by request: GILA - Bury My Heart At Wounded Kneee

Whereas the first record was psychedelic space rock acid jams, on their second album, Gila, now (1973) consisting of mostly Popol Vuh members, offered something far more sedate. Though Conny Veit was always the leader of Gila, this one comes off much more like a solo effort. The record is a concept album inspired by the book of the same name by Dee Alexander Brown that brought the plight of the North American Indians to international attention. Complex multi-tracked acoustic guitar melodies create a shimmering, even haunting beauty in a lushly Baroque setting, while some of the lyrics are taken from various Native American texts.- Garden of Delights

Tracks

1. This Morning

2. In A Sacred Manner

3. Sundance Chant

4. Young Coyote

5. The Buffalo Are Coming

6. Black Kettles Ballad

7. Little Smoke

LINK: (@256)

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BADGER - One Live Badger

Recorded 'live' at London's Rainbow theatre in 1973, "One Live Badger" introduces one of the most interesting bands to emerge for some time. Composed of former Yes keyboard man Tony Kaye, guitarist Brian Parrish (ex-Parrish & Gurvitz), former Ashton, Gardner & Dyke drummer Roy Dyke, and bassist David Foster. Badger promise much on the evidence of this first album which is full of fiery, dynamic playing, crisp vocal work (both lead and harmony) and excellent songs, mostly written by the whole group.
The decision to make Badger's first album a 'live' one came about after a series of intensive rehearsals. Scheduled to appear in concert with Yes at the Rainbow, the band's early enthusiasm and vigour could only suitably be captured through a 'live' recording. Produced by 'Yes' Jon Anderson, Badger and Geoffrey Haslam, it's a triumph, combining the raucous, stomping atmosphere induced by Badger's music with precision and technical expertise, qualities possessed in no small measure by the group.
Formed in mid-'72, Badger was the idea of Tony Kaye and David Foster. Tony and David had been acquainted while the former had been a Yes member, David Foster helping to write (with Jon Anderson) two tracks for the bands second album, "Time And A Word". At the same time Tony and David had also got together to make an album of David's other songs. Never released, they began work on re-mixing it following Tony's decision to leave Yes.
It was at this point in time that the decision came to form a group. Within a short time they had recruited Roy Dyke (who first made his name with Brian Epstein's protege Remo Four) who had just split with Ashton, Gardner & Dyke. The search for a guitarist halted soon, too, when Roy recommended Brian Parrish, whose work with Parrish & Gurvitz had attracted much critical acclaim, but little public reaction.

Tracks

1 Wheel of Fortune 7:50

2 Fountain 7:22

3 Wind of Change 7:17

4 River 6:49

5 The Preacher 3:59

6 On the Way Home 7:39

LINK:

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TASTE - Taste + On The Boards

Taste (originally "The Taste") was formed in Cork, Ireland in 1966 as a trio consisting of Rory Gallagher on guitars & vocals, Eric Kitteringham`on bass, and Norman Damery on drums. In their early years Taste toured in Hamburg and Ireland before becoming regulars at Maritime Hotel, an R&B club in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
In 1968 Taste began performing in the UK where the original lineup split up. The new lineup formed with Richard McCracken on bass and John Wilson on drums. The new Taste moved permanently to London where they signed with the record label Polydor. While with Polydor, Taste began touring the United States and Canada with the British supergroup Blind Faith. In 1969 Taste released their first two studio recordings, the self-titled "Taste" first and "On The Boards" soon following, the latter showing Rory and the band's jazz influences with Gallagher playing saxophone on numerous tracks.
Perhaps their most notable performance came in 1970 as part of the Isle of Wight Festival, joining such notable musicians as Jimi Hendrix and The Who. They were well-received by those in attendance, ultimately being called back for five encores. Later the same year Taste would once more tour Europe before performing their last show on New Year's Eve in Belfast. In 1970 Taste split leaving frontman Rory Gallagher to pursue his solo career.
Some years after the band's untimely split, earlier recordings featuring the original lineup emerged. These are rough and ready runthroughs, some of which would have had appeared on the first Taste album. Fascinating for fans, not least because of the quality of Gallagher's guitar playing is not evident. Whereas his fretwork would appear on the later version, the solo slots here are filled by his harmonica playing.


