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From the Classic Rock archive: April 2005

Cover of April 2005 issue.

• Page 8
• »  Hello you old wizard, and welcome to the new, improved, turbo- charged,...
• »  MEET CLASSIC ROCK Sleazegritder
• »  MEATY, BEATY, BIG 'N' BOUNCY What’s going on? Saw the teasers saying you’re...
• »  KEEP MUSICIANS OUT OF CLASSIC ROCK
• »  FOR THOSE WHO FORGOT HOW TO ROCK... WELCOME BACK I’m just writing to say...
• »  THERE’S ONLY ONE C-ROCK Correct me if i’m wrong, but is the Inside DVD...
• »  GETTING IN A BIND Dear Mr Rock. Cheers for awarding me your Classic Rock...
• Page 9
• »  PRIEST: IF THE DARKNESS CAN GET AWAY WITH IT...
• »  STYX IN THE STICKS Styx are playing in Bristol! Yes, unbelievable but true,...
• »  £500 FOR REHEATED CREAM? As a music fan I am bloody furious. Cream announced...
• »  NOT SO GUILTY PLEASURES While reading with great interest your interview with...
• »  TEXT CROCK!
• Page 10
• »  “We’d be idiots not to do another Sabbath album!”
• Page 11
• »  Ex-Alice In Chains members guitarist Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez and...
• »  Bruce gets Tyrannical
• »  Bon-jour, Mr Kinnear
• Page 12
• »  SLASH VELVET REVOLVER
• »  Dio have announced an October tour with a difference. Billed as ‘An Evening...
• »  Don’t Quote Me
• »  And the award goes to...
• »  He-e-e-re’s Johnny!
• Page 13
• »  ★LUDES
• »  LUDE LISTENING THE ALBUMS THAT LEAD TO LUDES.
• Page 14
• »  THE BRANDS THAT BUILT ROCK’N’ROLL
• »  The reunited Van Der Graaf Generator release a new double album, Present,...
• »  Welcome back...
• Page 15
• »  ROCK’N’ROLL SUICIDE
• »  The 10th anniversary of Rory Gallagher’s death is to be commemorated with an...
• »  JOE LYNN TURNER
• Page 16
• »  WORLD TOUR ROCK’N’ROLL LANDMARKS
• »  Motörhead celebate their 30th anniversary with a one-off show at Hammersmith...
• »  Don’t Quote Me
• »  HOUSES OF THE HOLY ★LED ZEPPELIN
• Page 17
• »  ★DAYS OF WORTH
• »  THE HOLY TRINITY The three bands that inspired DOW.
• Page 18
• »  BRITAIN’S BEST TRIBUTE BANDS
• »  Kid Rock has been arrested in Nashville for allegedly assaulting a strip club...
• »  STEVE DIGGLE
• Page 19
• »  LOS SOULS
• »  Keith Knudsen, long- time drummer with The Doobie Brothers, has died of...
• »  ADRIAN BELEW
• Page 20
• »  ★THE GROUNDHOGS
• Page 21
• »  TheDirt
• »  Former Warrior Soul drummer Mark Evans has been murdered in London’s East...
• »  Welcome back...
• Page 23
• »  SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH
• Page 25
• »  RONNIE JAMES DIO
• Page 27
• »  A7W1111esdrrrl
• Page 28
• »  LOVE REMOVAL MACHINE ★THE CULT
• Page 29
• »  Deep Purple vs. Led Zeppelin
• Page 30
• »  The Clash’s REAL masterpiece
• Page 37
• »  Guns N’ Roses were the biggest and most dangerous band in the world. Now – as...
• Page 41
• »  “THEY WERE THE LAST GREAT HARD ROCK BAND.” “Guns N’ Roses were the last great...
• Page 42
• »  DUFF McKAGAN
• Page 43
• »  “THEY WERE VERY RESPECTFUL.
• Page 44
• »  SLASH
• Page 46
• »  MATT SORUM
• Page 47
• »  THE LOST GN’R MOVIE
• Page 48
• »  STEVEN ADLER
• Page 51
• »  Midgets, abduction, buffalo: the world’s rock stars recall the moments when...
