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Celebration Day review
A true celebration day

What else is it, if not a celebration day? The only day when an event of not a world, but universal importance occurred. Millions wanted to witness it, but only eighteen thousand did. On October 17, 2007, at Great Britain’s second largest concert arena, O2, the legendary Led Zeppelin played their one and only gig to commemorate the founder of the Atlantic records label, Akhmet Ertgun. ‘We did it, Akhmet’, said Robert Plant once Stairway To Heaven sounds faded to black. Five years later, fans of the great ensemble have a wide range of opportunities to virtually attend that show. The Celebration Day film, demonstrated at cinema theaters all over the world, is now available for home use, and not long ago a double live album under the same title was released, featuring all the sixteen songs played by Led Zeppelin that unforgettable evening.
A miraculous appearance of Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin had actually made a few attempts to come back onto the stage, but, considering the scale of the band and expectation of its fans, one could not call them a success. What real reunion can it be, if nothing can bring back to the lineup John Binham, who, should it be reminded, died back in 1980? However, on that October evening, in London, a miracle happened: behind the Led Zeppelin drumkit, the spectators saw and then heard… Bonham! Jason Bonham is the son of the famous drummer, who remarkably keeps his craft alive. The musician fits in the ensemble brilliantly and performs the entire program perfectly, including the explosive Dazed And Confused, and Rock And Roll, the songs known as demonstrations of John Bonham’s aggressive play. However, without belittling Jason’s credits or that of bassist John Paul Jones, we have to admit that the main figures of Celebration Day, as always in Led Zeppelin, are Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. The former sang with the same enthusiasm and inspiration he has always had. You can not say he is back in shape, simply because he has always been there! And it is sufficient to listen just to a couple of tracks, like In My Time Of Dying, or Nobody’s Fault, to make sure of that an extra time. The latter played everything filling each note with a special, supernatural meaning. Stairway To Heaven with Page on guitar is but a spell that has fallen upon the entire rock and roll world.
Celebration Day is an evidence of a phenomenon

The set of Celebration Day is compiled amazingly as it features the songs that did mark the most important times in the history of Led Zeppelin. It includes the first track of the first album, Good Times Bad Times, the versatile No Quarter, reflecting all the sides of the band’s manifold style, and the majestic Kashmir. There can be found individual epithets for each of the tracks, denoting thing that only this track has. What makes Celebration Day so unique as a Led Zeppelin gig is that the musicians reduced the improvisation to minimum, the component that dominated the band’s shows in the times of its superiority. Yet improvisation on Celebration Day would be extra, since the meaning of the whole event is the replay of the ensemble’s classics in their pure, studio form to make it possible to listen to what has been heard on the albums over a countless number of times, played live in the atmosphere of a real concert, one that will probably never have analogues. Of course, Led Zeppelin could have embarked on a tour, to delight many more people that those who came to that particular show, and, no doubt, earned properly. But thus the band would have slain the uniqueness, the mystique of that one performance which is recorded on Celebration Day.
 

Good Rats су феноменални, а невероватно потцењени њујоршки хард рок бенд; једна њихова песма из седемдесетих.

Хвала ЈУТЈУБУ што ово можемо да чујемо!
 
Black Country Communion je tzv. superbend. Cine ga Glen Hughes (Deep Purple), Derek Sherinian (ex-Dream Theater), Jason Bonham (Led Zepellin) i Joe Bonamassa. Ovo je njihov album iz 2012, Afterglow. Pojavio se na YT tek decembra 2012.

Nista spektakularno, ali vredi preslusati. Na skali od 1 do 5 ocenjen je, prilicno realno, sa cistom cetvorkom.


Afterglow is the greatest chemistry in the band

Afterglow starts as if there is no hurry and there will be nothing to surprise listeners. The first two tracks of the new Black Country Communion album are just solid hard rock songs breathing the seventies. We feel how great the chemistry is among the musicians, who know what and how they have to do to get the best result. However, when the time comes for Midnight Sun, and Confessor, we get to sense the might and the power of the ensemble. The pace grows swiftly, Hughes gets to more challenging vocal lines, while Joe and Derek take turns playing exquisite solos. Cry Freedom is a highlight featuring the vocal duo of Hughes and Bonamassa. In the middle of the set lies Afterglow, which, like a good film, kicks off moderately, intriguingly, delaying the best part. The quiet intro grows into substantial crushing hard rock with no drawbacks spotted. Speaking of slower material, there is a profound and touching ballad called The Circle. It is a spacious seven-minute piece with the leading part assigned to Hughes. It is no secret ballads are the best when you need to listen through all the hues and shades of the frontman’s singing.
 
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Black Ice review
AC/DC returns after eight years of silence

Whenever we speak about hard rock legends we cannot but remember the Australians AC/DC. The collective that exists over thirty years now is known to the whole world and its live performances are still quite impressive, with the guitarist jumping along the stage wearing school uniform. There have been several changes in the band’s line-up the first to occur in 1980 when the first vocalist Bon Scott deceased and Brian Johnson came to remain with AC/DC for good. Brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, both guitarists and back vocalists, formed the band bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd playing with them today. The band released its most successful album Back in Black in 1980 and it seemed that it would never record another album like that again. Releasing Stiff Upper Lip in 2000 AC/DC performed some time in various countries and then there was no news from it for a long time. At last this autumn its fifteenth studio album Black Ice sees the light of the day and judging by everything it is going to be a sensation for a second breath is obviously open to AC/DC the work being a real return to the past and even a better form.
A splendid rock adventure Black Ice

This may seem unbelievable but although Johnson’s vocals on the latest AC/DC works has become definitely worse (which is quite clear considering the age and a typical rocker’s life style) we hear his great voice on Black Ice, that very voice that made the band one of the best selling in the USA. Some think that the vocalist has managed to use the changes in the vocal chords’ work to his benefit, others even presume that the age and the voice have finally come to terms. Whatever it is the fact remains. Probably the other members inspired by that have remembered their younger years, too, and provided their best playing in the last fifteen or even twenty years. Listen to the first single Rock N' Roll Train and you will understand what a second breath really means. This song as actually all the others on the album sounds as a greeting from the past and is still wonderfully appropriate today. A faultless solo on Skies On Fire and amazing guitar riffs on Big Jack can compete only with the dash of Anything Goes while an ominous War Machine and a most powerful Spoilin' For A Fight boast a drum work smashing all your doubts about AC/DC still able to rock. As for the album highlights one should definitely name Wheels, reminding of 1979 work Highway To Hell, quite a contagious track She Likes Rock N' Roll, a changeable Rock N' Roll Dream and of course the final title composition Black Ice which has become a real climax of this splendid rock adventure the never aging AC/DC has given us.
The best work in two decades

Whatever you may say but another band like AC/DC will probably never appear again no matter how hard the young beginning collectives try to be like them. Brian Johnson’s manner of performance is so unique and recognizable that all the attempts to copy it simply fail. If somebody thought that the old guys’ best times are left in the past then Black Ice is an album that will make these people change their minds cardinally. Of course the success of Back in Black will be hardly repeated but the fact that the new work proves to be the best in two decades is completely undeniable. Every instrumental part on the album is performed in such a way that many contemporary musicians should learn from them. Among the 15 tracks of this record you will find no failures although it does have some weak points but they are so insignificant that derogate its merits by no means. Recorded in Vancouver as the previous album featuring producer Brendan O'Brien Black Ice is released just in time and the eight years of waiting have been definitely worth it.
 
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