Clive John - You Always Know Where You Stand With A Buzzard (Repost)

Clive John - You Always Know Where You Stand With A Buzzard - 1975 (Reissue 2004)

Keyboardist, guitarist, and vocalist Clive John was most known for his stint in the Welsh progressive rock group Man from the late '60s through the mid-'70s (before that, he had been in the group from which Man evolved, the Bystanders). In late 1975 he released a little-known solo album, You Always Know Where You Stand with a Buzzard. Like much of what Man had done, it was eclectic, with dips into singer/songwriter rock, blues-rock, riffs with echoes of West Coast psychedelic bands, and Frank Zappa-like fusion and absurdism. Clive John died in Swansea, Wales on August 24, 2011 after a lengthy struggle with emphysema.

01. Out of My Tree
02. Brand 'X'
03. Summer Song
04. Swansea Town
05. Visitin' the Duke
06. Love to You
07. Overflow
08. Bust Again
09. Ferret Interview
10. Hold Your Ferret Aloft




Clive John - Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
Martin Ace - Bass
Dave Charles - Drums
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Andy Fairweather-Low - Guitar Solo on "Brand X" & Interview on "Ferret"
Brian Breeze - Guitar Solo on "Overflow"
Tommy Riley - Drums on "Bust Again"
Pete Hurley - Bass on "Bust Again"
Phil Ryan - Keyboards on "Ferret"
John Williams - Backing Vocals on "Brand X" & Interview on "Ferret"

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Powder - Ka-Pow! An Explosive Collection 1967-68

Powder - Ka-Pow! An Explosive Collection 1967-68 - 2014

Bay area mod rockers Powder were incredibly short-lived, quickly running through a bizarre time line that included a brief stint as backing band for Sonny & Cher, several name changes, and the recording of a few undeniably great tunes that got lost in the shuffle of the endless stream of Anglo-pop bands sprouting up in the wake of the British Invasion. Inspired to the point of obsession by the Who circa Sell Out, the Zombies, and the janglier side of psychedelia, the band was formed by brothers Richard and Thomas Martin (known under the stage names Richard & Thomas Frost), going through various Beatles-indebted incarnations before arriving at the lineup that would be Powder in 1967. One of those acts, Ray Columbus & the Art Collection had a minor garage psych hit with the loopy 13th Floor Elevators-ish "Kick Me (I Think I'm Dreaming)," which was buried in obscurity for a future Nuggets crowd to unearth decades later. Once Columbus left the band, they re-emerged as a more clean-cut entity simply known as the Art Collection, offering up bubblegum sides like "I'm a Boy & You're a Girl" and an especially sunny reading of the Who's "So Sad About Us." Somewhere in the middle of all this came the next phase of the band, with Powder leaning heavily on the pop sweetness of the sound they spun as the Art Collection, but weaving in darker themes on tunes like "Do I Love You" and the Love-meets-the Turtles weirdness of "What the People Said." All of these various phases are chronicled in Ka-Pow! An Explosive Collection 1967-1968, with 26 tracks in total digging into the archive for an impressive cross-section of the band's largely unreleased recorded material. The majority of the disc focuses on a shelved album from Powder recorded just before they imploded, turning in a fair amount of Who knockoffs like "Rodeo," but also some seemingly accidentally tender tunes like "Flowers" or the jangly and juvenile "Ruby Red Lips." These naive and tuneful Powder songs and the unabashedly innocent tunes recorded under the Art Collection moniker are a fantastic complement to the more heavy-handed freakbeat tracks that fill much of the album, though both offer a glimpse of the Martin brother's enthusiastic appropriation of the new sounds that were exploding from all sides in the late '60s. 

