Jon Bryan, Author at Backseat Mafia

Not Forgotten: Nilsson – A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night

Back in the early 70s, there was still a distinct generational difference between what ‘the kids’ listened to and what ‘the olds’ listened to. Only particularly foresighted adults were listening…

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Not Forgotten – Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense (1999 Special Edition)

It starts with audience noise, David Byrne scrolls out and utters immortal opening lines. “Hi. I’ve got a tape I wanna play you.” A basic electronic drum pattern starts up,…

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Live: Ian Hunter, Sheffield City Hall Ballroom, 2 October 2014

There are four blokes on stage with an unenviable task. Tonight’s crowd are here to see one man and one man only, and I’m among them. Ian Hunter inspires a…

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Not Forgotten: Atomic Rooster – In Hearing of Atomic Rooster

In Hearing Of Atomic Rooster is a remarkable album, but not for the most obvious reasons. On first listen, it’s a heavy psych-prog album by a band centred around former…

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Not Forgotten: ZZ Top – Degüello

Pretty much smack inbetween the career high-water mark that was Tres Hombres, and the ultra-commercial, MTV-courting, mega-seller, Eliminator, ZZ Top’s Deguello is something of a stand-alone for the band. Whereas…

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A Buyers Guide to Alice Cooper 1971 – 1975

It’s easy to forget just how consistently impressive Alice Cooper was between 1971 and 1975, both as a group and then morphing into Vincent Furnier’s solo career. From Love It…

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Not Forgotten: REM – New Adventures in Hi-Fi

New Adventures In Hi-Fi can be a difficult album to digest. It doesn’t flow particularly well, it can drag and in places it can sound rather dull. There aren’t many…

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Not Forgotten – Ian Hunter – Ian Hunter

Walking away from Mott the Hoople at the point they were beginning to make their mark in the USA, a lot of people must have questioned Ian Hunter’s desire to…

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Not Forgotten – The Replacements – Let It Be

After a clutch of scruffy punkish releases, Let It Be was where The Replacements started to indicate that they were slowly starting to mature, starting to blend more considered material…

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Album Review: Martin Austwick – Through Intermittent Rain

Martin Austwick is a man of many talents. Not only is he a supremely talented singer and songwriter, but he’s a physicist and university lecturer, and is also known as…

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