Awesome Audience Rock Show with ..... Dave Walker - vocals, Greg Douglass - guitars, Skip Olson - bass, Chris Paulson - drums, Chris Kovacs - keyboards .In their first incarnation the Mistress were a sort of supergroup... With the fine guitar's work of Mr. Douglass and a vocalist extraordinaire as Dave Walker (Savoy Brown, Fleetwood mac), they were one of best rock bands in the Bay Area... Here you can hear the Mistress at their best and listen to some songs like Prayers or Jungle Love that Douglass used to play with the Raven and Steve Miller...
Tracklist Disc 01 01 - Down At The Bottom 02 - Six Weeks In Reno 03 - Fantasy World 04 - Four Floors Or Forty 05 - Left Hand Soul 06 - Pride Of Man 07 - Dekalb Blues 08 - Bad Luck Baby 09 - Small Walk-In Box 10 - Run Out Of West 11 - You Can't Hurt Me No More Disc 02 01 - Wind It Up Again 02 - Love Me Or I Kill You Baby 03 - Brown Paper Bag 04 - Muddy Waters 05 - Born in Chicago 06 - Dancin' Fool 07 - Goin' Back To Anna 08 - I'll Pull The Trigger 09 - Band Introduction Disc 03 01 - Bad Luck Baby 02 - Buried Alive In The Blues 03 - Down The Road 04 - I Did It For The Band 05 - Long Lonesome Road 06 - Blue Is Back Over Me 07 - Mona 08 - Herpes Blues 09 - Instrumental+Chat Credits Guitar, Lead Vocals - Nick Gravenites Guitar, Vocals - John Cipollina Bass – Doug Kilmer Drums – Greg Elmore
The album was called 'Whitehorn', and was not only released in Germany, France and Japan, but also in the Netherlands (1974). The label was Pink Elephant (PE 877070) and it was distributed by Dureco. Side One Makin' It Funky (Morris) Fire Fire (Whitehorn) Day Of Awakening (Whitehorn) UFO (Morris) I Stand Accused (C.M.Starrs / G. Morris) Side Two Mamma Said (Whitehorn) Fall Out (Whitehorn / Morris) My Mind Within (Whitehorn / Morris) Snake In The Grass (Morris) Blue Jiver (Morris).
Guitar & lead vocals - Geoff Whitehorn Bass - Gerry Morris Drums - John Richardson Keyboards - Peter Arneson (should be Arnesen, ex-If). Day Of Awakening, Mamma Said - drums by Cliff Davies and sax, flute by Dick Morrissey: both are mentioned on the sleeve as 'friends of Geoff': they were under contract with Gull Records (1974) to record the If album Not Just Another Bunch Of Pretty Faces (which includes Geoff). Geoff made this album just before joining If. Makin' It Funky, UFO, Fall Out - backing vocals by producer Tony Atkins and Gerry Morris. Recorded and mixed at Marquee Studios, London.The sleeve is a story in itself: quite shocking for the seventies as it's a drawn picture of an old man with a German war cross around his neck putting his teeth into the bare boobs of a huge well-shaped lady. In front of those, two smoking ladies plus a smoking ape (!), but all five have head phones on ... on the back, a picture of Geoff in a smoke cloud (was this album sponsored by some cigarette company?). Compared to his albums of the nineties, 'Whitehorn' is less interesting for Procol fans as his vocals are more to the fore than his - this time funky - guitar-playing, though on Fire Fire Geoff really shines. Day of Awakening could be an If outtake, Mamma Said has some nice interplay between Geoff's guitar and Morrissey's sax and My Mind Within is a slow ballad where Geoff stretches out the notes like only he can.
"I'm the only guy in rock'n'roll that plays that hollow body jazz guitar and it's because in 1960 I saw Jimmy McCarty creating those big fat full chords like I do on "Stranglehold"; I learned that from Jimmy McCarty. Remember the name Jimmy McCarty. He is as important as Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry and Les Paul...a god on guitar." (By Ted Nugent !!!)
