Alexis Korner was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians. In 1961, Korner and harmonica player Cyril Davies formed Blues Incorporated, initially a loose-knit group of musicians with a shared love of electric blues and R&B music. The group included, at various times, such influential musicians as Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Graham Bond, Danny Thompson and Dick Heckstall-Smith. It also attracted a wider crowd of mostly younger fans, some of whom occasionally performed with the group, including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Rod Stewart, John Mayall and Jimmy Page. 01 - Robert Johnson 02 - Honky Tonk Woman 03 - I Got My Mojo Working 04 - King BB 05 - Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man 06 - I Got A Woman 07 - Operator 08 - Louisiana 09 - She Fooled Me 10 - Corina, Corina LINK
ZZ Top is an American blues rock band, formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. Comprising Billy Gibbons (lead vocals and guitar), Dusty Hill (vocals, bass, and keyboards), and Frank Beard (drums and percussion), ZZ Top was ranked number 44 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock." The trio's original lineup has been intact for over 40 years; their longevity has placed them second only to the Four Tops, whose original band members remained intact from 1953 until the death of Lawrence Payton in 1997. ZZ Top retained the services of the same manager, Bill Ham, until September, 2006. Rio Grande Mud is the second album by ZZ Top, released in 1972. 01 - Francine 02 - Just Got Paid 03 - Mushmouth Shoutin' 04 - Ko Ko Blue 05 - Chevrolet 06 - Apologies To Pearly 07 - Bar-B-Q 08 - Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell 09 - Whiskey'n Mama 10 - Down Brownie LINK
Growing Concern, was formed by Bonnie MacDonald and Mary Garstki, vocals, Dan Passaglia, organ, John Pedley, bass and Ralph Toms, guitar. Although little is known of Growing Concern, their only album (Mainstream, 1968) is an enjoyable piece of West Coast psychedelic pop. The opening track 'Hard, Hard Year' sets the tone for the album: it opens with melodic guitar work, which is joined first by bass, then by excellent keyboards; it also features beautiful female vocal harmonies from group members Bonnie MacDonald and Mary Garstki. 'Edge Of Time' features excellent lead guitar work, as does 'Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled'; 'A Boy I Once Knew Well' is a folky lament, which again features fine vocal harmonies, keyboards, and guitar work. Overall, quite a good blend of folk rock, pop, and psychedelia. The album is brilliantly recorded, and is of a consistently high musical quality. The band surely deserved a better fate than the obscurity to which they were consigned by the bizarre business practices of the Mainstream label. 01 - Hard Hard Year 02 - Edge Of Time 03 - Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled 04 - A Boy I Once Knew Well 05 - All I Really Want 06 - Mister You're A Better Man Than I 07 - What Kind Of Life 08 - Other Side Of Life 09 - I Knew A Girl 10 - Sit Down I Think I Love You LINK
Originally recorded in 1969, and released only in Germany, "Come With Me", is a minor masterpiece of British psychedelic pop/rock. Great, psychedelic rock tunes are embellished with phased vocals, treated piano, samples of radio broadcasts, washes of organ, and electronic effects. Songs like "You Thought You Had It Made" and "Rust" revel in blues licks, and rock with a genuine joy, even if the subject matter of their lyrics is somewhat pessimistic, and softer tunes like "Please Return" and the gorgeous "Find a Hideaway" are full of acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies.(AA) 01 - Come With Me 02 - You Thought You Had It Made 03 - Please Return 04 - Should I 05 - Think Big 06 - Rust 07 - Delusion 08 - Find A Hideaway 09 - Come With Me LINK
The Electric Prunes are an American rock band who first achieved international attention as an experimental psychedelic group in the late 1960s. Their song Kyrie Eleison featured on the soundtrack of Easy Rider. After a period in which they had little control over their music, they disappeared for thirty years, reforming as a recording and touring band in 2001. Underground from 1967 is their second album. 01 - Great Banana Hoax 02 - Children Of Rain 03 - Wind-Up Toys 04 - Antique Doll 05 - It's Not Fair 06 - I Happen To Love You 07 - Dr. Do-Good 08 - I 09 - Hideaway 10 - Big City 11 - Captain Glory 12 - Long Day's Flight 13 - Everybody Knows You're Not In Love 14 - You Never Had It Better LINK
Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Arthur Lee and the group's second songwriter, guitarist Bryan MacLean. One of the first racially diverse American pop bands, their music reflected different influences, combining elements of rock and roll, garage rock, folk and psychedelia. Their musical reputation largely rests on two albums issued in 1967, Da Capo and Forever Changes. This is a 1970 live performance in London.
