by request...

Kindly provided by Poor as per previous requests...

Saint Just - Saint Just + La Casa Del Lago
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http://unitedsounds.blogspot.com/2007/04/saint-just-1972-saint-just-1974-la-casa.html

Chicago - II
LINK:
http://unitedsounds.blogspot.com/2007/04/chicago-chicago-2-1970-320.html

Chicago - III
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http://unitedsounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/chicago-chicago-3-320.html

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COMMENTS REWARDED - Your hosts in June....Gordon & Pat!!!

I have been waiting for some time for 4 people to contact me by mail. The only brave enough were Gordon and Pat so they will chose 50 albums from my list that will be posted here in June. Congratulations Gordon & Pat - hope you will chose well and make some visitors happy!!!

The rest of May I will spend uploading and no posting - new posts are coming beginning of June.

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Cheers folks!!!

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Comments...why...why not...

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Here is Gordon`s sellection:
ZAPPA FRANK - UNCLE MEAT - 2CD
Your best Steely dan Cd. I don't know which to choose.(THE FIRST ONE)
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION - SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
SMITH PATTI - HORSES
SANTANA - 3
SAINT JUST - SAINT JUST
RUSH - PERMANENT WAVES
QUINTESSENCE - IN BLISSFUL COMPANY
OZRIC TENTACLES - JURASSIC SHIFT
OSIBISA - WOYAYA
OMEGA - TIME ROBBER
MARILION - SCRIPT FOR A JESTER'S TEAR
MAGNA CARTA - LORD OF THE AGES
JETHRO TULL -HEAVY HORSES
JADE WARRIOR - RELEASED
GURU GURU - DANCE OF THE FLAMES
GREENSLADE - GREENSLADE
GENESIS - SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND
ELOY - DAWN
ELOY - OCEAN
EELA CRAIG - ONE NITER
Your best Dr John record, cant choose this one either.(GRIS-GRIS)
DI MEOLA AL - LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN
DAVIS MILES - IN A SILENT WAY
Your best Manu Chao album.(FIRST or MANO NEGRA times)

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Here is Pat`s sellection:
AFTER TEA
FILLMORE - THE LAST DAYS - CD1
FILLMORE - THE LAST DAYS - CD2
PECO PETEJ & NEW BLUES POWER
TEN YEARS AFTER - WATT
TEN YEARS AFTER - STONEHENGE
HOT TUNA - THE BEST OF - 2 CD
KORNI GRUPA (KORNELYANS)
JOHN MAYALL - BACK TO THE ROOTS
JOHN MAYALL - HARD ROAD
RORY GALLAGHER - DEFENDER
COSMIC DEALER
SPIRIT - SPIRIT OF 76 cd1 et 2
GRATEFUL DEAD - THE BEST OF
OTPRILIKE OVAKO - LIVE @ ROCK ANTHOLOGY
SAVOY BROWN - BOOGIE BROTHERS
LORENA MC KENNIT - LIVE IN PARIS
GRACE SLICK - MANHOLE
TRIPSICHORD MUSIC BOX
YOUNG FLOWERS - LIVE
JOY OF COOKING

