Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw (1967)



Εδώ δεν χρειαζόμαστε συστάσεις. Καλή σας ακρόαση

Tracks:
1. "One More Heartache" (Smokey Robinson, The Miracles) – 3:20
2. "Driftin' and Driftin'" (Charles Brown, Johnny Moore, Eddie Williams) – 9:09
3. "I Pity the Fool" (Deadric Malone) – 6:00
4. "Born Under a Bad Sign" (William Bell, Booker T. Jones) – 4:10
5. "Run Out of Time" (Paul Butterfield, Brother Gene Dinwiddie, Peterson) – 2:59
6. "Double Trouble" (Otis Rush) – 5:38
7. "Drivin' Wheel" (Roosevelt Sykes) – 5:34
8. "Droppin' Out" (Paul Butterfield, Tucker Zimmerman) – 2:16
8. "Tollin' Bells" (Traditional, arr. Butterfield Blues Band) – 5:23

Thursday, September 24, 2009

American Revolution - American Revolution (1968)


Personnel:
RICHARD BARCELONA gtr, vcls A
DANIEL DERDA drms A
EBBIE HADDAD keyb'ds, vcls A
JOHN KEITH bs, vcls A

ALBUM:
1(A) AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Flick-Disc FLS 45,002) 1968
NB: (1) promo copies issued in mono with sticker.

45:
1 Cold Wisconsin Nights / Come On And Get It (Flick Disc 902) 1968

A late sixties Hollywood hippie type rock band. Barcelona and Keith later played in Edge, who issued an album in 1970. The American Revolution album, produced by Harley Hatcher, is quite heavily orchestrated with pleasant vocal harmonies, particularly on In The Late Afternoon, Rainbow In The Rain and Love Has Got Me Down. Some of the songs have a psychedelic taint, but it's predominantly rather good psych-pop.
Producer Harley Hatcher, was an exploitation film composer, member of Mike Curb's gang and as an army buddy of Elvis he sang in ad-hoc groups with the King.
(Vernon Joynson/Joe Foster/David Jaffe)

Tracks:
1. Cold Wisconsin Nights
2. Rainbow in the Rain
3. Prelude to Love
4. Show Me How to Cry
5. Crying Eyes and an Empty Heart
6. Come on and Get It
7. In the Late Afternoon
8. Keeping Your Love
9. Opus 1
10. Love Has Got Me Down

Sunday, September 06, 2009

The Velvet Underground – Another View



Ας ανεβάσω και αυτό αφού υπάρχει για όσους δεν πρόλαβαν τότε να το αγοράσουν. Είπαμε και πριν ότι είχαμε και τα καλά μας τότε. Μετά από αυτό το δίσκο ερωτεύτηκα την εκτέλεση του Rock And Roll που άκουσα εδώ. Νομίζω είναι παρασάγγας ανώτερη από αυτή που πρωτοακούσαμε.

When The Velvet Underground moved from Verve Records (who had released their first two albums) to parent company MGM Records, they signed a two-album deal, releasing their third and eponymous album The Velvet Underground in March 1969. Later that same year, however, there was a management change and MGM Records' new CEO, Mike Curb was brought in to try to rescue the financially struggling label. He decided to purge the record company of its many controversial and unprofitable acts. The Velvet Underground quickly became one of the groups blacklisted and were released from their contract. The band had, however, in the meantime recorded fourteen tracks for possible release as their second MGM album. All of these were shelved and forgotten by their record company until the early Eighties.

As Verve (by then an imprint of Polygram) prepared to re-release the band's three Verve/MGM albums on vinyl and, for the first time, on CD, they found nineteen previously unreleased tracks: five Cale-era tracks and the fourteen "lost album" tracks, some of them in two-track mixdown format, some of them even on multitracks. The cream of the nineteen tracks was released in February of 1985 on VU; the rest remained for the time being in the vaults.

In 1986, Polydor decided to prepare a vinyl box set for European release. Simply titled The Velvet Underground, this box, which was released in June, consisted of the band's first three albums, VU, and an untitled bonus album containing the remaining nine tracks from Polygram's vaults. That untitled album was later separately released on vinyl and CD as Another View.

An acetate-sourced alternate mix of this album's version of "Ride into the Sun", featuring vocals by Lou Reed, has appeared on bootlegs and on the Australian boxed set What Goes On.

As The Velvet Underground moved from MGM to Atlantic, they re-recorded two of the songs on Another View, "Ride into the Sun" and "Rock and Roll", for possible inclusion on Loaded. Only "Rock and Roll" made the grade, but two of the Another View songs would be recycled by Lou Reed during his early solo career: "Ride into the Sun" (on Lou Reed, 1972) and "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" (on Street Hassle, 1978).

