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SOD was a bluesy Rock outfit from LA with a lot of beards and bad 70s long hair. To top it all off, their percussion player Jay York was a professional wrestler from the NWA! They put out two albums, and I think this is the better of the two, although the other one gets mentioned because David Axelrod did some production on it. The band gets right down to business with Too Loose To Get Tight Pt. 1 with a nice long drum break intro that leads into some funky Rock. Pt. 2 of the song is even better since it’s mostly an instrumental. Things I Wanna Say is in a similar vein with some nice horn work. In fact, the whole first side is a pretty good listen. The flipside though, isn’t half as interesting. There is another drum break on Makin It though.(Soulstrut (Motown67))Tracks : 01 - Too Loose To Get Tight-pt.1 (larry devers-don phillips) 02 - Too Loose To Get Tight-pt.2 (larry devers-don phillips) 03 - Things I Wanna Say (larry devers-don phillips) 04 - Love Sweet Love (larry devers-joe molina) 05 - Here (rick kellis) 06 - Ev'ryday (larry devers-robert arnold-joe molina-michael green-kenny herpen) 07 - La brea tar pit blues (jay york) 08 - I Don't Want Ya (larry devers-don phillips-robert arnold-joe molina-rick kellis-jay york-michael green) 09 - Makin' It (larry devers-joe molina-rick kellis)Link : @No artwork...Album taken from : Tutemachine on ProgNotFrog-Forum: http://pnfforum.com/index.php?topic=6805.0
This Canadian band truly sounds like nobody else. They have a matter-of-fact, almost comic vocal style and goofy lyrics, and music with a strong pop sense but plenty of quirks. They’re too professional to be called garage, the vocals not melodic enough to be “pop,” and too musically creative to be “novelty.” Comparisons to Zappa are way off the mark (though he would be just gross enough to write a song about lancing a boil). They’re closer to 70s prog and pop weirdos like Oho or R. Stevie Moore, or even 90s indie-pop bands like Pavement. Both of their albums contain some unexpectedly interesting guitar work and a few psychedelic songs. I like them a lot; they’re unique, the songs are memorable and they’re never dull. The pressing history is a bit complex: the mono includes 'Golden Girl', while the stereo mix includes 'I can still hear them laughing' instead of 'Golden girl' and also has edits and voices not on the mono.
Tracks :
Golden Girl
Black Potato
Nothin' But
Rising Of The Sun
The Crushing Hand Of Mother
We'll Bring You Flowers For Your Wall
I Can Still Hear Them Laughing
Can I Squeeze
The Energy Ritual
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A-Austr were an experimental music project formed by Mike Levon, Brian Calvert, Chris Coombs, Brian Wilson and Ted Hepworth in 1970. Their album is the first recording Bill Nelson has contributed to. One of the denizens of Holyground Records, the combination studio and label that helped give Bill Nelson his start, A-Austr (who took their name from the first volume of an encyclopedia) ranged far and wide as far as musical influences went. The initial release of their single self-titled album was limited to 99 copies, with elaborate packaging, with copies eventually changing hands for a great deal of money. The album was eventually reissued, once again as a limited edition, once again attracting collectors. The music is intriguing, but the greatest interest, for many people, is perhaps the Nelson connection. ~ Steven McDonald, All Music Guide
Tracks : BIRD (Levon-Calvert)JUDY (Levon-Calvert)MINI (Levon-Calvert)prelude to CHANGE FOR ARTHUR (Coombs)THUMBQUAKE & EARTHSCREW (Coombs)CHANGE FOR ARTHUR (Coombs)BETWEEN THE ROAD (Coombs)HAWAIIAN WAR CHANT (Calvert)ALRIGHT (Levon-Calvert)CONTINUUM (Levon-Calvert)ESSEX QUEEN She Dances(Levon-Calvert)D MINOR MINUET Levon-CalvertA CURSE ON YOU CalvertWHAT DID YOU GO? CoombsGRAIL SEARCH Coombs# WHAT DID YOU GO? Coombs# GRAIL SEARCH Coombs # ESSEX QUEEN first versionLink : @Ripped by : evermorebluesArtwork included
"Fog on the Tyne" was Lindisfarne's second album originally released on Charisma records in 1971. It contains their first single-hit "Meet Me on the Corner", and the album itself spent many weeks in the charts. It's popularity even brought their first album "Nicely out of Tune" back into the charts. Interesting that their second hit single "Lady Eleanor" was taken from their great debut-album.Though "Meet Me on the Corner" was written by Rod Clements, it is still lead singer and guitarist Alan Hull who is the dominating personality with his great songs like "January Song", "Peter Brophy Don't Care", "City Song" and "Passing Ghost".Compared to their debut, the overall feeling on this album is more acoustic and though many songs are up-beat tempo, there is a very relaxed and pleasant feel to the album.
