Canned Heat - Living Blues

Depois de alcançar grande fama com suas versões de "Goin' Up The Country" e "Let's Work Together" Wilson morreu em setembro de 1970 sob circunstâncias misteriosas (provavelmente relacionada às drogas) e Hite tocou a banda com importantes apresentações entre elas no Festival de Montreux em 1973 - porém com inúmeras mudanças na formação - até sua morte (logo depois de um show, de um ataque cardíaco) em 1981.
Canned Heat é uma banda norte-americana de rock e blues fundada em 1965 pelo guitarrista Alan Wilson e pelo vocalista, gaitista e guitarrista Bob Hite. Outros integrantes da banda eram o baixista Larry Taylor, o guitarrista Henry Vestine e o baterista Adolf Fito de la Parra. O álbum de estréia do grupo foi lançado pouco tempo depois de sua aparição no Festival Pop de Monterey, mas o estouro da banda viria mesmo depois do lançamento do disco seguinte, Boogie with Canned Heat e de sua participação no Festival de Woodstock. Suas principais influências foram Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones, Albert King, B.B. King e John Lee Hooker.
A banda continua até hoje, liderada por alguns dos integrantes originais, ocasionalmente lançando discos e tocando para um público restrito e fiel.


After achieving great fame with their version of "Goin 'Up The Country" and "Let's Work Together" Wilson died in September 1970 under mysterious circumstances (probably drug-related) and Hite played the band with major performances including the Festival Montreux in 1973 - but with numerous lineup changes - until his death (right after a show, of a heart attack) in 1981.
Canned Heat is an American band of rock and blues founded in 1965 by guitarist Alan Wilson and vocalist, harmonica player and guitarist Bob Hite. Other band members were bassist Larry Taylor, guitarist Henry Vestine Adolf and drummer Fito de la Parra. The group's debut album was released shortly after his appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival, but the bursting of the band would even after the release of next album, Boogie with Canned Heat and their participation at the Woodstock Festival. Their main influences were Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones, Albert King, BB King and John Lee Hooker.
The band continues to this day, led by some of the original members, occasionally releasing albums and playing to a limited audience and faithful.


                                                     


Integrantes


Adolfo Fito De La Parra
Barry Levenson
Greg Kage
Dale Spalding


Ex-integrantes


Stuart Brotman
Keith Sawyer
Mike Perlowin
Ron Holmes
Kenny Edwards
Mark Andes
Frank Cook
Alan Wilson
Bob Hite
Henry Vestine
Larry Taylor
Harvey Mandel
Joel Scott Hill
Antonio De La Barreda
Richard Hite
Ed Beyer
James Shane
Jock Ellis
Clifford Solomon
Gene Taylor
Chris Morgan
Mark Skyer
Ronnie Barron
Hollywood Fats
Jay Spell
John Lamb
Mike Halby
Ernie Rodriguez
Richard Kellogg
Walter Trout
James Thornbury
Smokey Hormel
Becky Barksdale
Ron Shumake
Mark "Pocket" Goldberg
Junior Watson
Paul Bryant
Stanley "The Baron" Behrens
Dallas Hodge
Don Preston
John Paulus
Robert Lucas

                                                           

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David Lee Roth - A Little Ain´t Enough 1991

David Lee Roth, também conhecido como Diamond Dave (Bloomington, 10 de outubro de 1954), é um vocalista de rock que se tornou conhecido por seu trabalho no Van Halen. Filho de Nathan Roth, um proeminente oftalmologista judeu, David foi morar em Pasadena (Califórnia, Estados Unidos) na adolescência após morar em Swampscott (Massachusetts, Estados Unidos). Manny Roth, tio de David, é proprietário de um influente clube noturno em Nova York. Os avós de David são imigrantes de Portugal e da Ucrânia que vieram morar no estado de Indiana.
As características mais marcantes de David são suas performances acrobáticas, com golpes de artes marciais, sua voz e seu senso de humor.