01 - Good Times 02 - August 03 - My Little Red Book 04 - Nothing 05 - Orange Skies 06 - Andmore Again 07 - Gather Round 08 - Bummer In The Summer 09 - Singing Cowboy 10 - Signed D.C. 11 - Love Is More Than Words Or Better
This obscure bluesy-hard rock trio from 1970, Larry Gould / vocals, bass, Michael Kaplan / guitar, vocals and Pug Baker / drums, sounds like a rockier version of "Three Dog Night” with lots of "Creedence Clearwater Revival” and "Big Brother And The Holding Company” thrown in. Chariot, which evolved out of a ‘60s outfit called The Knack, are often described as a Cream-influenced blues/psych trio, although to many ears their sound exhibits more than a hint of a classic flower power groove, with some decidedly progressive touches. 01 - Yolanda Jones 02 - You Let Me Love You 03 - Gamblin' Man 04 - The War Is Over 05 - Home Wreckin' Mama 06 - Hey People 07 - Variety Woman 08 - Got To Be A Lover 09 - Poor Man Blues LINK
This isn't the Iron Maiden with vocalist Bruce Dickinson, bassist Steve Harris, Eddy the zombie mascot,etc. This was the sole 1969 album by a short-lived UK 'progressive heavy rock' outfit. Some might consider it to be an early doom metal effort. In 1964, Barry Skeels, Steve Drewett, Chris Rose and Alan Hooker formed an acoustic band in Basildon, Essex that eventually evolved into a band called Iron Maiden (unrelated to the currently famous Iron Maiden). By 1966, the lineup was Skeels (bass), Drewett (vocals/harmonies), Rose (lead guitar), Tom Loates (rhythm guitar) and Stan Gillem (drums); they played Rolling Stones and blues numbers under the name "Growth". Reduced to a two-piece, Drewett and Skeels played blues under the name of "Stevenson's Blues Department" in pubs and clubs in Essex and London. They supported a number of up and coming bands including Jethro Tull, Fleetwood Mac, The Groundhogs and King Crimson. In 1968, Drewett and Skeels were joined by Paul Reynolds (drums) and Trevor Thoms (guitar). They released an acetate (God of Darkness/Ballad of Martha Kent) under the name of Bum. When they signed to the Gemini label in 1970, the name was changed to Iron Maiden. The Gemini record label lost of the debut album master tapes, and Maiden Voyage was released in 1998 using duplicate tapes owned by Skeels. 01 - Falling 02 - Ned Kelly 03 - Liar 04 - Ritual 05 - CC Ryder 06 - Plague 07 - Ballad Of Martha Kent 08 - God Of Darkness LINK
America is an English-American folk rock musical band, composed originally of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring #1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist. Their recording success was almost entirely throughout the 1970s; some of the band's best known songs are "A Horse with No Name", "Sister Golden Hair" (both of which reached #1), "Ventura Highway", "Tin Man", "Daisy Jane", and "Lonely People". Some of the band's singles and albums were successful commercially, and they attracted the services of The Beatles' producer, George Martin, for a series of seven albums. The band suffered a heavy blow when Dan Peek quit the group in 1977, right at its apex, but Beckley and Bunnell returned America to the top 10 as a duo with "You Can Do Magic" in 1982. Continuing to tour (for almost four decades now), America maintains a loyal fan base and performs over 100 shows per year. America is the eponymous debut album released by America in 1971. The album was initially released without "A Horse With No Name," which had not yet been recorded. When "Horse" became a worldwide hit in early 1972, the album was re-released with that track. The album went to number 1 on the Billboard album chart in the US and stayed there for 5 weeks.
