Blasts from the Past 2025: Echoes of the Eons!

Blast from the Past 2025 - Two skeletons with a horse cart full of electric guitars.

At first, nobody believed in a comeback of the Blasts from the Past series for 2025. The RMR crew found itself buried under a mountain of contemporary material after all. And nobody thought of switching off the faucet. Which is – come to think of it – a good thing. But that left relatively little room for that cartload of old ‘n’ torn notesheets to be read yet again after all these eons of nobody checking them out anymore. Boy, RMR himself even had to peddle some of his electric guitars to the local chapmen down at the market square … [...] Click to raid more!

Triumvirat – Spartacus (1975) – Review

Triumvirat - Spartacus - Album Cover

1975 was an outstanding year for early Progressive Rock. A fledgling style that often came with wildly psychedelic urges bestowed on those bands by abundant use of – whatever substance happened to cross their paths.

Fancy a few examples of records that burnt themselves into our young souls back then? The Alan Parsons Project‘s unwieldily named record Tales of Mystery and Imagination1 surely got a lot of our attention. A piece well ahead of the progressive high times, issued before their offerings became a tad more mainstream. But I digress. Jethro Tull just released their 8th record, Minstrel [...] Click to raid more!