Artist: Savage Grace Album: The Complete Savage Grace Country: US Label: 33 1/3 Records - TT 9801 Genre: Hard Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Blues Rock Year of release: 1970-71 Detroit artist Savage Grace was formed in the late 1960s. Guitarist Ron Koss, keyboardist John Seynor and drummer Larry Zach first played in the format dzhazovgo trio called Scarlet Letter, after the accession to the vocalist / bassist Al Jacquez group was renamed Savage Grace. The group soon signed to Reprise and released their self-titled debut album in 1969. After moving to Los Angeles the following year, the band began writing their second album, which took almost two years.
Jun 20, 2013 - But 'Funk #49' — the opening track on 1970's James Gang Rides Again. Area band called the Great Society, which featured Grace Slick on vocals. West's savage guitar, along with the rhythm section of Corky Laing on. Savage Grace s/t - 1970 / '2' - 1971 Really good Detroit Rock n Roll, their 2nd album: '2', is much better than their first, it's a lot heavier and more consistant. The bands first album was released in 1970.
In 1972, before reaching the success they have broken up, although the potential of the material was high.In 1998 Reprise Records reissued them. Savage Grace were pridzhazovannymi, light, melodic, heavy and daring - sometimes all at once - and fans of progressive rock will find a lot of interesting things for themselves, to be interested in them.
Disc One - Savage Grace (1970) 00:44:16 01. Come On Down 04:23 02.
Lady Rain 05:10 03. Dear Lenore 05:27 04. All Along The Watchtower 05:47 05. Hymn To Freedom 05:25 06. 1984 3:23 07.
Night Of The Hunter 04:34 08. Turn Your Head 05:58 09. Ivy 04:09 Disc Two - Savage Grace 2 (1971) 00:39:35 01. Mother's Son 03:48 02.
Tinboy 03:39 03. Sandscript 03:20 04. Roll River Roll 01:59 05. Yonder 05:11 06. She's A Woman 04:05 07.
Macon, Georgia 03:55 08. Blindman 03:55 09. She Comes And Goes 03:12 10. E'Lana 01:47 11. Lady Of The Mountain 04:44 Al Jacquez - vocals, bass Ron Koss - vocals, lead guitar John Seanor - piano, keyboards Laeey Zack - drums, percussion Bernie Krauze - moog http://mir.cr/0L7OR9AI.
Incredible Hog are the next Roadburn-appearance band, they played last year in 2011. They should be fairly well-known by now to most people who know my blog. I have seen them play a few times since they re-formed last year (not for the last time I hope) to celebrate Rise Above's re-issue of their only album 'Volume 1'. They can still rock the house down and I got some when I saw them in London. There is an interview with band leader/guitarist Gordon Kenney at Psychedelic Baby webzine.
The John Bassman Group started life as a school band in Landgraaf, a municipality in south-eastern Limburg and also where one of Holland's biggest rock fests resides, Pinkpop. Their single album 'filthy sky' was a curious affair, a mix of country-tinged blues tracks, and west coast style psych tracks, these being the ones which frequently hit the mark with awesome fuzzy wah guitar and charismatic vox from Diana Leemhuis. John Theunissen and the 'bassman' Theo Wetzeis later joined Pussycat, who had a novelty hit with ' in 1975. On to track 10 with the next Roadburn band Groundhogs, who appeared at the fest in 2008. They probably don't need too much introduction so I will use these interesting quotes from guitarist Tony McPhee regarding the name of the 1970 album that 'Eccentric Man' is taken from.
McPhee recalled the circumstances behind the album with the attention-grabbing title, which ran against fashionable philosophy at the time. McPhee refuses to take the entire credit for this revolutionary theory, admitting: ' Well, it was forced on me a bit'. Roy Fisher Groundhogs manager suggested that McPhee should think of something controversial for the new LP. 'John Lennon had just made his famous quote about The Beatles being more popular than Christ, and everyone was up in arms. So Roy said 'Let's marry it up with the bomb.
How about 'Thank Christ For The Bomb?' So I went home and I had to write these lyrics, and my initial thoughts were that in the First World War, if you were injured you were sent home. And that was my first idea - a soldier is blown up and his toes are blown off so he goes home again. No, that's not enough. So I thought, well, let's make it the atomic bomb, really piss people off.' Rabbit Food, from The Hague, made a single in 1970 with a nice flowing groove, a spritely bass line and sparse effective horns. Alas I can find no mention of them at all save the 45's on a few web sites.
Next up; Apartment 1, who recorded a couple of albums. The first was under their original moniker 'Serpentine', named after a lake in London's Hyde Park. That had a commercial pop sound and most of the members were active session musicians at the time who contributed to acts including OPMC, California License, Big Boy & The Bouncers, The Free Soul, The Family Dog and singer Christine Holmes. For album no2, 'Open House', they turned up the riffs and excellent guitar skills of Peter van der Sande. He later moved on to bass in Focus, and then Solution.
The late pianist Rob Hoeke had an interesting career, not much of it touching on the heavy side that I usually use but it did now and again. Primarily a boogie woogie and blues player, he began in 1957 with his brother Paul in the Rob Hoeke Boogie Woogie Quartet.
After an opportunity to sit in on piano with The Rolling Stones in Sweden, R&B became his focus and he formed The Rob Hoeke R&B Group, and other such permutations within his circle of collaborators. The album used here, 'Celsius 232.8', included a few fine psych moments, and some of his singles. He had a spot of bad luck in 1974 and lost a couple of fingers on an engine fan while fixing his car, but in 1975 he was back with an album humourously entitled 'Fingerprints'. Download from: or password: tdats TDATS 61 is a Collection of Belgian bands. Firstly I must thank the invaluable resource at which assisted this fine collection, along with suggestions from members of the. I shall take a quote from the afore-mentioned 'Belgian Metal History' site: 'Being in a band wasn’t (isn’t?) mostly an easy thing to do over here.
