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I have been posting music for over 20 years now and I have no longer time to rip CDs, scan albums + Info. 

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"Tear Gas" - Selftitled (One of The Best Hardrock Band Ever, UK 1971) [FLAC]

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A Glasgow, Scotland progressive rock band formed in the late 60s, Tear Gas initially comprised Eddie Campbell (keyboards), Zal Cleminson (guitar), Chris Glen (bass, vocals), Gilson Lavis (drums) and Andi Mulvey (vocals). Mulvey had previously sung with local beat group the Poets. After changing from their original name, Mustard, they chose Tear Gas as a variation on the same theme. However, Mulvey was soon replaced by keyboard player and vocalist David Batchelor, and Lavis (who later played with Squeeze) by Richard Monro from Ritchie Blackmore’s Mandrake Root. 

It was this line-up who made their recorded debut with 1970’s Piggy Go Getter, an album typical of the time with its extended guitar and keyboard passages. However, they were more playful than some - ‘We were a really loud band. In fact we used to open with Jethro Tull’s ‘Love Story’, which started very softly and the crowd would drift towards the front. 

Then we’d turn the volume up and blow everyone out of the hall.’ Later in 1970 Hugh McKenna replaced Batchelor while his cousin Ted McKenna (ex-Dream Police) took over from Monro on drums. Itinerant musician Ronnie Leahy also contributed keyboards in Batchelor’s absence, though the group were by now living in penury six to a room in Shepherd’s Bush, London. A second album was recorded for release on Regal Zonophone Records but again met with a lacklustre response from the critics. Despite regular touring in an effort to establish themselves, it was not until they teamed up with Alex Harvey in August 1972 to become the Sensational Alex Harvey Band that they saw any real success.

Originally known as Mustard. Their first vocalist Andy Mulvey had previously been with The Poets. However, he was soon replaced by David Batchelor and around the same time Gilson Lavis (their original drummer, who later played with Squeeze) was replaced by Richard Monro from Ritchie Blackmore's Mandrake Root. This line-up recorded Piggy Go Getter, which made little impact. In 1970 Hugh McKenna took over Batchelor's vocal role and Ted McKenna (ex-Dream Police) relieved Monro on drums. They recorded a second album and tried to establish themselves on the underground scene but were going nowhere with their brand of tired boogie heavy rock, until they teamed up with Alex Harvey in August 1972 to become The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

Formed in Glasgow at the close of the 1960s, the band featured Eddie Campbell (keyboards), Zal Cleminson (guitar), Chris Glen (bass, vocals), Gilson Lavis (drums) and Andi Mulvey (vocals).

Mulvey and Lavis were soon replaced respectively by keyboard player and vocalist David Batchelor, and Richard Monro. This line- up recorded the album “Piggy Go Getter”, in 1970. Some months later Hugh McKenna replaced Batchelor while his cousin Ted McKenna (ex-Dream Police) took over from Monro on drums.

This line-up of Tear Gas soon earned a reputation as a fine live act and the band’s self-titled second album was much stronger work than its predecessor, released in the UK on the Regal Zonophone label in 1971. Despite its excellence, the album failed to sell in significant quantities.

In August 1972 Zal Cleminson, Ted McKenna, Hugh McKenna and Chris Glen joined forces with vocalist Alex Harvey to form The Sensational Alex Harvey Band who would meet with success and record a series of inventive albums throughout the 1970s.

The Glasgow-based prog/heavy/rockers Tear Gas (originally known as Mustard) released their second album in 1971 establishing themselves on the underground scene.

Wullie Monro and Eddie Campbell left the band. Wullie joined Berserk Crocodiles (see Dream Police) and Ted McKenna from the freshly collapsed Dream Police replaced him. Eddie Campbell quit for whatever reason – perhaps just tired of touring – and was not instantly replaced. ‘Tear Gas’ released on the Regal Zonaphone label by this revised line up though Campbell appears on the ‘live in the studio’ medley of ‘All Shook Up & Jailhouse Rock’.

