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After Hours is the latest album by American singer-songwriter as well as an member of the legendary American group the Eagles Glenn Frey. It is Glenn's first solo album in 20 years since when he released Strange Weather in 1992 and this album has standards from the 1940's-60's and as the title track written by Glenn and Jack Tempchin. The album was recorded at the The Doghouse in Los ANgeles, California with Glenn producing and arranging the album with Richard FW Davis and Michael Thompson who also play with Glenn on this album. and it's mixed by Elliott Scheiner as well as the orchestral arrangements are done by ALan Broadbent. It's an excellent and Brilliant album with an excellent performance and singing by glenn Frey who is in fine form and he sings the songs very well which among them are Caroline No(from pet Sounds by the Beach Boys), my buddy, Route 66, Worried Mind, Same Girl and many others. The orchestra musicians are just playing brilliantly on the album

On Saturday May 26th I went to carina Leagues CLub to see the ELvis Tribute perfromer Gabe Phoenix which it was my 5th time seeing him as I saw him 4 times at Wintersun 2009 on Wednesday June 3rd 2009 @ Seagulls and at the Free Show @ Gold COast Airport stage on Sunday June 7th 2009 and Wintersun 2010 at the civic centre oN Wednesday June 9th 2010 and the Gold COast Airport stage on Saturday June 12th 2010. the show started at 8pm with the back up band the Premiers which includes Arnold Lovejoy on guitar did an set songs of stuff by the Drifters, Manhattan Transfer, Sam Cooke, Dion and others and at about 8.27pm Gabe Phoenix came on stage which he did 3 sets that were the early elvis, the comeback special and the vegas years which was the later years and in those sets he did the classic Elvis Presley hits as well as some album tracks and in some of the songs Gabe would walking through the crowd shaking hands and the women kissing and hugging him too. The show would last until after

Let's have a look at the 1975 album by the Bee Gees called Main Course which was the 13th album for the group. The Bee Gees by this time 1975 had been through an rough patch in the 1972-74 period after the success they had after returning to England in 1967 after 9 years living in Australia which they lived in brisbane,gold coast and Sydney where they had recorded for Festival records and later Spin where they released 12 singles including Wine and Women no 19 and the big hit Spicks and Specks went to no 5 and the successful period after returning to ENgland included New York Mining Disaster 1941, To Love Somebody, Massachusetts, WOrld, Words, Jumbo, I've Gotta Get A Message to you, I started A Joke, First of May as well as having the 15 month break up from 1969-70 and coming back in 1070 with hits like Lonely Days, How Can you Mend A Broken Heart, Run To Me and My World and after that went to rut which they were'nt getting successful and even at one point they recorded a

Normie Rowe is an legend of Australian music and entertainment but 47 years he was an newcomer on the Australian rock music scene having performed since he was an boy starting singing in an local church choir and perfomed in an rock'n'roll dance in an local hall and also it was at an Lou Toppano school concert where legendary Melbourne Disc Jockey Stan Rofe who was the compering the show discovered Normie and was impressed with his talent that he arranged for Normie to work with Kevin McLellan an local dance promoter who ran shows in Melbourne which Normie played around the dances in Melbourne working with bands like the Thunderbirds, the Imposter and the Playboys who would back him up until 1967. Normie was popular on the Melbourne dance circut and then began appearing on pop music shows like Teen Scene on the ABC hosted by Johnny Chester and the Go SHow originally hosted by Alan Field, then later on Ian Turpie, Johnny Young and Ronnie Burns and signs up with Sunshine Re

On Saturday May 19th I went to Easts Leagues CLub to see the Legendary Brisbane rock pop group the Avengers which it was 6th time seeing them as well as my 4th time seeing them so far this year this year. The show started at 7.30pm which they did 4 FANTASTIC sets of stuff from ELvis, Buddy Holly,The BEatles, Dion Di Mucci, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac, Chuck Berry and others and this time added an few different songs which was just great as you need to do different songs sometimes to keep it fresh. They did Don't Stop and Have you ever seen the rain for me which was nice of them to do that as well as during the 2nd set an guitarist named Simon came on stage for a few songs and the show lasted until 11.30pm when it finished. The show was just FANTASTIC as always which everyone had an great time including myself and the group were just FANTASTIC as always too which after the show I spoke with Graham, Roger and Mick about the group's history which I asked how they

On Friday May 18th I went to Mt Gravatt Bowls CLub to see Cotton Keays and Morris show which it was my 5th time seeing them.The show started at 8.20pm with just Jim Keays and Russell Morris coming on stage as they in the early minutes of the show that Daryl Cotton was not well which was the reason why he was not there and for the next 1 hour and 3o minutes Jim and Russell did many of their famous stuff like Jim's stuff with the Masters Apprentices as well as the title track from the 1975 album Boy From the Stars and Russell did his famous solo hits from the 60's & 70's and they did other people's songs as well. They had an funny and wicked sense of humor as well during the show as well as talking about Molly Meldrum too as they saw him recently and also had an great back up with had on Drums Jon Carson, Chris Alford on piano and on guitar the legendary Tim Gaze from Tamam Shud, Ariel,Kahavas Jute, the bushwackers and other bands. the show finished at