Após o Van Halen
Em abril de 1985 David saiu do Van Halen, embora algumas fontes digam que na verdade ele foi mandado embora da banda. Segundo foi dito, as maiores discordâncias vinham de David com Eddie Van Halen, já que Eddie queria incorporar ao som da banda teclados, sintetizadores e baladas. Em sua autobiografia lançada em 1988, Crazy From the Heat, David caracterizou a música do Van Halen logo antes da sua partida como "tediosa". Dizem que David queria gravar um álbum rapidamente e logo depois sair em turnê, e então lançar um filme, Crazy From the Heat, mas seus companheiros de banda estavam apáticos, letárgicos e afundados em drogas. David também não gostou da participação de Eddie na música Beat It, gravada por Michael Jackson em 1983. Eddie nunca contou a David que iria participar da gravação, por medo de que David tentasse impedi-lo. As razões exatas pelas quais David deixou a banda continuam não-totalmente esclarecidas. Desde 1985, David e seus antigos companheiros de banda isolaram-se.

A maior formação
No final de 1985 David montou uma banda considerada por muitos uma das maiores formações de todos os tempos, composta pelo guitarrista Steve Vai, o baixista Billy Sheehan e o baterista Gregg Bissonette. David ainda chamou Ted Templeman, produtor do Van Halen, para produzir o álbum de estréia da banda. Eat 'Em and Smile foi o retorno de David ao hard rock, e com um considerável sucesso comercial. A turnê desse álbum foi uma das mais bem-sucedidas de 1986.
No início de 1988 David lançou Skyscraper, um álbum mais experimental e com um som mais pop, contando ainda com a mesma line-up do álbum anterior: Vai, Sheehan e Bissonette, mas desta vez produzido por Roth e Vai ao invés de Templeman. Embora esse álbum contenha a música solo mais famosa de David, Just Like Paradise, ele não teve uma resposta tão boa quando Eat 'Em and Smile.
Em 1991, David lançou A Little Ain't Enough, um álbum básico de hard rock, produzido por Bob Rock, que ganhou o status dourado da RIAA. O guitarrista-prodígio Jason Becker, então com 20 anos de idade, participou das gravações do álbum, mas foi diagnosticado com a Doença de Lou Gehrig pouco tempo depois do início da turnê, e foi substituído por Joe Holmes. O palco da turnê de A Little Ain't Enough tinha um par de pernas infláveis gigantes, posicionadas em um "ângulo aberto", vestindo meias rasgadas. Os gostos musicais mudaram bastante em meados de 1991 com a chegada da música grunge, fazendo com que a turnê de David não tivesse tanto sucesso como no passado,
Em 2007, David volta à Van Halen para realizar turnê após 20 anos de separação.

Curiosidades

• O nome do disco lançado pelo Van Halen em 1988, OU812, é uma resposta ao primeiro disco de Roth (OU812 é lido como "oh, you ate one too?").
• A música de David Yankee Rose aparece no jogo de eletrônico GTA Vice City em uma das rádios que são executadas nos veículos da cidade. É possível escutá-la na rádio VRock.
• A música de David Lee Roth e Stevie Vai Yankee Rose aparece também no jogo de vídeogame Rumble Roses regravada por uma banda de mulheres.

Com o Van Halen

Álbum	Ano
Van Halen	1978
Van Halen II	1979
Women and Children First	1980
Fair Warning	1981
Diver Down	1982
1984	1984

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Álbum	Ano
Crazy from the Heat (EP)	1985
Eat 'Em and Smile	1986
Skyscraper	1988
A Little Ain't Enough	1991
Your Filthy Little Mouth	1994
The Best	1997
DLR Band	1998
Diamond Dave	2003
Strummin' With The Devil]	2006                  DOWNLOAD