Those who managed to release something on vinyl had often made a lot of sacrifices to chase/reach that goal.' It would appear, as it has done for most of the regional comps I've made, that this was the case for all countries except the UK and America. The most obvious comparison I can make to this volume is the I made a few months back, and I would say that this one's sound has a lot less of it's country's individuality stamped upon it, for a start every track is sung in English. This of course could be partly explained by my own taste and selection process, as I have read that Belgium had very strong jazz And progressive rock scenes (the saxophone was invented in Belgium). We start with Brussel's, named after the site of Napoleon's final defeat in 1815, the band was also defeated after this debut album and made no more.
They had a very confident proto-prog sound with strong hammond organ. Waterloo leads us nicely to the next track; who's Bass-player Jean-Paul Janssens and drummer Jacky Mauer had been members of the Brussels-based blues-rock power trio Adam's Recital, and here is their only release, the great fuzzy psych of 'There's No Place For Lonely People'. Aalst's Irish Coffee (see also ) started out as a covers band called The Voodoos who cut their teeth with a residency at a dance hall called “El Gringo” in Hekelgem. Brussels' Carriage Company had their first recognition as a very early example of Belgian hard rock band with this b-side 'In Your Room'. Unfortunately they courted success by becoming less heavy later on and broke up before an album was released. On to Jenghiz Khan which included Pierre Rapsat (bass guitar/vocalist) who started out in a band which also appears later, Liege's 'Tenderfoot Kids'. Jenghiz Khan's only album came out of the traps sounding extremely confident, with complex multi-instrument arrangements that featured equal amounts of heavy organs and guitar.
Vacation, from Charleroi, were a heavy blues power-trio who's self-financed 1971 LP “Resurrection Of Vacation” was made with tapes from a Belgian national radio (RTB) broadcast, the tracks are very raw but convey their energetic live reputation. Tenderfoot Kids, from Liege, released a string of singles in the 70s before bass player Pierre Rapsat went on to join Jenghiz Khan, mostly pop styles, they had a few rockers too, like this b-side from their final single 'Choo-choo'. Brussels band Kleptomania (meaning: 'an irresistible urge to steal items of trivial value') were another example of very early Belgian hard rock, Dany Lademacher's guitar skills being especially prominent in their sound, but alas they too softened their sound later and their only album release was posthumous in 1979, three years after breaking up. From the town of Ath, Dragon stand out in this comp as purveyors of a more polished sounding later-70s sound, changing their name from Burning Light in 1976 at the point of recording their first album, in the UK. They were all multi instrumentalists and delighted in long, considered progressive Floydish compositions like 'Crystal Ball' included here. There is little information on Georgia Brown, but it's some great power-chorded heavy fuzz like The Snap Shots, and we move on to Esperanto. Raymond Vincent was Violinist leader of the London-based Belgian pop group 'Wallace Collection' and embarked on a harder-rocking career after WC split. He played for a short period with Dany Lademacher and Roger Wollaert (who had both left Kleptomania), then with Waterloo's Dirk Bogaert.
He used his solo album 'Metronomics' to demo his orchestral-rock inclinations which helped him eventually to get together with like-minded musicians and make three unique sounding albums between 73 and 75, 'On Down The Road' is the first track from the 73 debut 'Rock Orchestra'. Brussel's Doctor Downtrip (later just 'Downtrip'), previously appearing on, made three albums between 73 and 79.
In 1970 They gained the guitarist from another Brussels band, Michael Heslop of Burning plague, and all their albums displayed pedestrian blues numbers with flashes of hard rock brilliance, but unfortunately not really enough to credit their instrumental talents. 'Truck Driver' from their 2nd album 'If You Don't Rock Now' (1976) is some relentless grinding Southern-rock.
Antwerp's 'Mothers of Track' peddled a Status Quo-style boogie rock with nice grunty guitar, albeit 5 years behind the times, and finished in 1980 when half the band split to form heavy metal band, 'Killer'. I found the 'Creative Craniums' track on a funk rock comp called 'Sherm Sticks And Other Nasty Joints' (highly recommended) and there is next to no information available on this one-single band. The comp ends with Mustang, a band who's roots go back to 1966 but did not release an album until 1976's “Born And Still Alive”, while being great energetic hard rock, it was a few years behind the times, though they did build up a following over those years and played their last show on October 21st, 1995 at the Parochiezaal in Rijkevorsel. Track List: 01. Waterloo - Lonesome Road (1970) from album 'first battle' 02.
Adam's Recital - There's No Place For Lonely People (1967) single 03. Irish Coffee - Masterpiece / Down Down Down (1971) from album 'irish coffee' 04. The Snap Shots - Hip Hip Hurray (1969) single 05. Carriage Company - In Your Room (1970) single 06.
Jenghiz Khan - The Moderate (1971) from album 'well cut' 07. Vacation - No War Any More (1971) from album 'resurrection of vacation' 08. Tenderfoot Kids - Man In Black (1970) single 09. Mothers of Track - Motorcycle Rock (1976) single 10. Kleptomania - Moonchild (1971) from album 'elephants lost' 11. Dragon - Crystal Ball (1976) from album 'dragon' 12. Georgia Brown - Pollution (1973) single 13.
Esperanto - On Down The Road (1973) from album 'rock orchestra' 14. Doctor Downtrip (aka Downtrip) - Truck Driver (1976) from album 'if you don't rock now' 15. Creative Craniums - C.C.K.54 (1973) single 16.
Mustang - Kickin' In Blind Doors (1976) from album 'born and still alive' Thanks for listening! Rich Share via.