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ALLANAGAIN
Old Love
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 28/08/2010 : 00:54:44
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 28/08/2010 : 19:23:08
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Originally posted by ALLANAGAIN
Sprit of 76
Oh yeah!
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Everything you do returns at last to you,
so why don't you...do...love.
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2011 : 21:14:49
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Chaplin Harness....rather unknown...1969 blues pysch
Regretfully, very little little is known about this band (at least to me). I got it first as a gift on a cassette labeled "Chaplain", and for many years I've been looking for their album - lot of good it did to me.
Who they were, where did they came from? Anyway, in 1969 (?) they recorded this album in Mod Sound Studios on Federal Street of Camden, New Jersey. The music is amazing - it is high-class acid (or psychedelic), strongly hooked on blues, soul-inspired and strongly built on distorted guitars and powerful organ. Heartbreaking vocals of Raymond Bozarth sound like the lost soul screaming in the hell of urban jungle, moving towards gospel singing. Perhaps one of the most impressive voices I've ever heard.
Apart from R.Bozarth, on the first album the band had exceptional guitarist Rick Iannaconne (who later played with the top names of jazz), Edward Monroe on guitar, Joseph Mingori on keyboards and unbelievable drummer William Vespe.
A follow-up to this album - II - sometimes titled "From The Nest", and dating back to the same 1969, is also released by Gear Fab, and features incredible female vocalist Geri Mingori. It is strongly advisable to buy both albums as they are elements of the same concept, but also proves the evolution of the band.
Needless to say that Chaplin Harness (perhaps named so after the sound engineer?) failed to chart, and went to obscurity - until this re-issue by Gear Fab.
Somehow it reminds the first multi-racial record of Pacific Gas & Electric Get It On, or another underrated gem - Sleepy John. Definitely, it is stronger than "Free".
It seems that the CD was converted directly from the vinyl, and might displease the addicts of digital sound, but to my modest opinion it has this nostalgic warm feeling of on LP, which just adds to the charm of the album -amazon
Without You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GZLtnw03c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YsIpOk2dAY&feature=related
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So forget this cruel world
and whatever’s going on
I'll accept my fate
while I sing this song.
But if one day you should see me from your cloud
lend a hand and lift me
Away from the crowd. |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
907 Posts |
Posted - 06/06/2011 : 15:26:27
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| I will always adore the way the sixties psych purveyors added a little more to the genre's eerieness with the funeral organ thing.Also,Ray Manzarek's trademark church service intonations.This singer sound like Jack Bruce,whose voice lent its own brand of spookiness to the Cream records.Good stuff. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 14/06/2011 : 18:16:33
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Crystal Chandelier....most have heard them if they own Nuggets or a number of comp psych CDs....
These guys (a 60's Rhode Island band mistakenly placed in Texas in many reviews....) two 45's really make me want MORE!!! What a shame we don't have at least a rare long player to bootleg!!
Suicidal Flowers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qyfrIdJV0&feature=related
Setting Of Dispair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPqZUy5eAhM&NR=1
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So forget this cruel world
and whatever’s going on
I'll accept my fate
while I sing this song.
But if one day you should see me from your cloud
lend a hand and lift me
Away from the crowd. |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
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Posted - 15/06/2011 : 16:38:05
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Lazy Smoke
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captain america and billy
Old Love
907 Posts |
Posted - 15/06/2011 : 16:44:45
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| At least ONE thing I know for sure,LK.Even in instances when an artist made the attempt at psych back then with mediocre or even poor results("Satanic Majesties",maybe)the works were created such a very certain and specific time in man's social evolvement,there was at least the feel of some sort of genuine inspiration SOMEWHERE in there.When I was a rather "individual" teen back in the techophonic-MTV generation 1980's,I was at first quite pleased,nay,excited beyond words when I heard Prince was about to release a brand new albums of his take on the genre only to be thorougly disappointed to listen to a friend's copy and find that not EVERYBODY possesses the proper underlying compositional skills to even have any business tackling such an endeavour."Paisley Park" was trite rubbish while "Raspberry Beret" merely exploited the art for a quickie top five single.Big mistake to get off the tremendouly articulate trail blazed by "Purple Rain" one of the decade five most important discs. |
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