Every Home Should Have One!
Every Home Should Have One!
Today sees the start of an epic journey with DREAM THEATER. Part one of an intimate look at the band’s search for a replacement for their infamous stixmen Mike Portnoy has launched today. Head on over to hear from the band how the news of Mike’s departure was broken to the band and the start of the process to find someone who not only has the technical ability to play the Dream Theater back catalogue but who also has right chemistry with the remaining members.
Taken from Kamelot’s website
Considering that every fibre in my body is saying ‘dont do it Chesy’, Ive been an avid watcher of AI since Season 5 (Winner, Taylor Hicks), and I dont think I have missed a single episode since. Yes there have been some extremely good and bad & ugly moments, and despite the contrary I have kept an eye out for albums by some good artists (if you can ever call a Cowell/Lythgoe act an artiste), notably Chris Daughtry, a Season 5 fourth placed Idol, Adam Lambert, S8 runner-up to Kris Allen, and Crystal Bowersox, the S9 runner up to Lee DeWyse. For your info, one of the bad and ugly was Sanjaya Malakar, who was kept in the competition purely down to his different weekly hairstyles – I shit you not!
Anywho, my reason for this short opinionated blug is to state that this years judges – Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, and the ‘absolutely entertaining in his own right’ Steven Tyler have picked the strongest set of contestents in the last 10 seasons. In fact any one of the top 10 could win the competition. From the ‘One Trick Pony’ stylings of Scotty McCreery (every week is country week!), to the Luther Vandross-like Jacob ‘Diva’ Lusk, Haley Reinhart, a Janis Joplin style singer, and the double bass playing Casey Abrams (the only contestant to be voted back in by the judges after his elimination by the SFB – thats shit for brains – voting public of America). My tip? The absolutely bonkers, but extremely talented James Durbin. A tourettes wielding Metal Head trying to bring back Metal to the masses all on his own in the US of A
So far, we have been treated to Sammy Hagar’s ‘Heavy Metal’ (feat. Zakk Wylde); Muse’s ‘Uprising’, Stevie Wonder’s ‘Living For The City’, Bon Jovi’s ‘I’ll Be There For You’, and Judas Priest’s ‘You’ve Got Another Thing Comin” to name but a few.
He has a range that most rock vocalists would give one of their nuts for – In Durbin’s case, he already sounds like he has. Except for the week he kept it understated on ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’, each week he has tried to up the stakes both vocally and visually
Whether he wins or not remains to be seen, but I’m certain the bloke will be making a shitload of money and will be a household name sometime soon. Rest assured he will shift more units than the overall winner. I for one hopes he makes the final week as Tyler has promised him a duet should he get there. Vote Durbin, America!
See attached film which will be of interest to followers of Prog Rock. Filmed in 2002 by David Robin, he interviews Neal Morse, Steve Hackett, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, Simon Phillips, Roine Stolt, and many many more that you would expect from this genre of music. Essential viewing
1. Rainbow – Rising
2. Rainbow – Long Live Rock n Roll
3. Deep Purple – In Rock
4. Deep Purple – Burn
5. Dio – Holy Diver
6. Autograph – Sign In Please
7. Tyketto – Dont Come Easy
8. Alter Bridge – Blackbird
9. Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell
10. Coheed & Cambria – Good Apollo Im Burning Star IV – From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
11. Valentine – st
12. Van Halen – st
13. Only Child – st
14. Porcupine Tree – The Incident
15. Aviator – st
16. Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime
17. FM – Indiscreet
18. Foreigner -4
19. Journey – Escape
20. Giant – Last of the Runaways
21. Def Leppard – Hysteria
22. ACDC – Back In Black
23. Diving For Pearls – st
24. King Kobra – Ready To Strike
25. Kings X – Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
26. Icon – Night of the Crime
27. Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak
28. Tesla – Mechanical Resonance
29. Shinedown – The Sound Of Madness
30. Riverdogs – st
31. Rush – Moving Pictures
32. Scorpions – Love At First Sting
33. David Lee Roth – Eat Em And Smile
34. Romeos Daughter – st
35. Whitesnake – 1987
36. Tradia – Trade Winds
37. Damn Yankees – st
38. Jimmy Barnes – Freight Train Heart
39. Dream Theater – Images and Words
40. Strangeways – Native Sons
41. Iron Maiden – Powerslave
42. Shadowking – st
43. Saraya – st
44. Dokken – Under Lock and Key
45. Hellsongs – Hymns in the Key of 666
46. Kamelot – The Black Halo
47. Opeth – Damnation
48. Motley Crue – Dr Feelgood
49. Prophet – Cycle Of The Moon
50. Thunder – Backstreet Symphony
So feel free to criticise, attack, enjoy or make suggestions (no doubt Ive forgotten a fair few of my faves)
‘Baroque and Roll’