The Irish folk-rock band Loudest Whisper created several musicals in the 1970s, of which Maiden of Sorrow was the third and last. However, unlike their previous production The Children of Lir, this was not recorded for a professional release at the time. This tape of a live 1975 performance was not exhumed for CD release for many years, and as even the Loudest Whisper website acknowledged, it "was taken from low-grade tapes, and can only be recommended to fanatical completists, despite the high quality of the music." Actually there are worse amateur recordings around, but the warning holds true: some of the instruments and voices come through reasonably well, but there are also numerous pops and extraneous noises caught on the vocal mic, and the balance (particularly in the singing) is substandard, to the point where it's sometimes difficult to make out some words. In a two-act, 75-minute extended musical tale of sorts where the words are necessary to follow the story, that's a problem. Like The Children of Lir, it mixes elements of folk-rock with Irish folk music, with a multi-suite structure that owes some debts to theatrical musicals, classical music, and progressive rock concept albums (particularly in the prominent keyboards, choirs, and orchestration). As a piece of music, a good recording of this would have been interesting for these reasons, even if there's a feeling of over-reaching (and overlong) ambition and pomp that would have worked better as seen in a community theater than experienced on record. If that's an approach that interests you, however, you'd be better off seeking The Children of Lir, which was reissued on CD with bonus tracks by Sunbeam in 2006. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music GuideTracks : Act IAct IILink : @Ripped by : evermorebluesArtwork Included
Late Muddy Waters for Chess -- produced in conjunction with Ralph Bass, Muddy's longtime associate in the studio, and done with a style that's a lot more rootsy than the title might imply! Instead of the electrified funky style that other Chess bluesmen were going for in the early 70s, or which Waters used on his late 60s albums, this one is a more back to basics set -- with stripped down arrangements, and the kind of electric down homey feel that must have been big with the college kids. Pinetop Perkins plays piano on the set, and Carey Bell Harrington throws in a lot of harmonica.Tracks : 1.Rollin' And Tumblin' 2.Just To Be With You3.Electric Man4.Trouble No More 5."Unk" In Funk6.Drive My Blues Away7.Katie8.Waterboy Waterboy9.Everything Gonna Be AlrightLink: @Artwork Included
Originally known as The Dimensions, A Passing Fancy sprang up in Toronto's Yorkville Village in 1966. After a few shows in the Village, record store owner Walter Honsberger and partner Dan Bartollini began shaping the band's sound and image, eventually bringing them to the doorstep of Columbia Records, where they were signed to a standard six-sides contract (i.e. three singles).They played at Expo '67 where they jammed in a cultural exchange with Montreal band Les Tetes Blanches. Their popularity grew first with successful touring throughout Ontario and then out to Eastern Canada where radio also embraced them. Jay Telfer was the band's songwriter (and later composed "Ten Pound Note" for Steel River) who collaborated with Errol Blackwood for their first Columbia single "I'm Losing You Tonight" in February 1967 which reached #22 on the charts by March.The second single, "You're Going Out Of Your Mind", only reached #37 in June 1967, they bounced back with the successful "I Believe In Sunshine" in August which had a short four week run at the charts, but reached #28 in September of that year.Columbia continued with one more single in early 1968 ("People In Me") but without any chart action they weren't confident enough to invest in a full-length record. In response, Honsberger and Bartollini formed their own Boo Records to put together an album's worth of material. The band's line-up fluctuated in the meantime which would be reflected on the additional tracks for the 1968 self-titled release. The album would feature the Columbia singles (with an altered mix of "People In Me"). Boo Records attempted to squeeze a little more life out of the record in June 1968 with a new song - the fifth single, "Island", but this track did poorly on radio as well.By the early 1969 the group had disbanded.In November 1969 Jay Telfer and Fergus Hambleton (who replaced Telfer in A Passing Fancy) recorded a studio album for Allied Records under the name Goody Two Shoes called "Come Together". The album was primarily cover tunes and is also noteworthy for lead guitar work by former A Passing Fancy roadie Kevan Staples - better known as half of future shock rockers Rough Trade.Jay Telfer, who