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Crown Of Creation

'Masterpiece' is a ubiquitous word, but it's the only one that properly describes this album. This is the definitive album from five extremely talented Californian hipsters known as Jefferson Airplane. Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Spencer Dryden all merged their creative strengths together to turn rock music into something revolutionary and monumental.The band had already set the world on fire with their first three albums, showing their remarkable, divine vocal harmonies, and CROWN OF CREATION proved their excellence even further.They open the album with three of the most magnificent ballads ever written. "Lather", "In Time" and "Triad" are all unbelievably beautiful and soothing. Grace's "Lather" is based on drummer Spencer Dryden. Spencer was about to turn thirty at the time, hence the line "Lather was thirty years old today". It's also based on a little incident that occured with Jack Casady. Jack was given a pill by a drug guru named Owsley, but he made the pill much too strong, and Jack totally went berserk when he took it. He was arrested for running naked on the beach and drawing pictures in the sand, which is also referred to in the song. And as for the song itself, Grace sings it in a way that just sends shivers down your spine, amongst many strange sound effects and some peaceful acoustic guitar. The hauntingly graceful "In Time" is even better, and it's probably my favorite Airplane song ever. The choruses are pure bliss, with Kantner, Slick and Balin ALL singing in harmony, combining their voices in such a way that it sounds like the essence of beauty itself. "Triad" was written by David Crosby, but it's hard picturing him singing it better than Grace does here. Her crystalline vocal cords have never sounded better, and she delivers an extremely emotional performance that really touches the depths of your heart. In particular, listen to the way she sings the line "We love each other, it's plain to see" and tell me that isn't the loveliest voice that you've ever heard in your life. Kaukonen's "Star Track" features some of the most blistering wah-wah guitar licks ever put on record. They're fast, vicious and totally chaotic. Indeed Jorma was one of the most overlooked guitarists in the world. Balin's vocal on "Share A Little Joke" is rapturous, especially that middle section ("...Your eyes are never tired, your mind is on fire..."). Like Grace, he manages to practically give you goosebumps with his singing. That's enough proof that nobody could rival the Airplane when it comes to vocal harmonies (except the brilliant Simon And Garfunkel)."Chushingura" is the only weak spot on the album, as it's just a bunch of weird sounds. "If You Feel" is an upbeat rocker with glorious vocals and a marvelous melody. Some have said that the title track was plagiarized from a novel called "The Chrysalids", but I couldn't care less because the song is so great. The tandem vocals of Jorma and Grace on "Ice Cream Phoenix" are yet another highlight, and Grace's battle cry of "Still not cry when it's time to go" is indeed very hypnotic. And speaking of Grace, her "Greasy Heart" is a moody tune that talks about how women try too hard to make themselves look good. A little known fact is that she's actually singing about HERSELF on this one. She was a model before she became a singer, so she understood about all that stuff. In the liner notes, she even says "It sounds like I'm pointing fingers in the song, but I'm actually living it". So that leaves the gloomy, hypnotic "House At Pooneil Corners", an eerie number that tells about the end of the world. And I do mean EERIE. Everything about the song is very dark: the bass line, the organ, the sound effects and, above all, the intoxicating vocals. The lyrics are brilliant, too. This is a song that really makes you think: is the destiny of mankind doomed forever? Creepy stuff.

Tracks

1. Lather

2. In Time

3. Triad

4. Star Track

5. Share A Little Joke

6. Chushingura

7. If You Feel

8. Crown Of Creation

9. Ice Cream Phoenix

10. Greasy Heart

11. The House At Pooneil Corners

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THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND - Framed