This week's classic album segment let's go back to the 50's this time which the album I am reviewing is the 1957 album by US pioneering rocker Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps called Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps. this album was the follow up to the first album called Blue Jean Bop that was released in 1956 and this album was recorded on June 27th,October 16th,17th and 18th 1956 which it was released on March 4th 1957 which it was released on the Capitol label. It was produced by Ken Nelson who also wor ked with Merle Travis, Hank Thompson,Wanda Jackson, Ferlin Huskey and many others and on background vocals were the legendary vocal group the Jordanaires who was working with Elvis Presley at the time as well as later on Ricky nelson, Jim Reeves,Connie Francis, Patsy Cline, Johnny Horton and many others. It's an rockin classic album with great rockin songs like pink Thunderbird, You Told A Fib, Hold Me Hug me Rock Me, Unchained Melody and many others which holds up reall

LAst Saturday May 12th I went to Carina Leagues Club to see Brisbane group Dance which it was my 3rd time seeing them as I saw both at carina Leagues club in 2008 and 2009 and the current line up os different as the drummer named Sylvia has retired as well as Dave Davis who has left and is replaced by Peter Van ROy as well as on the night of the show Rick Harris the current guitarist was there so peter played guitar on the night.The show started @ 7.30pm which they did 4 great sets doing stuff by Elvis, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Lonnie Lee, Buddy Holly, Little RIchard as well as some country stuff and Peter the guitarist was just excellent on the night as well. The show finished at 11.30pm which it was an great show which the band were great and everyone had an great time including me. I saw an guy from CCT, my facebook friend Maria, my cousin David and his friends Terry,Andy and Jake. Dance On are just an great band as well as excellent too and I look forward to seeing this band aga

LAte this month legendary Australian singer Daryl braithwaite is doing an an 4 date Queensland tour starting on May 31st. Daryl who is known for being the lead singer of the legendary Australian rock group Sherbet with hits like Summer Love, Cassandra, Free the People, Life, You've got the Gun, Howzat and many classics as well as the successful solo hits including You're My WOrld, One Summer, Rise, All I Do, Higher Than Hope and the Horses. Daryl will perform his solo hits as well as Sherbet stuff and other songs and always put on an FANTASTIC show which he gets everyone to sing along. If you have not seen Daryl go and see him and hope you enjoy an great show by one of the true legends of Australian rock as well as one of the great singers. Dates- Woombye Hotel May 31st Hamilton Hotel brisbane June 1st Kallangur Tavern June 2nd Coolangatta Hotel June 3rd

This week's classic album segment is I am looking at the 1966 album by legendary British rock band the Rolling Stones. By this time in 1966 the Stones were riding high with successful hits Like It's All Over Now, Little Red Rooster, Time Is On My Side, The Last time, Get Off My Cloud, Satisfaction, 19th nervous Breakdown and others and had successful albums like the Rolling Stones , 12x5, Out of Our Heads and December's Children. The recording for Aftermath began @ RCA studios in Hollywood on December 3rd 1965 which lasted til the 8th and again from March 6th-9th 1966 with manager Andrew Loog Oldham who produced the album and Dave Hassinger did the engineering. the album was released on April 15th 1966 iN England which went to number 1 where it stayed there for 28 weeks and no 2 in the USA when it was released on June 20th where it stayed there for 50 weeks and there were no hits from that album in ENgland but some of the songs were hits for others like Take It Or Leave It

Next weekend Legendary Australian singers Cotton Keays and morris are playing 3 shows in Queensland next weekend. Daryl Cotton known as an member of the legendary Australian rock group back in the 60's Zoot with hits like Eleanor Rigby, 1x2x3x4, Monty and me and many others as well as solo career with hits like the Same Old Girl in 1980, worked in AMerica in the 70's doing song writing and in the 80's hosted the kids show the Early Bird Show on CHannel 10 on Saturday mornings.Jim Keays known as the lead singer of the legendary Australian band The MAsters Apprentices with hits like Undecided, Buried and Dead, living In A child's Dream, ELevator Driver, Turn Up Your Radio, Because I Love You and others well as an solo career which he has released an new album called Dirty Dirty. Russell Morris started with Somebody's Image and had successful solo hits with The Real Thing(written By Johnny Young and Produced by Molly Meldrum), sweet sweet Love, Wings of A Eagle, R

the album Gift Of Song was the second solo album for Judith Durham lead singer of the legendary Australian group the Seekers and it is now out on CD. This album was recorded at Western Recorders in Hollywood,California,USA in 1969 which took 6 weeks and the producer of this album was Chad Stuart who was from the legendary British singing duo Chad and Jeremy known for hits like Yesterday's Gone, A summer Song, Willow Weep For me and others and was engineered by by Mike sheilds &Richard Clements did the conducting and arrangements as well as among the musicians who played on the album were Ron Edgeworth whom Judith would marry in November 1969 that lasted until his passing in 1994 from Motor Neurone Disease, Session drummer HAl Blaine, LArry Knechtel, Tommy Scott, Mike Anthony, Kenny Watson and many others. This album was released on the A&M label in 1970 and the songs on the album that Judith chose were sourced in England and America and it's the first time that it is o