Tracklist: 01 I Need You 02 Your Loss Now 03 I'm all alone 04 Where were you baby? 05 Allman Joy 06 Hold it right there 07 Love is a Rough Business 08 Come back to me 09 I'll never turn my back on you 10 Cold wind
Excellent British Blues Boom album with great guitars by Nick Pickett & Adrian Pietryga . Tracks listing 01.If I Could Keep from Laughing (06:43) 02.Medicine Weasel (04:44) 03.Rambling Boy (03:11) 04.Me and Your Boogie (03:56) 05.Time Will Tell (03:22) 06.End Game (03:48) 07.Me and the Lady (09:35) 08.Medicine Weasel (Single Version/Mono) (04:44) 09.End Game (Single Version/Mono) (03:49) Musicians John Dummer: Drums Nick Pickett: Guitar, Violin, Keyboards, Vocals Adrian Pietryga: Guitar Iain Thompson: Bass, Vocals
Randy California, Ed Cassidy, John Locke, John Turlep.
1st Show. (decent audience)
01. Nature's Way
02. Veruska
03. Little Time To Fly
04. Like A Rolling Stone
05. Farther Along
06. Mr Skin
07. Stoney Night
08. Fresh Garbage
09. World Eat World Dog
10. 1984
11. It's All The Same
12. I Got A Line On You
13. Animal Zoo
14, Hey Joe
2nd Show. (discreet FM)
01. Prelude > Nothing To Hide >
02. Nature's Way
03. Like A Rolling Stone
04. World Eat World Dog
05. Mr Skin
06. Farther Along
07. Stoney Night
08. Mega Star
09. I Got A Line On You
10. Reelin' In The Night
11. Dark Eyed Woman
12. 1984
Filler .
Original reunion with Neil Young, Santa Monica, Ca., August 28 1976
13. Just Like Thumb's Blues
14. Like A Rolling Stone
Fantastic show with Randy's guitar on fire , thanks to my friend Cipcal for his advice and to 38f for the original seed ...
Enjoy !!!
"Stoney Night" Live 08/76 Roslyn NY
Bachman Turner Overdrive was a muscular boogie band from canada, both musically and literally (frontmen Randy Bachman and Fred Turner could have played line for any number of football teams! )this album marked the band's commercial breakthrough with the monster hit "Takin' care of business" (still heard regularly on office depot commercials) and minor hits "Let it ride" and "Welcome home." the sound is hard rock from start to finish, but not as metallic as the next effort 'not fragile' would be. the boogie is still here (eg., "business" and "tramp"), as well as a glimpse of mr. Bachman's jazz chops (check out the end of "welcome home," an almost completely different song as the band gets into a brubeck groove), as was "Blue collar" from their first album. this album captures the live feel, not far removed from the bar room. no studio gimmicks, no subtlety, just power chords and hard rock joy! (By P Dizzle) Tracklist 01- "Blown" (R. Bachman, T. Bachman) – 4:18 - (vocals: T. Bachman) 02- "Welcome Home" (R. Bachman) – 5:29 - (vocals: R. Bachman) 03- "Stonegates" (Turner) – 5:35 - (vocals: Turner) 04- "Let It Ride" (R. Bachman, Turner) – 4:27 - (vocals: Turner) 05- "Give It Time" (Turner) – 5:44 - (vocals: Turner) 06- "Tramp" (R. Bachman, T. Bachman) – 4:02 - (vocals: R. Bachman) 07- "I Don't Have to Hide" (T. Bachman) – 4:22 - (vocals: T. Bachman) 08- "Takin' Care of Business" (R. Bachman) – 4:50 - (vocals: R. Bachman)
Credits Randy Bachman - guitar, vocals Robbie Bachman - percussion, drums Tim Bachman - guitar, vocals Fred Turner - bass, vocals Norman Durkee - piano on "Takin' Care of Business" Here
The first was the best... Some bands need time to get up to stride; others come up with their best stuff when they still toiled in relative obscurity. BTO fits in the latter. Their first album is easily their best, starting off right away with "Gimme Your Money Please", a tune sure to please with the heavy guitar riffs and snarling vocals of C F Turner. That's followed by "Hold Back the Water", which was the flip side of the single "Blue Collar", which is also great. You may remember "Blue Collar" as a bluesy tune; unfortunately the band never explored that side of their music much, because this track works. Other good tracks include "Stayed Awake All Night" and "Down and Out Man", a rare vocal by early member Tim Bachman. Commercial success probably led them to go down the safe and easy path with subsequent releases, although their fourth album "Four Wheel Drive" rebounds a bit before the band personnel changed and BTO plummeted. This album and "Four Wheel Drive" are the ones you want. If you're a fan, the other albums work, too. But this is their best one, hands down.(By Mark R. Van Wagenen)
