EDDIE MONEY – No Control – (CBS) – 1982

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Franko

 what Frank is listening to #17 – EDDIE MONEY – No Control – (CBS) – 1982

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I have heard Eddie before and never been impressed … he plays the MOR AOR (middle of the road, audults oriented rock) that was so popular in the mid to late 1970s through to the late 1980s.  There is nothing offensive about it really, its just sort of bland, without much originality … it's all slick hard(er) rock and big power ballads, full of fake angst and pithy observations. The type of thing you heard on umpteen million teen film soundtracks of the 1980s … (and revived for Team America … think  "Freedom Isn't Free"). He was also a early MTV favourite (his video clips aren't actually to bad … unlike a lot of others in his genre he seemed to take the mickey out of himself a bit)
 
But if you are making $, then why change…ehhh? There were three singles off this album: "No Control", "Shakin", and "Think I'm in Love" … the last 2 were Top 10 "Mainstream Rock" hits (#60, #9, #1 US) and the album went platinum (#20US)… go figure.
 
I didn't expect much more from Eddie Maloney, a cop from Brooklyn … as I have said I had heard some of his stuff  before (though oddly enough I don't remember any of this LP from the early 80s) … but now I'm looking for a diamond in the rough, which ultimately is elusive …. none of the singles impress me that much, though "Shakin" and "Think I'm in Love" are bearable (in fact they are probably the best things on the album) also "My Friend My Friends", though overproduced, is an okay ballad.
 
The producer, Tom Dowd, is a bit of a legend though … he was at Atlantic for years and early in his career worked on (as an engineer) Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, the Modern Jazz Quartet and Ray Charles sessions etc and then later as a producer with Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chicago, Meatloaf yadda yadda … but here, so what … a producer can only do so much.
 
Eddie still plays pubs and clubs in the US
 
The singles clips can be found here:
they are mildly amusing and certainly no more offensive than the wave of fake punk bands out now.
 
I'll be selling this one … any Eddie Money fans out there ?
 
What's worse I think I have another Eddie Money LP in the pile somewhere. 
 
(originally posted: 27/04/2009)
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DON FARDON – Released – (Youngblood) – 1970

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Franko

  what Frank is listening to #16 – DON FARDON – Released – (Youngblood) – 1970

Don Fardon,Released,UK,Deleted,LP RECORD,453456

One of the English 60s bands I really got into, way back when,  was "The Sorrows". When I say "I really got into" I mean I found a single which I loved ("Take a Heart " (1965))  and then I found another single ("You've Got What I Want" (1966)) which I recollect wasn't as good but still better than a lot of the other British Invasion stuff. After that I searched for more music and couldn't find anything (pre-internet days).
 
What was great about the single though was the percussion and fatalistic mood (The Sorrows were from Coventry and maybe the World War 2 aerial bombing of Coventry was in the bands collective psyche?), and the voice of lead singer, Don Fardon. Fardon has a deep, resonant voice like a less cheesy version of Tom Jones (though at times he is firmly in Tom Jones territory – especially in his solo work)
 
The Sorrows only put out one album which I have never even seen. Fardon went solo in about 1969 and promptly had a hit with the very American themed "Indian Reservation" (#2, 1968) … from his myspace site:
 
In one incredible year, Don Fardon outsold Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, the Bee Gees and Status Quo in the singles chart. Indian Reservation was a worldwide smash in 1971, going on to sell more than three million copies. It had already been an international hit on its initial release in 1968 but inexplicably flopped in the UK. It was only after the box office success of western Soldier Blue – which had a similar theme of the cruelty dished out to Native Americans – that Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis persuaded Fardon's record label to re-release it.
 
This album seems to be a cash-in on the "Indian Reservation" hit .
 
The tracks are certainly American themed … wouldn't you think? 
  • Indian Reservation
  • Riverboat
  • California Maiden
  • Hudson Bay
  • Mississippi Woman
  • New York City
  • Miami Sunset
  • 6:10 Phoenix Gone
  • Cheyenne
  • San Diego
Not bad for a kid from Coventry.
 
