Burton Cummings, 8 PM tonight Saturday October 3, 2015 Berklee Performance Center

LIVE TONIGHT - October 3, 2015

BURTON CUMMINGS speaks with rock journalist Joe Vig
July 2012 at the Boston Esplanade

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LIVE TONIGHT - October 3, 2015

BURTON CUMMINGS speaks with rock journalist Joe Vig
July 2012 at the Boston Esplanade

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You Tube interview

Burton Cummings and Joe Viglione July 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U0vQEd5tr0

     Burton Cummings is one of the great live acts touring in 2015, his voice as strong as it was in the 1960s and 1970s when his hits ruled the Top 40 alongside the Beatles, Chicago, the Rolling Stones and other major acts of the day.   "These Eyes" and "Laughing" hit the charts in 1969 prior to Gary DeCarlo and Steam knocking the Beatles out of #1 in December when "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Good Bye" took over for "Something" / "Come Together" in the top spot.  Come 1970 the Guess Who exploded with "No Time" beginning a legacy that forty five years later is a musical gift that truly keeps on giving, the music of Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman and the Guess Who.

Let's take a random look at some of my AllMusic.com reviews of the Guess Who and Burton Comings:

WHEATFIELD SOUL

Wheatfield Soul  
AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione
The album is Jack Richardson's excellent production of Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings' music played by this particular four-piece unit, which Peter Clayton's liner notes claim were together "for three years when they cut this album in late 1968." The naïve sound of Cummings' voice on the album tracks is charming, but the hit "These Eyes" has that authority which the band would repeat on diverse chart songs like "No Time," "American Woman," and even "Star Baby" further down the road. "Pink Wine Sparkles in the Glass" is a precursor to "New Mother Nature," but the solo Cummings composition "I Found Her in a Star" is very nice Guess Who-style pop that their fans adore. "Friends of Mine" is a strange one, though, ten minutes and three seconds of Burton Cummings imitating Jim Morrison, not just Morrison, but the copping of his vocal riffs straight from "When the Music's Over." This is a band stretching and searching for direction, and rather than hit you with hard Randy Bachman assaults which were a welcome addition to future long-players by this group, as well as Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Wheatfield Soul concentrates on Brit-pop and experimental songs. Randy Bachman's "A Wednesday in Your Garden" is British rock meets jazz, and is one of the LP's most interesting numbers.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/wheatfield-soul-mw0000199923
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THESE EYES
Song Review by Joe Viglione
The Guess Who

These Eyes

Composed by Burton Cummings / Randy Bachman

Some songs and performances have that in-the-pocket "magic," and "These Eyes" by the Guess Who is such a recording. Sung by Burton Cummings, who replaced pianist Bob Ashley in Chad Allan & the Expressions a year after the group hit with "Shakin' All Over," his distinctive voice would become the cornerstone of the band's sound. The innovative piano pauses which begin the song, along with the restrained guitar through echo, lay the groundwork for Burton Cumming's career-making performance on what became the band's true "breakthrough" 45. A premier love song of broken love, it is Randy Bachman/Burton Cummings collaborating on a masterpiece. Jack Richardson's production is sublime, Jim Kale's bass speaking volumes, doing most of the work while allowing the spaces to be filled in by strings and drums. That the Guess Who didn't want to release this first because it was a ballad is ludicrous in retrospect as it is the most cohesive work on the band's RCA label debut, the Wheatfield Soul album. the Guess Who's vast catalog contains album rock classics, but this remains the band's only true love-song "standard."

http://www.allmusic.com/song/these-eyes-mt0010074346

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The Guess Who

Friends of Mine   Composed by Chris White  ???        

FRIENDS OF MINE

The genius of Jim Morrison and the Doors was their ability to hold the audience's attention for the full duration of extended trips like this. Iron Butterfly, Rare Earth, and even Jethro Tull all overdid their self-indulgent moments. Where the Velvet Underground leveled the White Light/White Heat album with 17-plus minutes of the riveting "Sister Ray," plowing through most of side two of that record with intuitive abandon, the Guess Who seem more intent on just screwing around and emulating. Sky Saxon had the right sensibilities on the live Seeds album, but with a golden opportunity to go that route at their turning point, the Guess Who fall flat, and "Friends of Mine" takes up too much time on a classic album by one of rock's great pop groups.

http://www.allmusic.com/song/friends-of-mine-mt0010074339



LIVE TONIGHT - October 3, 2015

BURTON CUMMINGS speaks with rock journalist Joe Vig
July 2012 at the Boston Esplanade

THE GUESS WHO #10

THE GUESS WHO #10
http://www.allmusic.com/album/10-mw0000846052

Joe Viglione

 But this is Cummings in total control, and the album is consistently good despite his tendency toward self-indulgence. Jack Richardson's guiding hand does not get enough credit for keeping this crew on the straight and narrow. "Glamour Boy" is a brilliant poke at the glam of T. Rex, Mott the Hoople, and RCA's own labelmates for the Guess Who, Lou Reed and David Bowie. It is the only song on this album to be included on The Best of the Guess Who, Vol. 2. Though Cummings dominates this outing, writing and co-writing the majority of the tunes, the Bachman replacements have adjusted to the post-Bachman era, one example being "Cardboard Empire" by bassist Bill Wallace and guitarist Kurt Winter, which shows real style. On that particular tune, a Jefferson Airplane-like hook and Cummings' voice are joined by stunning guitar solos.

