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Elly Roberts reviews
America has spawned many great rock bands heres another.
Hot as hell Colorado rock trio Rose Hill Drive brothers Jake (vox/bass)and Daniel Sproul (vox/guitars) and Nathan Barnes (drums) come close tomatching legends Led Zeppelin for power and energy.
This awesome blast is right out of Zeps repertoire, but brought right up todate for the 21st century.
The CD contains three versions studio, live and demo.
All three formats prove this band is right on top of its game.In rank order, I prefer the demo, live then studio version.
The latter, opens with a sticks countdown that leads into a monumentalriff and raucous vocal by Jake Sproul. As it moves along it builds into abelting crescendo with soaring axework by bro Daniel, drops, and rises againwith the outfit if full flight.
Awesome stuff.
This band has shared the stage with The Who, Queens Of The Stone Age andEddie Van Halen.
Check out the self-titled album on Megaforce Records by clicking on thepackshot.
Weblink:rosehilldrive.com
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Elly Roberts passed away in 2011, but he was a man who was so passionate about all types of music and loved meeting his musical heroes, such as Mick Hucknall at a book signing at the Trafford Centre, Manchester in 2007.
A former teacher and also a music journalist, DJ and radio presenter on local community station Calon FM, plus appearances on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio 2, Elly started doing reviews for DVDfever.co.uk in 2004 and he did the majority of the CD and concerts reviews on the website.
I know also that he loved getting away for the summer to Spain and I hope that wherever he is now he is enjoying the hot sunshine and, as one of his friends has said on his Facebook page, that he is interviewing his musical heroes.