Tracks

Taste (1969)
1. Blister on the Moon
2. Leaving Blues
3. Sugar Mama
4. Hail
5. Born on the Wrong Side of Time
6. Dual Carriageway Pain
7. Same Old Story
8. Catfish
9. I'm Moving On


On The Boards (1970)
1. What's Going On
2. Railway And Gun
3. It's Happened Before, It'll Happen Again
4. If The Day Was Any Longer
5. Morning Sun
6. Eat My Words
7. On The Boards
8. If I Don't Sing I'll Cry
9. See Here
10. I'll Remember


LINKS:

Taste
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On The Boards
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Angry....

I am angry and hope to see your respond. Let me tell you just this: album "America" has been downloaded 1016 times and 3 comments only. I am going to continue but soon I will change the policy.

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Possibilities are:

1. to slow down posting (once a week)

2. to allow downloading for people leaving comments only

I do not expect everyone to leave the comment but the difference between downloading and comments is too big for my stomach. People should appreciate having music available easy.

Do you even remember how difficult were vinyl times?

DAVE MASON - Alone Together

Dave Mason was one of the major songwriters for the late 60s British progressive rock group Traffic, a group whose ouvre spread out all over the place, from jazz-rock to honky-tonk to folk-rock and so on. His stuff was the stuff that didn't have a hint of jazziness in it. "Vagabond Virgin" from the second album is his, for instance. On this album, he forsakes Traffic's jazzy sound even more so, for this album has a DEFINITE folk/country-rock flavor, sounding a lot like certain American groups. You'll be reminded of Buffalo Springfield, CS&N, The Lovin' Spoonful and other sodbustin' rockers with this album, with songs like "World in Changes", "Only You Know And I Know", and "Look At You, Look At Me". His stuff is AWFULLY reminiscent of Stephen Stills' work. Originally, this album, on vinyl, came on a disc that had an earth-toned swirl pattern in the plastic and it immediately became a collectable, not to mention the fact that it started a trend that picked up years later among legendary prog-rock and new wave artists, using special plastics to put their music on, such as clear red, photo-imbedded vinyl, etc., to also make their albums collectables. Too bad that didn't trickle down to the CD, but there you have it. A good nostalgic piece with SOME good work on it from one of the major talents of the Woodstock era.

Tracks

1. Only You Know And I Know

2. Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving

3. Waitin' On You

4. Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave

5. World In Changes

6. Sad And Deep As You

7. Just A Song

8. Look At You Look At Me

LINK:

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MUDDY & BUDDY - Two Albums

Warning: "Electric Mud" & "Sweet Tea" are blues albums with heavy psychedelic rock influences! If you consider yourself to be a blues purist, then I would encourage you to look elsewhere for something that will be more compatible with your musical tastes. With that disclaimer out of the way, let me invite those who are seeking something unusual--and especially those who like sixties rock music--to continue reading on.


I consider "Electric Mud" to be one of most original albums that I have ever heard. It is not a true blues album, but rather a concept album of blues with a heavy psychedelic rock influence. The idea for this album had its genesis with Marshall Chess, the son of Leonard Chess of Chess Records. Marshall Chess had just founded a new label named Cadet Concept, and this was the second album produced under the new label. When this album was recorded, Waters' career was in a slump; it had been a decade since he had a top ten hit. Marshall Chess was seeking out a new audience for Muddy Waters. The CD booklet (which is extremely well written) goes on to explain that this was one of Waters albums that "effectively revived Muddy's recording career at a time when he was in danger of becoming an elder statesman who couldn't sell to his own community and who was revered exclusively by a small coterie of collector-purists, not a large enough audience to sustain a career."


