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Cream - Classic Artists: Cream DVD
Review by Gary Hill
This is an exhaustive documentary. It really showcases a lot of cool things, from early footage, killer interviews and real insights.

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Cream - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2005 BluRay
Review by Gary Hill
I remember when I first heard about the Cream reunion I really wished I could have made the shows.

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Cream - The Making Of Disraeli Gears DVD
Review by Gary Hill
You've really got to love this series of DVD's. When these people say classic albums, they mean it.

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Various Artists - 108 Rock Star Guitars written by Lisa S. Johnson
Review by G. W. Hill

This is the quintessential coffee table book. That’s particularly true for those who love guitars.


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Various Artists - A Double Dose of the Blues
Review by G. W. Hill

This new double disc set features two different compilation albums. The first is a tribute to John Lee Hooker and the second is a sampling of British blues guys.


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Nektar - A Spoonful of Time
Review by G. W. Hill

The whole “do an album of covers” concept is a popular approach these days.


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Frank Zappa - Apostrophe'
Review by Gary Hill
Frank Zappa always amazed me. He’d put together some of the greatest musicians in the world and create these incredibly complex musical romps – and yet they’d be equally funny.
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Eric Clapton - Behind the Sun (Limited Edition Hybrid SACD version)
Review by G. W. Hill

This CD is one of the latest in a series of audiophile discs coming out.


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Various Artists - Best of Rockpalast
Review by G. W. Hill
"Rockpalast" was a German television show that broadcast concerts from a wide range of musical artists.

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Hawkwind - Dust of Time - 1969-2021 (2 CD Edition)
Review by Gary Hill
Without question, Hawkwind is one of my all-time favorite bands. So, I can't possibly review any Hawkwind release without that bias coming into it.

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Baker Gurvitz Army - Elysian Encounter
Review by Gary Hill

I've reviewed a box set of this band in the current issue of Music Street Journal. In addition, I'm doing individual retro reviews of this album and the first one.


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Hawkwind - Epoch Eclipse
Review by Gary Hill
Chronicling the entire career of the band, this box set really is a wonderful collection. It shows the diversity of Hawkwind in all their varying styles.
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Ginger Baker - Ginger Baker In Africa DVD
Review by Greg Olma
I had heard about this film years ago when I was looking for Cream material. It has finally come out on DVD and although you will find it in the music section of most video stores, this film is really more of a documentary.
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Eric Clapton - Journeyman (Limited Edition Hybrid SACD version)
Review by G. W. Hill

This is a new audiophile release of a classic Eric Clapton solo album.


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Various Artists - Keep Calm and Salute the Beatles
Review by G. W. Hill

I would say that this set is pretty effective.


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Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing
Review by Lorraine Kay
After 60 years (almost to the day) from when he first walked into Sun Records, in Memphis, Tennessee, Jerry Lee Lewis is still rocking and rolling.
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Various Artists - Legends Live at Montreux 1997 DVD
Review by Gary Hill
Well, they couldn't have titled this one better. This DVD is an excellent film record of a concert from the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival, and all these guys are legends.
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Various Artists - Legends Play The Beatles
Review by Gary Hill
This new album showcases a lot of cool Beatles covers from a number of artists. It's actually compiled of tracks previously released on a number of albums.

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Hawkwind - Levitation
Review by Gary Hill
Jim Lascko from Strange Trips, the US source for information on Hawkwind, describes space rock as being "characterized (by)(but certainly not limited to) spacey keyboards, driving guitar, sci-fi lyrics, repetitive chants, sound effects, long drawn out hard driving, high energy jams, along with the message that there is something wrong....something more going on in the Universe than just what is being done on this planet and our need to wake up to that fact, all played out against the backdrop of a killer lightshow!"
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Various Artists - Live at Knebworth
Review by Gary Hill
This live set from 1990 sure has a lot of great performances from a lot of great stars.

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Eric Clapton - Live at Montreux 1986 DVD
Review by Gary Hill
Eric Clapton might well be one of the highest rated guitarists in the business. Sometimes his talent deserves those accolades.
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Jack Bruce - Live At Rockpalast 1980, 1983 And 1990 2 DVD/5 CD Set
Review by Gary Hill

This is an amazing set. It starts off with two DVDs featuring three shows from the German TV show "Rockpalast." Then they add in five audio CDs with the music from those three shows.


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Paul McCartney - Live Kisses DVD
Review by G. W. Hill

As Paul McCartney describes it, he had always wanted to do an album of old standards.


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Mandoki Soulmates - Living in the Gap / Hungarian Pictures
Review by Gary Hill

Everything about this operation screams "classy." What I'm reviewing here is a double CD set.


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Jeff Beck - Performing This Week – Live at Ronnie Scott’s DVD
Review by Gary Hill
You know, you hear a lot of people rave about how incredible a guitarist Jeff Beck is.
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Hawkestrel - Pioneers of Space
Review by Gary Hill
Alan Davey is the man who is most responsible for Hawkestrel. It's basically his baby.

