Rod Collins

The mighty Sabaton are about the conquer the world !
Their new album is finished and due for release in May and they are embarking on a worldwide tour as well as doing the festival circuit in 2010
The Vikings are Coming !
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Feverdogg have a 4 track cd completed with 2 brand new tracks.
Your host was lucky enough to get an advance copy today and it’s good, very good in fact
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Official Motorhead T- Shirts !
Hard to imagine a finer garment, count yourself lucky if you have one - count yourself even luckier if you have more than one
Washing day at La Casa Goldeneye . . .
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Good guitars are expensive
Early Gibson Les Paul guitars are very expensive
So what does that make a 1958 Les Paul owned and played by Gary Moore worth then . . .
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Sabaton ~ Live Concert Review ~ Beyond Awesome \m/
Yes folks I’m back at the ranch after a night of Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll drink and Rock n Roll
I went to see Dragonforce playing live on their UK tour at The Engine Shed in Lincoln but it was the Sabaton who stole the show for me !
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Jake E. Lee - the Ozzy Osbourne Lead guitarist that time forgot !
Jake E Lee deserves a better crack of the whip and should be mentioned alongside the other guitarists who’ve played with Ozzy Osbourne
Read more and see him in action - he had hair exactly like mine !
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Yes folks, X Factor is back
The show that stops at nothing to show case the finest undiscovered musical talent Britain has to offer.
They go through the country with a fine tooth comb and come up with the likes of this
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Motorhead’s drummer, Mikkey Dee, is to miss many of the US dates in the upcoming tour because he is going into the jungle and will appear in I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here !
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Tank - Hard Rock Band
I’m strolling down memory lane here going back to my youth and wishing I still had my hair - hair all the way down my back that is - thankfully it’s all still there just short and sensible
The journey went further as I fished out the props for the picture to illustrate this article
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Picture the scene, I’m walking in the small market town of Louth, (trip coming to a blog near you soon) keeping a low profile and trying to avoid being arrested again for Being Awesome in a Built Up Area when who do I bump into . . . ?
Jimmy Brewer, the second best guitarist in Lincolnshire
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Quite some time ago on this site, during a discussion about Digital TV Channels and Freeview etc, I asked a question that came to me.
With the digital switch over meaning that the Government will switch off analogue broadcasting in 5 years - what will happen to car radios ?
Will Car Radios Still Work When We Go Digital ?
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Ed Force One !
What’s that when it’s at home ?
It’s the private jet owned by the most underrated band in this country - do you know just how big Iron Maiden are ?
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Metallica have been inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, quite rightly I might add !
So in honour of this I’ve got a couple of videos for you to watch. The band have YouTube pretty much tied up so original promo videos seem thin on the ground
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Being a real life Guitar Hero you might, quite reasonably, assume that I’d have no time for computerized trickery and plastic guitars.
Au contraire, mon frère
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Well it’s nearly all over, christmas that is, or Mithrasmas as we celebrate here
A strong joint theme ran through the celebrations this year - Motorhead and Bart Simpson - Awesome !
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With Britney Spears making the headlines after appearing on The X Factor , for all the wrong reasons, miming on stage is once again a topic of conversation.
Is it right that singers or performers mime on stage ?
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