Tracks
1. I Just Want To Make Love To You
2. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
3. Let's Spend The Night Together
4. She's Alright 5. Mannish Boy
6. Herbert Harper's Free Press News
7. Tom Cat
8. The Same Thing



Very few artists have attempted--or succeeded in--improving the standard template for classic blues records set some 40 years ago in the golden age of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. Perhaps R.L Burnside's recent heavily produced work on Fat Possum Records has come closest to adding an original slant.On his new album, Buddy Guy looks to the same source for inspiration; seven of the nine songs here are written by Fat Possum's hill-country blues roster, including T-Model Ford and Junior Kimbrough. Working with producer Dennis Herring (Counting Crows, Jars of Clay) and a small collective of Mississippi-based musicians, Guy sings with a passion that can only come from the same source as the songs. The noise generated in the studio through vintage amplifiers has a live and dangerous feel to it. The acoustic opener, "Done Got Old," does not prepare the listener for the colossal aural assault of "Baby, Please Don't Leave Me." Fading in on a percussion track, Guy's guitar hits its cat-strangling best and never looks back, while the voice sounds energized, vital, and wholly contemporary. Through the 12-minute "I Got to Try It, Girl" to the closing Guy composition "It's a Jungle Out There," Sweet Tea has all the hallmarks of a classic blues album, mixed with a twist of the new. --Rob Stewart


Tracks
1. Done Got Old
2. Baby Please Don't Leave Me
3. Look What All You Got
4. Stay All Night
5. Tramp
6. She Got The Devil In Her
7. I Gotta Try You Girl 8. Who's Been Foolin' You
9. It's A Junlge Out There

Electric Mud released in 1968 and Sweet Tea in 2001 - however both albums are Hendrix influenced and no mater a 33 year gap in between they sound as they have been recorded at the same studio. Highly recomended for hard blues lovers!!!


LINKS:

Muddy
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Buddy
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MOBY GRAPE - Live Grape

This was semi-serious attempt to revive the group in 1977; the group (Peter Lewis and Jerry Miller, with occasional help from Mosley and even Spence) played dates throughout the year, mostly around Santa Cruz. A document of this exists as Live Grape, released in 1978 (not including any nights Mosley played), and features a number of new songs.
Manager Matthew Katz, who owned the name "Moby Grape" refused to let the band use it; instead they performed as The Grape, Original Grape, or Maby Grope. "That Lost Horizon" and "Your Rider" are good new Lewis songs, and Miller contributes the country "Here I Sit" and bluesy "I Love You So Much" Only diehards need to bother with it, but it is a pleasant listen.

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Do not beleive everything you read about this album. It does not sound as Grape at their beginning but it is a great album to listen to.

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Tracks
1. That Lost Horizon 4:48

2. Here I Sit 2:38

3. Honky Tonk 5:24

4. Cuttin' In 4:51

5. Must Be Goin' Now My Dear 3:35

6. Your Rider 3:12

7. Up In The Air 3:58

8. Set Me Down Easy 5:02

9. Love You So Much 3:38

10. You Got Everything I Need 11:25

LINK:

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MASTER'S APPRENTICES- A Toast To Panama Red

Official reissue of the Masters best album from 1972 and perhaps one of the best heavy progressive/psych rock albums of the era. Titled after a particularly fine strain of hash, this is an epic piece of guitar led psychedelic / cosmic progressive rock. Superbly structured epic shards of inspired guitar music that are underscored with a melancholic stream of despair... beautiful stuff that brings tears to your eyes..... Fabulous sound quality.

Great Australian Band!!!

Tracks

1. Answer Lies Beyond

2. Beneath the Sun

3. Games We Play I

4. Games We Play II

5. The Lesson So Listen

6. Love Is

7. Melodies of St Kilda

8. Southern Cross

9. Thyme To Rhyme

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by request: PIERRE MOERLEN`S GONG - Second Wind

