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The Album Review Club - Week #147 - (page 1942) - Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan
- Thread starter RobMCFC
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PragueBlue
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A group that I have tended to try and avoid for some reason. Will be an interesting one.
BlueHammer85
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Is this on Spotify.
Cannot find it.
Yep
FogBlueInSanFran
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It's not my all-time favo(u)rite of theirs, but like all the DLR records, I own it, and also like all the DLR records, I like it!
OB1
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Thought you might still have the DMs….I had about 60 posters top 20 and it was 3-4 years ago? As if I can remember that !
Anyway, good first listen- gets the blood pumping!
RobMCFC
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And it was only 2 years ago.Thought you might still have the DMs….
Saddleworth2
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OB1
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Heavy metal/hard rock is really not my thing at all but I will give it a good listen.
Just a question @OB1, how old were you when you first listened to this?
I was at Uni but my love of North American hard rock etc was already in place and remains undimmed. This was also Van Halen's third album and I was an early adopter of the band. I had their first album even before I saw them for the first time, supporting Black Sabbath. Consequently, I was au fait with the brilliance, and back then uniqueness, of Eddie Van Halen, whose influence was still in its infancy; now he is widely revered as on of the greatest and most influential of rock guitarists.
The album though is not just about Eddie. The rhythm section are brilliant and Roth is superb. Roth gets plenty of stick over his voice. VH wouldn't initially recruit him because they didn't think he could sing. His voice hasn't aged well but as Dave himself claimed he might not have been a great singer but he was a great vocalist and also has an immediately identifiable sound and style of his own. Just last night I was viewing some clips from the Taylor Hawkins Tribute in LA - I was lucky enough to go to the one at Wembley - and watching Wolfgang Van Halen perform a acouple of VH songs was a reminder of Roth's value. WVH did a spectacular job of playing his Dad's parts and on vocals he was accompanied by the talented Justin Hawkins (lead singer of the Darkness) at both gigs. Hawkins has a considerable vocal range but his delivery of the VH songs compared to Roth was vastly inferior.