Epinions Recent Reviews for Ybo

Beach Audio: Great store... I'll come back!

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:40:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - Easy to find what I need, good prices... good service all around. Good selection of products. I will be back when in need of these kinds of products and will recommend to friends...

Something for everyone? You betcha!!

Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:51:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - Having lived here since I was kid (my family moved to Minnesota when I was 11) I consider Minnesota my home. All my family has since moved away and I remain, mostly because I do love it here and had no reason to move some place else. I'm currently...

One of the best Rock roll albums you've never heard...

Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:52:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - When most people think of '70's music, disco comes to mind the most. Dancing Queen, shake your booty and the rest of that mind numbing fast drum beat… yuck. Why is that, when some of the best bands in rock and roll history were big in the 1970's??...

Lost in the Mix of great music... Climax Blues Band

Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:20:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - I first heard this record when my brother bought it back when it was first released in 1972. I was 14 or 15 at the time, still discovering what I really liked in music, so I would "borrow" my brothers albums all the time. He had after all a good...

Still more GFR LIVE!!!!!

Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:11:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - When planned this was rumored to be the famous Shea stadium concert the band performed in 1971, selling out the stadium in 3 hours flat long before computers did all the work. A record that still stands today by the way. But that didn't happen.
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Finnaly...closer to home!!!!!!

Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:45:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - Little known fact on this album: it is the first GFR album to go gold, even though it was the third album put out by the band. The first two, "On Time" and "Grand Funk", aka the Red album did not go gold until after Closer to Home was released. It...

More then the title says…

Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:14:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - After reading Aunt Bee's book "The American Band the story of GFR" a couple of years ago I was looking forward to Mark's book filling in the spaces. Where the former book took on the more musical side of GFR, Mark fills in a lot of what it was like...

I love my Saturn SC1!

Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:41:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - After reading the other reviews for the 1999 Saturn SC1, I had to respond.

I had owned (like one reviewer) a '92 4 door Saturn SL1, and like them I loved the car. It was the best running, most reliable car I have ever owned. It had well over...

Novice tale of the BWCA

Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:25:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo -

I went with 5 other women on a 'girls camping' trip in 1999. It was my first trip there, and having always wanted to visit the place I was really looking forward to it. Thankfully I was going with people who had been there before and were...

Music of the American Band

Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:14:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - As a long time fan of GFR, when I heard about this project I couldn't wait to get it. When I got it, I sat down and read it cover to cover almost in one sitting.

Some of it I knew, having followed the band since the 70's. It was great...

Minus 3 flaws it'd be perfect

Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:27:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - Put out near the end of GFR's career, "Caught in the Act" is energetic, well engineered and put together live album with only three blaring flaws.

Any one who owned the double set vinyl copy of this album knows what I'm talking about as far as...

25 years later there was Funk...

Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:37:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - This two disk CD was released with very little advertising from Capital, but still sold well mostly due to Grand Funk's promotion of it when they did a short tour after "Bosnia" was released. This tour too had little promotion, but the band sold out or...

A good Start

Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:04:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - This long, anticipated 3 CD set (should've been 4 CDs) gives a good account of the bands' history. (It would've been more thorough with 4 CDs). You can see my only pan of this well produced and put together project.

It starts out with the...

Pinder's Last One

Tue, 8 Aug 2000 18:13:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - This is the last album with Mike Pinder, the founder of the Moody Blues, and the real soul of the group although it didn't really show in this hodge podge of songs that unlike earlier albums seemed to be just thrown together.

It is the first...

Start of a new Era

Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:39:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - It is their second album with keyboard player Patrick Moraz and the 2nd album away from long time producer Tony Clark. It was the same old line up other wise, Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Ray Thomas and Greame Edge, but the sound was a little different,...

Don't pass this one up.

Fri, 4 Aug 2000 18:25:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - Even though "Days of future Passed" is the album most people think of when they think of the Moody Blues, I think of this one first. It was a true concept album, something that in the early days of the group they were the masters of. The...

Ahead of the Times

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:41:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - When released it was one of the first recordings done in HI FI Stereo. Woo hoo!! Prehistoric by today's digital standards, but in 1966 this was state of the art, so was having a rock group and orchestra perform. The Moody Blues were so ahead of their...

Better solo then with the Moodies

Wed, 31 May 2000 18:10:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - I bought this CD very excited because I love all of Justin's solo efforts. I think maybe he puts just a little bit more into them then he does when he's writing for the Moodies. I would purchase this album before the Moodies most recent "Strange...

One of the most beautiful albums made

Wed, 31 May 2000 18:04:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - This album came out while the Moody Blues were on their hiatus in the 70's, and for fans, which yearned for the band during this time, this was a lifesaver. One of the most beautiful albums made, it is full of love songs, (which is what Justin Hayward...

This is it?

Wed, 31 May 2000 18:01:39 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - OK, waited 8 years for a new Moody Blues album. This though is not what I expected. Yes, I yearn for the old days and maybe I'm expecting too much, but the Moodies have always been so far ahead of everyone else. They incorporated an orchestral sound with...

GFR go Gold with American Band

Wed, 31 May 2000 17:51:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - When released in 1973, the first 100,000 units were on virgin gold vinyl. Grand Funk was the only group to release their albums on virgin vinyl. It was sign of things to come for the band and was truly the most successful year for the group, which they...

The king of all heavy studio albums

Wed, 31 May 2000 17:49:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Ybo - The album was loud and very political. "People Lets stop the war", "Save the Land" and the beautiful "Loneliness" are Mark Farner songs that not only say what he wants heard, they pretty much yell it. This aside though, it...