RhoDeo 1137 Goldy Rhox 40

Hello, today the 40th post of GoldyRhox, classic pop rock, in the darklight a US group that slowly build an audience and scored their first gold album with their 5th album, with their 7th (todays mystery album) they started a run of 4 multiple platinum albums. Being a bit of a prog rocker at the time (mid seventies) i already scored most of their vinyl before their big breakthrough and let them go after their '78 8th album, music by that time had moved on for me.

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Most of the albums i 'll post made many millions for the music industry and a lot of what i intend to post still gets repackaged and remastered decades later, squeezing the last drop of profit out of bands that for the most part have ceased to exist long ago, although sometimes they get lured out of the mothballs to do a big bucks gig or tour. Now i'm not as naive to post this kinda music for all to see and have deleted, these will be a black box posts, i'm sorry for those on limited bandwidth but for most of you a gamble will get you a quality rip don't like it, deleting is just 2 clicks...That said i will try to accommodate somewhat and produce some cryptic info on the artist and or album.

Todays mystery album was released 7/7/77, hardly an accident then, as it turned out it proved to bring good fortune to a band who under this moniker had released 6 albums in the 5 years before, and considering the core of the band had been making music together since 1961 these guys knew what they were doing. Progrock isn't something that Americans use as a label, perceived as too intellectual, and lyrics that imply thinking aren't called for. Remarkably todays band broke through at all, i guess the excellent guitarwork made them easier to label as hard rock, but these guys certainly weren't hardrock. Consider these deeply unamerican lyrics " so if you think your life is complete confusion, 'cause your neighbor's got it made, just remember that it's a grand illusion, and deep inside we're all the same". I suppose those were different days and the sixties still near. The album scored 3 hits and still sounds remarkably fresh. The name of the band is taken from the line (river) that separates life and death (the way the Greeks saw it).

Goldy Rhox 40 (flac 239mb)

Goldy Rhox 40 (ogg 89mb)


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