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From the Classic Rock archive: August 2005

Cover of August 2005 issue.

• Page 4
• »  Can rock music change the world? The organisers of Live 8 certainly think so,...
• »  MEET CLASSIC ROCK Ian Fortnam Unashamed Johnny Thunders aficionado and punk...
• »  DEAD DEAD GOOD As a 40-something old rocker I find your ‘100 greatest’ lists...
• »  BON SCOTT: WE WANT THE TRUTH
• »  CLASSIC ROCK SAVED MY ASS Just like to say what a great mag Classic Rock is....
• »  READERS’ BADGES Loved your collection of badges shown in issue 80. Here’s a...
• »  WEILAND’S NAZI NONSENSE Enough Velvet Revolver already! They are a great...
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• »  SHOULD’VE PAID ATTENTION IN GEOGRAPHY The postcode and address might make you...
• »  ZAKK WYLDE IS A BIG GIRL Zakk Wylde is the rock world’s biggest hypocrite...
• »  CRÜE TO BE KIND I really enjoyed the Mötley Crüe feature in July’s issue of...
• »  LETTER OF THE MONTH ROCK’S DIAMOND GEEZER I enjoyed reading your article on...
• »  TEXT CROCK!
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• »  Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is among the guests on Santana’s forthcoming...
• »  LEMMY
• »  The ’Oo wants you!
• »  Poullain exits Darkness
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• »  Introducing
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• »  THE BRANDS THAT BUILT ROCK’N’ROLL
• »  According to Queensrÿche singer Geoff Tate, “the door is now officially...
• »  FRANK BLACK
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• »  Shaken and stirred
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• »  WORLD TOUR ROCK’N’ROLL LANDMARKS
• »  INXS are down to the last 15 hopefuls in their televised quest to find a new...
• »  Don’t Quote Me
• »  WISH YOU WERE HERE ★PINK FLOYD
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• »  Introducing
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• »  BRITAIN’S BEST TRIBUTE BANDS
• »  Iron Maiden release a new double live album and DVD on August 29. Death On...
• »  Welcome back...
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• »  LOS SOULS
• »  Opeth have signed a new deal with Roadrunner Records and are completing Ghost...
• »  CLUTCH
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• »  ★THE RAMONES
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• »  BRAD WILK AUDIOSLAVE
• »  For as yet undisclosed reasons, The Cure have parted company with guitarist...
• »  GOTTHARD
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• »  Introducing
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• »  THE POWER OF LOVE
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• »  Back with their most progressive album to date, meet the UK band who aren’t...
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• »  BadWisdom
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• »  RADIOACTIVE *GENE SIMMONS
• »  ROCK’N’ROLL SUICIDE
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• »  Rogue Male almost killed my mother!
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• »  ewind to a short time earlier.
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• »  On the road in the US in 1980, Laura Canyon encountered a distinctly...
• Page 35
• »  BACK IN BLACK TRACK-BY-TRACK
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• »  BACK IN BLACK: THE LYRICAL DEBATE
• Page 39
• »  WAS 1980 THE GREATEST YEAR IN METAL HISTORY?
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• »  BONG! THE STORY OF AC/DC’S HELL’S BELL
• Page 40
• »  hat is a power ballad? In its purest, most simplistic sense it’s a ballad...
• Page 41
• »  GEOFF TATE QUEENSRŸCHE
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• »  STEVE LUKATHER TOTO
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• »  SEBASTIAN BACH EX-SKID ROW
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• »  MICK JONES FOREIGNER
• »  KLAUS MEINE THE SCORPIONS
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• »  MEAT LOAF
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• »  JOE PERRY AEROSMITH
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• »  Seemingly on a mission to play more notes per second, in the most baffling...
• Page 49
• »  THE FIVE DREAM THEATER SOLO/SIDE PROJECTS YOU SHOULD HEAR.
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• »  ROCK’N’ ROLL ANIMALS? John Petrucci on Dream Theater’s five most excessive...
• Page 52
• »  BUSINESS
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• »  RONNO AND ME
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• »  DIARY
• Page 58
• »  A decade has passed since the Foo Fighters rose phoenix-like from the ashes...
• Page 60
• »  ON HIS REACTION TO BEING ASKED ABOUT KURT COBAIN’S DEATH
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• »  rs used to be easy to ognise: the
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• »  use
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• »  Double Dynamite
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• »  More than 25 years down the line, Killing Joke are still making music that is...
• Page 70
• »  Jaz Coleman is a very successful classical musician.
