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lemonade kid
Old Love
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 Posted - 15/04/2011 : 16:52:38
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Your favorite Rockers that employed that big sound....WOODWINDS & HORNS.
HERE & NOW!!
To start, here is a Cleveland group that most don't know...
RASTUS
...including myself until RW turned me on to them. Their only claim to fame were a few poorly selling albums and playing the opening of Rock & ROll Hall.
They were one of the hotest LIVE bands around....they opened for Sly & The Family Stone for a couple weeks until Sly let them go. A band member puzzled...the audience loved their opening act. Sly said (I'm paraphrasing), "Sorry man...You're supposed to warm up the audience, but you're too damn HOT. They don't want US after you!!" They made headliners sound tepid by comparison.
Amazing stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJYmPdI6dTQ&feature=related
Your favorite bands with HORNS!!
Or bands that used horns effectively....from time to time....like LOVE!
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Letting your freak flag fly is a state of mind,
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 15/04/2011 : 22:43:53
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Al Kooper's incarnation into the Blood Sweat & Tears' fantastic album, " Child Is The Father Of The Man", 1968, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(having computor probs,and am posting this video, hoping it's Kooper singing , and not the other guy! here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2LSKL9Yjs
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 16/04/2011 : 00:19:09
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Originally posted by bob f.
Al Kooper's incarnation into the Blood Sweat & Tears' fantastic album, " Child Is The Father Of The Man", 1968, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(having computor probs,and am posting this video, hoping it's Kooper singing , and not the other guy! here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2LSKL9Yjs
...what the world needs now...
I love that one Bob! You have the right one!
Here is another favorite band --- of course, Jerry Goodman (violin) later of Mahavishnu Orchestra....
The Flock "The Clown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RscAVMFmkgE&feature=related
"I'm So Tired"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_exh7Gc9z-Y&feature=related
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Letting your freak flag fly is a state of mind,
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 16/04/2011 : 15:46:55
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| More than a small wonder how thses guys weren't pushed to forefront a little more by some half descent PR.From what I hear this just might have been their biggest problem.Pains me to think of a band like this winding up in the category of the obscure.Certainly there was a place for them somehwere in the top forty in their hey day seeing how Chicago and Blood and Tears achieved astronomical success with much of the same inspirations and drive.The latter even bested the Beatles' "Abeey Road" for the Album of the year Grammy in 1969. I know purveyers of truly artistic works like the many on this site probably don't take much stock in the Grammys and "Road" is obviously the better record,but "Blood Sweat and Tears" wasn't a BAD choice and I do dig the rock-big band hybrid.You know who I always thought was tight?The original "Saturday Night Live" band,the one most of whose members were used for the Blues Brothers movie.Many of the same dimensions provided by brass and jazz rock drumming by BST and Chicago. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 19/04/2011 : 22:48:21
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GREEN/Green 1969 (Atco)
It had to happen sooner or later. All of the 60s psych albums that were completely dismissed and ignored for about thirty years are finally being re-evaluated. Most sucked then and suck now, but for a variety of reasons a few lost albums, most of which are much more interesting than the old standbys, are beginning to get their due. It wasn’t until the early 90s that all of the psych albums on the Mainstream label became hot commodities. Psych fans always scoffed at pop albums (at least the ones with no Curt Boettcher involvement), but finally a bunch of straightforward but good pop-psych albums are becoming desirable. And while it may seem that there’s an unlimited supply of obscure private press albums out there, sometimes it’s easier to take a look at a few major label albums that you passed by because they were too “easy.”
The self-titled album by Green is a perfect example of a recent rediscovery. One can only guess why nobody noticed such a terrific record. Was it because it was so difficult to categorize? Was it because their more well-known second album was so bad that nobody bothered to go back and listen to the first? Was it because so many dealers and collectors are indiscriminate horn-haters and didn’t dare listen to it after seeing the credits on the back cover? While I’m asking, why is it that every album with a cover shot of the artist in and around a big tree (i.e. Karen Beth’s JOYS OF LIFE) is destined to be underrated?
Let’s start with the horns. There’s no Tower of Power/Cold Blood-style bombast here, no jazzy showing off, no soulful flourishes. There isn’t even anything resembling the effective use of horns on classic psych albums like Love’s FOREVER CHANGES or The Common People’s OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. Instead, Green uses french horns, phased trumpets and sliding trombones to create a wall of sound. They don’t dominate; they color and shape the songs. They’re used more like keyboards than as lead instruments. If you don’t read the liner notes (which credit four band members with horns and two with reeds) or pay close attention, you might not even notice that there are horns at all. The band has a hard rock type of energy, but the flowing horns and soft, reassuring lead vocals (dead ringer for Kensington Market, another horribly underrated band) give the album a consistency and gentleness of tone that lulls the listener into a false state of security. Aha! Maybe nobody listened enough times for this album to reveal itself, and that’s why it just floated by them! The melodies are there; the hooks are there, but they’re subtle, and these songs don’t attract our attention through guitar solos, brash sound effects, or bluesy vocal intensity. They do, however, use creative and clever arrangements that sneak up on you.