Alex Harvey (February 5, 1935 - February 4, 1982) was a Scottish rock and roll recording artist. With his Sensational Alex Harvey Band, he built a strong reputation as a live performer during the 1970s glam rock era. The band was renowned for its eclecticism and energetic live performance, Harvey for his charismatic persona and daredevil stage antics.
Alex's younger brother Leslie Harvey was also a musician and became guitarist for Glasgow band Stone the Crows.
Harvey was born at 49 Govan Road, Kinning Park, Glasgow. His musical roots were in Dixieland jazz and skiffle music, which enjoyed considerable popularity in England and Scotland during the late 1950s. During this period, he won a competition that sought "Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele". Alex Harvey was literally the "last of the teenage idols," a distinction he made much of during his subsequent career - practically worshipped by his fans.
In 1959, Harvey formed "Alex Harvey's Soul Band," and recorded blues and rock and roll material, to modest success. In 1966, Harvey found more success as a member of the cast in the London stage production of the musical Hair.
In 1972, Harvey formed the Sensational Alex Harvey Band with guitarist Zal Cleminson, bassist Chris Glen, and cousins Ted and Hugh McKenna on drums and keyboards respectively, all previous members of progressive rock act "Tear Gas".
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (often shortened to SAHB) produced a succession of highly regarded albums and tours throughout the 1970s, and would give Harvey his greatest successes, both musically and commercially.
Initially considered a part of the burdgeoning glam-rock movement, Harvey's wild imagination and unusual skiffle background led the band to explore an extremely diverse range of topics and styles in the course of their career, from film-noir ("The Man In The Jar") to surf music-tinted tales of shark attacks ("Shark's Teeth") to ominous odes to demented faith healers ("The Faith Healer") and epic symphonies about prostitution ("Isobel Goudie").
Perhaps most unusual for the time were the band's forays into Broadway, evidenced on tracks such as "Tomorrow Belongs To Me". Other musical styles explored included the the folk music of both Harvey's native Scotland ("Anthem") and countries such as Turkey ("Action Strasse").
The impression is one of an unhinged circus of free-flowing events and emotions and moods, Harvey as its semi-demented, ironic ring master,something captured brilliantly by the cover art of 1974 album "The Impossible Dream" (attach picture?).
A strong sense of irony permeates much of the band's work, however Harvey often juxtaposed his absurdist imagery and wild-eyed imagination with sincere moral messages and affectionate unashamed sentiment and emotion.
His live act also usually featured a tale of "Vambo", an urban superhero who was the subject of some of his more energetic numbers. His performances combined a musical and verbal flair with both humour and sincerity and his songs often contained messages and morals.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band scored chart hits in Britain with the single "Delilah", a re-make of the Tom Jones hit, and also with "The Boston Tea Party".
Alex Harvey was also instrumental in the formation of Stone the Crows, by introducing his younger brother Leslie to singer, Maggie Bell [1].
On February 4, 1982 while waiting to take a ferry back to shore after performing his last concert with his new band, the Electric Cowboys, Harvey suffered a massive heart attack. In an ambulance on the way to the hospital, he suffered a second heart attack, this one fatal. It occurred on the day before his 47th birthday, in Zeebrugge, Belgium.

Tracks

1. Framed

2. Hammer Song

3. Midnight Moses

4. Isobel Goudie

5. Buff's Bar Blues

6. I Just Want to Make Love to You

7. Hole in Her Stocking

8. There's No Lights on the Christmas Tree Mother

9. St. Anthony

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IGGY POP - Lust For Life

Lust for Life is a 1977 album by Iggy Pop, his second collaboration with David Bowie following The Idiot, released earlier in the year. As well as being a critical success, it was Pop's most commercially popular album to date. The title track gained further exposure two decades later when it was featured on the soundtrack of the film Trainspotting (1996).
The album is generally considered to be more of an Iggy Pop record than the Bowie-dominated The Idiot, being less experimental musically and having more of a rock and roll flavour. However some of its themes were similarly dark, as in "The Passenger", long regarded one of Pop’s most haunting tracks, and "Tonight" and "Turn Blue", both of which dealt with heroin abuse. Balanced against this were more optimistic songs like "Success" and "Lust for Life", the latter promising “No more beating my brains / With the liquor and drugs”. The cover photo, featuring the singer's maniacal grin, was taken by Alan Kent, who also shot the cover for The Idiot.
David Bowie, Iggy Pop and engineer Colin Thurston produced the album under the pseudonym "Bewlay Bros." (name via the final track on Bowie’s Hunky Dory). Recording took place at Hansa Studios in Berlin and featured Ricky Gardiner and Carlos Alomar on guitars with Hunt and Tony Sales on drums and bass, respectively. Trivia buffs have noted that, with Bowie’s presence on keyboards and backing vocals, the band included three-quarters of the future Tin Machine line-up, missing only Reeves Gabrels; in fact it was the Sales brothers’ hard-rocking contribution to this album that led Bowie to invite them to join Tin Machine twelve years later.
Lust for Life reached #28 in the UK charts. "Success" b/w "The Passenger" was released as a single in October 1977. A number of tracks appeared the following year on the live set TV Eye. Bowie covered "Tonight" (minus the opening lines referencing drugs) with Tina Turner, as well as "Neighborhood Threat", on his 1984 release Tonight. "The Passenger" has been performed by Nick Cave, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Michael Hutchence (on the Batman Forever soundtrack) and R.E.M., amongst others. Duran Duran covered "Success" on the faves collection Thank You. "Lust For Life" has been played by many artists including Yo La Tengo, The Damned, Tom Jones and The Pretenders, and David Bowie live, and is used as bumper music on The Jim Rome Show. It is also used as the theme music for the ongoing advertising campaign for Royal Caribbean International. Its distinctive riff is commonly cited as a key inspiration for Jet’s 2003 hit single "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?".

