Vinyl Vault

Bob Seger's Turn The Page doesn't usually come to mind when talking Seger rarities.  It's one of his biggest and most loved hits, if not thee biggest.  But that immortal live version was honed from an original studio version, which hasn't been available commercially for years and yea

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Neil Young's big comeback album "Freedom" in 1989 gets a spin today.  The single Rockin' In The Free World was huge, coming after a decade of career misfires and lawsuits, it was great to see this old work horse get back in the spotlight.  Plus this album may have brought in a whole new musical genre, Grunge.  Le

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Doors fans can't miss today's Vinyl Vault, one of the moodiest and strangest fan faves ever, The End, ran in it's entirety.  Hardly radio fare with it's hypnotizing effect and long length, some good reasons why it's hardly ever on commercial stations.  But the Vinyl Vault can break a rule or two, right?  If Fra

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Steve Winwood just put Traffic back together in 1971 after a brief hiatus that included some solo work and Blind Faith, projects that gave him a renewed fresh creative boost for his old work horse of a band.  The new Traffic music was much more mature and defined, with less emphasis on the jazzy feel and more on a progressive direction.  Released at the tail end of that year, the Low Spark of High-Heeled

The best Ronnie James Dio era Black Sabbath album is without a doubt Heaven And Hell from 1980.  It was the first time Ozzy Osbourne wasn't involved in a Sabbath project and Dio's presence brought much change to the band and it's sound.  This album was a huge hit with both fans and critics, and cont

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One of my favorite Alice Cooper albums will always be Killer, from 1971.  The band had cut its chops with super producer Bob Ezrin the previous year with Love It To Death, so this was the obvious next step ... progressive rock.  I think they pulled it

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Trooper was a Juno Award winning Canadian act that enjoyed much success there during the late 1970's and early 1980's.  Signed and produced by Randy Bachman during the hit years, they managed only on

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If you can, forget about the milky pop direction that Chicago took during the 1970's and concentrate on their first few years together, 1968-1970.  Those were the formative years when the band was ex

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The rarely heard Queen rocker Tie Your Mother Down is the Vault track today, by request.  With all due respect to mothers everywhere, it's a tongue-in-cheek thing, says writer Brian May.  "It was meant as a joke."  Freddie, ye

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Classic Who today from an album thought of, at first, as another "rock opera."  It actually wasn't, nor was Tommy, but collections of songs that were related to the same stories.  Wouldn't "Concept" albums would be a better description?  Anyway, they ar

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Back to the summer of 1969 and an album considered by many classic rock fans as one of the best ever recorded, the first Crosby, Stills & Nash set.  Not only did it introduce these three immense talents to the world, but helped change the landscape of music i

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One of the more interesting projects from both Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton's past would probably be the Blind Faith project in 1969.  Both musicians were in transitional periods so they didn't really know what they wanted to do and it was fleeting,

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