Disturber

This is a good album from 1979.

When my JTM50 blew it was much cooler. I suddenly could not hear my guitar. Turned around, smoke was arising from the amp and lightning. It was awesome, totally awesome.

Had a clone. Sold it. Great amp but my old Super Champ does close enough 5E3 tones if needed.

With that guitar tone he could play a buzz saw, no one would notice the difference.

have the European original release on vinyl. Without Sykes. Perhaps it's hard to find thar LP in the US. But the 25th anniversary release has both the US and UK mixes of the album. It's on Tidal https://tidal.com/album/2890847/u And on Spotify "The 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition of Slide It In (released in 2009) includes both the US mix and the UK mix. Track Breakdown: US Mix (Tracks 1–10): Remixed by Keith Olsen. Features guitar work by John Sykes, bass by Neil Murray, and a polished, aggressive "American" hard rock sound. UK Mix (Tracks 12–19, bonus tracks): Original mix by Martin Birch. Features guitars by Micky Moody and Mel Galley, bass by Colin Hodgkinson, and the band's traditional bluesy British tone. This edition also includes the single B-side "Need Your Love So Bad" and a bonus DVD with music videos and live performances. "

Bernie was great. I always loved Whitesnake. The real Whitesnake from 1977 to 1982 (1984). Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody was a classic 70's guitar duo. Bernie left before the band recorded Slide it in. But Micky Moody and replacement Mel Galey did a great job on that album too. Geffen demanded a re-recording with flashy John Sykes. But, just as with Lizzy, he ruined the band more than adding anything worth talking about. (Hair metal fans peed their pants with joy though.) Seek out the original Slide it in version of the album. It's a lot better. After that Whitesnake became an MTV money maker. But it was not Whitesnake anymore. It was Coverdale solo, with guests, adapting to the times.

Listening to this music today, it feels like a 100 years ago. Remember when bands like this were everywhere? An abundance of great bands simering just under the thin line of breaking through big time. So many you did not have time to listen to them all. And now, today, you search your ass of just to find one new band with just an inch of being the real thing - and just not a bunch of influencers posing as musicians. Damn, I hate what the "music biz" has become, (which is: there is no music biz anymore, it's just one thousand people uploading shit to Spotify, Tidal etc. every day without any kind of gate keeping or talent search).

I had both Vol 1 and Vol 2 of those. Sold them when I collected the Sab catalogue.

First album on cassette, recorded from LPs: A side - Rolling Stones Rolled Gold. B - side Beatles Sgt Pepper. (long gone, wore it out) First real album I got that was from the music store: cassette with Rod Stewart - Atlantic Crossing. (still have it) First LP I got for my birthday: ABBA - Greatest hits. (still have it) First album that I bought myself (actually my parents helped me buy it): KISS - ALIVE (still have it)

I put up a picture of Nick Lowe on Instragram. With a Hamer 8 string bass. I had the jpg on my drive for some time. Don't remember where I found it. I thought it looked very clean. And after I posted it I zoomed in on some details, the fingers etc and I began to wonder if it was AI. Then I though perhaps someone just processed it, to clean it from grain. Over processing can give an unnatural clean look. Then someone commented that it looked like AI. So I ran the picture through a checker and the outcome was that it was probably AI. I get very annoyed and worried by shit like this. Our history will be all fxcked up by falsifications from AI. How will we know what is reality. How will our children and grandchildren know. Any historical photo could be all made up. Every past event can be altered with. This past weekend I started watching a youtube vid about Def Leppard. Illustrated by stills. The voice over mentioned guitarist 'Phil Collins' then a still came up with Phil Collins, playing a guitar in the studio, dressed as a member of Def Leppard. I realised I was watching AI slop. No humans involved in that video. Turned it off on the spot. I feel shitty for being fooled that the picture of Lowe was real. The Hamer bass looked very much like his old bass. just needed to vent this and say that I'm sorry that I put that shit up on Insta.

I read she died of cancer? That was discovered quite recently. Very sad that she is gone. It put on her bluegrass album yesterday on my way to work. This was the last track. Felt like a catharsis.

That flamey neck is gorgeous. Now you need to wear it down.

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Sad. There are two drummers from the 1970s who could create extreme greatness, anchoring the band, with what seems like very little effort and a lot of swing. Creating a totally unique sound for their bands just as important as the guitar riffs and lead vocals. You know it's them behind the kit from the first bar of the song. That is Frank Beard and Phil Rudd. RIP. Legend.

Fantastic looking guitar. That would be an alternative for me, if I ever was to buy a new guitar again. Now that Hamer is no longer around. What is the name of that model? I could not find it on their web site.

I'm waiting for the Youtube vid that compares the pedal to someones home made Quad Cortex or Fractal settings, stating that they can't hear any difference from their digital modeller and the pedal. "It sounds exactly like a pedal modelled after a tube amp, you can't hear any difference at all. And the Fractal is a few grams lighter. So much easier to carry to a gig."

Someone scored big time. Bummer Shakira wasn't included.

Thanks for posting. Much better than the clip I found this morning. Better sound too. Touching.

He looked really old and frail. And honestly, he did not play that well. But he's 80 years old, has arthritis, ocular migraines etc., and he has suffered a heart attack. It was clear this was unrehearsed. It's a bit sad that people recorded this with their phones. They should just have stayed in the moment and let this be a tale of legends. Still, it was heart warming to see Ritchie, Roger, Ian P and Ian G on stage together again. Just as old friends. It felt more like a private moment than a show for the audience. My first concert was Rainbow, Straight Between the Eyes tour 1982. It was Richie, Glover, Joe Lynn Turner, Don Airey and Bobby Rondinelli in the band then. Great show. One for the books. I also saw Deep Purple in 1985. Blackfoot was the support band. We all grow old. But wearing your white socks up over your sweat pants, that is a tough one. 😅 Only Ritchie has enough "no more fucks to give" to pull that off.

Does anyone have tickets? I guess it will be a novelty thing. But Richie is a living legend. Some words from Richie: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db7LX-vDY-U/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I won't tell you what I did when the web site was down. Absolutely not.

People pay a lot for dudes to do that to new instruments. With a razor blade or by freezing the body. 🙂

He could have had basically any singer he wanted. I mean, who would not love to sing on a Tony Iommi album. But he choose that totally uncharismatic guy with the biggest Bruce Dickinson complex ever. That looks like he is an old tired locomotive engineer who's worked night shifts for the last 25 years up in Bergen, Norway. Why? He should have worked with Tony Martin again, or Glenn Hughes. Or any other younger guy, other that that guy. I'm not impressed. The guitars and production sounds great though.

That one looks really nice. Congrats!