Thunder Photograph Book

Thunder have brought out a coffee table picture book. Thunder were a hard rock band from the UK, they split up recently.  They reformed for a one off show in the summer at the High Voltage festival in London.  The book has photos from High Voltage festival, the rehearsals and the warm up show at Nottingham rock city.  
It may be a coffee table book but they don't play coffee table rock. If you don't know any Thunder stuff then check out their music here is the Thunder music catalogue. The Very of Thunder box set is a good introduction to the band and great value for a 3 disc set.


The book has 3 days in July 2011, Day 1 is the rehearsals, Day 2 is the warm up show and Day 3 is the High Voltage appearance.  The book also has a foreword by each of the band.  See the links below.

The Thunder Book shop is here.
http://www.blurb.com/user/Thundershop

Look at the preview of entire book here, Thunder: 3 Days In July 2011:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2458741

They have an iPad & iPhone version which is quite cheap 5e vs 65e.  It is worth having a look and a read of the book anyway.

Thanks for reading,
Steve.

Thunder Great Rock Guitar Picture

Been a while since I updated the Playing Rock Guitar Blog.  Welcome back.

Thunder were an English hard rock band that split up last year.  They did their last UK tour in July 2009.  Marty Moffat the photographer has a beautiful set of prints of the band that he shot on the tour.

Here is one of Luke Morley playing the guitar.  The stage show lights catch the headstock of the guitar and look like the Japanese rising sun.  Really unusual, just the right angle and timing.

Luke Morley of Thunder Courtesy of ThunderOnline

You can see the prints here at the Official Thunder Online Shop Site.  Look for picture no. 18 and of course check out the rest of the set.

If you want to check out some music by Thunder, I would recommend "Robert Johnson's Tombstone".  A lot of good cracking hard rock songs on it.  Most of their albums are excellent but that would be my favourite.

Thunder seemed to be getting better in the 2000's and it was a surprise to me when they announced they were splitting up after so many strong albums in the last few years.  Worth checking out to listen to the guitar riffs.  I think once you hear them you'll be sorry too that they are gone.

Thanks for reading, till next time,
Steve.