Tracks:
Side one
1. "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" (Reed) – 2:56
Recorded September 30, 1969
2. "I'm Gonna Move Right In" – 6:30
Recorded September 27, 1969
3. "Hey Mr. Rain" – 4:56
Recorded May 29, 1968
4. "Ride into the Sun" – 3:20
Recorded September 5, 1969
5. "Coney Island Steeplechase" – 2:20
Recorded May 6, 1969
Side two
1. "Guess I'm Falling in Love" (Instrumental version) – 3:35
Recorded December 5, 1967
2. "Hey Mr. Rain" – 5:16
Recorded May 29, 1968
3. "Ferryboat Bill" (Reed, Morrison, Yule, Tucker) – 2:10
Recorded June 19, 1969
4. "Rock and Roll" (Reed) – 5:18
Recorded June 19, 1969

http://www.sendspace.com/file/je5pqt

The Velvet Underground - VU



Από τις ευχάριστες κυκλοφορίες τότε στο τόπο μας. Όποιος πρόλαβε τον Κύριο είδε σε αυτές τις περιπτώσεις καθώς μην φαντάζεστε ότι κυκλοφορούσαν χιλιάδες κόπιες. Οι άρρωστοι ήταν μετρημένοι.

When The Velvet Underground moved from Verve Records (who had released their first two albums) to parent company MGM Records, they signed a two-album deal, releasing their third and eponymous album The Velvet Underground in March 1969. Later that same year, however, there was a management change and MGM Records' new CEO, Mike Curb was brought in to try to rescue the financially struggling label. He decided to purge the record company of its many controversial and unprofitable acts.

The Velvet Underground quickly became one of the groups blacklisted and were released from their contract. The band had, however, in the meantime recorded fourteen tracks for possible release as their second MGM album. All of these were shelved and forgotten by their record company until the early 1980s.
As Verve (by then an imprint of Polygram) prepared to re-release the band's three Verve/MGM albums on vinyl and CD, they found nineteen previously unreleased tracks: five Cale-era tracks and the fourteen "lost album" tracks, some of them in two-track mixdown format, some of them even on multitracks. The cream of the nineteen tracks was released in 1985 as VU; the rest was released as Another View in 1986.

VU is a selection from the 1969 tracks as well as two previously unreleased Cale-era songs—"Temptation Inside Your Heart" and "Stephanie Says". Since most of the material was available on multitrack (only "Ocean" is included in its original 1969 mix), engineers were able to clean up and remix the tracks.
As The Velvet Underground moved from MGM to Atlantic, they re-recorded two of the songs on VU, "Ocean" and "I'm Sticking with You", for possible inclusion on Loaded. Neither made the cut, but no less than six of the VU songs would be recycled by Lou Reed during his early solo career: "I Can't Stand It" , "Lisa Says" and "Ocean" on Lou Reed, 1972; "Andy's Chest" on Transformer, 1972; "Stephanie Says" (became "Caroline Says II") on Berlin, 1973; and "She's My Best Friend" on Coney Island Baby, 1976.
It peaked in the U.S. at #85, the band's best placing

Tracks:
Side one
1. "I Can't Stand It" – 3:21
Recorded May 20, 1969
2. "Stephanie Says" – 2:49
Recorded February 13, 1968
3. "She's My Best Friend" – 2:47
Recorded May 14, 1969
4. "Lisa Says" – 2:53
October 1, 1969
5. "Ocean" – 5:10
June 19, 1969
Side two
1. "Foggy Notion" – 6:41*
Recorded May 6, 1969
2. "Temptation Inside Your Heart" – 2:30
Recorded February 14, 1968
3. "One of These Days" – 3:50
Recorded September 23, 1969
4. "Andy's Chest" – 2:49
Recorded May 13, 1969
5. "I'm Sticking with You" – 2:26
Recorded May 13, 1969

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1n89ft

Friday, September 04, 2009

23rd Turnoff - Michael Angelo / Leave Me Here (1967)


Καλό φθινόπωρο σε όλους μας. Κουράγιο και υπομονή.

Personnel incl:
JIMMY CAMPBELL

45:
1 Michael Angelo/Leave Me Here (Deram DM 150) 1967
The band were named after the 23rd turnoff the M6, which goes to their home city, Liverpool. They had earlier recorded as The Kirkbys, but this disc was a big improvement and attracts considerable attention from collectors. Leave Me Here was an acoustic piece with just a hint of raga.

Jimmy Campbell went on to record three solo albums and some 45s.
Compilation appearances include: Michaelangelo on The Psychedelic Scene (CD), Rubble, Vol. 12 - Staircase To Nowhere (LP), Rubble, Vol. 6 (CD) and Deram Dayze (LP); Leave Me Here on The British Psychedelic Trip, Vol. 1 (LP) and Great British Psychedelic Trip Vol. 1 (CD).



Tracks:
1. Michael Angelo
2. Leave Me Here
http://www.sendspace.com/file/klutht