01 - Riverside 02 - Sandman 03 - Three Roses 04 - Children 05 - A Horse With No Name 06 - Here 07 - I Need You 08 - Rainy Day 09 - Never Found The Time 10 - Clarice 11 - Donkey Jaw 12 - Pigeon Song
Apple were a British psychedelic rock band. The band was founded in Cardiff in 1968 by Rob Ingram on guitar and Jeff Harrad on bass. They released a single LP in 1969, titled An Apple a Day. The album was a commercial failure, and the band ceased to exist shortly after its release. However, during the subsequent years several tracks from the LP, most notably "The Otherside" by Harrad, were dubbed classics of British psychedelic rock by critics, making An Apple a Day one of the most sought-after British psychedelic rarities. The original vinyl version (released by Page One Records) is now extremely hard to find. A reissue by Repertoire Records was released in 1994, which included several bonus songs. Dennis Regan (vocals), Robbo Ingram (guitar), Jeff Harrad (bass), Charlie Barber (piano) and Dave Brassington (drums). 01 - Let's Take A Trip Down The Rhine 02 - Doctor's Rock 03 - The Otherside 04 - Mr. Jones 05 - The Mayville Line 06 - Queen Of Hearts Blues 07 - Rock Me Baby 08 - Buffalo Billycan 09 - Photograph 10 - Psycho Daisies 11 - Sporting Life 12 - Pretty Girl Love You LINK
Davie Allan is a guitarist best known for his work on soundtracks to various teen and biker movies in the 1960s. Allan's backing band is almost always the Arrows, although the Arrows have never been a stable lineup. When Mike Curb of Sidewalk Records assigned soundtrack duties for biker film The Wild Angels to Allan and the Arrows, it would prove a breakthrough success. The song from the film's opening, "Blues' Theme”, an aggressive, repetitive and very catchy instrumental showcasing Allan's new fuzzed-out (heavily distorted) guitar sound became their biggest hit. The song stayed on the Billboard charts for 17 weeks (it peaked at #37); the single, backed with "Bongo Party,” and the soundtrack album both sold well. 01 - Blues Theme 02 - King Fuzz 03 - Theme From Thunderball 04 - William Tell 1967 05 - Action On The Street 06 - Theme From The Wild Angels 07 - Theme From The Unknown 08 - Fuzz Theme 09 - Sorry 'bout That 10 - Ghost Riders In The Sky LINK
In 1972, ABC sent out promotional copies of Steely Dan's first single, "Dallas" backed with "Sail the Waterway." It is unclear if "stock" copies were ever released to the general public, and if they were, the single sold so poorly that promotional copies are more abundant today (whereas the reverse is true for most releases). Neither song has ever been included on a compilation or album of any kind, or re-released in any form, with few exceptions: a 12" European EP titled "Plus Fours." - this 1977 EP features "Dallas," "Sail the Waterway," "Do It Again" and "Haitian Divorce." A1 - Do It Again.mp3 A2 - Dallas.mp3 B1 - Haitian Divorce.mp3 B2 - Sail The Waterway.mp3 LINK
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, writer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. Jennings escaped death in the February 3, 1959, plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson when he gave up his seat to Richardson who had been sick with the flu. Cedartown, Georgia is a 1971 album by Waylon Jennings. Its title track, a morbid tale of murder, reached #14 on the country singles chart.
