- Latest Articles & Muirsical Thoughts *6th February*
- Joy Dunlop & Twelfth Day (press release)
- Live - The Big Dish, Glasgow (guest review)
- Duncan Chisholm: Special Musical Forces
- Peter Frampton - black Gibson gold dust
- Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (press release)
- The Rock & Roll Times: Music Industry Bible
- Muirsical Album Reviews... (Features)
- Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth
- 2011 Featured Album Reviews...>
- Album: William Shatner - Seeking Major Tom
- Album: Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
- Album: Black Country Communion - 2
- Album: Status Quo - Quid Pro Quo
- Album: Journey - Eclipse
- Album: Dougie MacLean - Resolution
- Albums: Gregg Allman & Joe Bonamassa
- Album: Julie Fowlis - Live at Perthshire Amber
- Album: Heather Findlay - The Phoenix Suite
- Album: Chris Lloyd - Up Til Now
- Album: Motorhead - The World is Yours
- Album: Magnum - The Visitation
- Album: William Shatner - Seeking Major Tom
- 2010 Featured Album Reviews...>
- Album: The Doobie Brothers - World Gone Crazy
- Album: Black Country Communion
- Album: Heart - Red Velvet Car
- Album: Duncan Chisholm - Canaich
- Album: Steve Smith, George Brooks, Prassana - Raga Bop Trio
- Album: Peter Frampton - Thank You Mr Churchill
- Album: Unitopia - Artificial
- Albums: Karnataka, Panic Room, The Reasoning
- Album: Pat Travers Band - Fidelis
- Album: Pat Metheny - Orchestrion
- Album: Rock Sugar - Reimaginator
- Album: The Doobie Brothers - World Gone Crazy
- Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth
- Muirsical Album Reviews... (Summaries)
- Muirsical Gig Reviews...
- The Big Dish, Glasgow
- 2011 Gig Reviews>
- Live: Peter Frampton, FCA!35, Glasgow
- Live: Yngwie Malmsteen, Lake Buena Vista (Guest Review)
- Live: Live@Troon Festival (featuring Martin Taylor)
- Live: Wolfstone, Pitlochry
- Live: Judas Priest, Iron Maiden Glasgow (Guest Review)
- Live: The Darvel Music Festival
- Live: Dougie MacLean- Midge Ure- Capercaillie, Ayr
- Live: Rush, Glasgow (Guest Review)
- Live: Mostly Autumn, Glasgow
- Live: Magnum, Glasgow
- Live: Hawkwind, Sydney, AU (Guest Review)
- Live: Karen Matheson,Pitlochry Wolfstone, Inverness
- Live: Peter Frampton, Glasgow
- Live: Peter Frampton, FCA!35, Glasgow
- 2010 Gig Reviews>
- The Big Dish, Glasgow
- Muirsical Conversations...
- Robert Fleischman (Nov. 2011)
- Ivan Drever (Sep. 2011)
- Michael Sadler (June 2011)
- James Evans (April 2011)
- Alyn Cosker (Nov. 2010)
- Scott Higham (Nov. 2010)
- Kevin Chalfant (Oct. 2010)
- Francis Dunnery (Sep. 2010)
- Duncan Chisholm: Part 2 (September 2010)
- Duncan Chisholm: Part 1 (August 2010)
- Barbara Rubin (July 2010)
- Alan Reed (June 2010)
- Robert Fleischman (Nov. 2011)
- Muirsical Articles...
- Ambrosia - Food for Musical Thought
- The Fool Guitar - The Fool Story
- The Glee Club
- Journey - That Time Forgot
- Journey - Recollections
- KISS - Elder Statesmen, Elder Statement?
- Mott - Without any of the Hoople-la
- Music Town: A Decade of the Darvel Music Festival
- Playing Tribute
- Cliff Richard - The Rock and Roll Juvenile
- The Spitfires
- The Sweet - A Cut Above the Rest
- Talon - On Eagles Wings
- Wild Horses - Thoroughbreds or also-rans?
- Ambrosia - Food for Musical Thought
- Muirsical Commentaries...
- Muirsical Remembrances...
- A Personal Journey: Definitive Edition (eBook)
- Steve Perry (vocalist): One in a Million (eBook)
- Batman: 65 Years of the Bat (and Beyond) (eBook)
- A Writer's Muirsings...