Thematically, though not musically, Fardon has taken a leaf out of the Pat and Lolly Vegas (Redbone) songbook. Indian themes (though Pat and Lolly were actually native Americans), and songs about American places and people met along the way. Having said that I think most of the tracks, apart from I"ndian Reservation", are by English writers.
 
Apart from "Indian Reservation" (and I actually prefer the Paul Revere and the Raiders version with Mark Lindsay more (that went to #1 in the US in 1971), the best tracks are "Mississippi Woman", "6:10 Phoenix" and "Cheyenne"(which has echoes of The Sorrows)
 
Normally I wouldnt keep this, but ….  it fleshes out part of my collection and … I still like The Sorrows.
 
Though I have seen it on ebay for $10-20 I much prefer this punters optimism
 
sounds:
 
like I said I prefer Mark Lindsay's version:
 
The Sorrows:
 
The Sorrows relocated to the continent .. this is from a film:
 
myspace:
Fardon's version of the Kinks "Lola" can be found here:
 
The Sorrows:
 
Phil will be happy to know (and I would be surprised if he doesn't know the track) that Fardon went on to enjoy success with "Belfast Boy" about George Best. I suspect this is the reissue that Fardon re-released after George died:
 
 
(originally posted: 25/04/2009)  
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LOU CHRISTIE – Lightnin’ Strikes – (MGM) – 1966

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Franko

 what Frank is listening to #15 – LOU CHRISTIE – Lightnin' Strikes – (MGM) – 1966

I have always like Lou Christie (I have some of his later albums and they are mainstream "weird" or at least extremely personal albums … "Paint America Love", "Belong the Blue Horizon"), so I was very excited to find this …. it hasn't even been in the pile in the corner for 2 days.
 
The excitement was helped by the fact that I knew the hit song "Lighnin Strikes" but hadn't heard any of the other tracks.
  
Lou Christie's career is well documented here:
 
Briefly though: he is one of the batch of Italian American singers (real name Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco) who flooded the airways in the late 50s / early 60s, qv: Frankie Valli, Bobby Darin, Fabian, Frankie Avalon, Dion, Jack Scott, Freddy Cannon, Johnny Rivers, Bobby Rydell, Bob Gaudio, James Darren (half of 'em are bona fide legends IMHO).
 
What I like most about Christie is his voice as I have always  been a sucker for a good singer as long as they can add their own "personality" to a song. By that I don't mean singers on shows like "Idol" – most (some) of the them have good voices but there is no taste, brains or personality … ultimately it's not enough to just have a good voice, you need that other ingredient which I call "personality" but it could be any number of things which you are using apart from your vocal chords.
 
And, on this album Christie sings the guts out of the songs – Side 1 is covers and Side 2 is originals (he was one of the first of the teen idols to write his own material).  Oddly though, the covers side are fairly mainstream:  Bacharach-David ("There's Always Something to Remind Me"), the Martha and the Vandellas Holland-Dozier-Holland track "Heatwave", a nice version of "If I Fell" by Lennon-McCartney, and the old standard "Since I Fell for You" ( the Roy Hamilton version I like the best and this version may be a cover of his)
 
On the second side his voice soars: falsetto vocals all over the shop which are better than Frankie Valli (arguably) and enough blue eyed soul to rival Len Barry – the highlights are "Trapeze" and "Lightnin Strikes".
 
It's all perfect mid 60s pop (he should be better known) and he knows how to get the most (drama and emotion) out of every song.
 
It's a keeper … (though it is quite old and scratchy)
 
live:
 
sound:
 
 
(originally posted: 24/04/2009)
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CHRISTIE – Self Titled LP – (Pronit) – 1970

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Franko

 what Frank is listening to #14 – CHRISTIE – Self Titled LP – (Pronit) – 1970

 christie 1970 back, christie lp yellow river, christie yellow river cover cd, christie-christie lp

Surprisingly Christie had a #1 hit in the UK in 1970 and then disappeared . I had not heard the hit track before.
 
Their history is pretty well detailed here:
 
There seems to be a lot of material on the band … I suspect mainly because record collectors are obsessed with one hit wonder types.
 