• Page 57
• »  superj WORDS: HENRY YATES ic
• Page 59
• »  The Stereophonics’ albums rated.
• Page 61
• »  By 1969, The Rolling Stones were in total disarray.
• Page 63
• »  WATTS – THE
• Page 66
• »  BLOOD ON THE TRACK On December 6, 1969, the Stones play a free concert at the...
• Page 67
• »  Frank Marino was an acid casualty as a kid in the 60s, and his psychedelic...
• Page 69
• »  UP THE
• Page 72
• »  What happened after The Grand Illusion? Along with Dennis DeYoung, Styx...
• Page 73
• »  Dennis DeYoung on the battles within the band.
• Page 74
• »  Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Rock’n’roll Bikini
• Page 76
• »  ★CRUCIFIED BARBARA
• Page 77
• »  Out of the woods
• Page 78
• »  ANTISEEN Badwill Ambassadors TKO
• »  50 FOOT WAVE Golden Ocean 4AD
• »  JUDIE TZUKE The End Of The Beginning
• »  STROMMOUSHELD Halfdecadence
• Page 79
• »  DIO Evil Or Divine: Live In New York City Spitfire Times past captured well...
• »  THE FEVER Red Bedroom
• »  COMEBACK KID Wake The Dead Victory Shouty Canadians get out of wrong side of...
• »  LEMON JELLY 64-95 XL Recordings Chill-out maestros’ guilty samples.
• »  SACK TRICK Sheep In Kiss Make-Up
• »  MOGWAI Government Commissions
• »  HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW Life In Dreaming
• »  ROUND-UP: EXTREME By Tommy Udo
• Page 80
• »  RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Want Two Geffen Son of Loudon with companion to 2003’s Want...
• »  STEREOPHONICS Language. Sex.
• »  SOILWORK Stabbing The Drama Nuclear Blast
• »  Branching out
• »  Q&A Steve Wilson on the ’Wing
• Page 81
• »  The Devil made me do it
• »  Q&A Idol Gossip. Billy gets playful.
• »  MATTHEW SWEET Living Things
• »  PETER WALKER Landed Cooking Vinyl Lo-fi debut avoids usual genre pitfalls –...
• »  HONEYMOON SUITE HMS Live
• »  BLOC PARTY Silent Alarm
• Page 82
• »  THE SUMMER OF MARS Glaciers
• »  EXTOL
• »  VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Present
• »  THE CHRIS STAMEY EXPERIENCE A Question Of Temperature
• »  BLACK BONZO Black Bonzo
• »  THE HOUSE OF LOVE Days Run Away Art And Industry Former next-big-things stage...
• Page 83
• »  TYLA Mightier Than The Sword Vols 1 & 2 Available from www.tylaonline.co.uk...
• »  WAKEMAN & COUSINS Live
• »  BAP KENNEDY The Big Picture
• »  STEVE VAI Real Illusions: Reflections Sony/BMG Hard-to-play, emotionally cold...
• »  NAPALM DEATH The Code Is Red...
• »  THE EXPLOSION Black Tape Virgin Fresh, Boston-based punk rock with...
• »  ★ Daryl PALUMBO
• Page 82
• »  ROUND-UP: PROG By Nick Shilton
• Page 83
• »  ROUND-UP: AMERICANA By Jon Hotten JOHN DOE
• »  NQ ARBUCKLE Hanging The Battle-Scarred Pinata Six Shooter
• »  THE BROKEN FAMILY BAND Welcome Home, Loser Track & Field
• »  REX HOBART AND THE MISERY BOYS Empty House Bloodshot
• Page 84
• »  VIC CHESNUTT Ghetto Bells
• »  STEVE HOOKER Boptown
• »  ADLER’S
• »  THE WEDDING PRESENT Take Fountain Scorpitones No second honeymoon for indie...
