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Musical
Profile Index
Welcome to our summary page of musical artists that
we profile. This is our high level snapshot. Many of the bands
mentioned on the page we have more detailed profiles, which include
topics ranging from reviews, commentary, discography, cd recommendations,
photos, and related subjects.
We're always adding new recommendations so stop
back frequently.
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Band
overviews
[ Michael Falzarano ] [ Aretha Franklin ]
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Rod Stewart & Faces - The Final Concert |
Best of Rod Stewart and Faces: Legends in Concert |
The
Faces are unquestionably an all star line-up of musicians; Rod
Stewart, Ian McLagan, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, and Kenney Jones.
Upon disbanding in 1975 Stewart went on to a solo career
(many of the faces play on his early records) and Wood was
recruited into The Rolling
Stones. While Kenny Jones would go on to fill
the shoes of Keith Moon in The
Who, and McLagan and Lane went
on to solo projects and session work.
Below we
list compilations, and we've highlighted some videos available
too.
Fans
of the Faces will certainly be interested Jeff Beck's two
albums with Stewart and Wood (bass) in the band, Truth
and Beck-Ola
and Rod's early career that is well represented in Gold
and even better, the out of print The
Mercury Anthology.
Profile - Rolling Stones
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Faces Compilations
In
2004, a four disc Faces box-set, Five Guys Walk into a Bar
was released. Its quantity of music is generous where each
disc runs between 74 - 79 minutes. Further, a 64 page
booklet with essays, track details, and photos is included.
The music is not sequenced chronologically and many of the tracks
were previously unreleased.
There
are plenty
of great cover songs included such as: McCartney's "Maybe I'm
Amazed," Lennon's "Jealous Guy," Robert
Johnson's "Love in Vain," performed a la The Rolling
Stones.
One
draw back to the Five Guys Walk into a Bar is that some
of the material is not of the best sonic quality. Also,
if they had a live disc instead of spreading the songs hear
and there it would be more to my liking.
Single
Disc
Casual
fans may prefer the 19 track compilation The Best Of Faces: Good Boys When They're Asleep.
Double
Disc
In 2007, The Definitive Rock Collection was released. This
is the best value. All of this material is on the box set.
This release takes 1999's The Best of the Faces, and
adds to it.
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| Five Guys Walk into a Bar |
The Definitive Rock Collection |
The Best of the Faces: Good Boys... When They're Asleep |
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Rumors |
Rumors
2 Discs |
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Mac has several worthwhile cd's to choose from. Their album Rumors
as well as their self-titled
debut would be our top recommendation.
Supplement those with their live album or DVD, The
Dance, to pick up some of their missing key tracks as well as
hear different arrangements of some of their treasures. This release
captures the classic line-up in fine form. CD
or DVD
Their two-disc, The
Very Best of Fleetwood Mac is a good compilation. While its
song selection is excellent as well as it having nice photos,
essays, and in-depth song credits, it has two faults. First, the
songs are not sequenced chronologically and a few songs are the
single rather than album versions.
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| After Rumors,
the self-titled is our favorite Fleetwood Mac listening
experience.
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| Fleetwood Mac |
The Dance |
The Dance
DVD |
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| Fleetwood
Mac compilation selections |
The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac
2 discs |
Fleetwood Mac: Greatest Hits
1 Disc |
25 Years: The Chain
4 Discs |
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Peter
Green with Fleetwood Mac
Meanwhile back in England as a blues
band. |
The Essential Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
2 discs |
The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
1 Disc |
Live at the BBC
2 Discs |
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Frampton Comes Alive! |
Frampton Comes Alive! (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) |
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The classic album Framptom Comes Alive is
the best listening experience for Peter Framptom in our opinion.
I saw the tour promoting Frampton Comes Alive! He was sandwiched between the Beach Boys
and Gary Wright. Peter Frampton was so well received, but I was
shocked to see the Beach Boys gather even more cheers. The deluxe edition has four more songs and a
different sequence.
According to Wikipedia, Framptom Comes
Alive was recorded in 1975, primarily at Winterland in San Francisco, California and the Long Island Arena in Commack, New York.
If your seeking a collection, Peter Frampton - Gold
grabs 32 songs at a reasonable price. This spans 1972 through
2003 and is good career overview of his solo material.
Meanwhile, Anthology: The History of Peter Frampton
grabs a song from The Herd, five from Humble Pie, within its 16
tracks, which fill the disc completely. Only one song from Frampton
Comes Alive so this doesn't duplicate that.
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| Peter Frampton - Gold |
Anthology: The History of Peter Frampton |
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Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings |
Rare
& Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of
Soul |
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Because Aretha's single and double collections miss several of my very favorite tracks
we highly suggest her box-set, Queen of Soul. It includes
most of her songs through This Girl's In Love With You
as well as a fair sampling of material after that, of which that I am less interested in.
It may cost more, but it is worth it, and used copies on Amazon can
be very reasonably priced. The package includes a book with
detailed credits with musicians, an Atlantic discography, photos,
essays, etc. This is an excellent box-set!
Our
Aretha Franklin page has
a discography of her early material and other
recommendations.
Additional
Aretha Franklin content
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We Are All One |
Where
I Come From |
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Rhythm guitarist Michael Falzarano has a vast
musical resume including stints in Hot Tuna, over 20 years, and the New Riders of the Purple
Sage, for the past four. His third solo release is entitled We
Are All One. Before spinning the CD I was expecting a heavy blues tone to the recording. While there are a few blues tracks and
patterns it
is much more of a rock album. The mood is very upbeat and
positive.
The
review is continued on our Michael
Falzarano page
New
Riders page - Michael Falzarano plays a key role in the
New Riders superb 2009 studio album Where
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