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Vai introduced Townsend to the metal masses in 1993 on his Sex & Religion album, which also featured bassist T.M. Stevens and drummer Terry Bozzio. It was Townsend's only album and tour with Vai, and he went on to launch STRAPPING YOUNG LAD in 1994.

I don t want to be negative. But if another very modern composer of classical music would make an atonal, no tonality at all, style arrangement using Deep Purple songs, it would sound having nothing to do with DP music! If that would be art -the discussion and opinions are still free. Maybe I should listen first that album twice during different days. But DP has never been any kind of a death metal band or some dark psychedelia style, thus their sound does not fit in the style so easily.Maybe those bands in the record do handle only their own genre best. But the Purple Album was a succesfully arranged musical art work by the man taken part himself in the birth of the music (harmonies, sounds, rhythms,arrangements, structures, talented musicians etc).But as I told, the world is still a free place for a while. One can taste the music and have free points of a view.

Released in the U.S. on April 7, 1987, this seventh LP transformed Whitesnake from a modestly successful blues-rock outfit into a world-conquering pop-metal juggernaut, selling 8 million copies in the U.S. alone and spawning a No. 1 single.

The latter had previously appeared as the lead single off 1982's Saints & Sinners; its 1987 incarnation was given a new radio-metal sheen, a welcome lyrical amendment ("Like a hobo I was born to walk alone" was blessedly changed to "Like a drifter...") and a souped-up guitar solo from Adrian Vandenberg.

Another pair of rockers, "Bad Boys" and "Children of the Night," recall Shout at the Devil-era Motley Crue with their lightning-fast riffage and muscular drumming. Meanwhile, "Straight for the Heart" is a slice of deliciously frothy pop-metal à la Bon Jovi's "Wild in the Streets" that transcends its silliness thanks to Coverdale's ironclad vocals and the band's vivacious performance.

Coverdale is naturally the focal point of Whitesnake, and his raspy howl and head-voice shrieks never cease to amaze. Perhaps nowhere does he sound as captivating as on Whitesnake's U.S. album opener, "Crying in the Rain," yet another Saints & Sinners track that Coverdale re-recorded as part of a twofer deal with label boss David Geffen. The singer flexes his gravelly mid-range and stratospheric high notes across the blues-metal epic, replete with yet another mind-bending guitar solo from Sykes. (Seeing a pattern here?)

VANILLA FUDGE was one of the first American groups to infuse psychedelia into a heavy rock sound to create "psychedelic symphonic rock", an eclectic genre which would, among its many offshoots, eventually morph into heavy metal. Although, at first, the band did not record original material, they were best known for their dramatic heavy, slowed-down arrangements of contemporary pop songs which they developed into works of epic proportion.

Editors Note: We here at Classic Rock History had never heard of Randy Hansen, We were sent and article on him and decided to check him out. We were completely blown away by the performer. We usually do not write about tribute bands but Randy Hansen was on a whole other level. The man Randy Hansen has been performing the music of Hendrix for over thirty years. He has performed with members of the Hendrix Band. He has recorded Hendrix music for major motion pictures and opened for such artist as Sammy Hagar, Bob Seger and many more major label acts. So check out this videos and be blown away by this performer. The goal of ClassicRockHistory.com has always been to educate and write about the greatest musical acts in history. However, there is also a major entertainment aspect to our site. Randy Hansen is entertainment. And we say that with very high regards for the man.

I am offering another novel through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing service. Cooksin is the story of a criminal syndicate that sets its sights on a ranching/farming community in Weld County, Colorado, 1950. The perpetrators of the criminal enterprise steal farm equipment, slaughter cattle, and rob the personal property of individuals whose assets have been inventoried in advance and distributed through a vast system of illegal commerce.

The Essential Foo Fighters also serves as a tribute to Taylor Hawkins, the longtime Foo Fighters drummer who died at 50 in March. Earlier this month, the Foos led a Hawkins tribute concert in London. They'll continue the salute in Los Angeles on Sept. 27.

Cream, together with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, made a significant impact upon the popular music of the time, providing a heavy yet technically proficient musical theme that foreshadowed the emergence of bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and The Jeff Beck Group in the late 1960s. The band's live performances influenced progressive rock acts such as Rush, jam bands such as The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead and Phish, and heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath.

It was later revealed that the potential performance was to be a set at the November, 2007 London tribute to Ahmet Ertegün. The band decided against it, as was confirmed by Bruce in a letter to the editor of the Jack Bruce fanzine, The Cuicoland Express dated 26 September 2007:

"Dear Marc, We were going to do this tribute concert for Ahmet when it was to be at the Royal Albert Hall but decided to pass when it was moved to the O2 Arena and seemed to be becoming overly commercial."

