New Gary Moore CD

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well atleast 2004, "Power of the Blues", I saw while shopping in the mall last week for my wifes B-day. I didn't buy it then cause I bought a really cool light that was on sale. The "Liquid Light Projector", megacool, anyhow I did buy her (gulp :? ) Maroon 5...arhhhh. But they wanted 20 bux for the new Gary Moore, I just ordered it at Amazon for 15.

You know it's quite rare for me to have the chance to buy many new releases like this because many of my favorites are either dead, retired, shell shocked from drugs, in rehab or they suck now. There are a few exceptions and I'm glad Gary Moore is one. Another one would have to be Queensryche...I can't wait for it to get here the samples I heard were great... :D
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I've got Gary Moore's "Best of the Blues" from several years ago now. While I quite like it, I do find him irritatingly unsympathetic to the blues at times... I mean, his "I'm a guitar god and you've got to hear to me play this lick" attitude comes over more than "Man, I just feel I've gotta play this coz it's right". Has he got any better..?
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pljones wrote:I've got Gary Moore's "Best of the Blues" from several years ago now. While I quite like it, I do find him irritatingly unsympathetic to the blues at times... I mean, his "I'm a guitar god and you've got to hear to me play this lick" attitude comes over more than "Man, I just feel I've gotta play this coz it's right". Has he got any better..?
here's a review that answers that nicely, however I disagree with his "I'm a guitar god" in fact I believe for someone with so much talent (and tons of albums) he could easily be the most humble musician. Here where I live no one knows him, we have the digital cable with music choice, we've had it for years. I only have heard a song he did with Gregg Lake, nothing else by him.
While some of Moore's previous blues efforts were overpowered by Moore's tendency to slip into "heavy metal/hard rock-blues playing" (or overplaying), on "Power Of The Blues" Moore has finally learned how to harness his blues prowess. Moore shows tremendous restraint in his playing on this album. Possessed by the spirits of Fleetwood Mac era Peter Green & Bluesbreakers era Clapton, Moore channels the previously mentioned greats into his own unique style of electric blues. Two words come to mind in describing Moore's guitar playing, "killer tone". Any guitar player knows what I'm talking about. Green had it, Clapton had it, Page had it, Gary Moore "has" it. Moore's playing on "I Can't Quit You Baby" literally slays Zeppelin's version. And although the previous statement borders on blasphemy for some, I stand by it.
Yes, Gary is not the greatest vocalist; but he can hold his own. Yet that's not the point. When it comes to the blues, the combination of vocals and guitar emanating from the same musician is what it's all about. In that regard Moore finally has come into his own on this album.
This release will not disappoint any Gary Moore fan.
For any newcomers to Gary's music, "Power Of The Blues" is an excellent place to start.
:D
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Yep - hits the nail on the head. (And I didn't mean his personality, just his musical style: the reviewer explains it much better than I did.) The CD set I have was from around 1990. I've not heard his "Blues for Greeny" album: I might check out "Power of the Blues"... I shall add it to my shopping list.

(I'm wondering what BBM's "Around the next dream" is like: Bruce and Baker with Moore rather than Clapton... mmm...)
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pljones wrote:Yep - hits the nail on the head. (And I didn't mean his personality, just his musical style: the reviewer explains it much better than I did.) The CD set I have was from around 1990. I've not heard his "Blues for Greeny" album: I might check out "Power of the Blues"... I shall add it to my shopping list.

(I'm wondering what BBM's "Around the next dream" is like: Bruce and Baker with Moore rather than Clapton... mmm...)
the first two songs are exactly cream sounding, one song is crossroads by a different neme, but then the album gets good, blues for greeny is okay, but they are all greey's songs played on his les paul that he gave Gary Moore when he walked away from Fleetwood Mac and music. Scars was excellent as was Back to the blues and still got the blues is a good album and a great song (I did a cover of it) but I love the early stuff too, I even have his first endeavor on vinyl in a different Skid Row, his first solo album on cd, Grinding Stone.

He's worked with so many musicians it's amazing. Gregg Lake, he was on Cozy Powell's (rip Cozy, I have so many albums with him drumming) album, Ozzy, Albert Collins, George Harrison, Blackrose from Thin Lizzy is cool and I got a video of him in Thin Lizzy, great concert. I also have the Emerald Isle vcr tape which is from th We Want Moore tour which I saw, Def Leopard headlined (Pyromania tour), then Krokus and Gary Moore was the first act. Talk about a show that went down hill. :hihi:
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well now that I've had it for a while I must say I like it a lot, but if I didn't I might have a problem on my hands...I guess 20 plus years of being a Gary Moore fan has had it's effect on me both as a guitarist and how I engineer my music. I find rather predictable at times where he's going with his solos, but pleasently so. I think that it's apparent it's Gary Moore playing (to me anyhow) but his overall tone has gotten so much better. Instead of back in the day with his 4 stacks (and his old lexicon delay) cranked to 10 you can tell he has grown fond of his PODxt for recording. The result is a much more favorable tone, plenty of sustain with more clarity.

I feel the same way with my pod, I can get a real sharp edged attck while maintaing a smoothed over tone. It's nice to hear I'm not alone, some of the great things he did before was lost in noise. With better control of his sound his talent really shines. Still very familiar Gary Moore feel with a more controlled sound while not sounding heavily processed... :D
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Heh, familiarity is good. I get the same with Marillion. Opening chord: "Ah, Steve Rothery..." my brain goes, even before I've ID'd the track (assuming it's a lead guitar chord ;-) ).

I have a couple of Robert Cray albums in my "buy now" list but "Power of the Blues" is on my "to get soon" list ;-).
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@Hink

I'd really like to know which blues albums do you like the most (or at least blues-soaked).

Page doesn't play as well as he did I guess (still, Since I've been... is one of my fave blues tracks, another one would be Peter Green on Need your love so bad (hate the brass there though).

How good are Green's solo efforts? Heard he's back to sanity.

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