Tracks

"Lust for Life" – 5:13

"Sixteen" – 2:26

"Some Weird Sin" – 3:42

"The Passenger" – 4:44

"Tonight" – 3:39

"Success" – 4:25

"Turn Blue" – 6:56

"Neighborhood Threat" – 3:25

"Fall in Love with Me" – 6:30

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LOU REED - Berlin

Berlin is a 1973 album by Lou Reed, his third solo album and the follow-up to the widely accessible and upbeat glam rock classic Transformer. What was surprising about this release was that it is in direct contrast to its predecessor: Berlin is a very bleak and sad album, widely believed to be among the most depressing albums ever recorded. In 2003, the album was ranked number 344 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
On the other side of the coin, it is also ranked among the best of the concept albums the 1970s had to offer, a tragic, loose musical tale about a doomed couple amid themes of drug use and depression. Response was not good upon its release, as fans and critics were expecting another upbeat glam outing. As time has gone by, a growing number of Reed's fans have come to believe this album to be among his best as a solo artist.
"The Kids", a very sad song telling of a woman having her children taken from her into care, contains a particularly upsetting mid-section featuring the sounds of children shouting for their mother. This segment is so harrowing that a legend has arisen telling how producer Bob Ezrin went home one night and told his children that their mother had (in different versions) either left them or died, and recorded their response. Later, Ezrin dispelled this myth, stating that he had just asked them to cry for the recorder, and that his younger child got carried away with the game. In actuality, Joshua Ezrin, Ezrin's youngest son, was locked out of the recording studio by his mother Arlene Sarner, and while he was pleading to be let back inside, his cries were recorded and put on the album. The Waterboys take their name from a line in this song.
"Sad Song" references Mary I of Scotland in its initial verses:
Staring at my picture book

She looks like Mary, Queen of Scots

She seemed very regal to me

Just goes to show how wrong you can be

Tracks

"Berlin" – 3:23

"Lady Day" – 3:40

"Men of Good Fortune" – 4:37

"Caroline Says (I)" – 3:57

"How Do You Think It Feels" – 3:42

"Oh, Jim" – 5:13

"Caroline Says" (II) – 4:10

"The Kids" – 7:55

"The Bed" – 5:51

"Sad Song" – 6:55

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FLEETWOOD MAC - Live In Boston

THIS IS THE REAL

PETER GREEN`S FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE IN BOSTON!!!

DO NOT GET CONFUSED WITH THAT STEVIE NICKS FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE IN BOSTON BOOL$HIT!!!

