Thanks for the link about that 70s metal book, I will check that out. Some aspiring label needs to get together and make a nuggets style compilation of this kind of stuff, I know I would be interested.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
GIMME
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:36 (twenty years ago) link
The "Medusa" album is good. So is "You're the Music, We're the Bandt." The first album was much mellower than the next two, not real predictive of the sound most fans came to like. Both of thw two records mentioned veer between loud crunching, very funky heavy rock and soulful torch music. There are a couple live CDs of the triothat predictably dump the torch music for the Marshall stack.
After Hughes went on to Deep Purple the band kept putting out records, adding a second guitarist. "Hot Wire" was one of the better ones; it was full-on heavy funk and hard rock. Not much like it at the time on the hustings except maybe for Pat Travers. Extreme kind of took the idea, softened it up, paid more attention to wardrobe, got a sissier-sounding singer and made it more palatable to girls a decade or so later.
The album after it, "Trapeze," was not quite as good. Less funk for the sake of nondescript thud-rock. The album does feature a very good cover -- jaunty, actually -- of "Sunny Side of the Street," alone worth a bargain price if you can find a copy.
They became huge in San Antonio, like Budgie, and might have lived there for a time. Reissues were everywhere about five years ago, including a live one recorded in Texas called "Dead Armadillos."This band, while still hard rock, was radically removed from the original which was produced by a member of the Moody Blues and subsequently taken out on tour with them in America.
Bottom line, best albums: "You're the Music," "Medusa" and "Hot Wire."
― George Smith, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
HOW could you forget Mel Galley's stint in Whitesnake from this pedigree??
But yeah, George pretty much covers it like a blanket, as is his wont. I'll just say that I LOVE that self-titled album from '75. It's great! I got it totally by accident too; some dude included it as a throw-in when I was buying a copy of the first album from him. I had never heard the group before and was curious about the Moody Blues connection; I ended up liking the later hard stuff a helluva lot more.
(it's funny, same thing happened to me when I bought Fly to the Rainbow; dude throws-in a copy of Lovedrive, and I ended up liking THAT better too!)
― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link
On another Deep Purple connection, how good is the second Captain Beyond record? I really like the first one, but I have heard the second one is pretty lame.
Another question, I recently aquired Atomic Rooster's "Death Walks Behind You" and think it is really good. Are any of their other albums as good? At least going by the Allmusic reviews, it seems the lineup and band sound changed album to album.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link
The 2nd Captain Beyond record is still pretty good! Not as good as the first, but ok. It's the 3rd one that really sucks and must be avoided at all costs. I think it was like a different band by that point.
I'm curious about Bolin, too. Always meant to check out his stuff. I bet George knows.
― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
Joe Walsh era James Gang records are all pretty good. "Rides Again" is the best one. "Thirds" is much more mellow than the first two.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link
I had the Zephyr records, ditched them. Not hard rock -- chopsy musicians, good singer, though.
Bolin was on Deep Purple's "Come Taste the Band" and so is Glenn Hughes, I thin'. "Come Taste the Band" was better than Blackmore's last album with "Burn"-era Deep Purple. "Gettin' Tighter" is the prime cut, a slashing funky rocker halfway between hard rock and metal. I drag it out every so often.
"Teaser" was the first Bolin solo album and the one to have, if you have to scratch the itch. It's the most cohesive, has the best songs and is the most electric. There are half a dozen good numbers on itbut it doesn't compare with any of the band's he was in.
The second one was a mess, the only number memorable [scratching head] was "Don't Let Your Mind Post Toastee" which was autobiographical, maybe accidentally.
He's on "Miami" by the James Gang, too. The albums past Walsh were really up and down, mostly down, although to be fair not everything the Gang did with Walsh was gold, either. James Gang album(s) withDom Troiano -- avoid. James Gang album(s) with Tommy Bolin, "Bang" and "Miami," probably. Given the two, flip a coin or buy both as vinyl for 99 cents and burn the cuts you like to one CD.
Last good James Gang album, this time without a name guitarist, "Reborn" with Picasso painting on cover. Very tight, short rock and roll songs. Crunching cover of "Heartbreak Hotel," "Red Satin Lover," a woman-hating rave about fucking a slut.
I like it more than a lot of people because I saw them touring to support it, opening for Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare." Truth be told, live James Gang was better than the Alice Cooper showwhich was strictly for very young children or people with the minds of very young children. I seem to recall about two minutes of it being good, when Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter had a guitar duel inthe space the bridges "Devil's Food" and whatever came after it.
― George Smith, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link
I think Bolin's on the first two Moxy albums, here and there, sometimes uncredited. Moxy were better than Bolin solo albums and superior to Walsh-less James Gang. At one point the band recruited pre-Loverboy Mike Reno. That was their last record, a very poor one, the band aiming for a sound that Loverboy would later own.
