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After a great deal of to-ing and fro-ing Frank Zappa’s family finally regained all rights to FZ’s music in 2012 and, with a distribution deal with Universal all signed and sealed, the Zappa Family Trust set about re-releasing all of the official Frank Zappa releases (some 60-odd at the last count), also ensuring that the whole shebang was available digitally for the first time. This is of course good news as a whole new generation of fans will finally be able to fully immerse themselves in, what must surely be, one of the most remarkable back catalogues in existence – really, if you have yet to hear any Zappa recordings go out and buy the Understanding America best of collection and work your way back. All of which got us thinking why the merry hell have we not featured FZ in our Class Act section before now? A criminal oversight we have now fully addressed...
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It's Not The...
Journey. Not a name many a rock fan from the heavier end of the spectrum would drop that regularly and yet most people aren’t even aware that the first incarnation of Journey, with ex-Santana guitarist Neal Schon, keyboard whizz Gregg Rolie and drumming legend Aynsley Dunbar, were actually a beast of a band, the first two albums Journey and Look Into The Future being underrated gems just waiting to be rediscovered. Don't believe us? Well you can see them in full blown ‘rock-out’ mode right now in our video section
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Fakers...
This isn’t the first time we have endeavoured to point our loyal readership towards post-rock chappies Vessels (and probably won't be the last either), however If you are as yet unacquainted with the band we suggest you take yourselves over to their website and grab some of the freebie tracks to be found there (the bands mixtape download is also excellent). Of more immediate interest however is the video for their cover of Nathan Fake's 'The Sky Was Pink', (not taken fronm their recent album Helioscope).
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His Bird Can Sing
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, when the hell does Steven Wilson sleep? Working with Nu-Proggers Porcupine Tree (and side projects Blackfield, No-Man and Bass Communion), being in demand as a producer (Opeth, Anathema) and the current ‘go-to’ guy for remixing and remastering classic rock albums - he has overseen all of the recent King Crimson anniversary editions with Robert Fripp. And now we have his latest solo album The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories), and this rather delightful video...
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