01 - Cedartown Georgia 02 - Big D 03 - The House Song 04 - Tomorrow Night In Baltimore 05 - Pickin' White Gold 06 - Bridge Over Troubled Water (with Jessi Colter) 07 - It's All Over Now 08 - I'm Gonna Leave (While I Still Love You) 09 - I've Got Eyes For You 10 - Let Me Stay Awhile
Late 60's west coast Psychedelic band. Micky Brooks - Drums, Don Ferris - Bass, Vocals, Nicky Indelicato - Guitar, Vocals, Nick Jameson - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Todd Rundgren - Producer, Engineer, Don Lee Van Winkle - Guitar, Vocals. Seems to be a simultaneous project to Tod Rundgren's Nazz, but could not find info about it. 01 - Good News 02 - Big Brother 03 - The Other Side 04 - Credempels 05 - Storm 06 - Cadillac 07 - My Babe 08 - I Ain't Searchin' 09 - Future's Folly 10 - I Am You 11 - Flankford El 12 - Raspberries LINK
Black Pearl was a San-Francisco-based band that existed from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. They released two albums, Black Pearl (1969) and Black Pearl - Live! (1970). Black Pearl was composed of Bernie "B.B" Fieldings (vocals), Bruce Benson (guitar), Oak O'Connor (drums), Geoffrey Morris (guitar), Tom Mulcahy (guitar) and Jerry Causi (bass). The band was formed after Barbarians' singer and drummer Moulty refused to travel to Boulder, Colorado for a two week engagement. A new drummer, Oak O'Connor, plus Mulcahy and Fieldings, joined with ex-Barbarians Morris, Causi and Benson, all initially based in Boston, to form Black Pearl in 1967. The band relocated from Boston to San Francisco, after a period of time in Colorado. The band, after fulfilling the Boulder, Colorado engagement, became quite popular in that city, influencing local bands such as Zephyr, featuring guitarist Tommy Bolin and lead singer Candy Givens. Givens was greatly influenced by Fieldings' stage presence, and through Fieldings, met his then girlfriend, Janis Joplin, who commented favourably on Givens' stage performance. 01 - Crazy Chicken 02 - Thinkin' 'bout The Good Times 03 - White Devil 04 - Mr. Soul Satisfaction 05 - Forget It 06 - Climbing Up The Walls 07 - Bent Over 08 - Endless Journey 09 - Reach Up LINK
The New Mix's sole album is stereotypical 1968 pop-influenced trendy psychedelia. The ten original songs favor San Francisco psych-folk-rock-influenced minor keys, Doors-Strawberry Alarm Clock-influenced organ, and the odd screeching distorted guitar. The arrangements also nod to a pop influence with harmonies that sometimes recall the Hollies' brief psychedelic phase, a Beatles-like Brit-psych bounce in the tempo of "Follow Me," and some fruity instrumentation that might have made it into sunshine pop records by the likes of the Association. It's a real melange, in other words, and like a salad made up of various excerpts from the week's leftovers, it doesn't go together too well or taste too good or fresh. There's little memorable about the songs, and some of the lead vocals have a distasteful stiff, strident air. Perhaps as a rough comparison, you might liken the New Mix to groups with awkward mixes of pop and freaky psych, like Fever Tree and the Strawberry Alarm Clock, but the band isn't even close to their level. (AMG) 01 - While We Waited 02 - Ursula 03 - The Man 04 - Nothing Matters More 05 - The New Harpoon Song 06 - Ever Brighter 07 - Get Me Out 08 - Sun Down 09 - Doorway To An Open Light 10 - Follow Me LINK
The Colours were a West-Coast Psychedelic Pop act that came together in 1967 at the request of songwriters, Jack Dalton and Gary Montgomery, two hard-working, former Motown songwriters who also penned songs for The Turtles, Nino & April and The Moon. Essentially a "studio project" Colours'epounymous album was assembled over several months in late 1967, and subsequently issued by Dot Records the following year. Dot Records, had little experience dealing with a band like Colours and thusly the album failed to explode as a result of their poor marketing. To call this an unsung gem is an understatement. Colours is a brilliant Beatlesque masterpiece that, while somewhat derivative, is rife with bouyant arrangements, strong melodic hooks and sophisticated soundscapes. From beginning to end, the album is tight and focused. Like a cross between Left Banke, The Beatles and The Moon, the band's slight Psychedelic temperment is perfectly balanced with their impeccable musicianship and pitch perfect harmonies. 01 - Bad Day At Black Rock, Baby 02 - Love Heals 03 - Helping You Out 04 - Where Is She 05 - Rather Be Me 06 - I'm Leaving 07 - Brother Lou's Lvoe Colony 08 - I Think Of Her (She's On My Mind) 09 - Lovin' 10 - Cataleptic 11 - Don't You Realize LINK
