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Topic: Davy O'List
Posted By: Bigseal
Subject: Davy O'List
Date Posted: May 28 2015 at 19:16
Second Thoughts

Try this

https://soundcloud.com/davy-olist/second-thoughts-1/comment-220259060

https://twitter.com/Davyolistmusic

http://Teamrock.com/" rel="nofollow - Teamrock.com makes Second Thoughts TOP OF THE ALBUM REVIEWS (by Geoff Barton editor of Classic Rock magazine) Renowned prog eccentric Davy O’List is best known for being the founding guitarist of The Nice. But I’ll always remember him as a member of avant-garde glam-rock combo Jet. A very bizarre mid-70s interview with O’List and Jet band mate Andy Ellison (later of Radio Stars) still haunts me to this day.

Second Thoughts, O’List’s first solo album since 1997’s Flight Of The Eagle, is a Topsy-turvy amalgam of rock, pop, funk, jazz, classical music and... oh yes, more than a hint of madness. Key to its appeal is O’List’s guitar tone, surely the best in western civilization. Crisp, gritty and rending, when his hitherto restrained six-string explodes into life midway through the title track, it’s a full-on batten-down-the-hatches moment.

Elsewhere, The Emperor is a boggling mishmash of Blackmore’s Night and Tarkus; Bonnie K is a raw re-imagination of The Nice original; To The Stars is more cracked than a UFO spotter’s binoculars. Epic closing track Halfway To Heaven has backing





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Posted By: Bigseal
Date Posted: June 02 2015 at 04:16
I would like to announce there is a new Davy O'List artist web site with a biography and all the latest news here: https://davyolist.wordpress.com/


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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 02:49
Thanks Davy Thumbs Up


Posted By: january4mn
Date Posted: June 16 2015 at 08:24
Really like what I heard and have ordered the CD!



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