Credits

Peter Green - Guitar, Vocals

Jeremy Spencer - Guitar, Vocals, Piano

Mick Fleetwood - Percussion, Drums

John McVie - Bass

Danny Kirwan - Guitar, Vocals

Volume one

"Black Magic Woman" (Green) – 6:45

"Jumping at Shadows" (Bennett) – 4:48

"Like It This Way" (Kirwan) – 4:28

"Only You" (Kirwan) – 4:23

"Rattlesnake Shake (Green) – 24:38

"I Can't Hold Out" (James) – 6:35

"Got to Move" (James) – 3:25

"The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" (Green) – 12:52

Volume two

"World in Harmony" (Kirwan/Green) – 4:10

"Oh Well" (Green) – 3:12

"Rattlesnake Shake" (Green) – 25:36

"Stranger Blues" (James/Seahorn) – 3:55

"Red Hot Mama" (James) – 4:03

"Teenage Darling" (Spencer) - 4:16

"Keep A-Knocking" (Penniman) – 4:56

"Jenny Jenny" (Johnson/Penniman) – 7:40

"Encore Jam" (Green/Kirwan/Spencer/Walsh) – 13:25

Volume three

"Jumping at Shadows" (Bennett) – 4:17

"Sandy Mary" (Green) – 5:21

"If You Let Me Love You" (King) – 10:30

"Loving Kind" (Kirwan) – 2:57

"Coming Your Way" (Kirwan) – 7:06

"Madison Blues" (James) – 4:49

"Got to Move" (James) – 3:56

"The Sun Is Shining" (James) – 3:11

"Oh Baby" (James) – 4:26

"Tiger" (Jones) – 3:44

"Great Balls of Fire" (Hammer/Blackwell) – 3:16

"Tutti Frutti" (Lubin/Penniman/LaBostrie) – 6:45

"On We Jam" (Green/Kirwan/Spencer/McVie/Fleetwood) – 7:56

LINKS:

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Volume 3

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ROCKANTHOLOGY TRIBUTE TO BLOGS - Garden Of Delights

Here is a RockAnthology Tribute To Blogs Vol. 4 - Garden Of Delights. It is a fine sellection of British folk music from late 60`s and early 70`s (mostly). Hope you will find this one as inspirational as I did. This kind of music pulls me up whenever I fell down and depressed. Hope it can do it to you too.

Enjoy!!!

Tracks

1 - Richard & Linda Thompson - The Great Valerio

2 - Fairport Convention - Fothernigay

3 - Strawbs - The Winter And The Summer

4 - Mana Carta - Lord Of The Ages

5 - Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning

6 - Jethro Tull - The Whistler

7 - Sandy Denny - It Will Take A Long Time

8 - The Pentangle - Jack Orion

TT = 63:03

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RARE BIRD - First Two Albums

Rare Bird was an early British prog rock band. The band formed in October 1969, and got their debut album out the following month, which is really quite an accomplishment, since it usually takes a band a year or more after their formation to get an album out, not to mention it usually takes two or three months to get the album out after the band records it. This was the very first album ever released on Charisma, the same label that gave us Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill, Lindisfarne, Capability Brown, and even Monty Python. Rare Bird was an odd band, for they had two keyboardists (David Kaffinetti on electric piano, Graham Field on organ), as well as bassist (Steve Gould, who also handled vocals), and drummer (Mark Ashton), but no one on guitar. It's interesting to note that Kaffinetti later appeared on the infamous 1984 movie of a mock heavy metal band, This Is Spinal Tap. By that time, his name was shortened to David Kaff. He played Vic on that film.
Rare Bird had a rather unique sound and the powerful vocals of Steve Gould helps. The album has some really great prog rock numbers like "Beautiful Scarlet", "Iceberg", and the ever sinister "God of War" (my favorite). The album also features "Sympathy" which was actually a hit for these guys in Continental Europe. Written, obviously, during the Vietnam War-era, the song features lyrics I feel are just as relevant today (if not more so): "Sympathy is what we need, my friend/'Cause there's not enough love to go around" and "Half the world hates the other half/and half the world has all the food/and half the world lies down and quietly starves/'Cause there's not enough love to go around". In this era of conservative politicians screwing us all, and threats of going to war in the Middle East, it's real easy to relate to this song.
"Times" is an odd one, because it starts off sounds like a 1950s song, sounding like how Little Richard might sound like if he played organ rather than piano, then the second half goes in to more typical prog rock territory. There are a couple of other shorter pieces like "You Went Away", "Nature's Fruit", and "Bird On a Wing" which are all great songs.
I always felt Rare Bird's debut is a bit underrated compared to their 1970 followup As Your Mind Flies By, in fact I actually prefer this album to As Your Mind Flies By (which is a fine album, by the way). More great music, particularly if you like early, organ-driven British prog rock.
In 1970, comes their second (and unfortunately final) album with the original lineup, As Your Mind Flies By (although the band did reemerge in 1972, with an altered lineup that included guitarists, and released three more albums on Polydor until 1974, which had a mellower, West Coast-influenced feel). This was the album their reputation largely stands on, and for real good reason! Many of the songs on this album shows some pop influences like "What You Want to Know" and "I'm Thinking", while "Down on the Floor" tends to have a stronger baroque feel, complete with harpsichord. Then you have the heavy and aggressive "Hammerhead". This is no doubt the highlight for me on the first half of the album (side one, if you own the LP), even if it's very short. And vocalist Steve Gould often receives no credit as he's a great vocalist, and a rather distinctive one at that. You could never call his singing pretentious, as he was as much influenced by soul and R&B as Arthur Brown (although Gould was never as wild as Brown), yet it works great in the progressive rock framset of the band. Then comes the side-length cut "Flight". This was, without a doubt, the most ambitious thing Rare Bird ever did! A four movement suite that goes through different changes, including some experimental passages, a bolero (actually it was the band performing Ravel's "Bolero") and some great organ passages from Graham Field. And I almost forgot, a choir was included on some of the passages.