Pierre came from a rich musical heritage, both parents were music teachers, his father taught piano and organ at the Strasbourg Conservatory as well as being organist of Strasbourg Cathedral. Naturally Pierre was taught to play piano from an early age but soon declared a preference for drums. He started with a snare, progressing to a drum kit and then full percussion. In '67 he went to the Conservatory to study percussion under Jean Batigue, leader of the Percussion de Strasbourg. He graduated in '72 with the Premier Prix du Percussion. It was there that he met Mireille Bauer who graduated in '74 having won the same honour. Benoit Pierre's younger brother also went to the Conservatory, specializing in the vibraphone. Before joining Gong in June '73 Pierre toured with the Company Claude Confortes of Grenoble and worked briefly with Gabriel Federow, who went on to Magma.
Pierre's relationship with Gong was a musically rich if personally a roller-coaster one. He appeared on and co-composed two of their most beloved and accomplished albums 'Angel's Egg' and 'You`, both released in 1974. But between the recording sessions and tours Pierre left and re-joined the band and their communal house several times, vacating the drum stool to be replaced by a succession of drummers, including Bill Bruford and Brian Davidson, all of whom had to be at the top of their game to try and match his almost imperious excellence during this period.
On the demise of the the 'classic' Daevid Allen-led Trilogy Gong and the departure of other key members in 1975 the band in continued, recording 'Shamal', and 'Gazeuse`, in 1976. Each of these albums moved steadily musically towards a purer jazz-fusion sound which would eventually lead to the formation of Pierre Moerlen's Gong. 'Expresso II' was released in 1978 in under the name Gong (to complete the Virgin contract) with Mick Taylor, Alan Holdsworth, Bon Lozaga and Francois Causse guesting, but was released in North America under the name Pierre Moerlen's Gong. This band then toured Scandinavia and Germany where they gathered a large following
Pierre and Benoit also played on several Mike Oldfield sessions, including those for 'Ommadawn', 'Incantations', 'Platinum', 'Crises', 'Islands', and the live version of Tubular Bells. Pierre also appeared on 'Iskander' with Supersister in 1973, 'Desperate Straights' with Slapp Happy/Henry Cow, 'Mathematicians Air Display' with Pekka Pohojol a, 'Vibrarock' with Robert Wood, on which Mike Howlett also appeared, and Mick Taylor's eponymous solo album.
He signed to Arista in 1978 and recorded 'Downwind' with Didier Lockwood, Mick Taylor, Terry Oldfield and Stevie Winwood guesting. 'Live' was recorded during the Downwind Tour in early '79.
His next album, 'Time is the Key' was recorded in summer '79 with Peter Lemer and, guesting: Alan Holdsworth, Darryl. Way, N. Ramsden, J. Kirby. And 'Leave it Open' in March 80 with Charlie Mariano and Brian Holloway guesting. There followedtours of America and Europe in Summer to Winter 1980, then the band split.
Pierre joined the Swedish Band Tribute from 1985 to 1986 recording 'Breaking Barriers' and 'Live' both released in 1986. He reformed Pierre Moerlen's Gong and recorded the Scientology-inspired 'Breakthrough' in Sept '86 with Tribute '86, and 'Second Wind` '88. Toured Europe '87 & '88.
One of the most accomplished musicians of the whole Canterbury scene, Pierre Moerlen, who died on May 3rd 2005 aged only 52, was certainly a world-class drummer, whose work with Gong and Mike Oldfield, not to mention his 'solo' albums as Pierre Moerlen's Gong, has attracted wide critical praise.

Tracks

1. Second wind (6:10)

2. Time and space (5:31)

3. Say no more (5:37)

4. Deep end (4:20)

5. Crystal funk (4:27)

6. Exotic (5:52)

7. Beton (3:53)

8. Alan key (5:38)

CD Bonus Tracks (Line 1992):

9. Crash & Co. the first (5:53)

10. Crash & Co. the second (8:52)

11. Crash & Co. the third (15:27)

Total Time: 71:12

Line-up/Musicians

- Frank Fischer / piano, synthesizers

- Benoît Moerlen / vibraphone, marimba, synthesizer

- Pierre Moerlen / drums, synthesizer

- Hansford Rowe / bass- Stefan Traub / vibraphone, synthesizer

- Ake Ziedén / guitars

LINK:

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ROCKANTHOLOGY TRIBUTE TO BLOGS Vol. 2 - PROG NOT FROG

Here is a second edition of Tribute To Blogs compilation. Once again I want to stress the fact that intention is to explore some rare bands and if wanted they can be found at My Favorite Blogs. This compilation is going to be a first hour of tonight`s RockAnthology radio show. Cheers!!!