The Savage Resurrection were a rock band from the San Francisco Bay area. Founded in 1967, the group was signed to the major label Mercury Records, on which they released their eponymous debut in 1968. Singer Bill Harper and bassist Steve Lage quit the band shortly thereafter, leading to the demise of the group. Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond has cited the Savage Resurrection as one of his biggest influences, and in October 2008 performed a live set with guitarist Randy Hammon. There was some suspicion that Randy Hammon was actually legendary guitarist Randy Holden due to some citing that was done in Joe Carducci's book The Pop Narcotic; this seems to be a misconception. Bill Harper, Randy Hammon, John Palmer, Steve Lage and Jeff Myer 01 - Thing In E 02 - Every Little Song 03 - Talking To You 04 - Tahitian Melody 05 - Jammin 06 - Fox Is Sick 07 - Someones Changing 08 - Remlaps Cave Pt2 09 - Appeal To The Happy 10 - Expectations 11 - Thing In E 2 12 - Tahitian Melody 2 13 - River Deep Mountain High LINK
Steven Krikorian, along with friends Alan Shapazian, Steve Olson, Nick van Maarth, and Duane Scott, in 1966, formed a surf-funk/psychedelic-punk band called The Raik's Progress, which recorded a single for Liberty Records, released in 1966. Known for their Dadaist-inspired between-song routines, one reviewer described their performance while opening for Buffalo Springfield at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium as being like "The Three Stooges playing strip poker with Iggy and the Stooges.” This full-length album by the band, Sewer Rat Love Chant, was eventually issued on Sundazed Records in 2003. 01 - Sewer Rat Love Chant 02 - Why Did You Rob Us, Tank 03 - 'f' In 'a' 04 - Baby, Please Don't Go 05 - Don't Need You 06 - It's No Use 07 - Call My Name 08 - All Night Long 09 - Prisoner Of Chillon 10 - Sewer Rat Love Chant [Live] 11 - Why Did You Rob Us, Tank [Live] 12 - I'm Going To Change The World LINK
The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district. In the early 1960s, The Beatles (who had not yet become world-famous) played in several clubs around the Reeperbahn, including the Star-Club, Kaiserkeller, Top Ten and Indra. Stories about the band's residencies, onstage and offstage antics are legendary; some stories are true (on a dare, John Lennon played a song set in his underwear, while George Harrison replied by playing a later set with a toilet seat around his neck), others inflated (the band urinating in an alley as nuns walked past was told rather differently later). A fellow musician, Ted "Kingsize" Taylor, made a crude tape recording of their last New Year's Eve show, at the Star-Club in December 1962; a cleaned-up version of the tape was later released as an album, later characterized by Harrison as "Awful." Famously John Lennon is quoted: "I might have been born in Liverpool - but I grew up in Hamburg".In memory of this time a Beatles-Platz was built at the cross of Reeperbahn and Große Freiheit.
01 - I Saw Her Standing There 02 - I'm Going To Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) 03 - Roll Over Beethoven 04 - The Hippy Hippy Shake 05 - Sweet Little Sixteen 06 - Lend Me Your Comb 07 - Your Feets Too Big 08 - Where Have You Been All My Life 09 - Twist And Shout 10 - Mr. Moonlight 11 - A Taste Of Honey 12 - Besame Mucho 13 - Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby 14 - Kansas City (Hey Hey Hey Hey ) 15 - Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Tree) 16 - To Know Her Is To Love Her 17 - Little Queenie 18 - Falling In Love Again 19 - Sheila 20 - Be-Bop-A-Lula 21 - Hallelujah, I Love Her So 22 - Ask Me Why 23 - Red Sails In The Sunset 24 - Matchbox 25 - I'm Talking About You 26 - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate 27 - Long Tall Sally 28 - The Beatles I Remember You
