segunda-feira, 13 de maio de 2024
Brian Short - Anything For A Laugh
Parish Hall - Parish Hall (1970
Aynsley Dunbar - Blue Whale 1970
Carson - Blown 1972
Carson was an Australian blues rock and boogie rock band, formed in January 1970 in Melbourne as Carson County Band. They had a top 30 hit single on the Go-Set National Top 40 with "Boogie" in September 1972. The group released their debut studio album, Blown, in November on EMI and Harvest Records, which peaked at No. 14 on the Go-Set Top 20 Albums. Their performance at the second Sunbury Pop Festival in late January 1973 was issued as a live album, On the Air, in April but the group had already disbanded.
Member, John Capek had left by mid 1970 and relocated to North America by 1973 where he worked as a composer (often with Marc Jordan), record producer, and keyboardist in Toronto, Canada, and Los Angeles, United States. After Carson disbanded, Broderick Smith formed the country rock band The Dingoes in 1973 and had a successful solo career.
listen hereHate - Hate Kills 1970
Bronco - Ace of Sunlight 1971
More recently the Bronco track 'Time Slips Away' has been included on the Island Records compilation 'Meet On The Ledge', released as part of Island's 50th anniversary in 2009. listen here
quarta-feira, 1 de maio de 2024
Greezy Wheels - Juz Loves Dem Ol' 1975
Greezy Wheels is an Austin, Texas-based progressive country band formed in the 1970s. They played more frequently at the Armadillo World Headquarters than any other band in the history of the venues. They are regarded as the Armadillo house band and are elected members of the Austin Music Hall Of Fame.
Greezy Wheels' music is a raucous blend of rock, funk, R&B, alt-country, and Ozarks. In their early days, they were the only band with a female fiddler, Sweet Mary Hattersley. Sweet Mary consistently brought the crowd to a screaming frenzy state with her version of the "Orange Blossom Special." The music of Greezy Wheels reflected the cultural dichotomy of Austin in the 1970s — a unique place where hippies had roots deep in the heart of Texas. Greezy Wheels opened Willie Nelson's first-ever Armadillo World Headquarters show, putting him in front of the hippies who then adopted him and have been his fans ever since. They have shared the stage with (literally) too many greats to name.
listen hereBoz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs 1969
Gravy Train - Gravy Train 1970
Bold - Bold 1969
Catapilla - Catapilla 1971
segunda-feira, 29 de abril de 2024
Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster 1970
Bonnie Koloc - Wild and Recluse 1978
Bitter Blood Street Theatre - Vol. 1 (1978)
Bitter Blood Street Theatre was a performance art troupe-slash-acid rock band formed at Cincinnati's University in 1969 and active through the 1970s and disbanded by 1980. Their music was a swirling dervish of bong-hitting psychedelia with slashing hard rock guitars and a penchant for exotic instrumentation, including a few saw solos.
The band was colorful kooks in Kiss-style masks, draped in capes and/or dominatrix outfits, and the ‘street theatre’ bit involved exactly that: extras culled from the local freak scene who would perform on stage with the band, or in the audience, or out on the sidewalk in front of the club. Performances would range from a guy in a wheelchair calmly eating live locusts out of a cigar box, to flashers showing their private bits to whoever caught their eye. The band played with all the heavy hitters of the era and the area, from The MC5 to Alice Cooper (who, some believe, nicked a thing or two from Bitter’s stage performance), but never made any headway beyond Ohio’s borders. Anyway, they had the chance to open for such acts as the Allman Brothers, Joe Cocker, Mountain, Savoy Brown, MC5, Frigid Pink, and Dr. John. In 1975, the band was briefly part of the Columbia Records roster, but the exec who signed them was reportedly fired the same day, and the band was unceremoniously dropped.
They did manage to eke out one single in ’75, but the band broke up soon after, morphing into a still-active ‘fringe-rock’ outfit, Blacklight Braille. In the late 70s, BBST mainman Tom Owen was able to cobble together the band’s various demo tracks and release them as a two-volume anthology. Both are now considered minor masterpieces of 70s weird-psyche. Sadly, no vintage footage of the band has surfaced yet, so we are left to imagine what it might be like to catch these pioneering maniacs live.
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