Music Reviews: White Lion, Moody Blues, Hardline, OSI, Joe Lynn Turner

After the progressively heavy bunch of last week, we have another selection of rock that is a bit more varied. The CD pile is in fact shrinking at bit, but that is because more and more companies are reverting to online downloads to cut costs. Significant others and those with small dwellings who review thank them for embracing technology.

DVD review

White Lion: Bang Your Head 2005

Mike Tramp has turned White Lion into something akin to Whitesnake. I mean insomuch as its him with a bunch of competent hired guns. While Whitesnake was always Coverdale’s band, the jury is still out on whose band White Lion is/was. Cleverly Mike Tramp addresses this thorny issue on the DVD. He clearly states the fans want the songs to be played by a version of White Lion.

Now with that settled, onto the DVD. Thankfully Tramp & Co chose not include their bloody awful hit “When the Children Cry” in the set included on here. Made it all the more enjoyable to listen to the rather tight band go through all the White Lion classics in front a rather keen crowd. The stand-out track is their break-out hit “Wait” with the band adding some great harmonies. The set ends with a decent cover version of Golden Earring's “Radar Love.”

DVD extras include a complete interview (bits of which show up in between the songs in the main part of the DVD) and an extra track with scenes for touring in the US.

A decent DVD from a band that, whether you call it White Lion or not, is in fine form in front of an appreciative crowd.

The Moody Blues: Threshold of a Dream

The DVD is subtitled “Live at the Isle of Wight Festival” and that is mostly true. Like many of these sort of DVDs they have more recent interviews with the band members that are still living who where there. In this DVD’s case these interviews were done for quite a legitimate reason as there is not video for all the performances (even though there is audio).

Like a lot of music concerts from the 60s there is a certain element of “have to be there” about it as the band were obviously off their heads (the flute player looks like he has tourettes/in the middle of the a seizure most of the time) and so were the audience. This was filmed at the famous Isle of Wight festival off the coast of England. They held a festival and half a million showed up. The hippies loved it and the locals still curse its name.

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