Inglorious - Inglorious

Monday, New Week, New Year! It's time to introduce the first "Record Of The Week" for this year.

"Inglorious" is the self-titled debut album from the rising Hard-Rock band, INGLORIOUS. The album was release on Friday 19th February 2016 and is the "Record Of The Week".

INGLORIOUS are a UK-based Hard Rock band. Formed in February 2014, the band is fronted by Nathan James, who sang for a time with TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA and SCORPIONS guitarist Uli Jon Roth. Nathan James had become well known through TV shows "The Voice" and "Superstar". INGLORIOUS is composed the lead singer Nathan James, the rhythm guitarist Wil Taylor, lead guitarist Andreas Eriksson (Swedish), bassist Colin Parkinson, and drummer Phil Beaver. Wil, from the Northeast of England, is the youngest member of the band whose heroes include Mark Tremonti (ALTER BRIDGE), Joe Satriani and Steve Lukather (TOTO). The whole band wrote the album with a few guest writers including Al Pitrelli (MEGADEATH, ALICE COOPER, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA), Joel Hoekstra (NIGHT RANGER, WHITESNAKE) and Neil Fairclough (QUEEN).

You can hear some of the classics in the rock genre as DEEP PURPLE, LED ZEPPELIN, WHITESNAKE, BAD COMPANY, AEROSMITH, THE ROLLING STONES to name a few in INGLORIOUS music.

"Inglorious" is an eleven tune strong album that starts with the killer lead tune "Until I Die", heavy organ, melodic bluesy rocker that really kicks, excellent vocals from Nathan James. "Breakaway" is a hard hitting rocker with a more screaming vocal approach. "High Flying Gypsy" slows down the tempo a notch and gives the listener a modern twist on a Zeppelin vibe. "Holy Water" is amazingly brilliant tune with powerful bluesy riffs and vocals that really will melt your is black hearted soul down to pure holy water. With half pace start of "Warning" it's like a heavy truck moving uphill before it reached the top and start to roll down, then the tune is rolling as a real swagger with a twin guitar attack. The heavy bluesy ballad "Bleed For You" is a real soulful thing, great vocals, beautiful guitar solo. Follows up in the same path with "Girl Got A Gun". "You’re Mine" tunes it up a notch with a more heavy riffing approach. "Inglorious" is really a great piece with it's monotone heavy riffs and big heart pounding bass line. "Wake" is a acoustic piece with wonderful vocals. The album closes up with the rocker "Unaware" that ends with a amazing piano fill.

"Inglorious" is a classic Hard Rock album, big guitar riffs, and soulful vocals. The production is top notch with it's sharpness, it’s crisp, but still keeps the warmness! Well done there. After a listen to the self titled album you will quickly find out that this is the future of British rock.

Sum: It's a very convincing debut that any rocker should listen to.

Today's tune "Until I Die" is taken from their self titled debut album "INGLORIOUS", enjoy!



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Scorpions – Tokyo Tapes

Tokyo Tapes is the first live album by German Rock band SCORPIONS and includes songs from all SCORPIONSs albums released before 1978, which were recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza (Tokyo's Nakano Ward, Japan) on April 24 and 27, during the band's Japanese tour in 1978. These shows were guitarist Uli Jon Roth's last performances with the band, who had announced his departure after the release of the studio album "Taken by Force".

The songs "Hell-Cat", "Catch Your Train" and the Japanese national anthem ("Kimi ga yo") were also performed during these shows but were not included in the official album. On the 2001 EMI re-mastered CD, "Polar Nights" was omitted so as to fit a single CD, although it was included on the re-mastered version of "Taken by Force". The earlier two-CD release, however, is the original album in its entirety. The original release was in August 1978 in Japan only with cover artwork of an embossed platinum Scorpion on a rose as opposed to a live shot of the band when it was eventually released in Europe in late 1978. It was released in January 1979 in the U.S.A..

Uli Jon Roth commented about the recording of the album:

"Tokyo Tapes was a peak time, we have played together for all these years and it all came together at that time. Particularly on the first show, which unfortunately wasn't recorded. There were three shows in Tokyo, the first one was by far the best, but the second one was good too. Those are the ones on the album, the second and the third that were used. The first one I thought was a lot better and I was disappointed that it wasn't recorded."