An un-credited Ronnie Leahy provides the keyboards elsewhere on the album. Leahy played with Glen, McKenna and Cleminson again in the early ’90s under the name of the ‘Sensational Party Boys’ – promoters mistook the name for a group of male strippers! ‘ Saw them in London in the Charing Cross Road Marquee (now a Weatherspoons) – a right good night..

Tear Gas’ has an odd front cover pic. Is it meant to signify anything? If so it was lost on us. All tracks are ‘hard ‘n heavy rock’ . Again not terribly memorable apart from ‘Love Story’, a highlight of the stage act, whose arrangement was visited again by SAHB on the ‘Penthouse Tapes’. One is left with the feeling that the band was a couple of years behind the times in their material and the union with Alex Harvey was the shot in the arm of originality they needed. ‘Tear Gas’ was reissued on CD by Renaissance, a US label, in the mid ’90s as RCD1005.

After the comercial failure of the ‘Tear Gas’ LP, Ted McKenna’s cousin, Hugh McKenna, was drafted in on keyboards and backing vocals but Davie Batchelor soon left to go into production – he produced the SAHB stuff – they all sound pretty good – but was famously dropped by Noel Gallagher during the making of Oasis’ first album.

A rumour persisted for a while that he had to quit Tear Gas because he was going deaf! Hugh took over the lead vocals and this is the line-up that returned to Glasgow to join up with Alex Harvey after an unsuccessful stint in London . The rest of that story is well-documented history.

★ Davey Batchelor - Vocals, Guitar

★  Zal Cleminson - Lead Guitar

★ Chris Glen - Bass, Vocals

★ Ted McKenna - Drums

Guest Musicians

★ Hugh McKenna - Keyboards

★ Alex Harvey - Vocals

01. That's What's Real 06:02

02. Love Story 07:01

03. Lay It on Me 03:44

04. Woman for Sale 04:24

05. I'm Glad 05:49

06. Where Is My Answer 05:59

07. Jailhouse Rock & All Shook Up 05:49

08. The First Time 04:53

Link: Tear Gas

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Incredible Hog - Volume 1 (Great Hardrock UK 1973) [FLAC]

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Incredible Hog was an English hard-rock power trio that released the album Volume 1 on RCA-subsidiary Dart in 1973.

Formation

Incredible Hog escaped from the wreckage of Speed Auction, a school band that included guitarist/singer Ken Gordon and bassist Jim Holmes. Inspired by late ’60s blues-rock power trios, they auditioned multiple drummers before drafting South African expat Tony Awin. Their name was a play on the Marvel Comics superhero the Incredible Hulk.

They jammed throughout 1972 but had difficulty scoring gigs. Undeterred, they opened the thematically named Pig Sty, a club for their live events, which they publicized with ads in Melody Maker. Incredible Hog first ran the club in Ilford, then in Forest Gate. While they generated local buzz with their decibel-laden sound, A&Rs didn’t take notice.

Gordon went to the offices of Dart Records, a subsidiary of RCA, and demanded they listen to his band’s demo. Despite resistance and threats from security, he prevailed and Dart signed Incredible Hog.

Incredible Hog released Volume 1 in mid-1973 on Dart. The album features 10 Gordon originals, all in the three-minute range apart from the lengthier “Wreck My Soul.” Each song is succinctly named with 1–3 words, such as the evocatively titled cuts “Execution,” “Warning,” “Losing Myself,” and “To the Sea.”

Volume 1 was produced by Roger Watson, who worked on 1970/71 mystery albums by G.F. Fitz-Gerald and Zakarrias. Sessions took place at Mayfair Sound Studios at on/off intervals over several weeks during downtime between bookings by glam rock superstar Gary Glitter. The album was engineered by studio rookie Trevor Vallis, who went on to work with John St. Field, the Bowles Brothers, the Europeans, and Nazareth frontman Dan McCafferty.