Blodwyng Pig - Ahead Rings Out

ESTA BANDA ERA COMANDADA POR MICK ABRAHAMS, EX-GUITARRISTA DOS PRIMEIROS DISCOS DO JETHRO TULL, NA FASE MAIS BLUEZEIRA E MALUCA DO JETHRO!! QUEM CONHECE VENENOS LEMBRA DO PRIMEIRO DISCO DO JETRHO TULL "THIS WAS" QUE ERA BASICAMENTE BLUES, JAZZ E ROCK DE ALTA QUALIDADE! POIS É, MICK ABRAHAMS SEGUIU ESTA LINHA NO BLODWYN PIG!! VIOLINO SAX EM DOSES CERTAS FAZENDO DESTE DISCO UMA OBRA DO BLUES ROCK PROGRESSIVO!! AQUI TEM UMA EDIÇÃO COM EXTRAS E COM  TODAS CAPAS!! VENENO PURO E LETAL!! ATÉ O PORQUINHO DA CAPA SE ENVENENOU E ENLOUQUECEU!!

Album Review
None of Jethro Tull's progressive rock tendencies or classical influences followed Mick Abrahams into his creation of Blodwyn Pig, even with the inclusion Jack Lancaster's sax- and flute-playing prowess. Instead, Abrahams built up a sturdy British blues-rock sound and used Lancaster's horn work to add some fire to the band's jazzy repertoire. Ahead Rings Out is a stellar concoction of gritty yet flamboyant blues-rock tunes and open-ended jazz centered around Mick Abrahams' cool-handed guitar playing, but it's the nonstop infusion of the other styles that makes the album such a solid listen. After only one album with Jethro Tull, Abrahams left to form this band, and it's evident that he had a lot of pent-up energy inside him when he recorded each of the album's tracks. With a barrage of electrifying rhythms and fleeting saxophone and woodwind excursions, cuts like "Sing Me a Song That I Know," "Up and Coming," and "Backwash" whip up highly energetic sprees of rock and blues. Most of the tracks have a hearty shot of rock up the middle, but in cuts like "The Change Song" and "Backwash," the explosive riffs are accompanied by a big band style of enthusiasm, adding even more depth to the material. Andy Pyle's bass playing is definitely distinct throughout each track and is used for anything but a steady background, while labeling Ron Berg's drumming as freewheeling and intemperate would be an understatement. It's apparent that Blodwyn Pig's style is indeed distinct, releasing a liberated and devil-may-care intensity while still managing to stay on track, but the fact that each cut convokes a different type of instrumental spiritedness is where the album really gains its reputation. Wonderfully busy and even a tad motley in some places, Ahead Rings Out shows off the power and vitality that can be channeled by combining a number of classic styles without sounding pretentious or overly inflated. A year later, Blodwyn Pig recorded Getting to This before Abrahams left the band, and although it's a solid effort, it falls just a smidgen short of Ahead Rings Out's bluesy dynamism. [The 2006 edition features seven bonus tracks.]

Mick Abrahams: guitar, vocals, seven-string slide guitar
Jack Lancaster: flute, violin, tenor sax, baritone sax, soprano sax
Andy Pyle: Electric bass, six-string bass
Ron Berg: drums

01.It's Only Love 3:23
02.Dear Jill 5:19
03.Sing Me a Song That I Know 3:08
04.The Modern Alchemist 5:38
05.Up and Coming 5:31
06.Leave It With Me 3:52
07.The Change Song 3:45
08.Backwash 0:53
09.Ain't Ya Coming' Home, Babe? 6:04

Bonus:
10.Sweet Caroline 2:51
11.Walk on the Water 3:42
12.Summer Day 3:44
13.Same Old Story 2:36
14.Slow Down 4:20
15.Meanie Mornay 4:45
16.Backwash

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Chaplin Harnes

ÓTIMA BANDA AMERICANA QUE FAZIA UMA PSICODELIA PROGRESSIVA COM ALGUMAS PITADAS DE BLUES E SOUL EM ALGUNS MOMENTOS!! GUITARRAS DISTORCIDAS E ORGAN PESADO DÃO O TOM DO DISCO!! O DESTAQUE FICA POR CONTA DE "RICK IANNACONNE" QUE DEPOIS VIRIA A FAZER GRANDE NOME NO MUNDO DO JAZZ, TOCANDO COM GRANDES NOMES COMO JOHN COLTRANE E MILES DAVIS!! EXCELENTE, RARO E RECOMENDADO VENENO!!

