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Powder To The People. That's the title of a unique CD release by The
Block
Busters. Hollands one & only walking, talking, rocking and motherblocking
glamrock outfit. An album featuring no less than 41 guest musicians,
spilling spilled their glory and guts on this unique album. Yes sir, it is a
unique album we're talking about! Not because of it’s a tribute album. There
have been many already. And many others will follow. This one however is not
dedicated to one of the great bands in rock & roll history. It's dedicated
to one of the great musical styles: glamrock. The heydays of The Sweet,
Slade, Gary Glitter, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, The Rubettes, Mud and The
Osmond Brothers. The early 70's may not have changed the sound of rock &
roll as much as it should have. But they most certainly changed its looks.
It's been a trend in fashion for the past couple of years. Suddenly
everybody was trying to walk on high heeled shoes, wearing bell bottom
trousers or a pair of hot pats, every now and again. The swinging 70’s are
back. What's new for today's teenagers however, is the most brilliant form
of nostalgia for others. Reminding you of the days that you starting getting
pimples, growing a tiny moustache, had your first date, drank your first
bottle of beer or got rid of that terrible barbed wire fence in your mouth.
The same thing happened with Hans van den Heuvel, one of Hollands leading
rock journalists and the man who wrote the book on heavy metal. Literally,
that is, being the editor in charge of the Hard Rock & Heavy Metal
Encyclopedia, published in several European countries and languages. He
started using all of his contacts, called several of his famous Dutch
musician friends and started working on the soundtrack of their childhood.
No less than 41 of those noisy bastards were kind enough to help him out,
re-arranging classic rock tracks like School's Out, Fox On The Run, Jean
Genie, Crazy Horses, Coz I Luv' You, Ballroom Blitz, Dynamite, Action,
Elected, Tie Your Mother Down, Tigerfeet and Wig-Wam Bam. Even Little Jimmy
Osmond got updated, sounding a bit like a younger version of David Lee Roth
nowadays, in a hilarious big band version of Long Haired Lover From
Liverpool.
   
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