had a solo career simultaneously with A Passing Fancy (on the Sir John A. label) continued as guitarist with the Toronto stage production of "Hair" before signing to Axe Records (owned by Fergus Hambleton's brother, Greg) in 1973 for a series of singles and one album through the 1973 and 1974. He dabbled in movie script writing (1977's "Kid Vengeance" starring Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett), and after surviving a stroke in 1984 he settled in as a script evaluator. In the early '90s he moved to Wellington, Ontario to open "Jay's Bed & Breakfast". He currently lives near Belleville, Ontario and is the editor of an antique collector's magazine called "The Wayback Times" [www.waybacktimes.com]; Hambleton would later go on to be in the band RAIN, then would launch a solo career as FERGUS for Capitol Records before becoming a member of The Ginger Group, The Basics and, finally, finding great success with Toronto reggae act The Sattalites; Fruchtman is still scene playing bass in Toronto; Seon re-located to Pickering, Ontario where he set up a dental practice; Wilson was a corporate executive head-hunter and also co-owned a nightclub in Toronto; Price became president of Tridont Ltd.The band reunited for a one-off date in Yorkville in the late '80s. Tracks : 01 - I´m Losing Tonight 02 - A Passing Fancy03 - You´re Going Out Of Your Mind04 - Sounds Silly 05 - She Phoned06 - I Believe In Sunshine07 - Island08 - Your Trip09 - Little Boys For Little Girls10 - Under The Bridge11 - Spread Out 12 - People In Me Link : @Ripped by : evermorebluesArtwork Included
The Info is provided by Jack Kramer himself.Preacher -Thanks for the interest in Second Coming. I'll give you some relevant information. We formed the band in 1970 and played mostly local Chicago clubs, but took a trip out to the Whiskey A Go Go in LA in September of 1970. Lots of people out there, including the owner of the club, loved the band and virtually every label came to see us. The guys in the band Chicago came by all the time, as did Keith Moon, who for some reason was in LA. We opened for Buddy Miles (our label mate) and on a later trip to the Whiskey opened, believe it or not, for Bill Cosby. The album was the first done in Chicago with Dolby noise reduction on all (16) tracks. Unfortunately, it was a little too hard for everybody to handle so we lost much high end and crispness. We got some back on the later singles, the last of which was produced by Jack Richardson who had been Guess Who's producer.The lead vocalist, guitarist, bass player and drummer were all from Waukegan, Illinois (a city in northern Illinois). The horn section was from Chicago. They were all terrific guys and the whole series of Second Coming events was a great experience. I'm still in touch with Dave Miller, who wrote most of the songs on the album and now lives in Georgia, Buddy Stevens, the lead vocalist who lives out west, and Bill DInwiddie, the trombonist, who remains a close friend. A couple of the guys have died and we have lost track of a few. There is all kinds of detail that I have, but it would take me about three hours to tell you about it. Feel free to give me a call at xxx xxxx xxxx at any time and I'll talk as long as you want about the band. And, yes, of course you have my permission to play the album wherever and whenever you want, including on your website.Best,JackRequiem For A Rainy DayTake Me HomeNobody CaresLandlubberRoundhouseIt's OverJeremiah Crane747AnthemPalmyra747 (single outtake)Don't Let It Bring You Down (outtake)Tomorrow Is Another Day (instrumental outtake)Anthem (instrumental outtake)Palmyra (take 2)Tomorrow Is Another Day (w. vocal, outtake)Anthem (single outtake)Palmyra (outtake)Link : @Album provided by : Jack Kramer
Another worthy reissue from the Kissing Spell label. Weird stoned folk/psych outing in a Syd Barrett style from this obscure UK '70s band who have become highly sought after by collectors. CD includes original album as well as studio outtakes.
SOD was a bluesy Rock outfit from LA with a lot of beards and bad 70s long hair. To top it all off, their percussion player Jay York was a professional wrestler from the NWA! They put out two albums, and I think this is the better of the two, although the other one gets mentioned because David Axelrod did some production on it. The band gets right down to business with Too Loose To Get Tight Pt. 1 with a nice long drum break intro that leads into some funky Rock. Pt. 2 of the song is even better since it’s mostly an instrumental. Things I Wanna Say is in a similar vein with some nice horn work. In fact, the whole first side is a pretty good listen. The flipside though, isn’t half as interesting. There is another drum break on Makin It though.
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