"The great New Jersey band who recorded their self-titled album in 1969. At Mod Sound Studios. Great late '60s psychedelic music with distorted guitars and heavy organ."

"Originally released as a 50 copy test press way back in 1969, the band was from Philadelphia. This is a 600 press with glossy color psychedelic cover and photos of the band on the back. The album contains all original songs and is mostly psychedelic with a couple progressive instrumental cuts, 11 songs in all. The band features a great singer and future guitar legend Rick Iannaconne, who later made a big name for himself in the world of jazz, playing with Coltrane, Miles Davis etc. The recording came from the bands' original tapes and sounds very good. Songs include 'High on a Happy', 'Walk on Mister', and the classic 'Dit Dewey Man', which is psychy, funky and flat out cool. The original test presses have been a coveted collectors item for a long time fetching hundreds of dollars making this reissue an instant classic. The album also features an insert and the 45 release of 'Dit Dewey Man' as a bonus cut."


Raymond Bozarth (vocals)
Rick Iannaconne (Guitar)
Edward Monroe (guitar)
Joseph Mingori (keyboards)
William Vespe (drums)

01. Chances
02. Dit Dewey Man
03. Without You
04. Stitch
05. Walk on Mister
06. 3/4 Plaything
07. High on a Happy
08. Sheila
09. Peat Moss
10. Sure Am Sorry


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Cannabis India

ALBUM EXTREMAMENTE RARO DESSE POWER TRIO ALEMÃO FUNDADO EM 1971 POR "OLIVER PETRY" (ORGAN AND VOCALS), "DIRK FLECK" (BASS) E "BRAUNE RÜDIGER" (DRUMS), TODOS EX-INTEGRANTES DA BANDA DE COVERS CHAMADA "THE FUTURES"!! EM POUCO TEMPO O POTENCIAL MUSICAL DA CANNABIS INDIA GANHAVA REPERCUSSÃO NA ALEMANHA, ONDE FIZERAM MUITOS SHOWS EM CLUBES, BARES E FESTIVAIS DE MUSICAS. TOCANDO AO LADO DE BANDAS COMO KIN PIN MEH, BEGGARS OPERA E EILIFF!! O DISCO FOI GRAVADO NOS ESTUDIOS DA RADIO SWF ALEMÃ, PRESERVADO POR MUITO TEMPO NOS PORÕES DO ESTÚDIO E FINALMENTE LANÇADO EM CD EM 2009!! OLIVER PETRY ERA UM PRODÍGIO DO PIANO E UM DEVOTO DE KEITH EMERSON!! A BANDA TEVE VIDA CURTA, MAS NOS DEIXOU ESSA JAM SESSION ONDE FAZIAM UM CLASSICO-PROGRESSIVO INSTRUMENTAL COM GRANDES SUITES, INCLUINDO UMA VERSÃO DA 9º SINFONIA DE BEETHOVEN!!

"Outra pérola esquecida dos cofres da emissora SWF, na Alemanha. Cannabis India foi fundada em 1971 na região de Düsseldorf e mostrava o seu talento tocando suas próprias composições, influenciado por grupos como The Nice ou Emerson, Lake & Palmer. O lídera da banda, o pianista Oliver Petry estudou piano desde os sete anos de idade. Quando ele ouviu Keith Emerson, pela primeira vez ele mudou de instrumento e começou a tocar organ com grande entusiasmo. Juntamente com o baterista Rüdiger Braune e o furioso baixista Dirk Fleck, Cannabis Índia executava suas peças com uma velocidade infernal, mas também com um bom senso de drama. Cerca de 12 minutos da épico faixa "Lapis" e 11 minutos da 9ª de Beethoven mostram a força musicas da banda. O CD vem com 2 faixas bônus da banda Universo, pós-Cannabis India. O Album foi remasterizado digitalmente a partir da Master Tapes originais."

