Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers – 1984 Ritchie Blackmore! Ian Gillan! Jon Lord! The whole band is back! It’s a Mark II DP reunion! So how is it?!?!? Eh. Look, these guys can obviously play. And they know their instruments, how to play them and they know each others’ instruments Continue Reading
Listening Post: Purple Sabbath – Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon
Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon – 1983 Randy Rhodes died. And that’s pretty much the whole story here. Jake Lee is hired as his replacement and it almost works. The title track is great, energetic, shreddy. The rest of the album is….like carbon paper.If Diary of a Madman Continue Reading