Volume 1 was the first of only a few LPs released on Dart, which mostly issued singles (pink/white polka dot label) by MOR and glitter rock one-offs during its 1971–76 existence.

The original UK pressing of Volume 1 (cat# ARTS 65372) sports an off-white cover with simple graphics and a drip-tongue hog face inside the letter O. The back shows the band peeking into a dark, cavernous space with liner notes that read: “Warning, this is Incredible Hog rock — mean, hard, evil driving sounds from London’s east side. Keep it loud — if you can take it.”

In Germany, the album appeared on Telefunken, titled Incredible Hog with an illustration of a pink hog/lady hybrid with six breasts, posed with sunglasses in hand, wearing nothing but green pearls and matching heels. The back shows a color pic of the hirsute trio blowing smoke. In France, the album appeared on Columbia with another pink hog illustration. This image shows the creature perched with her six lactating breasts above two gap-mouthed men.

Dart paired the tracks “Lame” and “Tadpole” onto a single. The sleeve on French copies sport the same image as the Columbia LP.

In 1976, Volume 1 appeared on the Spanish Carnaby label with a different cover that shows the trio spread about in a rocky, foggy forest setting near a run-down ancient structure. This version appropriates the drip-tongue hog logo (upper right) from the original Dart release.

Gordon would later lament his inability to use his Marshall 100 watt amp at full blast in the studio, thus diminishing the band’s live impact on record.

01. Lame 03:21

02. Wreck My Soul 05:43

03. Execution 03:09

04. Tadpole 03:31

06. Another Time 03:14

07. Warning 03:12

08. Walk The Road 03:22

09. There’s A Man 03:53

10. To The Sea 03:35

11. Losing Myself 03:48

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The Dog That Bit People - Selftitled (UK 1971)

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The Dog That Bit People, an English four-piece from Birmingham, was the follower band of Locomotive. After the breakup of the prior outfit bassist Mick Hincks and drummer Bob Lamb were looking for new musicians to form a new band. They found keyboard / guitar player Keith Millar and guitarist John Caswell. 

The somewhat bizarre name The Dog That Bit People is a title of a short story, written by American humorist and author James Thurber in 1933. This line-up released this self-titled album on Parlophone in 1971. 

Despite the support from Producer Jim Simpson, a West Midlands rock mogul who also managed Black Sabbath and engineer Peter Vince, who worked with The Hollies, Donovan etc., the album sank without a trace and therefore they disbanded in late 1971. Today the original UK press is one of the rarest items on this label.

The Dog That Bit People was an English four-piece that released a self-titled album on Parlophone in 1971. The band was formed by bassist Mick Hincks and drummer Bob Lamb after the breakup of their prior outfit Locomotive.

Background

The Dog That Bit People emerged from the final lineup of Locomotive, an R&B/psych group from Birmingham whose singular album, We Are Everything You See, was belatedly released on Parlophone in February 1970, months after the departure of singer, keyboardist, and songwriter Norman Haines. The final lineup consisted of Hincks, Lamb, guitarist John Caswell, and keyboardist Keith Millar.

Hincks and Lamb joined Locomotive in early 1968, in time for the band’s second single “Rudi’s In Love” (b/w “Never Set Me Free”), a ska-pop recording that hit #25 on the UK singles chart. The band released a third single as Steam Shovel, then recorded their album as a quintet augmented by a three-piece brass section. The album finally appeared a year after its completion because Parlophone optioned singles from the sessions.

During the delay, Haines formed his own namesake band and made one album, Den of Iniquity, then retired from the scene. Hincks and Lamb hired Caswell and Millar, both prolific songwriters with rustic, folksy leanings. In March 1970, the new four-piece Locomotive issued the single “Roll Over Mary” (b/w “Movin’ Down the Line”), both Millar originals.

Due to vast musical differences between the Caswell/Millar lineup and prior incarnations of Locomotive, they picked a new name, “The Dog That Bit People,” the title of a short story about a biting Airedale Terrier, originally published in My Life and Hard Times, the 1933 autobiography of American humorist and author James Thurber.