The album’s defining moment is the chorus of “At The Time.” The instruments stop, a line is sung unaccompanied, then the instruments return, flanged beyond recognition, and with no low end. At first you’ll wonder if your woofer went out, then you’ll marvel at the genius of the arrangement. Other subtle moments of sonic bliss occur throughout the album. On “To Be,” the french horn shifts from speaker to speaker, then is double tracked behind the guitar solo, creating a beautiful, haunting cacophony of sound. “Where Have I Been” starts with some Eastern-flavored fuzz guitar, develops several excellent hooks, and alternates guitar-based breaks with horn-led accompaniment. Each verse is arranged differently, and until you’ve listened several times you won’t notice the brilliant shift from horns, to guitars, to flute. The song “Green” (obviously they used their imagination for the arrangements, not the song titles) starts with an unexpected blast of feedback, then moves to a complex mix of spastic percussion, heavy metal guitar and marching-band horns. The horns and guitars both play melodies that you swear you remember from your youth but can’t exactly place. Until they hit a few trills, the horns sound uncannily like a synthesizer, and the song ends with a fuzz bass/maraca war. Yes, these songs are jam-packed with ideas. Just listen to the great percussion arrangements to see how much is going on here!
Green are equally adept at ballads, such as the mildly jazzy “Sunrise #7,” which has some nifty, subtle time signature changes, and “Footprints In The Snow,” which features harpsichord and flamenco guitar. If you haven’t already guessed, these guys are multi-talented musicians, yet they never show off or lose focus. GREEN is a short album, with eleven songs barely cracking half an hour, and the songs are so concise that you’ll wish they were longer. What a refreshing concept from an era of self-indulgence!
After a while there’s a bit of melodic similarity, and both album sides peter out a little bit as they go along. Still, even the lesser songs have something to offer, such as the great melodic bass playing on “Just Try”. This album stands up as a noble experiment gone right. It’s inventive, moody, confident and distinctive. Green are from Texas, but, trust me, don’t sound like any other Texas band you’ve heard. They were as out of place among their musical contemporaries as they were their non-musical peers. Now, can anyone tell me what “RCMPB” stands for??
- review by Aaron Milenski
For a vinyl rip click on "GREEN" at the link below...
http://my.opera.com/walknthabass/blog/show.dml/269116
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Letting your freak flag fly is a state of mind,
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sometimesmylifeissoeerie
Fourth Love
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 21/04/2011 : 15:07:30
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...and one from the psych era...a different "progressive" band...they pushed some boundaries at the time I think...no flutes but they put in some horns...sounds pretty good...
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 17:26:47
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LINN COUNTY BLUES BAND
pretty unknown Mercury recording artists from my home state....they were from Cedar Rapids Iowa (30 miles from me) but their music spanned the country. Iowan Steve Miller (RIP) jammed on his Hammond with the likes of Muddy Waters and Otis Span.
They are thought of as a California band where they moved to "make it" if they could....just a really different sound......these guys really are something to check out!!!
Linn County formed around 1967 in Linn County, Iowa, USA as the Linn County Blues Band. In 1968, the band signed with Mercury Records, moved to San Francisco, California, and changed its name to Linn County. They released their first album Proud Flesh Soothseer in 1968 and toured, performing with bands and people such as: Albert King, Led Zeppelin, Sly & the Family Stone, Eric Burdon & the Animals and Ten Years After. They never became too well known. The band broke up after Clark Pierson left with Janis Joplin.
Linn County released three albums from 1968 to 1970. Over the course of their existence, they had six band members.-wiki
PSYCHEDELIC BLUES ROCK!!
THEIR HIT ON UNDERGROUND RADIO! THE PSYCHEDELIC "LOWER LEMONS"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTvTOV1UiE&feature=related
"PROTECT & SERVE"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKl93nho52Q
TOO FAR GONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugf36Gkrhpc
Some great blues keyboard work from Steve Miller (not the Steve Miller (band) of SF fame).....
ELEVATOR WOMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lINwMPyF_RY
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 23/05/2011 : 22:30:45
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BRAINCHILD
"Healing Of The Lunatic Owl" 1970
BRAINCHILD - Healing Of The Lunatic Owl - LP (A&M AMLS 979)
Brainchild is a septet that recorded their sole album Healing Of The Lunatic Owl in western London in 1970 on the A&M label. The album contains sizzling brass rock, which must rank among the best of the genre (early Chicago and If), but also with the much more obscure and even more brilliant Warm Dust and Galliard. Brainchild's line-up was basically your standard prog quartet, plus a three-man wind instrument section, including flute, sax, trumpet and trombone.