Far Beyond a Distant Sun - Live in Arlington Texas is Captain Beyond's only official live album to date. It was recorded in 1973 (but wasn't officially released until 2002), after the release of Sufficiently Breathless, with the four original member reuniting for a brief tour before Rod Evans leaves. The album was recorded at the University of Texas at Arlington in support of King Crimson. Tracklist 01."Intro/Distant Sun" – 6:33 02."Drifting in Open Space" – 4:04 03."Pandora's Box/1000 Days of Yesterday" (Rod Evans, Bobby Caldwell) – 14:55 04."Dancing Madly Backwards" (Evans, Caldwell) – 18:15 05."Mesmerization Eclipse" (Evans, Caldwell) – 18:05 06."Stone Free" (Jimi Hendrix) – 5:21
Credits •Rod Evans – Lead vocals, Tambourine •Rhino – Lead guitar, Backing vocals •Lee Dorman – Bass guitar, Backing vocals •Bobby Caldwell – Drums Here
This is a guitar album, and if you do not like loud electric rock music, this CD is not for you. Elder rock legend Barry "The Fish" Melton meets up with one of his biggest fans, Rich Hopkins. Rich, is the rock prince of Tucson, Arizona. Together these two musicians had a plan...turn back the clocks to 1969 and crank it out. Barry, was one of those players that set San Francisco on fire during the mid 1960's, and along with John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service, he among the very finest guitarists that California had to brag about. English musicians such as: Clapton, Beck and Page, would watch him closely as a study of change that occurred in early 1967, that would forever alter the way that rock music would be performed. Over Thanksgiving weekend in 2005 Barry and Rich met up in Arizona, set up their vintage guitars and amps, found a bass guitar player and drummer, and set the clocks back to another time, forty years back near The Golden Gate. Key tracks are: "Alabama Bound", "The Highway Is A Devil", "Thirty Days", "Pretty Polly" and right in the center of the disc, the insrumental track entitled: "Duel In The Desert" that is a classic guitar "Freak-Out" between Barry and Rich of massive distortion and waa-fuzz pedal wonder that really captures the spirit of times long past. This kind of rock music belongs to the young, or the young at heart. Both artists share vocal duties, and Barry has a few moments infront of the microphone on this CD, and he is a welcome surprise as the better vocalist of the two. This bluesy, raw rock is way out of place today, in this pop world of: "American Idol" and fans of Jessica's latest release. It is the music of small bars and roadhouses from Tallahassee to Tacoma. This is good rock music that is so much more akin to time way back and of decades past. The music here will only appeal to a limited audience, it is the sound of guys playing for the fun of playing.(By Philip S Wolf)
Track List 01. Alabama Bound 02. I’ve Seen The World From Your Eyes 03. Please Forgive Me 04. Without You 05. The Highway Is A Devil 06. Duel In The Desert 07. Pretty Polly 08. O Death 09. Thirty Days Line Up Barry Melton : Guitar, Vocals Rich Hopkins : Guitar, Vocals Nick Augustine : Bass Guitar Tom Larkin : Drums
Morly Grey : this legendary American group with a proven track record only one album released in 1972. Why is 'legendary'? Bo has released the album themselves and disappeared. And the only reissue on CD was released after 35-five years in an equally small number of copies...The original vinyl Starshine label and have the number 69000.... costs over 1000 bucks, so it is worth while to hunt for a compact a reissued digitally remastered by Comet Records ..added 5 bonus tracks, hmm although it is quite difficult task..CD also quickly had disappeared!