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Our first two tracks are performed by Spanner Jazz Punks, the opener, "Didja Get Any Onya?" having an immediately very interesting approach to the song. Unique is their utilization of the violin here, as a solo instrument. There are quirky group vocals, very jazzy elements (nearing minute 3, it swings hard, for instance). It is refreshing hearing this track I've heard many times before done in a unique and more modern way. To quote the original Mothers: "MOO-AHHH!" Interestingly enough, it was the spacy reed(?) solo in the latter half and other elements that reminded me here of Gong. And just as I said, Spanner Jazz Punks continue on, violin of course at the ready, with "Directly from My Heart To You". I can't say I'm anywhere remotely a fan of the Blues as Frank was, but with Sugarcane Harris' vocals and especially his Blues violin solo (Who's heard of such a thing?!), "Directly" is one of my favorite Zappa tracks, end of the day. The vocals in this cover are distant and weird, and... my mind is going there once again with Spanner (apparently the vocalist here)... he sounds like Daevid Allen (again, of Gong)! Like... you can't make this up, right? Then again, who knows? Perhaps another notable influence for them. There isn't a wild solo on this one and the overall accompaniment is just par-worthy to me, but there's some interesting ideas and effects that were used here.Up next is "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask" as performed by Inventionis Mater. Very minimal, this song starts off with arpeggiated acoustic guitar and a soft, distant clarinet. It's really quite beautiful, though minimal. Minimal throughout, it picks up and then comes right back down. Two vocalists then perform the ridiculousness to follow. Ya know, all the crazy sh*t Roy Estrada did originally. The homage deepens, as they thank the guest vocalists "for the voices inside the piano". We couldn't have a more rightly stark juxtaposition than in Gumbo Variation's rendition of another favorite of mine, the unspoken Conceptual Continuity of "Toads of the Short Forest". This is quite the cacophony! The lead guitar work is quite nice, performed over the loud, wall-to-wall boom of the rest. The blast dies down around minute 3. We seem to be back into spacy territory on this one, too. Really lovely track, but I was bummed it didn't feature the seemingly Proto-Metal insanity of the original's second half--that a favorite Zappa moment, for sure.First off, with the next, Jerry Outlaw and Friends' (feat. Todd Grubbs) cover of "Get a Little", I had no idea what in the hell Motorhead was saying at the beginning until now. Oh me, oh my... As for the song, this could almost be a Zoot Allures-era rendition. It's booming and metallic (certainly modernized, in the very least). And then... Evil Dick does "The [aforementioned] Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" and... this sh*t is weird!!!!! Very electronic, and done so in a way that I really feel like Frank would have been honored by it. Some of the underlying rhythms (like in minute 1) are almost trance like. The keyboards play in stride with the mallets (whatever they are). Then we have some... really wildly effected vocals and some... spacy farts? haha. I'm very entertained. What the original Mothers accomplished here was a certain feeling of unsettled, but here, this at times can be downright frightening. Well done.An even less expected comparison was made in my mind when Fuchsprellen's version of "Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula" came on: Gentle Giant?! Around minute 1 it reveals to be more Zappa-brand maximalism than theirs, but the feeling is definitely there (which I love). Wait! Is that an actual sample of Frank's voice I just heard? They really brought a lot of special out of this composition. And there is a lot to take away from and hear out of this cover. Impressive end product, especially as your ears might latch onto the wild multi-performer soloing at one moment and then onto the underlying bluesy rhythm section the next. I really got brought back to reality on the straight playin' of "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama", an interesting and unique rendition by Muffin Men, the first band (with two others) here I had heard of before. Perhaps this is more inspired by the later bands' plays on the song or performances from alums such as Steve Vai. Hard to say. It's slowed and real cool. One thing though... Are these guys British? If I can say anything at all, I'm not sure I feel this version needed to exist, but, like the others, they did manage to pull interesting elements from the original.Up next is The Zappatistas' performance of one of the greatest Zappa compositions ever, "Oh No". And right off the bat, totally unlike the original, as a solo and deeply reverberating guitar (performed by the great John Etheridge of Soft Machine Legacy) plays on into oblivion. Piano enters in before minute 1 and the theme is continued on the guitar. I'm surprising myself by saying it, but I could go for more minimal Zappa covers like this. Like a stripped down Guitar Fusion (no wonder). Stripped down, that is, until 3 minutes, where percussion enters in and the piece lifts and quickens to a rhythm more discernibly "Oh No" than before. Man, though... I really could have gone for more of what they had there at the end. Either way... And wow!!! The vocals of "Son of Orange County" (from Roxy and Elsewhere) sung in a classical style over the slower ("original") "Orange County Lumber Truck"! A great song and the version here by Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra is lively and modern and exciting. I am soooo about this. The drums, I was excited to see, are performed by the excellent Prairie Prince (The Tubes, Journey, Todd Rundgren). Absolutely loved this one. Finally, Zappatika covers the NOISE of our title track, "Weasels Ripped My Flesh". And I honestly love what they chose to do here. Where there was very little to latch onto on the original, they add apparently found-sounds, for instance, to wonderful effect.I am pleased to report, a very well performed and fresh take on a wonderful album. I think they all did a great job in honoring the man, Frank Vincent Zappa here. And I look forward to digging just a little bit (right now, actually) into some of the bands featured here.True Rate: 3.75/5.00 social review comments | Review PermalinkPosted Friday, May 6, 2022 | Review this album | Report (Review #2741991) 2b1af7f3a8