Cannabis India was founded in 1971 by Oliver Petry (organ, vocals), Dirk Fleck (bass) and Rüdiger Braune (drums), all of them former members of the cover band The Futures. Burckhard Eick, former keyboarder with The Futures, became their manager. In next to no time they managed to come up with a repertoire suitable for gigs, consisting of exclusively own compositions in the style of classical-rock. Playing like a lost basement recording of ELP circa 1971, this high-energy power trio pumped out shameless ersatz classical rock and recorded one brief set in 1973 at Germany's Sudwestfunk radio facilities, preserved and finally released in 2009 on Long Hair. Cannabis India was loosely part of Dusseldorf's Wuppertal scene and was led by child piano prodigy (and Keith Emerson devotee) Oliver Petry, backed by the fierce performance of drummer Rudiger Braune and noted bassist Dirk Fleck.

The band had a brief career but developed a reputation locally as a strong live act, and that immediacy comes pouring through on SWF Session 1973, an all-instrumental sample of four cuts including a version of Beethoven's 9th. We're battered open by Petry's machine gun riffing for 'Hand of the King': mean, dynamic, and very cool, Rudiger Braune Keith Mooning his way through it all and the masterful intonation of Dirk Fleck's Fender bass. Many good changes in this 7+ minute chunk of fugue flash, followed by doubly-long 'Lapis' where the Tarkus quotes are most present. Though frankly, CI was probably doing the sort of pure instrumental organ rock that many ELP fans quietly wished their favorite band would indulge more in. No deep lyrics, gonzo improvisations or lovelorn ballads here, just three hungry players with a taste for this new sound in popular music. 'Revolver' is a Gothic dungeon in the great North German school tradition, and the massive 'Beethoven's 9th' is a very fine interpretation.

- Oliver Petry / organ
- Rudiger Braune / drums
- Dirk Fleck / bass

1. Hand of the King (7:26)
2. Lapis (11:54)
3. Revolver (4:18)
4. Beethoven's 9th (10:52)
5. Mirror (3:37)
6. The Hunt (5:18)


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Tea and Symphony - 1969

UM TRIO INGLÊS ACID PSYCH, PROGRESSIVO, COM INFLUÊNCIAS DO BLUES E DO FOLK!! UM ALBUM EXCÊNTRICO, BARROCO, ORIGINAL, COM UM MONTE DE VIOLÕES E MISTURA DE TECLADOS!!  RECOMENDADO PRA QUEM GOSTA DO ESTILO!!

This amazing thing about the Archives is that you get a fair amount of albums in all sub- genres that rank from the strange , obscure all the way to the frankly bizarre. And all genre considered , one of the more bizarre is the aptly titled debut from this trio. This record dates from 69 ( on the great progressive label Harvest) and is a perfect example (almost a textbook case) of acid-folk but with such a twist of bizarre that it must rank into the folk-prog sub-genre , which has its own share of bizarrerie. Wrapped in a superb psych drawing ( a bit in the style of Beatles 's Yellow Submarine) gatefold sleeve with a no-less superb inside artwork , this uncanny and baroque oeuvre is really a lost gem, one of those rare 24 carrat stuff that only comes so often.

The opening track is a hard to classify track meandering between a few styles (even developping for a few second into the Greensleeves theme) , but staus unfocused enough to destabilize the unwarned listener , but if experienced enough to get him ready for what comes up next. The second track delves into the frozen depths of demon worlds and chilly tales , freezing you to death, only to bring you back to reality with a barroom sing-along tune. Sometimes takes a plunge back into the bizarre and oblique world just left before , reminding the proghead of the insane world of Comus , and warning you of dangers soon to come in your affective life.