• Page 72
• »  Diamond in the rough
• »  BOB MOULD Body Of Song
• »  FRANK BLACK Honeycomb
• »  DANIEL LANOIS Belladonna
• »  GRAND MAGUS Wolf’s Return Rise Above
• »  GOTTHARD Lip Service
• Page 73
• »  HAYSEED DIXIE A Hot Piece Of Grass Cooking Vinyl Hillbilly covers band rock on.
• »  RAY WILSON Live
• »  ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK Beat Me
• »  SHELBY LYNNE Suit Yourself
• »  THE MUTTS Life In Dirt
• »  ROUND-UP: EXTREME By Tommy Udo
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• »  An ‘A’ please, Carol
• »  KINESIS You Are Being Lied To Captains Of Industry Rightful heirs to the...
• »  HAZY MALAZE Blackout Love Fargo Neal Casal’s rock ’n’ soul trio please...
• »  THE CASANOVAS The Casanovas Rubber Records
• »  STEPHEN STILLS Man Alive!
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• »  DEVILDRIVER The Fury Of Our Maker’s Hand
• »  AVENGED SEVENFOLD City Of Evil
• »  VARIOUS ARTISTS This Is Punk Rock Blues
• »  CLUTCH Robot Hive/Exodus DRT
• »  KINRICK Sense Your Darkness Majestic Rock Drab trad metal from...
• »  COLDPLAY X&Y
• »  ROUND-UP: PROG ROCK By Nick Shilton MAN ON FIRE Habitat ProgRock Led by...
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• »  BRIAN ENO Another Day On Earth
• »  FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND Hours (Atlantic) Welsh hopefuls come of age.
• »  WINGDOM Reality
• »  ONEIDA The Wedding
• »  DANKO JONES We Sweat Blood Razor and Tie It’s MISTER Jones for now on.
• »  And other new releases out this month...
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• »  SHADOW GALLERY Room V
• »  THOR Against the World Smog Veil A din from the son of Odin.
• »  BLOODSIMPLE A Cruel World Bullgoat/Reprise Ex-hardcore heroes unleash...
• »  TRASHMONKEYS The Maker
• »  ★ J MASCIS
• »  THE RED CHORD Clients
• »  THE GOLDENHOUR Always In The Now
• »  ROUND-UP: SLEAZE By Sleazegrinder
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• »  HAZEL O’CONNOR Hidden Heart AdHoc
• »  CANDIRIA What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes You Stronger
• »  ROBERT CRAY Twenty
• »  Dazed and confused
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• »  THE CHURCH El Momento Descuidado Cooking Vinyl
• »  WEEZER Make Believe Geffen Post-grungers’ fifth album turns the self-pity up...
• »  MARTHA WAINRIGHT Martha Wainright
• »  GILES Giles
• »  GUIDED BY VOICES Isolation Drills TVT Europe Polished album from lamented...
• »  And other new releases out this month...
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• »  Boston blues
• »  AMEN Gun Of A Preacher Man
• »  TYGERS OF PAN TANG Leg Of The Boot – Live In Holland Angel Air
• »  AL STEWART A Beach Full Of Shells
• »  KRAFTWERK Minimum-Maximum EMI
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• »  In 1994 Killing Joke recorded Exorcism in the King’s Chamber of Cairo’s Great...
• Page 81
• »  ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN Burn Bright Burn Fast
• »  LOUIS XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept Atlantic
• »  JUMP Faithful Faithless DenTel
• »  DANIEL WYLIE Postcards
• »  STYX
• »  DEMONS & WIZARDS Touched By The Crimson King
• »  ROUND-UP: MELODIC ROCK By Dave Reynolds
• Page 82
• »  GWAR Live From Mount Fuji DRT
• »  BRAZEN ABBOT My Resurrection Frontiers
• »  SKEW SISKIN Devil’s Disciple
• »  DANIEL ASH Come Alive Fulfill Epic live stuff from Harmony Hairspray’s most...
• »  THE KNITTERS The Modern Sounds Of The Knitters
• »  And other new releases out this month...
• Page 83
• »  JESSE HECTOR Gorilla Garage
• »  KLAUS SCHULZE Reissues
• »  RASPBERRIES Greatest
• »  THE JOOK Different Class
• »  ONSLAUGHT Reissues
• »  THE RADIATORS
• »  Pop idol
• Page 84
• »  PAT BENATAR Greatest Hits EMI
• »  THE HERD The Complete Herd Repertoire Time to put The Herd out to graze for...
• »  3 COLOURS RED If You Ain’t Got A Weapon... You’ll Never Get A Say Castle
• »  ED KUEPPER Everybody’s Got To
• »  Bring your own bombs
• Page 85
• »  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS A User’s Guide To...