Perhaps the best privately released Heavy psych album around. Amazing album. Music? The heavy, psychedelic rock, guitar orgy and cool melodies. 8 tracks, 46 minutes of music....vinyl version Music recorded in two different studios: 1971, Cleveland Recording Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio. Inzynieria: Ken Hamen. 1972, Peppermint Studios, Youngstown, Ohio. Inzynieria: Gary Rhamy. and differing in quality, but from start to finish excellent. Guitar overthrow. Playing a very 'American', which is embedded in the blues,near progressive structures almost hard, that is a very psychedelic blues-rock-hard The Morly Grey can play loudly of course (phenomenal Our Time with frequent changes of tempo and speedy guitar solos and the album-opener, uncompromising Peace Officer). Sometimes, however, music is a little quieter and more melancholic (Who Can I Say You Are, ballad A Feeling For You). The go-aheads riffs (especially in You Came To Me), a variety of solos and cleverly used a wah-wah effects make the guitar player standing in the foreground on in the album. The album ends with a 17-minute suite The Only Truth. The song opens with heavy guitars, but little by little the music takes the listeners to the world of subtle psychedelia. From the guitar sounds landscape there discretely appears the song from the Civil War When Johnny Comes Marching Home. When Johnny comes marching home again, Hurrah! Hurrah! Let love and friendship on that day, Hurrah, Hurrah! Really a great album. A feast for all who love old stuff and austere beginning of hard rock... Amazing album and real rocker (By Adamus67)
This is a WLIR FM broadcast... Fantastic concert by the Good Rats during their best era ... Enjoy !!! Disc 1 01 - Intro Ken Cole/ WLIR 02 - Back To My Music 03 - Injun Joe 04 - Tasty 05 - City Acting 06 - Louise The Tease 07 - Poppa Poppa 08 - Fred Upstairs and Ginger Snappers 09 - Phil Fleish 10 - Rat City in Blue 11 - Beat Up Rambler 12 - 300 Boys (Tape Flip) Time: - 45:50 Disc 2 01 - Klash Ka-Bob 02 - Songwriter 03 - Fireball Express Encores: 04 - Hourglass 05 - Yellow Flower 06 - Mean Mother Fucker 07 - WLIR-FM Tasty 08 - Takin' it to Detroit 09 - Does it Make You Feel Good? 10 - Coo Coo Blues Time: - 43:06
The Good Rats are: Peppy Marchello: Lead Vocals, Baseball Bat Mickey Marchello: Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals Lenny Kottke: Bass, Vocals John (The Cat) Gato: Lead Guitar Joe Franco: Drums and percussion Disc 01 Disc 02
Liquid Smoke were a Long Island, New York group that consisted of Sandy Pantaleo (lead vocals), Vince Fersak (guitar), Ben Ninnman (keyboards), Mike Archuleta (bass), and Chas Kimbrell (drums). The group formed while students at ECU and signed with Avco Embassy in 1969, releasing their lone lp in early 1970 which was produced by Vinny Testa who also produced Frijid Pink and co-produced with Shadow Morton the Merchants Of Dream’s 1968 psych masterpiece “Strange Night Voyage”. The group’s killer psych track “Lookin’ For Tomorrow” was the highlight of Peruvian band Gerardo Manuel & El Humo’s debut lp “Apocallypsis”. The album also includes their single “I, Who Have Nothing” a cover of the Ben E. King hit which was also covered earlier by Terry Knight And The Pack (see December 21, 2009 post) and later by Tom Jones and Sylvester. Sandy Panaleo would later go on to a successful acting/vocalist/composer career as Sonny Rose. (Jack Dominilla)
Tracks Listing
01. I Who Have Nothing (Leiber, Stoller, Donida, Rapetti) - 3:18
02. Lookin' For Tomorrow (Vince Fersak) - 4:30
03. Hard To Handle (Otis Redding, Allen Alvoid Jones, Jr., Alvertis Isbell) - 3:43
"Tasty" is by far the greatest accomplishment by "America's Favorite Unknown Band": The Good Rats. I was first aquainted with the "Tasty" album at a young age when my father, who was a Good Rats fan in his youth, passed his taste in music down to me. I first became familiar with the popular title track, "Tasty", the upbeat lead-off track, "Back To My Music", and the eeire but lyrically ingenius and funny "300 Boys". Later on, I came to recognize the musical brilliance in "Klash Ka Bob", "Poppa Papa", "Phil Fliesh", the vocal magnificance in "Songwriter", "Injun Joe", and "Fireball Express", and the nostalgic ingenius in "Fred Upstairs and Ginger Snappers". And then it hit me. There is not a single song on this album that isn't worth listening to. Peppi Marchello posseses the rock and roll voice that most bands dream of having, John Gatto's guitar playing is flawless (check out "Klash Ka Bob" to hear Gatto at his best!), Lenny Kotke's fingers fly on the bass, Micky Marchello's guitar and vocal harmonies are always dead on, and Joe Franco's drumming is admirable. Essentially, The Good Rats are the model band for 70's rock. Why then did not make it big is beyond mystery to me. The "Tasty" album is a must-have for rock fans of all ages.