Byrd In Paris - Donald Byrd

Advantages: Great 1960's music
Disadvantages: A little inconsistent for some

...alternatively "garage" or "pyschadelic" rock. There are too many to name them all but suffice to say that people like The Byrds, It's A Beautiful Day, HP Lovecraft, Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Doors made the West Coast of 1966-68 a very good place to hear music. San Diego's Iron Butterfly could be considered among the second division of acts, with their debut album "Heavy" being released on Atlantic's "experimental" label Atco in 1967. A solid enough collection, it enjoyed modest chart sucess but the band fragmented at the end of the year, losing their bassist, singer and guitarist. leaving only keyboardist/singer Doug Ingle and drummer Ron Bushy. An album had to be made, so with Ingle and Bushy now effectively leading the band the Butterfly took flight once more, replacing ex-guitarist Danny Weis with the then 17... Read review

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Advantages: Everything about it
Disadvantages: none

...paradoxically comparing it to what went before, in this regard the Stone Roses in making this LP managed to do what all great bands have done through the years, that is to make use of their musical roots and influences and synthesized them into something different but still identifiably connected to what went before. So the West Coast American folk rock of the Byrds, Psychedlia, punk, new wave and 80's dance can all be heard in this record just as The Stone Roses sound can be heard in later 90's records by the Charlatans, Oasis, Blur and countless other bands. The Stone Roses musically were not the greatest of bands, what makes their musicin general and this LP in particular very special is the audible chemistry that exists between the band members. Ian was very much the front man, John you felt provided the imagination for the music, Reni gave... Read review

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Advantages: fantastic
Disadvantages: none

...No trip to France, and certainly no sojourn in the Ile-de-France, the region surrounding and encompassing Paris, could ever claim to be anywhere near complete if it did not include a visit to the Royal town of Versailles. Versailles is of course home to the world's (rightly) most famous palace, but not only that: it contains many fine town houses, churches, a Cathedral, and is a town well worth spending time in. Before the seventeenth century Versailles was just the location of a Royal hunting lodge, built by Louis XIII, the remnants of which are incorporated into the central structure of the palace as we know it now. The rest was just a vast, vast forest, and nothing more than a small village. Following political unrest in Paris in his youth, Louis XIV decided to move the Royal court from the Louvre, to Versailles. Versailles... Read review

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