To further celebrate heavy metal day here are some more obscure meteors of forgotten rockage, heavier than iron and as loud as a herd of s...

  Tother week the Missus and me had a day in the South Yorkshire city of Sheffield, known locally as Steel City and the home of the Master C...

I've just watched the first of my fave Christmas flicks I watch every year; Scrooged from 1988. You know the one, Bill Murray as the obn...

I was really saddened to learn of the death of Gary Rossington this winter, the last surviving member of the original Lynyrd Skynyrd. I tota...

I've been lamenting the death of guitar guru Jeff Beck this week, who sadly passed away on Tuesday aged 78.  One of the top rock guitari...

After the glory of our childhood toys came the fizz and gleam of modern music. It did for me and I guess for many as the crazes of infancy g...

 Just enjoying some Boston after work. This is the 1976 self-titled LP I have, with the cool blue flaming red guitar-saucer cities on the co...

Unashamedly stuck in the Seventies I'm listening to Ommadawn on You Tube whilst the Missus watches an emotional US series with far too m...

As some you may know I'm a huge guitar-based rock fan. Guitars just do it for me. The rockier the better. I'm currently listening to...

I saw Martika from Shakespeare's Sister on an old Top of the Pops t'other night. I couldn't help but notice her distinctive curt...

Music collectables sometimes get a mench on MC. Yesterday I saw a future one I reckon. At well over £300 there can't be too many of them...

I've always loved legends. Modern legends as well. Who was where when and that sort of thing. As a kid my family home received a famous ...

Just listening to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road the album on YouTube. Corblimey, its from 1973! Gawd! So long ago and I absolutely adored it bac...

Kong is on my mind at the mo.  I know some of you have seen Godzilla V Kong already and I'm gearing up to. It'll be strange to go in...

  Hi Woodsy,  Nice blog piece waxing lyrical about heavy metal and Deep Purple!  Sometime before I started playing the Hurdy Gurdy, I us...

Besides heavy rock I've always loved the avant-garde. It started with my beloved Bowie when I was 11, leading to a hugely important Lou ...

When I was 13 or 14 I was a metal head. I lived for the solo, the squawk of the riff and the thrum of the Fender bass. Christmas 1974 was ke...

 When I was a kid in the Sixties the idea that normal people had guns was something I could never imagine. Guns were the strange weapons tha...

Just listening to Boston's More than a Feeling from their self-titled debut album. I wasn't overly fussed on Boston's super-clea...

If you like Thin Lizzy then I wonder if you've heard this, the lesser known version 1 of Sarah, From the Shades of a Blue Orphanage LP ...