Search - Gillan :: Glory Road

Dissapointing remastering! Little if any improvement over Vi

herb | somewhere hopefully | 09/19/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Hi

I love this album and re-purchased it to see if the rest of the remasters were worth getting for the "sonic upgrade". And ...drum roll...the answer is NO! I own the Virgin releases (with most of the bonus tracks from years ago). I a/b'D the older disc and this new remaster with pro-quality headphones and struggled to see what, besides a couple extra tracks, I bought this for! Not really remastered at all! What a ripp off. The other release is years and years old and with todays technology there should be a huge differenece "if" they went back to the masters. I heard from an inside source (from the industry) that this may not have been the case! Why do they do this!? What a missed opportunity.Save your money folks..what a bummer. I did actually luck into a few remasters that Repertoire did a few years back, and they were a decent improvement but the label seemed to have abandoned that project after remastering "future Shock", Double Trouble" and the Ian Gillan Band Budokan" live disc. Weird but true. What a shame....Great album though, and totally worth having but just not for the "remastering" aspect. Music 5 stars remastering 2..averaged to 3 :("

Real Hard Rock

Micaloneus | the Cosmos | 05/21/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Update (12/08): The original Virgin CD's of GILLAN sound nicer overall, with better highs and clarity than the Edsel remasters. So try tracking down the originals first.



Glory Road is an album by the hard rock band "Gillan," which was released in October of 1980 and peaked at #3 in the U.K. album charts. This is a powerful record with loads of fantastic songs which show the legendary Ian Gillan at his rocking best, full of energy, confidence and using those powerful lungs and throat he's best known for. This album features Gillan's most famous line-up of Bernie Tormé, Colin Towns, John McCoy, Mick Underwood and of course Ian Gillan. This lineup also released two other albums, Mr. Universe and Future Shock. If you love Deep Purple MKII, you can't go wrong with this CD, it's real hard rock at its very best! There's also a great bonus CD, "For Gillan Fans Only" which was a pleasant surprise."

Decent but not essential

T. Hardin | seaside,oregon | 11/15/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I never did hear any of Ian Gillan's solo stuff when it originally came out,I totally missed that whole period.Since,i've been very intrigued as to what these solo releases sound like - I am a huge Gillan fan from his early Deep Purple days(as im sure the majority are that are reading this review).Ive read elsewhere that this period of his can be considered part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene occuring during the late 70's/early 80's.

Well Metal this aint.Deep Purple it aint,either.Hard Rock kinda along the lines of Purples later "Perfect Strangers" album,though not as good as that release by any means.Not to say this isnt decent,because it is - it is a solid three star album.Nothing really stands out though.If you are hankering to hear Ian's soaring falsetto,you'll be quite disappointed.No,as mentioned previously,this is Hard Rock played competently if not particularly inspired."