What is surprising is how many of the songs on this LP sound like something else. The band plays proficiently enough and some of the songs are catchy but there is a feeling of deja vu to the whole album. You half expect the songs to be covers and it turns out none of them are. The recording itself is a tad under produced and tinny to my ears – though I have a Polish pressing of the LP (that may have something to do with it but I don't know)
 
To top it off it seems pretty clear that they were trying to tap into the Creedence Clearwater Revival sound … but they don't have a hook master like John Fogerty or the rhythm section CCR had …. CCR were a pretty impressive group of musicians. I read somewhere that Christie were being pushed as Britain's CCR, which is pretty ridiculous when you think about it given CCR Americana references …. as ridiculous as the British playing the blues ..or rock … ha …just kidding (maybe).
 
The only credible English country flavoured rock to my ears was probably Brinsley Schwartz, Nick Lowe and the legendary Ian Matthews Band … and for the record I think The Kinks "Muswell Hillbillies" to be the first English "Americana" LP (and one of the best, if not the best, British album of all time – to my ears – … yup, go fark yourselves, that's my opinion).
 
Anyway the best tracks on this LP are:
  • Yellow River
  • Gotta Be Free 
  • I've Got a Feeling
  • Inside Looking Out
  • San Bernadino 
Worth a listen as it is very pleasant  but you wont be surprised
 
sound:
 
and they are still around:
 
I'll tape a couple of tracks and flog it off.
 
(originally posted: 23/04/2009) 
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SEATRAIN – Self Titled – (Capitol) – 1970

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Franko

what Frank is listening to #13 – SEATRAIN – Self Titled – (Capitol) – 1970

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I didn't know what to make of this when I found it .
 
I liked the cover, where the band look a less hairy version of The Band. Flipping it over I saw that there were covers of Lowell George (Little Feat) and Goffin and King as well as the  traditional "Orange Blossom Special" (the Johnny Cash mid 1960s hit). They are also produced in England by George Martin. They looked like Yanks but they could have been Fairport Convention type English folkies.
 
On research it seems as if I had struck minor gold, with them described as a "roots-fusion" band. I have always been partial to US roots rock (when not done academically) and I also like a lot of fusion (Chicago Transit Authority, Blood Sweat and Tears etc) so I thought this should be interesting. As it happens, the band are American and decided to relocate from NYC to California which explains the fusion and roots influences if you accept that those styles were influenced by those two locales.
 
Seatrain are made up of members of (the great) Blues Project and the (equally great) Jim Kweskin Jug Band (both bands worth seeking out if you don't know who they are). Given that both of those bands were quirky and original only reassured me. 
 
Side 1: The Lowell George track "I'm Willing" is excellent (an ode to drug running) and the rest of the first side is pleasant, err "roots-fusion". "Song of Job" is weird lyrically. "Home to You" and Broken Morning" are good but "Out where the Hills" with its crazy violin (like something out of the "Fairport Convention") and shifting mood is "out there over the hills" …. I like it.
 
Side 2 is practically all rootsy violin (fiddle) or at least producer George Martin has concentrated on the violin …"13 Questions" about a UFO encounter is good and it was the single – and it made the top 50! (#49) … you would not get a track like this nowadays in the charts (and we are the more poorer for it).  "Sally Goodin" is a traditional and " Oh My Love" sounds like it should be … they are followed by a country soul lament written by Goffin and King ! ("Creepin Midnight"). The last track is a fast and furious  "Orange Blossom Special" done like "Old and in the Way" or "Grateful Dead" with the fiddle in place of the guitar.
 
This is definitely one to take with you on a country drive or to play at a hippie hoe-down.
 
All in all … a good album and I would say a keeper .
 
Sound:
the single:
live
original:
 
Orange Blossom Special
 
the weird:
 
Trivia: For those Beatles fans out there … this is the first non-Beatles rock album produced by George Martin.
 