Tracks

1. The League Of Gentlemen - Indiscreet I (1:49)

2. Gentle Giant - Nothing At All (9:08)

3. Brainbox - Amsterdam, The First Days (3:12)

4. Far Cry - Listen To The Walls (6:49)

5. If - Woman Can You See (4:15)

6. Ozric Tentacles - Bizarre Bazaar (4:04)

7. Circus 2000 - Need (8:41)

8. Kin Ping Meh - Fairy Tales (9:37) live version

9. The Electric Toilet - Within Your State Of Mind (8:05)

10. Greenslade - Sunkissed You're Not (6:36)

TT = 63:15

LINK:

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MK FIBRA - SPLIT "From Dusk `Till Down"

Here is a photo report from yesterday`s concert...

The Aliens Band

Bata & Leon

Simha & Peco

Bob Rock & Poor

Some things are allways there...

The best bike I ever saw!!!

It is Friday, 9 pm and I would like to show you a photo of a two great musicians that my friends from this area will know about. Miodrag Bata Kostic (Ex Yu Grupa) and Petar Peco Petej (Ex Indexi, Time, Foundations) were having a rehearsal for tomorrows performance in Split.
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Weekend off...

Have a nice weekend and do not Fly Away too far. I`ll be back on Sunday with second eddition of ROCKANTHOLOGY TRIBUTE TO BLOGS Vol: 2 - PROG NOT FROG...and many more....

Keep on rockin`!!!

FLY AWAY WEEKEND MUSIC

An excellent album from this British progressive group recorded in 1969 by a band of mysterious pseudonyms. In fact, this was a formation of some of the biggest names in UK progressive rock including Simeon Sasparella & Njerogi Gategaka (aka Steve Hillage from Gong). The other 3 members Dave Stewart, Clive Brooks and Mont Campbell formed Egg. Originally released on Evolution this heavy, spacey keyboarddriven album is often compared to Pink Floyd's Saucer Full of Secrets. For fans of Egg, Gong, National Health and Caravan.
A classic late sixties heavy, bluesy, psychedelic guitar album. Full of fine guitaring, major organ work with some weirdness and sound effects. Originally released in 1969 on Evolution Records (mint copies now cost well over £200) and in very small quantities periodically since on various strange small labels.
You can certainly hear echoes of Steve's later work in Khan and even his first solo album 'Fish Rising'. Probably another fleeting chance to hear a vital piece of Steve's musical development. - Chris Goes Rock


Line-up
- Basil Dowling (Clive Brooks) / drums
- Njerogi Gategaka (Mont Campbell) / bass, vocals
- Sam Lee-Uff (Dave Stewart) / organ
- Simeon Sasparella (Steve Hillage) / guitar, vocals


Tracks
1. Garden of Earthly Delights 2.45
2. Azathoth 4.21
3. Queen St. Gang 4.25
4. Leg 5.40
5. Clean Innocent Fun 10.23
6. Metempsychosis 16.38



Now here is an album you have to track down for sure ! KHAN’s "Space Shanty" is a scrumptious album full of Steve HILLAGE’s vintage psychy-blues guitar playing with perhaps Dave Stewart’s best Hammond work ever ! Overall the music really covers the Canterbury prog psych genre with some wicked tones and instrumental interplay. "Space Shanty" is really 6 interrelated songs giving the listener a very conceptual feel throughout the album. Musically this guys hit dimensions of YES, DRUID, CARAVAN and even CAMEL. For those familiar with HILLAGE’s ARZACHEL will simple drool over "Space Shanty" and in many ways takes ARZACHEL and pulls it out of the psych into the centerbury.. of course ARZACHEL is another classic as well.This is simply a must-have mind-blowing recording with some great expressionism. - loserboy


Lineup
- Nick Greenwood / bass, vocals
- Steve Hillage / guitars, vocals
- Eric Peachy / drums
- Dave Stewart / organ, piano, skyceleste, marimbas


Tracks
1. Space shanty (8:59)
2. Stranded (6:35)
3. Mixed up man of the mountains(7:14)
4. Driving to Amsterdam (9:22)
5. Stargazers (5:32)
6. Hollow stone (8:16)



Here & Now's debut album is a stunning, if slightly inconsistent effort; when it's good, it kicks serious donkey and ranks up there with the very best space/prog has to offer. You will be hard pushed to find better.
If you're familiar with "Floating Anarchy" (previusly posted), then you'll have an idea of what you're in for, as this is "The Here and Now Band" referred to on that album. Here & Now mix punk, reggae influences and space rock into a sound reminiscent of Gong and Hawkwind, and it's easy to hear where the Ozric Tentacles got their sound from (the Ozrics regularly supported Here & Now in the early 1980s before their first album release).


