2/1/1984: The Alarm, The Penthouse, Glasgow
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Day Twenty Six: Monday 27th June 2005 Today, James gets stuck into guitars on ‘Cease and Desist’. It’s sounding great but we are having a few problems with the tuning. A lot of James Stevenson’s guitars are of the vintage variety and come from a variety of eras. Some from the 1950’s (The ‘Golden Age Of Guitars’) but mostly sixties and seventies. They all sound amazing but sometimes are hard [read more]
Still on a roll from a year of Bob Dylan supports, The Alarm make up for lost time this side of the Atlantic with a Tony Visconti-produced concept LP that bemoans the fate of their ailing Welsh homeland. Simultaneously released with Welsh language vocals as Change, this is a stadium-sized pub-rock set that lacks the gusto and rampant commerciality of their 68 Guns secondhand The Clash without ever really living [read more]
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