5) Very good partyrock!

3)Shame on you (7,5)

4)The reason a dog (7,5)

5)Sheila (7,0) More melodic than the rest of the songs.

6)Gypsy boots (8,5) Full tilt rock'n'roll!

7)She's on fire (7,5) Slow and heavy.

8)The hop (8,5) Yeah!

Score: 7,88

Steven Tyler (Steven Victor Tallarico) -vocals (b.1948)

Joe Perry-guitars (b.1950)

Brad Whitford-guitars (b.1952)

Tom Hamilton-bass (b.1951)

Joey Kramer-drums (b.1950)