Maybe my mind is another sombre affair with a voice that sometimes rings like Family's Roger Chapman and might just be the highlight of the first side. This first side ends into a blues , probably the low point on the album , but this might be up for debate because they are equally at ease into this style as well!The second side is clearly the better one , and it is the succession of a few masterful "songs" like those that make an album a real classic. Terror In My Soul is just as scarry and terrorizing as Comus's Drip Drip , with its sinister flute underlining a superbly tense acoustic guitar strumming. Comes next is a superb adaptation of Fred Neil's Travelling Shoes , and if it was not for the vocals , you'd swear you'be on the Traffic debut album with its delightful pastoral/hippy imagery. Outstanding and astounding! The next track , aptly titled Winter returns to the chilly athmospheres with a haunting cello in the background and bizarre noises evoking stressed and chilled birds calls . The closing track starts out on a harpsichord and flute intro to diverge back into the madness we have now grown accustomed to (we had no choice unless getting locked in forever into the Musically Insane Asylum), but soon we waltz into a great swingy jazz tune to plunge into deep madness (almost free jazz) forever as they apologize for their mischief just accomplished.

Guess what , even if you are not insane , you might want to get a room into this asylum/hotel , where you might just never leave but not really want to check out either, to mis-quote our dear Maani!! Another one of those pearls that I will fight for all progheads to investigate just like I did for Comus , Spirogyra and recently Jan Dukes De Grey. Flabbergasting masterpiece even if I do not give the fifth star. - Review by Sean Trane -



- Dave Clempson ('Clem') / guitar
- Jeff Daw / flute, guitar, vocals
- Gus Dudgeon / drums
- James Langston / guitar, vocals, woodwinds
- Nigel Phillips / keyboards, vocals, percussion
- Bob Lamb / drums

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Telge Blues 1975

BANDA SUECA... RARÍSSIMO!! BOA BANDA DE BLUES QUE TINHA RENOMADOS NOMES DO BLUES SUECO DA DÉCADA DE 70!! A BANDA FOI FORMADA EM 1972 E COMEÇOU A TOCAR NAS CERCANIAS DE ESTOCOLMO COM UM REPERTÓRIO DE MUSICAS OBSCURAS DO BLUES DOS ANOS 50 E 60 COM ARRANJOS PRÓPRIOS!! PARA GRAVAR SEU DISCO TEVE MUITAS DIFICULDADES COM PATROCINADORES, MAS FOI A PHILIPS QUE GRAVOU SEU LP QUE TEM PARTES AO VIVO E PARTES EM ESTUDIO!! BLUES SUECO RARÍSSIMO E RECOMENDO!!

HIGH RARITY!! Blue Group Telge Blues contains, among other renowned blues artist Sven Zetterberg and was among the most successful blues bands in the 70s in Sweden by Peps Persson and Per "Slim" Notini. The group shaped up in 1972 and began actively playing in clubs around Stockholm, where most of Sweden's blues band torn. The name Telge comes from an old spelling of their home town of Sodertalje. Their idea was to take up quite obscure and rare blues songs and put their personal character on them. Mostly, it was Chicago blues from the 50's and 60's that they chose to embellish. 1973 Did they own radio program and after they received the Compass many famous blues artists when they made visits to Sweden. When the group seriously wanted to release an LP so turned first to the non-commercial companies MNW and Silence but got turned down there so they had to be turned to Philips for giving out their LP. Their LP is one side recorded live and the other in the studio. Sven Zetterberg has since made a name in groups as the Blue Fire and Chicago Express.

Anders Gutke Gitarr, sång
Gunnar Rosengren Bas
Hans Jansson Gitarr
Stefan Sundlöf Trummor
Sven Zetterberg Munspel, sång

01. I want somebody (2:35)
02. No title (3:52)
03. Wish me well (2:38)
04. My time to go (3:15)
05. Chittlin´ con carne (2:55)
06. Take a little walk with me (2:40)
07. Act like you love me (3:12)
08. Mean disposition (4:21)
09. Hard road (4:19)
10. I wish you would (3:20)
11. Checkin´ up (3:24)



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