European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday september 11, 1985 Bottom Rock comes of age b y g o s c h c aught in the act. Rock Bollo stepped Back in time last week and caught legendary blues Rock guitarist Alvin Lee of ten years after Fame performing at the Steinbruch theater in Darmstadt one of the last bastions of Hare Rock in that town. At age 40, the heavy duty axeman can still out Rock most newcomers. In his nearly two hour set which included three encores he performed several of his Golden oldies Good morning Little schoolgirl love like a a in. Choo Choo mama and Corn Home. The song that was a smash hit and caused a near riot at the Woodstock festival in 1969. On Bass was fuzzy Samuels a studio musician whose claim to Fame is his work on Crosby. Stills. Nash and Young s four Way Street , and British Rookie Alan Young look Over the Drums. Lee s been laying Low during the past five years doing a few Odd pigs. Writing new material and basically sorting out a direction to go  he says. Hell Start recording in his own space studio at his Home in England next month and expects an album to be released in january. It s still pretty much hard  he says i m just employing a Lew of the new gadgets and a Tew of the new musicians to bring it up to  weaned on Elvis Dill Haley. Jerry Lee lever and Little Richard. Lee has developed an interest in electronic music Over the years and is particularly fond of computer Drums sequencers and digital analog reverb. If used sparingly and cleverly it can sound pretty Good he says. People still love Rock n Roll As the gigs prove but the whole Art of getting it across now is to put something new in it use the same Basic music but put some new sounds to  speaking of new found there s a new hard Rock concept album out called Phenomena. It s another one of those albums where you have to guess who the musicians Are because Ihire Are no credits on the cover. The artists Are eight veterans of hard Rock each one a master at his instrument. You la recognize the voice As that of Glenn Hughe formerly with trapeze in the Early 70s and with deep purple As bassist in the Mark Iii and in lineups. The awesome keyboards of Richard Bailey of magnum Alaska and Whitesnake Fame dominate the album punctuated by the ferocious Lead guitar of Mel Galley also formerly of trapeze and Whitesnake. Other Whitesnake veterans on the album Are bassist Neil Murray also known through his work with colosseum ii and with guitarist Gary Moore and drummer co y Powell who s jammed with Jeff Beck. Rainbow Mickael Schenker and. Most recently with Keith Emerson and Greg Lake in a new version of Elp. John Thomaa of Budgie provides some guitar work sting dreaming of Blue Turtle. Bluet Rock guitarist Alvin Lee 15 Yean later. Throughout the album and sex Rainbow keyboardist Don Airey appears on a few tracks As does percussionist Ted Mckenna of the Alex Harvey band the Midland boys choir of England adds a new dimension to the Rock sound. The concept behind Phenomena is based upon the subject of Good is. Evil. The listener is taken on a journey into the world of science fiction the supernatural and the unexplained in Short into the world of Phenomena or such stuff As dreams Are made of and yet Are Universal whose sense of mystery and Awe affect and inspire each and everyone of us according to a press release. Mel Galley s brother Tom penned the lyrics based on memories of science fiction movies he watched As a child. The Maiks these movies left on his subconscious come out in such songs As kiss of fire. Dance with the Devil hell on wings and Twilight zone a Story what it boils Down to is Phenomena is intelligent hard Rock no thrash Metal herewith a classical flavor permeating the Spectorman Wall of sound. Put on some headphones and get ready Lor a mind blowing adventure. On the lube. On wednesday sept. 25, the German 2nd to program Adf airs Ronnie s pop show at 6 . Dire Strait introduces their new album Brothers in arms which turned Platinum in the u.s., with More than 1 million copies sold. John pair performs his no. 1 hit. Of. Elmo s fire from the movie of the same name. Parr by the Way had an interesting Start in the music scene. He was one of several people injured during a riot at a who concert in 1979. Suffering amnesia As a result of the fracas. Sex who manager John Wolfe took Parr under his wings and helped him re discover himself and his musical talents. Parr went on to write songs most notably for meat loaf on the up bad attitude and recorded his own album. The singles naughty naughty and magical hit the billboard charts earlier this year. Lately Parr has been collaborating with former who Lead Singer Roger Daltrey. Several of his songs appear on Daltrey s new album alter the fire. In other Rock news polling Stone reports in a current Issue that talks Are under Way regarding a led Zeppelin tour with the Power station s Tony Thompson on Drums. Huey Lewis manager claims that the ghost busters lawsuit has been settled out of court although Ray Parker or. And co. Denies it. Motley Crue s Vince Neil in t serving time for is photo by Anita Gosch vehicular manslaughter because of his participation in drug and alcohol rehab programs since january and because of his  said to be big Bucks to the victims families. Queen was spotted recently at Musl Cland studio in Munich. Yes that s Queen All together now. Recording a new single. That should quell any rumours that the frolicking foursome Are parting company. Tickets for the dire Strait concerts in Germany this november Are going fast. More than 50.000 were sold within a few weeks. And finally the dates Are in for sting dream of the Blue turtles tour in Germany. Six gigs Are set for the end of november. Parr the Johnny come Hetely of Rock