Line-up
- Steffy Sharpstrings / guitar, vocals
- Keith tha Missile / bass, vocals
- Gavin da Blitz / keyboards, synthesizers
- Kif Kif Le Batter / drums, guitar, vocals
- Suze da Blooze & Annie Mandrake / Choir of Angels


Tracks
1. What You See Is What You Get (5:23)
2. Nearer Now (5:42)
3. Grate Fire of London (7:33)
4. This Time (4:46)
5. Seventies Youth (5:00)
6. Improvisation (11:04)



LINKS:

Arzachel - Arzachel (thanx to CGR) @256
h!!p://www.megaupload.com/?d=O74Y7P20

Khan - Space Shanty (thanx to poor - once known as *zero the hero*) @320
h!!p://www.megaupload.com/?d=X8ZGXJGU

Here & Now - Give and Take @320
h!!p://www.megaupload.com/?d=QF8U5HIY

+ special bonus download

Here & Now - Gospel Of Free (live) various bitrate as downloaded from slsk
h!!p://www.megaupload.com/?d=CMDACVTH

Here & Now - photographs
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by request: SMAK - Smak

SMAK was formed 1971 by a guitar virtuoso Radomir Mihajlovic nicknamed "Tocak" (the Wheel). The first stable line-up was assembled in late 1974 including Slobodan Stojanovic (drums), Zoran Milanovic (bass), Boris Arandjelovic (vocals) and Lazar Ristovski (keyboards). During 1977-78 Ristovski was replaced by first Miki Petkovski and then by Tibor Levay on keyboards, while in the period 1979-81 Dado Topic (ex TIME, KORNI GRUPA) collaborated with SMAK as producer and occasional guest vocalist before the band broke-up in late 1981. The original line-up gathered again in 1986 with a new keyboardist Milan Djurdjevic, but after the release of one LP they split again. The third comeback of SMAK happened in 1992 with Ristovski again as a member, when they mostly played concerts in Serbia and issued a live album. Finally, in 1994 SMAK re-appeared again, this time along with Tocak and Stojanovic they added younger musicians: Dejan Stojanovic (second drum kit), Dejan Najdanovic (vocals), Vlado Samardzic (bass) and Milan Milosavljevic (guitar).
SMAK was celebrated for Tocak's virtuosity in guitar playing, modelled on J. Hendrix and J. Page style, and for interesting fusion of hard rock, prog rock, jazz rock with strong blues backing, with Arandjelovic's falsetto vocal often used as an instrument rather than singing.
Their reunion, from the second half of 1980s onward, turned the musical direction of the band into less-inspired mainstream hard rock, abandoning any prog elements. As a comparison, one can mention similarities in style with artists such as DEEP PURPLE, TASTE, TRAFFIC, DOOBIE BROTHERS, SANTANA, LEB I SOL.

Tracks

1. Perle (4:04)

2. Mracni mol (3:21)

3. Blues u parku (7:31)

4. Biska 2 (4:28)

5. Put od balona (Biska 20) (19:00)

LINK: (@320 CD rip)

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Next on RockAnthology - Fly Away Weekend

Arzachel - Arzachel

Khan - Space Shanty

Here & Now - Give and Take

Here & Now - Gospel Of Free (live)

Get ready for Gong related Fly Away brothers & sisters weekend.

by request: LOGGINS & MESSINA - Loggins & Messina + Full Sail

While this talented duo created many fine albums together this one stands out as one of most representative of their impact. When I hear what passes for "country music" these days I can't help but think back to what L&M pioneered in the early 70s. Along with Poco (an earlier creation of Mr. Messina) they created true country/rock and showcased it with style and near-flawless performances. They dared to knock down the walls with "Good Friend" and "Angry Eyes" while soothing us with "Golden Ribbons" and "Long Tail Cat" on the same lp. There's a whole industry sector out there that owes their very existence to these two.



