Australian HiFi

ROCK ON

DON AIREY

One Of A Kind

Relatively unsung Rainbow/Sabbath keyboard hero Airey has countless fine support performances to his name—more deliciously delicate Hammond than on Gary Moore’s and you’ll seek in vain. The first of those is one of four live Hamburg recordings which close up this 15-track release, while his new material is not as sedentary as you might guess given his 70 years—it rocks, the band including current Nazareth singer Carl Sentance, sometime-Sabbath Laurence Cottle on bass, and chop-savvy Simon McBride on guitar. wails and zig-zags so like mid-period Sabbath that Airey’s fizzy Moog Voyager solo, the English blues of .

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