• »  Letting it bleed
• Page 85
• »  A riot of their own
• »  ALISTAIR COWAN Why I Can See Stars 320
• »  TIM BOWNESS My Hotel Year One Little Indian
• »  UMPHREY’S McGEE Anchor Drops
• »  STEVE TURNER & HIS BAD IDEAS Steve Turner & His Bad Ideas Beautiful Happiness...
• Page 86
• »  Bad Things by name...
• »  THE FEATURES Exhibit A Temptation Joyless debut by clueless new- wave rip-off...
• »  THE BRAIN SURGEONS Black Hearts Of Soul – Tenth Anniversary Cellsum
• »  ANTIHERO This Is An Emergency Alpha Engineering Decidedly average, though...
• »  THE BUFF MEDWAYS Medway Wheelers Damaged Goods Billy Childish in blazing...
• »  MARK MULCAHY In Pursuit Of Your
• Page 87
• »  HEM
• »  AMBULANCE LTD Ambulance Ltd
• »  SABATON Primo Victoria Black Lodge
• »  MAZE OF TORMENT Hammers Of Mayhem Black Lodge Clueless retro bludgeoning?...
• »  IDLEWILD Warnings/Promises Parlophone Scots indie troubadours grow old...
• »  ROUND-UP: SLEAZE By Sleazegrinder
• Page 88
• »  The soft parade
• »  BRITISH SEA POWER Open Season Rough Trade 80s-influenced eccentrics follow-up...
• »  NIGHTRAGE Descent Into Chaos Century Media Thundering second album from the...
• »  JOE LYNN TURNER The Usual Suspects
• »  FLUID SOL Fluid Sol
• »  MILESABOVE Move Or Be Moved Escape Music It’s melodic rock, Jim, just not as...
• Page 89
• »  GRATITUDE Gratitude
• »  THE LEGENDARY LEN Songs About Love, Dreams & Domestic
• »  ALEC EMPIRE Futurist
• »  JOHN NORUM Optimus
• »  NEIL ZAZA Melodica
• Page 90
• »  JULIAN COPE Citizen Cain’d Head Heritage Scouse psychonaut goes on his most...
• »  HONDO MACLEAN Unspoken Dialect Mighty Atom
• »  RIPCHORD Choose Your War...
• »  DOVES Some Cities EMI
• »  HELL IS FOR HEROES Transmit Disrupt Captains Of Industry Brit rock fall guys’...
• »  KELLY KEELING Giving Sight To The Eye
• »  ROUND-UP: MELODIC ROCK By Dave Reynolds
• Page 91
• »  AMERICAN DOG Scars-N-Bars www.phoenixrecords.de Another slice of spit ‘n’...
• »  JOHN
• »  THE JOHN BUTLER TRIO Sunrise Over Sea Lava/Atlantic
• »  BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Mafia
• »  HAMMERFALL Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
• Page 94
• »  Out of his box?
• Page 95
• »  THE ROLLING STONES Singles 1968-1971
• »  CONFLICT Rebellion Sucks
• »  MC5
• »  MOTÖRHEAD Motörhead
• Page 96
• »  BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS Blood Sweat & Tears Repertoire BS&T fire their founder...
• »  SKY Reissues
• »  SURVIVOR Eye Of The Tiger
• »  THE SLITS Live At The Gibus Club Castle Music
• »  TOMMY BOLIN Bolin
• »  WASP The Sting/Helldorado Snapper Music Just bloody awful.
• »  REISSUES: STATUS QUO
• Page 97
• »  CACTUS WORLD NEWS Urban Beaches/ No Shelter Red Coral/Universal Pomp and...
• »  SPEAR OF DESTINY In Concert: Do You Believe In The Westworld? Shakedown SOD...
• »  ROGER GLOVER Mask
• »  VARIOUS Grammy Nominees 2005 Capitol Green Day, Evanescence fight rock’s...
• »  Kick-Ars rock’n’roll
• Page 98
• »  The single life
• »  STEALERS WHEEL Right Or Wrong
• »  GALACTIC COWBOYS Galactic Cowboys
• »  VARIOUS Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 2004 Mute
• »  THE WAIFS A Brief History...
