Music-Drop Magazine

Let me be honest and let me be frank. I’m not the sort of person whose going to describe myself as faultless or without bias. Indeed no human can allow themselves those attributes. As such I don’t expect people to be faultless or unbiased. But when somebody, or a group of people, repeatedly defy the laws of probability and get stuff wrong time after time, I’m almost impressed. Because how can you be wrong so much, while maintaining enough prestige to make people, like myself, continue to check on what you do? That group of people, if you didn’t read the title, is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame voting committee. I’ve never hidden mydislike for them in the past, and I’ve also never hidden my high hopes. So here are my simple, and late, comments on the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. The Infamous Hall in Cleveland To be honest this isn’t their worst year, with only one of the acts being one I vividly disagree with. The others are more a case of, they belon...

Let's be honest in most music circles the Rock & Roll hall of Fame has become increasingly able to ridicule. However the Hall has always been destined to be ridiculed, it's concept of inducting only the best Rock musicians its very subjective and does not reflect on what 'Rock' is. To some Rock is simply the output of musicians such as Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry from the mid 50s to the late 50s. To most though Rock encompasses the guitar based rock since 1955. However many will argue that Electronic music, Pop, Blues, Folk, Jazz, Hip-Hop and every genre in between counts as Rock as Rock has influenced every popular genre of today. The Hall of Fame has ignored large vast genres since its inception, such as Punk, Disco, Progressive Rock, Hip-Hop, Alternative Rock, and so many others. Last year artists who changed music enormously such as The Smiths were not inducted in favour of genre-artists who are favoured by the Hall of Fame such as The Paul Bu...

Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, MC5, Mountain, Deep Purple and… Stray? The canon of hard rock and heavy metal is filled with founders and originators. Some argue The Kinks created the genre in 1964, others claim Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath were the bands who ushered in the heavy era of rock.  But one band who helped define the sound Hard Rock is Stray who were made up of a bunch of teenagers from London who formed in 1966 and played together until 1997. To help indulge the music lovers amongst us, I decided that we should all be aware of the rocking impulsive sounds which come from Stray. To help me tell you about the band and its history I enlisted the help of Stray's guitarist Del Bromham. M-D M: Who were your earliest musical influences? Del Bromham: Well All my family loved music and my older brother Allan had a band so consequently there was always music playing in my house. I remember the first record that had a big impact on me even though I was ju...