Sunday, September 26, 2010

Back in 1968, Tetragrammaton Records of Beverly Hills, Bill Cosby’s label, released a local Los Angeles group’s only recorded album, Quatrain. The group consisted of Don Senneville, one of Los Angeles’ more creative lead guitarists, Steve Lindsay on bass guitar, Rick Pease on rhythm guitar, and Jim Lekas on drums. The record album was produced and engineered by the late David Briggs, Neil Young’s producer for many years.
Quatrain was a garage band out of the San Fernando Valley and was originally formed in 1963 as The Fourth Shadow by founding members Senneville and Pease, with Lekas joining to play drums and sing in November of 1964 after a stint as an aerospace worker and part-time surf band drummer. Pease was a talented folk musician and excellent writer, as was Senneville.


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Monday, September 13, 2010

Released: 1962 Big Band Bossa Nova is a 1962 Bossa Nova album by American impresario, jazz composer, trumpeter, arranger and record producer Quincy Jones. and his big band.
Over the course of his long career Quincy Jones’ contribution to the musical world is huge – as a solo artist, songwriter, producer, film composer and record label executive he has made an indelible mark on modern life. He has worked with many of the biggest names in the business and his credits include some of the most notable albums of the last few decades, and this feat is recognised in his significant collection of Grammys.His early career was as a trumpeter in the Dizzy Gillespie Band and before long he was leader of his own band. Though his performances were critically acclaimed, all did not go well financially on tour, and he ended up with considerable personal debt. So he took a job at Mercury Records and by 1964 he was vice-president.
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The Four Tops - 1967 - Reach Out
One of Motown's most consistent hitmakers and its longest lived lineup (40 years), the Four Tops were the most stable and consistent vocal groups to emerge from Motown Records in the '60s, charting with scores of upbeat love songs featuring Levi Stubbs' rough hewn lead vocals.
"Reach Out and I'll Be There" hit #1 in October, 1966, followed by "Standing in the Shadows of Love" (#6) in 1967.
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this is the first original recording of Joan Baez
Original release date: May 1964 (Recorded in June 1958)Produced and recorded by: Dick Tognazzini for Storm Records

Sunday, September 12, 2010

This album has received only bad reviews and the most of the people says that this album isn't good. Well, in my opinion this is not true. The three first albums are great and better than "Bernice", but you can find also in this album some good songs, with nice and psych melodies. Only one thing. Don't expect to find in that album any Middle - Eastern sounds and things like in the previous albums.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Pavlos Sidiropoulos (Greek: Παύλος Σιδηρόπουλος) (Athens, August 27, 1948 – Athens, 6 December 1990) was a Rock musician, noted for supporting the use of Greek lyrics in rock music, at a time when most Greek rock groups were using English lyrics. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was arguably the most popular Greek rock musician. Despite his early death, he remains one of the most popular rock musicians in Greece.

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Monday, September 6, 2010

The Plastic Cloud were an Ontario-based folk-rock quartet, consisting of Brian Madill (bass), Don Brewer (lead vocals, 12-string guitar), Mike Cadieux (guitar), and Randy Umphrey (drums). Formed in 1967, they managed to encompass the commercial side of the music in pleasant, Byrds-like original numbers, but also showed a much harder sound dominated by fuzztone guitar and other effects, for a much more spaced-out sound on about half of their recorded material. Madill and Umphrey were the initial partners, with Cadieux and Brewer -- who not only sang lead but wrote all of their original songsFrom Bay Ridges, Ontario, this band made one of the best and most sought-after albums of the psychedelic era. All of the tracks were written by Don Brewer and it’s one of the most consistently good Canadian albums of this era.


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Friday, September 3, 2010

One-shot masterpiece from genius songwriter Spider Barbour. His songs show remarkable lyrical and musical depth. Acoustic rock (not quite folk-rock) songs dominate, but the album is full of surprises, from searing fuzz guitar to the whacked-out fantasy “Dr. Root’s Garden” that closes the album. There are spots of jazz, prog (way before its time) and music hall, all of which can ruin psychedelic records, but work incredibly well here because they’re part of Barbour’s vision, not just attempts to be trendy. Favorite lyric: “God is a ring of smoke, wrapped around my finger, a wasp without a stinger, buzzing in my ear." Other lyrics veer towards the psychological and emotional with equally memorable results. Barbour’s voice is soothing and appealing. Nancy Nairn is used sparingly but effectively (two and a half songs) as the other lead vocalist. Her unhinged performance on “April Grove” adds to the appeal and strangeness of the album but is effective precisely because it’s not overused. Some other songs are stunningly beautiful and tragic. One of the all-time greats.

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