• »  JADIS
• Page 99
• »  SYLVAIN SYLVAIN New York’s A Go Go Easy Action Former New York Doll’s solo...
• »  NEKTAR
• »  TOY DOLLS Cheerio And Toodlepip! – The
• »  THE FALL Hex Enduction Hour Castle Music
• »  JOHN ENTWISTLE So, Who’s The Bass Player?
• »  REISSUES: THE GUN CLUB
• Page 100
• »  OZRIC TENTACLES Waterfall Cities/ The Hidden Step Snapper Recall
• »  SWERVEDRIVER Juggernaut Rides Castle Best of the shoegazing band who weren’t...
• »  CHELSEA Urban Kids: A Punk Rock Anthology Sanctuary Second-division punk...
• »  JOHNNY WINTER The Progressive Blues Experiment
• »  KLAUS SCHULZE Reissues
• »  REISSUES: DINOSAUR JR
• Page 101
• »  GBH Dead On Arrival Sanctuary True punk with loads of in-yer- face attitude...
• »  THE POWER STATION The Power Station EMI
• »  AFTER THE FIRE Der Kommissar: The CBS Recordings
• »  THE EXPLOITED Reissues
• »  Never a dull moment
• Page 102
• »  Hairspray heaven
• »  DROPKICK MURPHYS Singles Collection Vol 2
• »  TERRAPLANE We Survive: The Anthology
• »  ASIA Archiva I & II Snapper Solid selection of previously unreleased odds ‘n’...
• »  KILLSWITCH ENGAGE The End Of Heartache Roadrunner
• Page 103
• »  MIDWAY STILL I Won’t Try
• »  BRIAN ENO Reissues Virgin Third batch of ambient reissues from the one-time...
• »  SPIRIT
• »  ADAM ANT Reissues
• »  SUICIDE Reissues
• Page 104
• »  ★Aerosmith
• Page 106
• »  MESSAGE TO LOVE The Isle Of Wight Festival
• »  HENRY ROLLINS Shock & Awe Cooking Vinyl Human rottweiler in ‘funny guy’ shocker.
• »  GOO GOO DOLLS Live In Buffalo
• »  TEENAGE KICKS The Story Of The Undertones Sanctuary A timely release for DVD...
• »  NIRVANA Classic Albums: Nevermind
• »  JAYNE COUNTY & THE ELECTRIC CHAIRS Man Enough To Be A Woman Cherry Red Films...
• »  Made in the Spades
• Page 107
• »  THE ROLLING THUNDER LOGBOOK Sam Shepard
• »  1000 UK NUMBER ONE HITS Jon Kutner &
• »  HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW Andrew Collins Ebury, £10.99 Provincial...
• »  SUICIDE: NO COMPROMISE David Nobakht SAF Publishing, £20 Story of the band...
• »  MICK JAGGER – THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY Alan Clayson
• »  TOO WEIRD FOR ZIGGY Sylvie Simmons
• »  Milk and honey
• Page 108
• »  DAB RADIO – THE BEST PORTABLES
• Page 111
• »  THE SCORPIONS
• Page 112
• »  MARILLION
• »  BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST
• »  ARTHUR BROWN Reunions, special guests, DJs... the God Of Hellfire promises...
• Page 117
• »  TOWERS OF LONDON
• Page 119
• »  STATUS QUO Manchester Apollo
• Page 120
• »  GREEN DAY London Hammersmith Apollo
• Page 121
• »  GLENN HUGHES Mean Fiddler, London
• »  MEGADETH/ DIAMOND HEAD Manchester Academy
• »  THIN LIZZY Shepherd’s Bush Empire
• »  THE BRAIN SURGEONS 100 Club, London
• »  NIGHTWISH Astoria, London
• Page 122
• »  ROCK REVOLUTION The Welly Club, Hull
• Page 126
• »  100 REASONS WHY THE BEATLES SUCK