• »  VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Reissues
• »  GILES GILES & FRIPP The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles Giles & Fripp
• »  MOTT THE HOOPLE Family Anthology
• »  THE MELVINS Mangled Demos From 1983 Ipecac
• »  DEEP PURPLE Live In Stockholm Purple Records Paint It Black done as a drum...
• »  Welcome to the machine
• Page 86
• »  EXCITER Reissues Megaforce Four albums from classic 80s Canadian thrashers.
• »  BARRACUDAS Drop Out With The Barracudas
• »  CANNED HEAT Very Best Of
• »  CLAM ABUSE Stop Thinking
• »  The song remains the same
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• »  THE MEMBERS Res-Erected - The Very Best of The Members Patchy ‘best of’...
• »  PETE YORK Percussion Band Purple
• »  STEVE MORSE Prime Cuts Magna Carta/Mascot Career highlights from current Deep...
• »  THE ADVERTS Cast Of Thousands The Devil’s Own Jukebox Bored teenagers grow up.
• »  JEZEBELLE Jezebelle
• »  BILL FAY Reissues
• »  PETER HAMMILL Fool’s Mate
• »  REISSUES: KILLING JOKE
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• »  AMON DÜÜL II Reissues
• »  ROKY ERICKSON Reissues Rykodisc Troubled but seminal garage rocker beats his...
• »  GONG Live In Sherwood Forest ’75 Major League Productions Vintage live album...
• »  Feels like the last time
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• »  ’Spring-loaded
• »  FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Out Of State Plates Virgin
• »  BURZUM Burzum
• »  JOHN
• »  WOLFPAC Evil Is...
• Page 90
• »  BLUE ÖYSTER CULT The Singles Collection
• »  BOB DYLAN Reissues Sony/BMG Classic early albums, remastered.
• »  JERRY GARCIA & HOWARD WALES Hooteroll? Douglas Garcia’s first post-Dead album...
• »  TIGERTAILZ Reissues
• »  BRIAN WILSON I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
• »  MEDUSA Clash Of The Titans Majestic Rock Forgettable NWOBHM
• »  REISSUES: Porcupine Tree
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• »  * Iron Maiden
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• »  Taking it to the extreme
• »  THE PRETTIEST STAR: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRETT SMILEY? Nina Antonia
• »  ALL
• »  LED ZEPPELIN IV Erik Davis
• »  BILL WYMAN’S TREASURE ISLANDS Bill Wyman & Richard Havers Sutton
• »  BEATS WORKING FOR A LIVING –
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• »  EXILE ON MAIN ST.
• »  KIDS IN THE RIOT: HIGH AND LOW WITH THE LIBERTINES Pete Welsh
• »  BLACK COFFEE BLUES Henry Rollins
• »  RAMONES Nicholas Rombes Continuum
• »  WHORES: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF PERRY FARRELL AND JANE’S ADDICTION Brendan...
• »  Life after punk
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• »  ★TURNTABLES★
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• »  Pretty vacuous
• »  LOU REED
• »  THUNDER Flawed To Perfection – The Video
• »  THE STRANGLERS Live ’78 SF Target
• »  RARE EARTH Rock ’N’ Roll Greats – In Concert Sanctuary Visual Entertainment...
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• »  ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis By The Presleys Sony/BMG Full four-hour-plus, Priscilla-...
• »  YES Songs From Tsongas – Yes 35th
• »  SOCIAL DISTORTION Live in Orange County Time Bomb Recordings A cracking night...
• »  BEACH BOYS Endless Harmony Eagle Vision From surf through sandbox to Smile.
• »  JEAN MICHEL JARRE Jarre In China: The Collector’s Edition
• »  BERNIE TORME Stratocaster Gypsy Angel Air
• »  TV times
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• »  EAGLES Hell Freezes Over Never too cold to rock’n’roll.
• »  VARIOUS Live At Rockpalast
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• »  MEAT LOAF
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• »  STEVE LUKATHER
• »  HAYSEED DIXIE
• »  13TH DAY FESTIVAL
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• »  BLACK SABBATH Aylesbury Civic Centre
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• »  CLUTCH Mean Fiddler, London
• »  PORCUPINE TREE Batschkapp, Frankfurt
• »  LOU REED Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
• »  ROLLING STONES Lincoln Center, New York City
• »  BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Paramount Theater, Oakland, California
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• »  THE HUB
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• »  POMPOUS ROCK’N’ROLL QUOTES