 
(originally posted: 21/04/2009)
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JIMMY PURSEY – Imagination Camouflage – (Polydor) – 1980

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Franko

what Frank is listening to #12 – JIMMY PURSEY – Imagination Camouflage – (Polydor) – 1980

It may surprise some but I was a bit of a Sham 69 fan back in the early to mid 80s. They were one of my favourite British punk bands*…"Angels with Dirty Faces" and the punk ballad "Poor Cow" being a couple of the best British punk tracks ever . No one, not even Johnny R could spit venom like Jimmy Pursey. I was never totally impressed by their albums but there were always a fistful of tracks which had me punching the air (in a punk fashion not a metal fashion) and there is something endearing about a bunch of guys that sound like they are a drunken chorus on their way to a football (soccer) match even though they owe as much to the New York Dolls and the Heartbreakers as they do to punk proper (and importantly, as far as I know, they never felt compelled to incorporate any reggae into their sound … thank God)
 
I don't think I have listened to any Sham 69 after "The Game" (1980 – though I was listening to it in 1984) (in fact I am not even sure I still have the LP) … still when I found this Jimmy Pursey LP I was quite excited … (it still sat in the corner for a year though)
 
As can be expected, Pursey, again, "spits" his way through 11 tracks … half of it is like a Sham 69 LP with maybe less chorus chants, whilst the rest of the album has some interesting touches including more keyboards (though Sham 69 were also incorporating more keyboards around this time). There's also sax, slide guitar and some synth, as well as a crazy pseudo jazz instrumental track.
 
best tracks:
  • Freak Show
  • Situations Vacant
  • You're a Lucky man
  • White Trash
  • Your Mother Should Have Told You

I have no idea, maybe it was accidental but at times Pursey's delivery sounds much like the singer of Australian band "Nunbait" … is this a co-incidence?

Still, the album isn't bad … its a keeper.

sounds:
couldn't find any tracks off this LP,  so there is a attached track
 
 
Though this may as well be a solo Jimmy track .. (I used to love this track )…
…from the doco " Rough Cut & Ready Dubbed" which I remember seeing at the Edward Street cinema (Brisbane) in 1984 …. (the film also had some great live footage of Stiff Little Fingers).
 
 
Unfortunately I also remember the skins adopting Sham 69 as their Oi band. I vividly recall one occasion them thumping  the crap (or threatening to) out of every non-skin downstairs at Macs 401 Club in George St … if I recollect it was a La Fettes gig ( who pretty much were Brisbane's Sham 69 … and who were equally not thrilled about the skin following … they were trying to appeal to the "left wing skins" – yeah,  whatever)
 
 Other:
 
*admittedly it's not a big list – the other British punk bands I rate … Stiff Little Fingers ( well Irish), The Damned, The Soft Boys, Wire, The Subhumans, The Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, some Generation X, some early Adam and the Ants ( if you want to count them as punk) and some Killing Joke. I used to have a great comp for years called  "Burning Ambitions: A History Of Punk" which was mainly British stuff ….(it belonged to Phil the Punk so I had to give it back … though I'm pretty sure he knocked it off  from Rocking Horse anyway … and I cant remember how many of my records he lost … it was around then I put an end to the record lending policy …)
 
(originally posted: 21/04/2009)
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ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION – Underdog – (Polydor) – 1979

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Franko

what Frank is listening to #11 – ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION – Underdog – (Polydor) – 1979

Of course we all know the Atlanta Rhythm Section ("ARS") from op shop bins.
 
They are session musos who made good and they mined the same field as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackfoot, The Allman Brothers, The Marshall Tucker Band, Black Oak Arkansas and many other southern country blues boogie type bands though ARS are more laid back. Their earlier stuff was slightly more in the southern rock vein, but by the mid to late 1970s mainstream music tastes had changed – disco, ballads and general slickness was popular (in the mainstream) – and this album reflects that. There are a lot of ballads and country harmonies (much like "Firefall" and the "Pure Prairie League") and a lot of slickness. There is very little blues or boogies … here, they are a sort of like a southern country version of "The Eagles".
 
A lot of people like this album, but it doesn't do it for me … very few of the songs have hooks or melodies that are memorable, and none of them lift me up to where I belong, though there is a country laid back "groove" going on through the whole album which would be accentuated, no doubt, with pot.
 