Rare Bird

1. Beautiful scarlet (5:23)

2. Sympathy (2:30)

3. Nature's fruit (2:32)

4. Bird on a wing (4:13)

5. God of war (5:08)

6. Iceberg (6:46)

7. Times (3:19)

8. You went away (4:17)

9. Melanie (3:27)

As Your Mind Flies By

1. What you want to know (5:59)

2. Down on the floor (2:41)

3. Hammerhead (3:31)

4. I'm thinking (5:40)

5. Flight (19:39)

- part 1. As your mind flies by

- part 2. Vacuum

- part 3. New York

- part 4. Central Park

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THE PRETTY THINGS

The Pretty Things is a 1960s and 1970s rock and roll band from London. They pioneered a raw approach to rhythm and blues that influenced a number of key bands of the 1960s British invasion, particularly The Rolling Stones.
Pretty Things was preceded by Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys which consisted of Dick Taylor, fellow Sidcup Art College student Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. When Brian Jones joined Little Boy Blue and the Blues Boys as guitarist, Taylor was pushed from playing guitar to bass and the Rolling Stones were formed.
Several months later Dick Taylor (born Richard Clifford Taylor, 28 January 1943, in Dartford, Kent) quit the newly formed Rolling Stones to pursue his schooling when he was accepted at London Central School of Art, where he met up with Phil May (born Phillip Arthur Dennis Wadey, on 9 November 1944, in Dartford, Kent) and they formed Pretty Things.
Taylor was once again playing his preferred guitar with May singing and playing harmonica. They recruited Brian Pendleton (born 13 April 1944 in Wolverhampton–died 16 May 2001 in Maidstone, Kent) on rhythm guitar; John Stax (born John Edward Lee Fullegar, 6 April 1944 in Crayford, Kent) on bass; and, after trying a couple of different drummers, including Pete Kitley and Viv Andrews, stuck with Viv Prince (born Vivian St John Prince, 9 August 1941, in Loughborough, Leicestershire).
They caused a sensation in England, and their first three singles — "Rosalyn" #41, "Don't Bring Me Down" #10, and the self-penned "Honey I Need" at #13 — appeared in the UK singles chart in 1964-1965. They never had a hit in the United States, but had considerable success in their native United Kingdom and in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and the Netherlands in the middle of the decade. However, in the U.S. they, along with The Yardbirds and Van Morrison's Them, were a huge influence on hundreds of garage bands, including the MC5 and The Seeds.
Their early material was hard-edged blues-rock influenced by Bo Diddley (they took their name from Diddley's 1955 song "Pretty Thing" in humorous contrast to their unkempt long-haired appearance) and Jimmy Reed, much like that of their contemporaries The Stones and The Yardbirds. They were known for wild "rock and roll" behaviour and shocking the establishment; their song "Midnight to Six Man" defined the mod lifestyle. Around this time, the first of what would be many personnel changes over the years also began, with Prince the first to go late in 1965. He was replaced by Skip Alan. Brian Pendleton left late in 1966, and was not initially replaced. Then, Stax quit early in 1967 and Jon Povey and Wally Waller joined to make the band a five piece once again.
After a flirtation with mainstream pop on the Emotions album in 1967, they embraced psychedelia, producing the concept album S.F. Sorrow during 1967-68. This album, released in late 1968, is arguably one of the first rock operas, preceding The Who's Tommy by about a year. It was recorded in the legendary Abbey Road Studios six months after The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Each album shares a similar late-1960s psychedelic sound (as well as sharing the same record producer, Norman Smith, as the Floyd).
S.F. Sorrow was followed by the highly-acclaimed record album Parachute, which continued the psychedelic sound and was named "Album of the Year" in 1970 by Rolling Stone Magazine. During this period they also recorded an album for a young French millionaire, Philippe DeBarge, which was intended only to be circulated among the man's social circle. The acetate has since been bootlegged.