In 2015, as part of SCORPIONS 50th Anniversary, Tokyo Tapes was remastered and re-released, with all omitted songs restored ("Polar Nights" and the three songs excluded) and alternate version of several songs originally found on the album. Due to time constraints, "Robot Man", the last track of the original release, was shifted to the beginning of Disc 2 which otherwise contains bonus tracks).

Tokyo Tapes is one terrific slab of rock history, just before the band hit big time in USA with it's more straightforward hard rock sound, tailored for the American market. The album do not have any weak moments and shows the band at their peak form.

It was a strange idea – cutting a live album with a guitar player who was leaving the band. But that’s what the SCORPIONS did with "Tokyo Tapes", and it provided a glorious swan song for Uli Jon Roth. But with Roth, they had a broader style and his trippy vibe to songs such as "Polar Nights" and "Dark Lady". He also played beautifully on the ballads "In Trance" and "In Search Of The Peace Of Mind". Other early SCORPIONS classic is present: "We’ll Burn The Sky", "Steamrock Fever", "Robot Man", "Pictured Life", and the politically incorrect "He’s A Woman, She’s A Man". And there is fun to be had with the two party pieces: a version of the Japanese song "Kōjō no Tsuki", and a medley of rock’n’roll standards "Hound Dog" and "Long Tall Sally" in which Klaus Meine’s accent brings a touch of unintentional comedy as he sings: “Whar garnar harv sarm farn tonart!”

Sum: Tokyo Tapes should be in every single rockers collection.

Todays tune "We'll Burn the Sky" is a great piece on Tokyo Tapes. The lyrics to "We'll Burn the Sky" were initially a poem written by Monika Dannemann, the last girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix, as a tribute to him after he died. Later, she became involved with Scorpions' guitarist Uli Jon Roth (himself an admirer of Jimi Hendrix) and they worked together on some songs. The music for We'll Burn the Sky was written by the Scorpions founder and rhythm guitarist Rudolf Schenker.



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Scorpions - Sails of Charon

Sunday, time for a classic again, today we paddle across the Baltic Sea to Hannover, Germany, where we find the classic rock band Scoripions. Formed in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker, who is the band's only constant member (although Klaus Meine has been lead singer for all their studio albums). They are known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and many singles, such as "No One Like You", "Send Me an Angel", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change". But I actually prefer the time before this, especially the time when Uli Jon Roth was in the band.

Today's tune "Sails of Charon" is taken from the fifth studio album "Taken By Force", released in 1977. This was the first Scorpions album to feature drummer Herman Rarebell and the final album to feature guitarist Uli Jon Roth. Roth left the band in 1978 following the end of the album's tour, and was eventually replaced by Matthias Jabs.


The album cover photography was taken by Michael von Gimbut, returning for his third Scorpions album cover commission. Like their previous two albums, Taken By Force caused controversy with its cover art which again resulted in the artwork being replaced in most markets with an alternative cover using photographs of the band members.

The band's former lead guitarist Uli Jon Roth defended the original artwork in a 2008 interview, stating: I think the original idea was children playing with guns at a military cemetary in France and some people found that offensive. I don't think it's offensive because I think it was actually a quite a good image because it puts war totally into perspective, very often it is young people, eighteen, ninenteen, going to war that don't fully understand life. When you're fifteen you don't fully understand life, but these guys then have to shoot other people simply because someone tells them to do it for their country. Politicians are sometimes also children with guns, in all periods of time a lot of politicians are far too trigger happy and war too easily becomes an "easy solution", whereas for me it should never a solution, there should be no war in the first place. Maybe every once in a while a country may need to defend itself, I understand that, but in general if you consider that there are over a hundred wars raging in the present day on this planet alone then it's just sheer lunacy and always the tool of the Dark Side. Usually bad things come from war, very few good things, but sometimes good things come from bad things, that's true, nothing's that black and white. It's always the wrong solution to kill people.

Kirk Hammett’s love for Scorpions’ “The Sails of Charon” is well-known. He quotes the riff in his live unaccompanied solos (see YouTube), he named it one of the five guitar solos that changed his life, and in this interview with BW&BK, he said:

I’ve been obsessed with that song ever since I was 14 or 15 years old – the riff, the guitar solo, the song itself. Sooner or later, it’s just going to bubble up to the surface and manifest itself somewhere over the course of my playing career.

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