Not much is known of the member's previous and future musical endeavours. Apparently Brainchild's album has yet to see a Cd reissue...
Some great music here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0sKfkFV5-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tct-lUxw0m4&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5HgAeTdvA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JreeSyAKlrQ
This UK band rocks out as good as the best of Chicago, BS&T.....
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 24/05/2011 : 15:52:48
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| Talkin' 'bout some really EXPLOSIVE brass rock?The Ides Of March."Vehicle".These guys ever do a whole album?And does anyone here know if they really had brass in the band or was it just studio augmentation? |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 23:53:59
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Two more really obscure but remarkable BRITISH jazz rock psych prog horn & woodwind bands of the late 60's, early 70's!! For me they blow others like Chicago out of the water!!
GALLIARD & WARM DUST...psych rock masters.
WARM DUST
Warm Dust biography
Among the wave of brass rock groups that embraced the rock world from 68 until 71 or 72, Warm Dust was a late-comer, but quickly became one of the most interesting and progressive group of the genre. The sextet developed a solid psych-laced progressive brass rock, lead by the twin sax players of Alan Solomon (also KB) and John Surguy (also guitar) and featuring future Mike Rutherford and Steve Hackett acolyte Paul Carrack.
They released their debut album And It Came To Pass on the small Trend label and the double vinyl was a small tour-de-force (all things considered for a debut effort) with long compositions, thought-provoking lyrics and plenty of instrumental interplay, including sax, flute, organ, guitars etc.. Their second (conceptual) album released the following year is a frightening recount of the horrors of war and remains their most even album and usually pointed by connoisseurs as their best. It came out in Germany under a different name (Peace For Our Times) on the BASF label. Their last self-titled album with a striking whale artwork is mostly remembered for the sidelong suite blind boy, a stunning full-blown progressive track, which remains their crowning achievements.
Warm dust is definitely of of one the Brass Rock genre's more interesting band along with Brainchild, Galliard and in all honesty deserve at least as much recognition as the much more celebrated early Chicago, If or the cheesy BS&T and certainly much more fame than The Greatest Show On Earth. Exactly why the group broke up remains a mystery for this writer, so if anyone knows anything, please contact Sean Trane on this site's forums
:::: Bio written By Hugues Chantraine, Belgium ::::
TRY SOME LISTENS....
LOSING TOUCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Nt-PlKgxo
TURBULANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0DEG89bcWI&feature=related
WASH MY EYES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tsLwrX1i9g&feature=related
GALLIARD...very psychedelic and jazzy
http://www.brumbeat.net/galliard.htm
Galliard, formed in Birmingham during the summer of 1968, were one of the few progressive rock bands to come out of Birmingham. They were, in essence, a much-augmented later metamorphosis of Craig, the four-piece who recorded the fearsome 'I Must Be Mad'. Galliard cut two albums, 'Strange Pleasure' and 'New Dawn', released on the Deram Nova label, both of which were produced by Phil Wainman, drummer and future Bay City Rollers' manager.
In a review of Galliard, music journalist Dave Thubron wrote, "Much of Galliard's albums are like 'a happening'. A pop band who've gone progressive are performing at the same time as a brass section who were soul but have now got into free-style jazz; or like listening to two radios, one tuned to pop one tuned to jazz (but without the discordance). It is a great mix". Someone once summed them up with the following words after seeing them live for the first time: "Like Blood Sweat & Tears meets The Soft Machine. Now that's an eclectic mix!" The whole article is at: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/sweetfloralalbion/SFA/sfa_36.htm
MUSIC FROM GALLIARD.....
Ask For Nothing..sitar...psychedelic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bktHx5T4lwc
Children Of The Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ862UQ2BzI&feature=related
SKILLET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5Ml-zXERY&feature=related
these guys really COOK!!!!
Who would have thought the Brits could out-horn the Americans!!!
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 28/05/2011 : 19:52:21
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Get this live performance by WARM DUST.....Indian Rope Man cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv-U2_T_d3M&feature=related
Play it loud!!
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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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ed the bear
Fourth Love
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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9873 Posts |
Posted - 29/05/2011 : 18:00:05
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Originally posted by ed the bear
How's about some Electric Flag?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq3NwCHm-4U
For sure, ED!!
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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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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 31/05/2011 : 19:37:12
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COLD BLOOD
How could I not put Linda and Cold Blood up here?!!!
Last Days Of Fillmore!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fds9ZQU5T8c&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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Wind driven bands--ROCKERS move you!!