- A Writer's Muirsings: Introduction
- Michael Jackson: The Alternative Verdict (Oct 2011)
- True Colours (November 2010)
- It's a New Language, Old Bean (October 2010)
- Finger Pointing (July 2010)
- Hung. And Drawn & Quartered? (May 2010)
- Suffer the Little Children (April 2010)
- Hey 'Banker', can you spare a dime? (February 2010)
- Earlier Muirsings...>
- A Writer's Muirsings: Introduction
- A Man of Letters...
- Author Bios & Site Info
- Disclaimer & eBook Download Links
- Contact FabricationsHQ
- Links
Links.
www.journey-zone.com
More concerned with interesting archive material than current up-to-the-minute news, the highlight of the Journey Zone is the interview section featuring rare or exclusive pieces with various past and present members of the band, as well as related artists (one worthy of note is the 2003 interview with Robert Fleischman).
The site also has an Editorial section and in April 2009 The Journey Zone, in agreement with the Author, ran a 'serialised' edition of 'A Personal Journey,' presented Chapter by Chapter over the course of that year.
www.journey-zone.com
More concerned with interesting archive material than current up-to-the-minute news, the highlight of the Journey Zone is the interview section featuring rare or exclusive pieces with various past and present members of the band, as well as related artists (one worthy of note is the 2003 interview with Robert Fleischman).
The site also has an Editorial section and in April 2009 The Journey Zone, in agreement with the Author, ran a 'serialised' edition of 'A Personal Journey,' presented Chapter by Chapter over the course of that year.
www.epinionatedmusic.com
Everyone's a critic.
It's a well known and fairly accurate comment, and over at ePinionated Music you get the chance to prove it.
In basic terms it's a music site for fans who may not otherwise have an avenue to review their favourite artists, albums or shows. Or perhaps you want to be part of the Vocal Minority and throw some honest appraisal at something usually bedecked in the Emperor's New Clothes.
If you fit the above profiles, then ePinionated Music may be the site to visit.
www.liveprog.com
For those that love progressive rock, particularly modern and neo-prog, this is the site for you.
Run by Marcel Haster, liveprog is both a website and platform for independent music, with PR work, promotion, review and interviews undertaken by Marcel and the site.
Where FabricationsHQ is primarily a rock music site that, by association, covers a lot of progressive genres, liveprog is proudly progressive - but both sites are remarkably similar as regards their passion for promoting artists and reviewing their music.
There is one significant difference however - Marcel's reviews are done as video reviews, which makes for interesting viewing and the enthusiasm for a chosen subject or artist is immediately evident.
Marcel and liveprog also work closely with Sympho Shop, a Dutch radio show dedicated to bringing the best of progressive rock to its listeners.
www.classicrockrevisited.com
The website title tells you all you need to know.
Where the previously featured site features all things prog, this site features classic rock, but not the more melodic or AOR classics that have made such a resurgence in the reimagined melodic rock Millennium.
Those bands are included, but the features, reviews, interviews and passions of the site clearly sit on the hard and heavy side or rock.
The A to Z more likely to be spotted over at Classic Rock Revisited will be AC/DC and Aerosmith to ZZ Top and Zack Wylde's Black Label Society.
Editor in Chief Jeb Wright and his gang do a fine job promoting and featuring such artists.
www.myspace.com/rockofagesnz
Jason Galu (contributor to One in a Million) is lead vocalist for Rock of Ages, a covers band in New Zealand who are, in their own words, 'A Salute to the Hair Bands of the 1980's.'
Gotta love their sense of humour, and you can check out their sense of 80's melodic metal by visiting their myspace site which includes soundbites and songs from their repertoire.
www.pentlandpetservices.com
A website promoting Pet Lodging and Dog Training may seem a strange thing to advertise and link here, especially as it is only of any use if you happen to be in the west coast of Scotland, and specifically the Ayrshire Area.
But as this is my wife's site and it's her self-employed business, it is advertised here and, if it wasn't... I'd be in the dog house.
www.weebly.com
It would be remiss of me if I didn't mention the Web Creation site that I used to put together both FabricationsHQ and my wife's Pentland Pet Services site.
I am not the most proficient or expert user when it comes to web design, planning or maintenance, but for my money Weebly is second-to-none as regards simplicity of use. It has an excellent support service, too.
Weebly is primarily a free design service, with an option to step up to the Weebly Pro package, which is competitively priced.