The AUstralian Cities Suite album is the latest album from legendary Australian singer and lead singer of the Seekers Judith Durham. This album was recorded at the ABC Iwaki in Melbourne with the Orchestra Victoria and on track 11 the Hottest Band In town and sings about each Australian capital city as well as the song Australia Land Of Today and her version of Advance Australian Fair. It's an BRILLIANT album with Judith singing in great voice as ever with an BRILLIANT peformance by Orchestra Victoria and Judith is the producer on this album along with Michael Cristiano who also engineered and mixed it as well. Graham Simpson is the executive producer and Peter Taplin is the Orchestra producer as well as Kevin Hocking doing the orchestrations too. The songs are just BRILLIANT talking about each Australian city including Meet me In the Mall In Brisbane, Seldom Melbourne Leaves My Mind, Our Town and others which actually the songs for it started in 1972 and would continue in the 8

This week's classic album segment is this time an Australian one released in 1971 which it was the 3rd album by rock group the Masters Apprentices. The group were formed in Adelaide in 1965 originally called the Mustangs with Jim Keays(vocals),Mick Bower(Rhythm guitar), Rick morrison(lead guitar), Gavin Webb(Bass) and Brian Vaughton(drums) and who had played around Adelaide at places like the Beat Basement began recording with Astor Records in late 1966 which they had hits like Undecided, Buried and Dead, Living In A CHild's Dream and Elevator Driver and also during the early success one by one most of the original guys from the Adelaide line up left as had different musicians replacing them including Peter Tillbrook, Tony Sommers, Steve Hopgood before settling with the well known line up with Jim Keays, DOug FOrd, Colin Burgess and Glenn Wheatley(whom all joined in 1968). it was the line up with Jim, Glenn, Colin and doug that had more success with 5.10 Man, Think About tomor

On Sunday April 29th I went to the Morningside Services Club to see the American rockabilly group the Chop Tops which I had not heard of them until it was annouced on the website robot.com.au that they were coming. My Dad dropped me off on Sunday and there were stalls happening as well as raffles and the show did'nt start until 2.45pm when the first of the 3 bands performed which were Corn Liquor which they did an FANTASTIC set which des was playing with them on the day. Then there was an interval and then the ten Fours including Paulie Burke performed which they did an FANTASTIC set too. then the Chop Tops came on stage which they were just FANTASTIC playing great with an Brilliant guitarist and an excellent drummer and also they really rocked. In between songs some of the audience got free CD's and at one time the drummer took his shirt off. the show finished at 6.20pm which it was FANTASTIC and AWESOME which everyone had an great time including me which I enjoyed myself. I

On Saturday April 28th in the evening after seeing the movie the Avengers I went to Carina Leagues CLub to see the Jacksonz tribute show an tribute to Michael Jackson and the JAckson Five which it was my first time seeing them as I have heard of them but had never saw them. The show started at 7.30pm with singer Dennis doing an solo set which was really good and did songs from people like Sam Cooke, Elvis Presley,the Drifters and others. there was an interval and at around 8.30pm the Jacksonz tribute show started which they did 2 impressive sets doing the Michael Jackson stuff as well as the Jackson 5 and there were 3 Brothers performing on stage as well as an great back up band including Dave from Scotland on drums, the keyboard player from South Africa as well as 3 excellent back up singers including Benson's wife as well as the guys dressing up in the 70's & 80's gear that Michael Jackson wore which was good. The show finished around 10.30pm which it was an impressiv

Last Saturday April 28th in the afternoon I went to Carindale Cinema with my friend Billy White to see the Movie the Avengers. The exiled Norse god Loki(tom Hiddleston) invades the headquarters of Shield which he turns Clint BArton(Jeremy Renner) and Dr Erik Selvig(Stellan Skarsgard) to the dark side in order to get away and he takes the tesseract. Nick Fury(Samuel L Jackson) the director of SHIELD along with Agent Philip Coulson(Clark Gregg) put together an team which has-Tony Stark/Iron Man(RObert Downey Jr), thor(Chris Hemsworth), Natasha Ramanoff/Black Widow(Scarlett Johannson), Steve Rogers/Captain AMerica(Chris Evans) and Dr Bruce Banner/the Hulk(MArk Ruffalo) and to stop Loki and his army destroying the world. it's an excellent film with action and humour with excellent acting by Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworthm,Scarlett Johansson, chris evans, MArk Ruffalo, Samuel L jackson, Jeremy Renner, Stellan Skarsgard, ToM Hiddleston, Cobie Smulders and others even an appearence by