Here's a review from a guy who is weird, he obviously has too much time on his hands (says me) … but good on him:

There are some better than the rest tracks: 
  • "Do it or Die" – a nice low key ballad …. an odd way to start an album.
  • "While Time is Left" .. the last half of the song goes off into a crazy "baroque" harpsichord played on guitar thing.
  • "Spooky" – the old Classics IV song.
The album was produced by Buddy Buie who produced (I think) just about all the ARS albums, and he put them together. He has also worked with ORoy rbison, Classics IV and has written about 300 songs and he co-wrote most of the songs on this album.
 
Oh .. I think the drummer Robert Nix is Don Nix's brother, and Don Nix is a legend … especially if you like your rock southern "fried" ( and I do …I have a couple of Don Nix LPs)
 
sound:
 
I aint keepin this one
 
(originally posted: 20/04/2009)
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ERIC CARMEN – Tonight You’re Mine – ( Arista) – 1980

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Franko

what Frank is listening to #10 – ERIC CARMEN – Tonight You're Mine – ( Arista) – 1980

I had reservations about this album as it's a "late" Eric Carmen LP
 
The sleeve picture alone is very well dodgy … it would have the feminists amongst you up in arms. What's he doing to the poor girl ? The name of the album is "Tonight you're Mine" … is he going to do her "doggy style" or fuck her up the ass?
 
Maybe the song titles could shed some light on the question:
 
"It Hurts Too Much"
"Lost In The Shuffle"
"All For Love"
"Tonight You're Mine"
"Sleep With Me"
"Inside Story"
"Foolin' Myself"
"You Need Some Lovin'"
 
every track a pun … or double entendre?
 
Carmen was a true talent with The Raspberries. They really kept power pop and Beatles melodies alive in the 70s and, they in turn, were pretty influential. The Knack, Cheap Trick (one of the finest bands of the late 70s) come to mind. His early stuff is also solid especially for Beatles lovers – The Raspberries and Carmen provide a alternate universe look at what the Beatles would have been doing if they hadn't discovered drugs, split up and decided to experiment musically ( I would be surprised if our friend Phil would disagree).
 
Admittedly there is more McCartney than Lennon/George/Ringo but on this album but the Beatles "channelling" is pretty low. There are quite a few "power ballads" and over the top rockers but nothing really good. Carmen did write all the tracks himself,  if that counts for anything.
 
Session musos include:  Davey Johnstone (Elton John, Rod Stewart), Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Cactus), Kenny Passarelli (Hall & Oates, Joe Walsh) and David Woodford (Bonnie Raitt, Aerosmith). 
 
The best of a bad batch:
  
"Lost in the Shuffle" is a listenable quasi rockabilly  track
 
"It hurts too Much" has Phil Spector-ish opera and pacing .
 
I'll be selling this one off.
 
here are some Raspberries

 (originally posted: 19/04/2009)

 

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LA JETS – Self Titled – (RCA) – 1976

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Franko

what Frank is listening to #9 – LA JETS – Self Titled – (RCA) – 1976

 

Hmmm … it looks like its gonna be a hard rock band – long hair, sporting motifs.

Yup, I was right … though they have a female lead vocalist, Karen Lawrence.
 
It's all pretty much "paint by numbers" mid 70s wanna–be stadium rock. Lawrence has a good voice though I like my girl vocalists rougher or sweeter . Here she sounds like Grace Slick from Jefferson Starship era … and that aint that good.
 
Lawrence ended up doing some solo work as well as backing vocals for Aerosmith, Slash, Jeff Beck etc, and she also wrote Barbara Streisand's hit "Prisoner". She is till active in music today in a "blues" band  … cue "Blues Hammer" from "Ghostworld":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKgSgg9OjKg&feature=related (is there anything worse than mainstream electric white blues ? … and they love it in Eastern Europe … all mainstream rock hacks end up in blues bands)
 
though she has tried "New Wave " also:
 
This is all dreadful – though the new wave track is punk kitsch.
 
Good tracks on this LP : none
 
And there is even a cover of Bob Dylan's " It take a lot to laugh, It takes a Train to Cry"
 
 
I'll be selling this quicker than a cat can lick it's ass.
 
The band picture says it all:

Sorry.