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Hawkwind - Road to Utopia
Review by Gary Hill

This is arguably one of the most divisive releases in Hawkwind's catalog. Let me lead off by saying that I land in the group of people really won over by it.


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Jack Bruce - Rockpalast: The 50th Birthday Concerts DVD Set
Review by G. W. Hill

It would be easy for a cynical person to assume that this was some hastily assembled set to cash in after the death of Jack Bruce.


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Jack Bruce - Silver Rails
Review by G. W. Hill

When you are Jack Bruce, it’s a safe bet you can get your pick of musicians who want to play with you. After all, when you were one third of one of the most influential bands of the 1960s (Cream), you have some clout. Bruce has used that clout to his advantage recruiting some impressive musicians to guest here. The end result is an album that’s exceptional. It might even make my best of 2014 list. There are moments here that call to mind Cream, but there are other sections that feels different than that. It’s all quite good, though.

As to those guests. Here’s a partial list of the musicians playing on the disc: Phil Manzanera, Uli Jon Roth, Robin Trower and Cindy Blackman Santana. There are quite a few others, too. The lineup is just one attraction, though. Really the music is the main driving force here, and it’s great.


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Baker Gurvitz Army - Since Beginning: The Albums 1974-1976
Review by Gary Hill

This brand new three-CD set is all class. It gathers together the three studio albums from Baker Gurvitz Army released from 1974-1976, but you probably get that from the title.


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Eric Clapton - Slowhand at 70 - Live at The Royal Albert Hall DVD/CD set
Review by G. W. Hill

This set was filmed during Eric Clapton’s 70th birthday tour.


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Hawkwind - Space Chase: 1980-1985
Review by G. W. Hill

Those looking for an introduction to the Huw Lloyd Langton period of Hawkwind in the first part of the 1980s might find this a perfect first purchase.


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The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels Live Blu-Ray
Review by Gary Hill
This latest Rolling Stones live release was recorded in 1989. The release includes the Blu-Ray and a double CD set of the audio of the show.

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Eric Clapton - The 1960s Review DVD
Review by Gary Hill

I’ve never been one of those people who were blown away by Eric Clapton. That said, I’ve always felt that music he did in the 1960s was, without question, the most vital and important of his career.


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Eric Clapton - The 1970s Review DVD
Review by G. W. Hill

In some ways the 1970s were Eric Clapton’s most productive, at least in terms of his solo career.


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Baker Gurvitz Army - The Baker Gurvitz Army
Review by Gary Hill

I've reviewed this album, and another from this group, in this issue of Music Street Journal. They are also both part of a box-set, reviewed in the same issue.


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Hawkestrel - The Future Is Us
Review by Gary Hill

The quick story is that this is an album with a lot of Hawkwind alums providing their talents. The longer tale is that it was assembled by Alan Davey with various parts coming from sessions recorded over the years.


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B. B. King - The Life of Riley DVD
Review by G. W. Hill

I’ve always loved B.B. King’s music. I’ve only seen him live once, but it was an incredible show.


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John Mayall - The Masters – Special Edition
Review by Gary Hill
This CD features music from the film Turning Point. It shows the old school John Mayall sound, which I’d probably best describe as “hippie blues.”
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Roger Waters - The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking
Review by Larry Toering

When Roger Waters enlisted Eric Clapton for this album it was compared a lot to those latter day Pink Floyd albums he so heavily influenced by that time. B


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Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
Review by Gary Hill
I remember that when I first tried to listen to this album years ago, I gave up on it fairly quickly. ll.

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The Yardbirds - The Story of the Yardbirds DVD
Review by Gary Hill
In doing research on this, I find that it’s a reissue of a documentary from 1992 that was released on VHS.
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Hawkwind - This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic
Review by Bruce Stringer
One step on from the classic, yet volatile, Levitation line-up this release is a collection of tracks highlighting their performance of 1981's Stonehenge festival, re-sequenced and sounding at their most energetic since the days of Lemmy. Ginger Baker, who was to leave shortly after this, added an element of jazz fusion to the chemistry in stark contrast to Simon King's staccato straight-four drumming and it's as if the set list was constructed to feature the mastery of British guitar legend Huw Lloyd-Langton.
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Various Artists - This is the Blues Volume 1
Review by Gary Hill
The premise of this series is a good one. Collect a bunch of killer blues performances and put them all in one place.

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Various Artists - This is the Blues Volume 2
Review by Gary Hill
Here’s another installment in the This is the Blues series. The music here is perhaps more exceptional than on the first one.

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Various Artists - This is the Blues Volume 3
Review by Gary Hill
This is (as the title suggests) the third installment in a blues collection. It features a number of artists putting in blues performances.

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Various Artists - Who Are You - An All-Star Tribute to the Who
Review by G. W. Hill

I like The Who quite a bit. I mean, they aren’t one of my favorite bands, but I do really like them.


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Hawkwind - Zones
Review by Gary Hill

I know a lot of people aren’t crazy about this disc. For my money it’s well worth having. 


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