tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post3062684995970784331..comments2024-03-02T07:40:22.786+03:00Comments on Only Solitaire blog: Budgie: ImpeckableUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-11426554281604746032016-01-24T11:09:00.299+03:002016-01-24T11:09:00.299+03:00Had this on 8-track, weird format, it repeats a so...Had this on 8-track, weird format, it repeats a song to fill up space.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-62704430689373635572016-01-22T19:35:10.912+03:002016-01-22T19:35:10.912+03:00"the New Wave of change that kicked the groun..."the New Wave of change that kicked the ground from under all these old heavy rockers' feet around 1978?'<br />Interesting question. Mick Box: definitely. Jimmy Page: already several years before. Stretching things a bit: Steve Howe and Chris Squire (they could rock heavily): yes. Blackmore: somewhat - Long Live Rock'n'Roll is a bit half-hearted.<br /><br />"Impeckable was released at a turning point for the heavy metal scene."<br />Absolutely correct. I already knew Rush (an anomaly), Judas Priest and ACDC, while Motörhead and Iron Maiden were soon to come.<br /><br />Like you on the old site I like the opener Melt the Ice away. Again it's a bit poppy. The idea to use all those stops and starts is probably taken from Status Quo's (another band in transition in 1978) first international hit Down Down. That one was nailed at Allmusic with "littered with false starts, fake endings". I think the main riff of Melt the Ice Away better - it's pretty complex - than that one of Don't Dilute the Water. So it's the one that made it to my compilation. My personal tracklist:<br /><br />Guts<br />Crash Course<br />Parachutist Woman<br />All Night Petrol<br />Whiskey River<br />Rockin' Man<br />Docker's Armpit<br />Young is a World<br />Breadfan<br />Baby please don't go<br /><br />Powdered Milk<br />Tyrefitter's Hand<br />In for the Kill<br />Zoom Club<br />Breakin' all the House Rules<br />Napoleon<br />Sky High Percentage<br />Melt the Ice away<br /><br />The studio output of Black Sabbath, Ozzy era, as far as I dig it fits on one CD. Of course there is also the Live in Paris show, where BS reaches a level of madness that never was matched by Budgie's light but smart irony.<br />Tony Bourge remained silent for several years. In 1986 he would release an eponymous album with Ray Phillips, a former drummer of Budgie, with whom he had formed the band Tredegar. It's a highly enjoyable album. The riffs are not as good as Bourge invented for Budgie though.<br />Bourge left Tredegar too. They recorded a second, but totally unremarkable album. They also covered Sabre Dance, which is excellent. Bourge might play the guitar on that song too.<br /><br />http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/tredegar/remix-and-rebirth(compilation)<br /><br />Finally it seems that Bourge released a solo album a couple of years ago. I never heard it.MNbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-55126381663973717112016-01-22T19:12:30.613+03:002016-01-22T19:12:30.613+03:00"Sabbath's Never Say Die alos showed a sh..."Sabbath's Never Say Die <b>alos</b> showed a sharp drop in quality"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com