By late 1970, the group had gone their separate ways due to commercial failures, and Skip Alan was in a group called Sunshine. One rainy night in 1971, Alan was driving with manager Bill Shepherd when he put on a tape of "Parachute." Shepherd loved the album, and asked who the band was. When Alan told him it was his last group, Shepherd asked what had happened to them and vowed to get them back together. Within 3 months, Shepherd had assembled Phil May, John Povey, Peter Tolson, Stuart Brooks, and Skip Alan, and the group signed with Warner Brothers.
From this point on, the group enjoyed less in the way of commercial success, but the devotion of a strong cult following, especially with critics and other rock musicians. Their material in the early 1970s tended towards more the hard rock and early heavy metal end of the spectrum, although still blues-based, on albums like Silk Torpedo. 1980's Cross Talk saw them incorporating influences of punk and New Wave into their hard rock sound; like most of their records, it was an artistic but not a commercial success.
With a new manager, Mark St John, they gigged sporadically during the 1980s. By the end of the decade their profile had almost disappeared, when founder members Phil May and Dick Taylor reformed the band for a successful European blues tour in late 1990 with Stan Webb's Chicken Shack and Luther Allison. This gigging outfit included drummer Hans Waterman (formerly of Dutch rock group Solution), bassist Roelf ter Velt and guitarist/keyboardist Barkley McKay (Waco Brothers and Pine Valley Cosmonaut's with Jon Langford of Mekon Fame). This line up regularly toured the European mainland playing a revitalised set that show cased their earlier, rootsy blues and r'n'b materiel, until late 1994. By 1995, they reformed the Cross Talk line-up and added Frank Holland on guitar in place of Peter Tolson. Their label, Snapper Music, issued remastered CDs with many bonus tracks, plus a DVD of a re-recording of S.F. Sorrow at Abbey Road Studios (with Dave Gilmour & Arthur Brown guesting). They toured more frequently, including a tour of the U.S. for the first time in decades
Original rhythm guitarist Brian Pendleton died of lung cancer on May 16, 2001 and the following year ex-keyboard player Gordon Edwards died of a drugs overdose.
In the early 2000's, they released new recordings, including a live album and the studio album Rage Before Beauty.
In 2003, Alan Lakey's biography of the band, Growing Old Disgracefully, was published by Firefly. The book dealt with the long and involved history of the band, and paid special attention to the legal proceedings issued against EMI in the 1990s. An extensively re-written version is expected to be published towards the end of 2007 with, on this occasion, the full co-operation of the band.
The band- now signed to Cote Basque record label- have just finished recording their latest album "Balboa Island" for release Summer 2007, with a career that has now spanned over 40 years.

Greatest Hits (Early Years)

Road Runner

Rosalyn

Don't Lie To Me

Don't Bring Me Down

Big Boss Man

She's Fine, She's Mine

I Want Your Love

You'll Never Do It Baby

Honey I Need

We'll Play House

Judgement Day

I Can Never Say

Get A Buzz

Unknown Blues

Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut

The Moon Is Rising

Parachute

Scene One (May, Waller)

The Good Mr. Square (May, Waller)

She Was Tall, She Was High (May, Waller)

In the Square (May, Waller)

The Letter (May, Waller)

Rain (May, Waller)

Miss Fay Regrets (May, Waller)

Cries From the Midnight Circus (May, Waller)

Grass (May, Waller)

Sickle Clowns (May, Waller)

She's a Lover (May, Waller)

What's the Use (May, Waller)

Parachute (N. Smith, May)

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Parachute

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