The band did a fall/winter van tour of freezing Holland and Germany, then headed to Abbey Road Studios to record their album.

The Dog That Bit People debuted with the Caswell/Millar single “Lovely Lady” (b/w the Millar/Hincks “Merry-Go-Round”) in January 1971 on Parlophone.

The a-side appears on their self-titled album, released that February. The Dog That Bit People features four Millar originals (“Goodbye Country,” “Sound of Thunder,” “Red Queen’s Dance,” “Tin Soldier”), three Caswell cuts (“Cover Me In Roses,” “A Snapshot of Rex,” “Walking”), and another Caswell/Millar co-write (“Mr. Sunshine”). Lamb assisted them on “The Monkey and the Sailor.” The closing “Reptile Man” is a group composition.

Across the album’s 12 songs, The Dog That Bit People fuses Nilssonian/Revolver-esque craft with the airy effervescence of rustic contemporaries America, Home, and Byzantium: a match exemplified on the opener “Goodbye Country.” Millar plays piano, organ, Mellotron, and harmonica; he and Caswell both play electric and 12-string guitar and harmonize with Hincks. 

The Dog That Bit People was produced by the band’s manager, Jim Simpson, a West Midlands rock mogul who initially played in Locomotive and also managed Black Sabbath, Bakerloo, Tea and Symphony, and Indian Summer. The album was engineered by Peter Vince, who worked on recordings by The Hollies, Donovan, The Zombies (Odessey and Oracle), The Gods, Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John, and Colin Blunstone.

Later Activity

The Dog That Bit People wandered off in late 1971. Hincks played on the 1972–74 albums Bleach and Rogues and Thieves by Brummie singer/songwriter Raymond Froggatt. He then left the industry and took up residence in Spain.

Lamb joined a late-stage Idle Race and later surfaced in the Steve Gibbons Band (with Caswell) and its synthpop offshoot The System. He produced Caswell’s 1982 solo album Vineyards In Japan and helmed numerous recordings by UB40, Weapon of Peace, Stephen Duffy, and Lilac Time.

The Dog That Bit People was first reissued in 1994 by the short-lived archival label Shoestring Records, which also reissued Den of Iniquity. That and all subsequent reissues (Esoteric Recordings, Mayfair Music) add “Merry-Go-Round” as a bonus 13th track.

01 Goodbye Country

02 The Monkey And The Sailor

03 Lovely Lady

04 Sound Of Thunder

05 Cover Me In Roses

06 Someone, Somewhere

07 A Snapshot Of Rex

08 Red Queen's Dance

09 Mr. Sunshine

10 Tin Soldier

11 Walking

12 Reptile Man

Bonus Tracks

13 Merry Go Round

Link: Bite People

Wakefield The Lost Warthog Tapes (Hardrock US 1969)

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Previously unreleased recordings from this Colorado band. 1970-1972. First-ever vinyl release of 1970-1971 recordings by Colorado's Wakefield. A blend of hard-rock, psychedelia, and acid-rock with a powerful, jamming sound, long tracks, stunning lead guitar, organ, Latin percussion, and dreamy/bluesy vocals. Fans of Leslie's Motel, don't miss this one. Remastered sound from the original tapes, including insert with liner-notes and rare pictures.

01. Bring It On 4:20

02. Something Is Coming 4:10

03. How Does It Feel? 3:54

04. I Will Always Come Back 4:32

05. Old Man 11:06

06. I Know 3:10

07. Water 8:18

08. Snowchild 9:45

09. In My Mind 8:03

10. Landgrabber 4:40

11. You And I 6:07

12. Let's Get Loaded 3:27

13. You'll Find Your Man 4:56

14. Rollin' Down The Highway 0:33

Link: https://mega.nz/file/TN0wXYrY#xeXm59Cmzs1xohXnggKYDaM4sU_sUHos0k5AbaePOaM

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