My obsession with Icelandic music kicked off in October, 2011. We were in Reykjavik for our third Iceland Airwaves music festival and I’d just bought a turntable earlier in the year, so my plan was to see if I could track down some old school Icelandic punk records. Back then there wasn’t much info about […]
Month: March 2024
Led Zeppelin – “Recorded Live In Europe 70/71 Tour”
This is another of the unofficial live Led Zepplin albums I picked up recently. The material comes from the Mothership’s European tour in 1970-71, though the record doesn’t provide much in the way of details. The picture disc claims to have been produced in a run of 1,000 copies. I’m unsure when it actually came […]
Contrasto – “Statico Senso” (2001)
When we travel I always try to pick up local music, and our recent trip to Italy was no different. One of the shops we visited was Transmission, located near Rome’s Termini train station, and it was chock full of great rock records across subgenres. I could have easily spent a few hours there, but […]
Led Zeppelin – “The Hard Way To Heaven”
For the longest time I successfully resisted the urge to go down the Led Zeppelin live recordings rabbit hole. I picked up the two Blueberry Hill CDs back in the 90s, but otherwise stuck with the official releases. That is until I unexpectedly came across a batch of nice condition live records a while back, […]
Guns N’ Roses – “Appetite For Destruction Alternative Album” (2014)
In Chuck Klosterman’s classic book Fargo Rock City there is a chapter in which he reviews some of his favorite hair metal albums. As part of the reviews he also establishes something called “The Jack Factor” for each, which is, in essence, the amount of money you would need to pay Chuck to permanently purge […]