(originally posted: 19/04/2009)

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SANDY BULL – Demolition Derby – (Vanguard) – 1972

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Franko

 what Frank is listening to #8 –  SANDY BULL – Demolition Derby – (Vanguard) – 1972

Sandy Bull,Demolition Derby,USA,LP RECORD,211365

I was searching through my records for something to put on, and this cover grabbed me … a lean, stringy moustachioed Phil (a friend of ours) standing outside on the rubble of some house on the south side I suspect …

When I found this record in an op shop I didn't know who this guy was though the name sounded familiar and I bought it because it was on the Vanguard label, so I knew it would be folk of an interesting variety.
 
And, it is folk, though a weird amalgamation of a number of folk styles played mainly as guitar instrumentals with scattered dialogue and vocals. It would be called "mood" music or "world" music now but it would also be crap if done now by anyone else apart from Bull. Bull's taste is obviously a lot wider than most "world" musicians and he can fingerpick with the best in the US folk tradition whilst throwing in jazz and a bit of the experimental styles.
 
Allmusic on the net says "Bull produced some of the first extended instrumental compositions for guitar that incorporated elements of folk, jazz, and Indian and Arabic-influenced dronish modes" … referring to his first two albums … and I must say this applies here.
 
This is Bulls 4th album.
 
Side 1

The first two tracks are practically instrumentals – "Gotta Be Juicy (or it aint Love)" and "Carnival Jump" ( a mesmerizing 9 minutes … and I don't like long tracks normally) are excellent  … Bull has been compared to Leo Kottke (though he predated him) but to me he is akin to John Fahey at his most Eastern.
 
Then we cut into a vocal version of the beautiful Patti Page song "Tennessee Waltz" – one of the best of all country laments and Bull sings it with one of the worst vocals I have heard in a long time – he makes Tom Waits sound like Pavarotti (and the couple of backup singers mimprove him making him sound like a less tuneful Gram Parsons ) … one thing for certain, at this point I knew I was hooked.

The last track on Side 1 "Sweet Baby Jumper" is another guitar instrumental with a steel drum as percussion and a not surprising Caribbean feel  … another good track.
 
Side 2
 
"Last Date": The old Floyd Cramer piano hit (Floyd played with Elvis by the way and was a top Nashville session man) … I'm not sure what to make of this … it's not done on piano obviously and the melody has been changed a tad – weird.
 
The next track, "Easy Does It", is a 9 minute Eastern raga with guitar and hand drums and it really works as a groove or a drone – either way its hypnotic. I would much rather listen to this than synth "chill out" or ambient music.
 
And then there is "Coming Together (a song of faith)" … a reggae-ish track with vocals  ( and we all know how much I hate reggae) … which is quite bearable and the guitar is Eastern and sounds slightly sitar-ish.
 
The last track quite appropriately is the sound of a "Cheeseburger" … the largest non nuclear bomb used in Vietnam was the cheeseburger … and the track goes for 0.02 seconds … a statement of its times!
 
Well for me this is a keeper.
 
And I am sure it would sound even better with a wine
 
Bull's earlier albums are even better apparently.
 
Finally I got this from an Italian site … and the writer is a dolt – I read some of his other pages and he doesn't have a clue though his enthusiasm suits my mood for Bull at the moment:
 
Sandy Bull was probably the single most original performer of the early 1960s. Alas, he was 30-40 years ahead of the rest of rock music, and therefore was still neglected at the end of the century. While the Merseybeat bands were flooding the charts with idiotic three-minute ditties, Bull was already composing 20-minute long raga/jams that belonged to no known genre. These "blends" marked the first fantastic fusion of eastern and western music, even before western musicians learned what a sitar was. Virtually no encyclopaedia or history of music mentioned his name, but Sandy Bull is probably one of the few musicians of the 1960s who will be mentioned in every encyclopaedia and history of music centuries from now. http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/bull.html
 
Sound:
 
I have attached a scratchy "Gotta be Juicy" off my $1 special

Sandy Bull – Gotta Be Juicy

Bio information:
http://www.myspace.com/404819447

The back cover: 

Sandy Bull,Demolition Derby,USA,LP RECORD,211365

 

 (originally posted: 18/04/2009

 

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