Tracks
1. Good Friend
2. Whiskey
3. Your Mama Don't Dance
4. Long Tail Cat
5. Golden Ribbons
6. Thinking of You
7. Just Before the News
8. Till the Ends Meet
9. Holiday Hotel
10. Lady of My Heart
11. Angry Eyes



Quite simply the best thing L&M ever put down on vinyl. There are good things before and good things after, but Full Sail represents the height of their creativity. It is also a continum of L&M music, starting with commercially cute "Lahaina," to the progressive "Pathway to Glory," to the rock and roll/Calypso meld of "You Need a Man/Coming To You." "Watching the River Run" is a poetic masterpiece which deserves more credit than its Top 40 appearance on commercial radio. The album ends in Beatlesque style with Sailin' the Wind's mild cacophony of seas sounds. A true masterpiece not to be missed.



Tracks
1. Lahaina
2. Travelin' Blues
3. My Music
4. A Love Song
5. You Need A Man/Coming To You
6. Watching The River Run
7. Pathway To Glory
8. Didn't I Know You When
9. Sailin' The Wind



LINKS: (@192 - sorry)

Loggins & Messina
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Full Sail
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by request: IGGY & THE STOOGES - Raw Power

Raw Power is a 1973 album by proto-punk band The Stooges, fronted by future icon Iggy Pop. Featuring blistering-fast guitar riffs and shouted vocals, Raw Power was not able to capture a mainstream market. In spite of the inaccessibility, a small number of listeners took the sound to heart, and many of these people soon became influential leaders in the early punk movement. The album's production has become legendary for the loud volume at which it is mastered and how the guitars are mixed much louder than anything else. The album is so legendary that it has become sort of a yardstick against which other albums have been compared; J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr said about their album You're Living All Over Me: "The guitar jumps out so big. It's almost like Raw Power."

Tracks

"Search and Destroy" – 3:29

"Gimme Danger" – 3:33

"Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell" – 4:54

"Penetration" – 3:41

"Raw Power" – 4:16

"I Need Somebody" – 4:53

"Shake Appeal" – 3:04

"Death Trip" – 6:07

LINK:

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by request: WISHBONE ASH - Wishbone Four

Wishbone Four is the fourth album by legendary rock band Wishbone Ash. It was a radical departure from their smash hit Argus, containing almost none of the twin-lead guitar harmonies and folk elements that made the previous album such a success. Though the album was popular among fans upon its release, sales paled in comparison to Argus and founding member Ted Turner would leave the band after the Wishbone Four tour.

Tracks

"So Many Things To Say"

"Ballad Of The Beacon"

"No Easy Road"

"Everybody Needs A Friend"

"Doctor" "Sorrel"

"Sing Out The Song"

"Rock' N Roll Widow"

LINK:

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LOVE - Forever Changes

One of rock's most overlooked masterpieces, this third album by the L.A. folk-rock outfit led by inscrutable singer-songwriter Arthur Lee sounds as fresh and innovative today as it did upon its original release in 1968. With David Angel's atmospheric string and horn arrangements giving the work a conceptual underpinning, Lee explores mainstream America's penchant for paranoia ("The Red Telephone") and violence ("A House Is Not a Motel") with songs that are as sonically subtle and lilting as they are lyrically blunt and harrowing. Add two gems by Love's secret weapon, second guitarist Bryan MacLean ("Alone Again Or" and "Old Man"), and you've got one of the truly perfect albums in rock history. --Billy Altman

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DO NOT HESITATE - TAKE THIS ONE NOW!!!

This is among my top 10 albums ever!!!

Tracks

1. Alone Again Or

2. A House Is Not A Motel

3. Andmoreagain

4. The Daily Planet

5. Old Man

6. The Red Telephone

7. Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale

8. Live And Let Live

9. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This

10. Bummer In The Summer

11. You Set The Scene

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