HAWKWIND - 1975 WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME -rem 2001.
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Friday, April 29, 2016
Formed in 1969, Hawkwind are a prolific and pioneering space-rock group from the UK. Within weeks of their formation, the band had made a name for themselves on the free festival circuit and would perform live without fee wherever they were able. By the time of their 1971 album 'X In Search Of Space', Hawkwind were infamous for their science fiction themed music and theatrical concerts, the latter renowned as exhibitions of pulsing electronics, dazzling light shows, LSD consumption and (from 1971-75) a nude dancer in the form of Stacia Blake.
Despite a near-constant revolving door of members, Founder member Dave Brock has been the sole mainstay and the core of the band since its inception and has steered the band from its psychedelic rock roots into flirtations with heavy metal, new wave, ambient and techno. Notable contributors have included "accidental" bassist Lemmy (who would go on to greater fame with Motörhead), Cream (2)'s Ginger Baker
IAN HUNTER \ MICK RONSON - YUI ORTA 1989.
The Band :
Ian Hunter - Vocals, Piano
Mick Ronson - Guitars, Backing Vocals.
Tommy Mandel - Keyboards.
Pat Kilbride - Bass.
Micky Curry - Drums.
Bernard Edwards - Bass
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THE BOBBY FULLER FOUR - I FOUGHT THE LAW 1966.
With his Stratocaster guitar and brash, full sound, at his best ,Fuller sounded like Buddy Holly into the '60s. Cracking the Top 30 in 1966 with a cover of Holly's "Love's Made a Fool of You" and the Top Ten with "I Fought the Law" (written by one-time Cricket Sonny Curtis), Fuller had just become a star when he died in mysterious circumstances in a parked car in Hollywood (the police thought it was a suicide, just about everyone who knew him disagreed). Fuller's relatively short period of national stardom actually crowned a good half-dozen years of recording, during which he released many outstanding tracks.
A talented and prolific songwriter and a studio whiz who drew from Eddie Cochran and (though only slightly) the full guitar sound of the British Invasion as well as Buddy Holly, he recorded a great deal of unreleased studio and live material that was issued in the '80s, when the depth of his loss began to be appreciated.
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Monday, April 11, 2016
THE PARAMOUNTS
B.J. Wilson, Chris Copping, Gary Brooker, Robin Trower
The origins of the Paramounts go back to a band contest
at the Palace Hotel Dancehall in Southend. The organizer thought to get the best members of the competing groups together in a single band. He ended up managing a lineup
of Gary Brooker on piano, then 14 years old, Robin Trower on guitar, Chris Copping on bass, Bob Scott as singer, and Mick Brownlee on drums. It turned out that, except for Scott, who was into Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson, they were all huge R&B fans, which was reflected
in their early repertory that was heavy on the songs of Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, and Fats Domino. Ray Charles was another favorite of the bandmembers. Scott didn't last long with the group and when he failed to turn up for a gig one day, Brooker found himself pressed into service as a singer, which remained a quartet from then on.
in late 1966, the Paramounts broke up. Derrick left the music business, while Trower and Wilson joined other bands.
Brooker, however, began writing songs with lyricist Keith Reid. In 1967, they arranged to cut a song that they'd written, called "A Whiter Shade of Pale," which was recorded by a studio band credited as Procol Harum.
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