01. Turn Another Page (Version 1)
02. Gladly
03. Do I Love You (Version 1)
04. Magical Jack
05. I Try
06. Ruby Red Lips (Alternate Mix)
07. Grimbley Leitch
08. What The People Said
09. Rodeo
10. Flowers
11. Hate To See Her Go
12. Let's Look At The Moon
13. Too Many Miles

Ray Columbus & The Art Collection
14. Kick Me (I Think I'm Dreaming)
15. Snap Crackle & Pop

The Art Collection 16. Millicent
17. I Go To School
18. I'm A Boy & You're A Girl
19. So Sad About Us
20. She's My Girl
22. Morning

Powder23. Turn Another Page (Version 2)
24. Grimbley Leitch (Alt Vocal)
25. Do I Love You (Version 2)

Ray Columbus & The Art Collection
26. Kick Me (I Think I'm Dreaming) (Alt Version)

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The Who - Live at the Fillmore East 1968

The Who - Live at the Fillmore East 1968 - 2018

The Who will commemorate the 50th anniversary of a two-night stint at Bill Graham's famous New York venue with the double CD Live at the Fillmore East 1968, due out April 20th.

The album includes a previously unreleased cover of Eddie Cochran's "C'Mon Everybody" and a rare version of "Fortune Teller," which was penned by the New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint. The band also plays extended versions of "Relax" and "A Quick One," which came out months before the April shows on The Who Sell Out. The second CD of Live at the Fillmore East 1968 is entirely devoted to a 33-minute rendition of the Who's classic "My Generation," which culminates in "guitar-smashing and drum demolishment."

The Who performed at the Fillmore East on April 5th and April 6th of 1968, marking the first English rock act to headline the newly christened venue, formerly the Village Theatre. They were originally scheduled to play two sets each night, but due to concerns about unrest following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memphis on April 4th, the Who combined two sets into one. Manager Kit Lambert recorded the shows, hoping to release them as a live album. The plan was abandoned when Lambert discovered that his equipment had failed to capture the whole first night.

The second night's concert will makes up Live at the Fillmore East 1968. The sound was restored by the Who's longtime sound engineer, Bob Pridden, using the original 4 track tapes. 

CD 1:
01. Summertime Blues
02. Fortune Teller
03. Tattoo
04. Little Billy
05. I Can’t Explain
06. Happy Jack
07. Relax
08. I'm A Boy
09. A Quick One
10. My Way
11. C'mon Everybody
12. Shakin' All Over
13. Boris The Spider

CD 2:
01. My Generation





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Steve Ellis - Boom! Bang! Twang!

Steve Ellis - Boom! Bang! Twang! - 2018

This month should host a fiftieth anniversary of LOVE AFFAIR’s “Everlasting Love” reaching the peak of charts, and Steve Ellis – one of the best rhythm-and-blues singers that Blighty produced – having become a star he deserved to be. Only it’s not the time for a celebration; fanfares will sound on April 20th, when “Boom! Bang! Twang!”, the veteran’s new album, is supposed to hit the shelves. Appearing seven years down the line after "Ten Commitments" and rather hot on the heels of the WIDOWMAKER anthology which served to remind the vocalist is able to handle heavier material alongside soul, this record finds Steve deliver a heady mix of covers and originals, some featuring Ellis’ famous friends.

Among the covers are Tim Hardin’s “Black Sheep Boy” and “Forgot To Be Your Lover” by William Bell, while the originals include “Lonely No More” that was co-penned with Paul Weller who also guests on “Cry Me A River” – although there’s Mike D’Abo, whose “Handbags and Gladrags” Ellis used to perform, to compete with them in emotional stakes, with Steve’s regular collaborator Kevin Wallbank of THE DREAM FOUNDRY and his recent accomplices COW leaving their mark, too. Gonna be a a fine album, this one.

1. Black Sheep Boy
2. Sitting In Limbo
3. Soul Trek (Holy Blue)
4. Tobacco Ash Sunday
5. Forever
6. Forgot To Be Your Lover
7. Lonely No More
8. Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying
9. Cry Me A River
10. Glory Bound
11. Oh Death







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