― George Smith, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link
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― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
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Courtesy of the good folks at Rhino Handmade:
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I can't tell you how excited I am to hear that live disc. God I love Rhino Handmade. Although that damn Television live disc is out of print now, and I never got around to getting it. Thing is going for upwards of $40 on eBay. Oh well. Somehow I think I'll be able to take my time with these, though.
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Scott, you know how you cannot possibly fathom how I can like the Postal Service? That's how I feel about you on threads like this. Still got love for you, obv.
-- Matos W.K. (michaelangelomato...), May 18th, 2004.
hahahaha!!!
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 02:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I found Spooky Tooth compilation. I liked the music but the guy with the real high falsetto singing voice didn't do much for me. I need to give that one another couple of spins.
A Deep Purple collection I have never seen get props but is excellent is this 2 cd set I picked up called "In Concert", which has two BBC shows both with DP Mk.II, one for John Peel and another concert right after Machine Head came out. The John Peel Show is blinding, as it is literally weeks after Gillian and Glover joined the band, so they stretch everything out with Blackmore and Lord going all over the place.
I still need to get some Groundhogs.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link
I am always amazed when I think about the fact that those Savage Resurrection guys were teenagers. Just like I'm always amazed that the Clear Blue Sky and T2 dudes were teenagers. And weren't the Gurvitz brothers teens when they did Gun? what happened to the teens? there haven't been any good teen bands since the glory days of hardcore. there just aren't as many wunderkinds around.
other recent things I picked up were the 2nd Hapshash and the Coloured Coat album (not bad at all!) and the Ashkan record (ehhh... it's ok.)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:48 (eighteen years ago) link
"the frost -vs- frijid pink. who was chillier?"
Yes, and lest we forget Shiver ...
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I've gotten into Rory Gallagher in the past year or so and have been impressed by his records. There is a Deep Purple tie-in, as Roger Glover produced Gallagher's Calling Card lp.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link
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― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 February 2006 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
also: ORANG-UTAN! and STONEWALL! and CHICO (MAGNETIC BAND)! and a little greek instrumental love for BLUE PHANTOM!
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Today I was listening to Lucifer's Friend. What year was that record? 71? maybe it is too prog to be considered "thud-rock" though?
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link
lucifer's friend s/t is 1970, i think.
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:10 (eighteen years ago) link
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― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
once again I must defer to El Sabor's excellent taste -- he actually recommended the thing to me back on the old Heavy Riffage thred -- I just finally got around to buying it now. I guess I've been scared of these kind of cover albums ever since I was so disappointed by the Flower Travellin' Band's Anywhere
but fuck, this Suck thing is really great -- It's really kind of nice and comforting to hear these old songs reinterpreted by a different group. It kind of makes total sense; in the way that jazz has a kind of core, "fakebook" or whatever, of classic tunes like "Footprints", "Moanin", "Goodbye Old Pork Pie Hat", "Four", "Giant Steps", etc ... kinda cool to think of an alternate universe where these heavy rock tunes have their own canon, and the best groups just kind of have at 'em!!
that's teh vibe I get from this Suck CD. I totally recommend it. Even to people who hated Anywhere. Don't let the cover-song factor dissuade you. They actually change the arrangements a bit, too. The "War Pigs" is great and funky. And the "Into the Fire" was really unexpected, kind of LESS-heavy as the Purple, but still a completely enjoyable version of the cut..
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 5 February 2006 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link
hmmm... this is what Popoff sayz about that "A Foot in Coldwater" lp:
'Stilted execution and equally stiff production once again plague this band of Canuck hopefuls, lone love light being the soaring vocals of Alan Machin. But there are five loud rock songs on this half-reish album, and each of those is less stingly on the top end than the brown towners from the past. The band revive two of their hit singles on the album as well, "(Make Me Do) Anything you Want" and "(Isn't Love Unkind) In my Life)" (plus two other earlier songs), providing the band with mild hits once again, this time top25ers becoming top10ers. Best of the bunch is "all Around Us" which begins as a bit of funky go-nowhere before exploding into a sinister progressive pomp-rock chorus, all told, the most ambitious track from the band's catalogue. "It's Only love" is perhaps the band's loudest, noisiest, sludgiest track ever, all sorts of guitar squalls burying Machin's valient rock-hero vocals. Again, a frustrating band, in total, not heavy enough for the metalheads and not too mentally proficiently [sic??] and financially blocked to churn out (new) proper pop singles.'
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ah well, they sound kind of hot. bear in mind that Popoff basically thinks that the Chrysalis-era UFO is like the best band EVER, and he HATES s/t & Flying. he's a puzzler, to be sure
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 5 February 2006 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 5 February 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― George the Animal Steele, Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link