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Last updated by Chrome Oxide on 03/10/2001

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REVIEWS PAGE
SITE MAP
PAGE INDEX
[What's New (this page)]
[Intro - Reviews Page]
REVIEWS
[Francis Monkman]
MISC
[Other Links] [Classifieds]
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REVIEWS PAGE
WHAT's NEW (this page)
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What's new on this page?

If you see the date changing on this page, without an announcement in this section, it is probably something like fixing minor coding problems, spelling errors, minor layout changes, new page on this site (so I changed bottom index), ... Any major changes to this page, will be announced here.

July 18, 2005. I just noticed that the ezBoard message board that I had set up for this web site had been deleted. Since restoration of the deleted conference is only available to subscribers to their service, and since the activity was relatively light, I not planning on looking for another message board. If you do think a message board is worth while, or you have a message board that you like, let me know and I may promote it here. As always you can contact me here.

March 10, 2001. It looks like I may have been premature in moving to a new web hosting site. I just found out that whenever Tripod.com is having hardware or software problems with their servers, they put up a message for the webmaster that their site is in violation of terms, and the web site has been deleted (instead of a message about system problems and try again later). Anyway, I believed Tripod.com when they said they deleted my account, so I will be moving, and making chromeoxide.com my new home on the web.

March 10, 2001. As long as I am moving my entire site, I decided to make a few changes to the layout of the individual pages, and the web site in general, including (but not limited to) I removed the counter, and moved the listings of mirror sites to the bottom of the page, ...

March 6, 2001. Sometime between March 1 to March 5, 2001 Tripod deleted my account/web site. The last stats Tripod gave me were 9,000+ visitors per month. Since my site is so popular, I have decided to keep it going, in spite of this major setback. But rather than trying to build up another free web site, and possibly deal with this problem again, I decided go with CommandLine.net to host the new chromeoxide.com.

October 31, 2000. The new Chrome Oxide Music Collectors Pages Message Board is provided by EZBoard.

October 31, 1999. There used to be a complete listing of all the bands featured on this site at the bottom of each page on this site. The complete band list has now been moved to the Site Map.

Back in June 1997 when I started this site, the index at the bottom of the page seemed like a good idea. Due to the amazing growth of this site, I now think that the Site Map is a better way to do it.

I will continue to list the featured band of the month at the bottom of each page on this site.

December 3, 2002 CD Now is undergoing changes, and asked that ALL links be removed.
October 28, 1999 I signed up with CD Now.

October 22, 1999. The Chrome Oxide Music Collector Pages web site hit the big time! And I didn't even know it.

Tripod stats showed that this web site had more than 4,000 unique visitors last month (September 1999). Because of that, Tripod has increased my web space from 11mb to 50mb.

July 7, 1999. This page. :-)

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REVIEWS PAGE
INTRO
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This page is an attempt at something new for me. Until now, my site has been a fairly straight forward listing of recording sessions and live shows by bands with minimal editorial comment. This will be my page for editorial comment, ie. reviews of shows I have seen, books I have read, ....

My basic criteria will be: is it appropriate to this site? I think that allows for a wide range of material to be covered.

If you are interested in having your product (music, magazine, web site, ...) reviewed and featured on this page, just send it on to me. For best results, lable, and where it hopefully it will be something that is appropriate to this site.

So while I plan on continuing with my plan of adding one band per month to this site, I don't plan on having a regular schedule for this page. I will be reviewing items as the mood so strikes me.

I am also interested in getting wider exposure for this site. So links from your site to mine would be appreciated. And if you know of any sites that allow/encourage submission, I would also appreciate knowing about them as well.

Please send to:

Chrome Oxide
P.O.Box 8106
Mission Hills, CA 91346-8106

Chrome Oxide
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Francis Monkman and The Virtuous Realiti Band - 21st Century Blues
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GRAPHIC IMAGE '21st Century Blues' cover

Francis Monkman and The Virtuous Realiti Band - 21st Century Blues

This CD was a pleasant surprise. I am not familiar with Curved Air, 801, or any of the other many bands that Francis Monkman has been a part of over the years. So I wasn't sure what to expect.

What I got was a very good progressive rock CD. Even though the CD is titled 21st Century Blues, and blues is included in the title of a few songs, there are no traditional blues songs on this CD. While some of the songs are slower paced and have a moody/bluesy in feel, other songs are much faster paced and rock out nicely.

The vocals are very effects laden, and mixed evenly with the other instruments as if they are just another instrument. As a consequence, I had difficulty understanding the lyrics. But if you think of the vocals, as just another instrument, they fit right in with the rest of the musical mix. There are at least two vocalists, male and female. The guitar is the lead instrument on this CD, and gets mixed louder during the frequent soloing. The rhythm section provides the support necessary for the songs.

I assume the basic instrumentation is: vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass and drums. I say assume, as there are no liner notes to explain who did what. While I prefer to see performance credits in the liner notes (so that if I like someone's performance-I can try to find other projects they have/are participating in), I wasn't too upset at their absence.

I have played this CD for a couple friends that are into Curved Air and/or progressive bands, and both liked it.

This CD is a welcome addition to any music library.

For furthur information, check out http://www.afkm.com/

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Do you have a Music Review/Opinion related site? Do you want a link from this page? E-Mail me!

I am also interested in getting wider exposure for this site. So links from your site to mine would be appreciated. And if you know of any sites that allow/encourage submission, I would also appreciate knowing about them as well.

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CLASSIFIEDs
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This is an experiment. I am listing various classified ads that might be of interest to browsers of this page.

Let me know what you think of this idea?

And if you do order something listed here, let them know you found out about it here.

Also, let me know how this worked out for you.

June 29, 2003.
MusicStack looks like a good source of used music items (LPs, CDs, posters, ...).
As always, let me know what you think.

4 Million Hard to Find CDs & LPs at MusicStack
December 10, 2002.
Back in October 1999 I put up links to CD-Now so that visitors could easily link to the related band pages and instantly see which items were still in print/available for purchase. CD-Now no longer has that option. For the moment I am putting in Amazon.com search boxes. Amazon.com doesn't easily allow for links to individual band pages in the same way that CD-Now used to. So, instead of me being able to create direct links, I have put up the Amazon.com search box instead. So you can still go to a page with the various bands products, buy you now need to go through a search box.

As always, let me know what you think.

April 22, 2002.
Would you like to show your appreciation for (the time, effort, money, ... that goes into creating, maintaing, updating) this web site, without getting anything in return (except a listing of your name (and url) on this web site as a friend of this web site)?
sign up for PayPal and simplify your online payments.

Send Chrome Oxide some money

December 3, 2002 CD Now is undergoing changes, and asked that ALL links be removed.
October 28, 1999 I signed up with CD Now.

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Band of the month for March 2004: [Raw Power Rangers]
Book review of the month for October 2006: [Skydog - The Duane Allman Story]

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