(By The 5th Beatle) Tracklist 01 "Back To My Music" 2:34 02 "Injun Joe" 5:28 03 "Tasty" 3:22 04 "Papa Poppa" 5:08 05 "Klash-Ka-Bob" 3:34 06 "Fireball Express" 3:16 07 "Fred Upstairs & Ginger Snappers" 3:11 08 "300 Boys" 3:49 09 "Phil Fleish" 4:00 10 "Songwriter" 3:50 Recorded at House of Music, West Orange, New Jersey, 1974
Credits Peppi Marchello – lead vocals, harmonica, and bats Mickey Marchello – guitar, vocals John "The Cat" Gatto - guitar Lenny Kotke - bass, vocals Joe Franco - drums Here
After having loved their debut, Da Capo, and Forever Changes I was a little skeptical when I first popped Foursail into my cd player. How could Arthur Lee possibly reform Love after coming off of an album that many consider one of rock 'n' roll's greatest? After listening to Foursail, I realize that the acoustic symphonies of Forever Changes are long gone, but replaced by a much more powerful, dynamic rock sound, reminiscent of Cream and Zeppelin at times. In strong contrast with Forever Changes, which was Arthur Lee's death letter to the world, Foursail abandons the longer lyrical patterns for shorter, yet equally witty lyrics. Jay Donnallen shines on lead guitar; every solo just booms with intensity and originality, which almost makes you forget the abscense of Johnny Echols. Still present are the complex rhythm changes that Arthur Lee loves so much, and shows that he can still execute to perfection. While Foursail is not the masterpiece that Forever Changes was, and not as experimental as Da Capo, there is still something to be said for just putting out an exceptionally "cool" album. The track listing does not contain anything of the magnitude of "You Set the Scene" (which I personally consider one of the greatest songs in rock n roll), yet songs like "August", "Robert Montgomery", and "Singing Cowboy" boast excellent guitar riffs, and lyrics that you just can't help but sing along to. "Good Times" is another song off of the album that really just stuck with me. Although the band is different, songs such as "Neil's Song" and "Dream" remind us that Arthur Lee is still at the helm, which means the lyrics are dark and mysterious, despite the campy, sing-songy feeling evoked by "Neil's Song". To cap off the album, Lee ends with "Always See Your Face", a beautiful song that blends the horn sounds of Forever Changes with his newer rock sound characteristic of the rest of the album. Foursail is not the experimental delight that Da Capo was, nor the everlasting classic that Forever Changes is. Keeping this in mind, Foursail is an essential for any Love fan, or any fan of late 60's acid rock. Lee still proves that he is more than just another psychedelic rock band with Foursail, putting his newly-formed band on the top of the rock pedestal of 1969. This album has been unfairly forgotten, and deserves (in my opinion)to earn recognition in the top 50 or so rock albums. Please explore this album and other works by Love so we can all experience the musical genius that was and still is Arthur Lee.(By "leopardskinpillbxht") Tracklist 01 "August" — 5:00 02 "Your Friend and Mine - Neil's Song" — 3:40 03 "I'm With You" — 2:45 04 "Good Times" — 3:30 05 "Singing Cowboy" (Lee, Jay Donnellan) — 4:30 06 "Dream" — 2:49 07 "Robert Montgomery" — 3:34 08 "Nothing" — 4:44 09 "Talking in My Sleep" — 2:50 10 "Always See Your Face" — 3:30 Bonus Tracks 11 "Robert Montgomery" (alternate vocal) — 3:41 12 "Talking in My Sleep" (alternate mix) — 2:55 13 "Singing Cowboy" (unedited version) (Lee, Donnellan) — 5:52 All songs written and arranged by Arthur Lee, except where noted.
Personnel: Arthur Lee - rhythm guitar, piano, conga, harmonica, lead vocals, producer Jay Donnellan - lead guitar Frank Fayad - bass, backing vocals (06,07) George Suranovich - drums (01,05 to 10), backing vocals (06,07) Drachen Theaker - drums (02 to 04)
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