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ROCKIN'  the Guess Who
http://www.allmusic.com/album/rockin-mw0000844866

As an artistic statement it's all very interesting, but for a band whose bread and butter was the Top 40, this stuff tempts fate a bit too much. Along with the musical about-face, this is also the darkest Guess Who album, featuring a black-and-white cover and a black-and-white gatefold, and when the band's not back in the past, pre-color TV, they are doing boogie-woogie like "Get Your Ribbons On" or going negative with "Guns, Guns, Guns." "Guns, Guns, Guns" does have a terrific melody (though you'll swear Aerosmith nicked from this one as well),

Rockin

http://www.allmusic.com/album/rockin-mw0000844866
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FLAVOURS  THE GUESS WHO

http://www.allmusic.com/album/flavours-mw0000843050

AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione  [-]
http://www.allmusic.com/album/flavours-mw0000843050

Flavours was the first of the final two official Guess Who albums from the 1970s, and yet another change in direction, despite the band getting chart action with the previous Road Food disc. After more than a two-and-a-half-year absence on the Top 40, and four albums all containing some material that should have become very popular, Burton Cummings shook up the proceedings at this critical juncture where pop success had returned to the storied band. Journeyman guitarist Domenic Troiano, who actually played on Randy Bachman's first album away from the band he co-founded, 1970's Axe, listed there as a Don Troiano, is the sole guitarist here, following Don McDougal, Kurt Winter, and Greg Leskiw in attempt to fill Bachman's shoes. Yes, Cummings having a true collaborator gave the nine songs here and nine tunes on Power in the Music that concise presentation found on the Canned Wheat and American Woman albums, but once again there's a distinct lack of angst, Troiano complementing rather than battling with the lead singer. "Dancin' Fool" went Top 30 at the end of 1974, but there was the enormous attention garnered by "Star Baby" and "Clap for the Wolfman," evidence that the band was showing signs of AM radio life again.

AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione  [-]

Flavours was the first of the final two official Guess Who albums from the 1970s, and yet another change in direction, despite the band getting chart action with the previous Road Food disc. After more than a two-and-a-half-year absence on the Top 40, and four albums all containing some material that should have become very popular, Burton Cummings shook up the proceedings at this critical juncture where pop success had returned to the storied band. Journeyman guitarist Domenic Troiano, who actually played on Randy Bachman's first album away from the band he co-founded, 1970's Axe, listed there as a Don Troiano, is the sole guitarist here, following Don McDougal, Kurt Winter, and Greg Leskiw in attempt to fill Bachman's shoes. Yes, Cummings having a true collaborator gave the nine songs here and nine tunes on Power in the Music that concise presentation found on the Canned Wheat and American Woman albums, but once again there's a distinct lack of angst, Troiano complementing rather than battling with the lead singer. "Dancin' Fool" went Top 30 at the end of 1974, but there was the enormous attention garnered by "Star Baby" and "Clap for the Wolfman," evidence that the band was showing signs of AM radio life again.

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The Way They Were
http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-way-they-were-mw0000462495

AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione  [-]

Seven titles recorded at RCA Studios in Chicago during the spring of 1970, produced by Jack Richardson, were abandoned when Randy Bachman and the Guess Who with Burton Cummings went their separate ways. What resulted was a solo instrumental album by Bachman entitled Axe and the Share the Land album by the group. This title, The Way They Were, is now being dismantled by BMG and disseminated as bonus tracks on the Buddah re-releases of Guess Who catalog product. Canned Wheat has the songs "Silver Bird" and "Species Hawk," although in a bizarre twist, the original pressings of the re-release lists "Miss Frizzy" instead of "Species Hawk." The rare disc is worth keeping, for obvious reasons, but Buddah in 2001 will replace it for those who want the official release with the proper track listing. The Share the Land album contains "Palmyra" and "The Answer" as its bonus tracks. It's a shame. This is a decent album and deserves its place in Guess Who history. Although there is no "hit" here on the level of the Guess Whos' "Share the Land" or BTO's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" or Burton Cummings' first solo hit "Stand Tall," the addition of these tunes to albums other than Share the Land is a bit misleading.  Tall," the addition of these tunes to albums other than Share the Land is a bit misleading.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-way-they-were-mw0000462495
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ARTIFICIAL PARADISE
http://www.allmusic.com/album/artificial-paradise-mw0000840046

AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione 

Artificial Paradise may be the most consistent album project by the post-Randy Bachman Guess Who, a solid offering of strong melodies, superb production, and focused artistic vision. It is also one of the group's more obscure offerings; a small fortune was obviously spent on the gratuitous and excessive packaging which says absolutely nothing and probably did much to sink this fine effort. Surprisingly, Burton Cummings only writes two titles on his own, contributing to four others by his current bandmates. Winter, Wallace, and McDougal actually get a freer songwriting reign on this ten-track release and it harkens back to the initial success of the Share the Land album, the first project where the new members explored, blending their musical skills.
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http://www.allmusic.com/album/power-in-the-music-mw0000843004

AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione
http://www.allmusic.com/album/power-in-the-music-mw0000843004
AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione  [-]

When Burton Cummings was looking to change the sound of the Guess Who, he partnered up with Domenic Troiano for 1974's Flavours and this 1975 conclusion to this phase of the group, Power in the Music. Self-indulgence pervades the proceedings, with Cummings rewriting history. "When the Band Was Singing (Shakin' All Over)" is a perfect example of a song that could have but doesn't. Gone are the magic guitar lines of "Share the Land" and the intensity of "These Eyes." Jack Richardson's production along with engineer Brian Christian's pristine sound set the table, but Cummings and Troiano give the world appetizers instead of a main course. Richardson and drummer Garry Peterson are the only holdovers here with Cummings; latter-day bassist Bill Wallace is not allowed to contribute to the songwriting, though he provided input on six of the ten titles found on 1973's Artificial Paradise, the same number as frontman Cummings on that disc. "Dreams" is brilliant, though, an anomaly,  
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AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione  [-]
http://www.allmusic.com/album/all-this-for-a-song-mw0000119261

Doug Yule had no right to put the Velvet Underground name on the U.K. album Squeeze; half of Creedence Clearwater Revival and a fifth of the Cars is not Creedence or the Cars. Veteran bassist Jim Kale certainly has paid his dues. But 1971's Brave Belt with Chad Allen and Randy Bachman had more of a right to use the name than Kale and Don McDougal, McDougal having joined the band in 1972 when Kale left! That being said, how does this album rate on its own? Well, Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman wrote the hits, and sustained a career beyond the Guess Who. Live, this band was a competent cover act (with even more changing faces), but tunes like "C'Mon Little Mama," "Raising Hell on the Prairies," "It's Getting Pretty Bad," even a melody like "That's the Moment," they simply miss the mark. This is a great example of how important the creative force of a star, an egomaniac with great ideas and tons of attitude, is to the construction of important art. This is as much the Guess Who as a bottle of cola is a box of Cheerios.
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AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione  [-]
http://www.allmusic.com/album/lonely-one-mw0000175322

When original Guess Who bassist Jim Kale released 1979's All This for a Song along with Don McDougal, who joined the group in 1972, it didn't have the charm or inspiration of Randy Bachman's Brave Belt albums, the precursors to Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Brave Belt also boasted Chad Allan as a member, original focal point for the Guess Who prior to Burton Cummings joining the party. The 1995 version of the group does include the original rhythm section of bassist Jim Kale and drummer Garry Peterson, but all they do is play and provide a name -- Peterson's other contribution is merely a co-write of one of the ten titles, "Rock & Roll Classic," and that is derivative as all get out with a quick reference to "American Woman" and nicks of famous classic rock riffs. It's actually as close to the Guess Who's sound as the band can get. For those looking for a the neo-bubblegum pop of the Guess Who, get ready to be greeted by big-hair '80s arena rock ten years after the fact. This could be Johnny Edwards from King Kobra and the 1991 Foreigner Unusual Heat days on the Razor's Edge, while "Still Feels Like Love" could be Edwards fronting the Commodores on a sequel to their post-Lionel Richie hit, "Nightshift." Please note all the post-heyday versions of bands that this aggregation resembles

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Guess Who REUNION AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione [-]

http://www.allmusic.com/album/reunion-mw0000879992

What's unique about Reunion by the Guess Who is that it brings together the "original" band that found fame with "These Eyes," the quartet that emerged from Chad Allan & the Expressions and ended abruptly in 1970 when they abandoned what became 1976's The Way They Were LP, recorded around the time Randy Bachman taped his Axe solo album. Producer Jack Richardson pines in his liner notes to the 1976 compilation that this foursome was/is his original Guess Who (though he recorded all the acts' RCA discs with the various bandmembers), and that the band "never were again." Well, they say never say "never." Richardson is back producing, and it is Randy Bachman who writes the liner notes and dedicates the album to Chad Allan, Bob Ashley, Kurt Winter, Bill Wallace, Greg Leskiw, Domenic Troiano, and Don McDougal -- the Guess Who alum. Bachman's liner notes explain how the four got back together in January of 1983 for the first time since the split in 1970.

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The Guess Who Live At The Paramount UK vinyl LP album (LP record)
Tracklisting	1. Albert Flasher 2. New Mother Nature 3. Glace Bay Blues 4. Runnin' Back To Saskatoon 5. Pain Train 6. American Woman 7. Truckin' Off Across The Sky

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BURTON CUMMINGS LIVE AT MASSEY HALL

Audio CD (November 6, 2012)

Number of Discs: 1

Format: Import

Label: Imports

ASIN: B009OTZM7O

1. No Sugar Tonight/ New Mother Nature

2. Albert Flasher

3. Clap for the Wolfman

4. Laughing

5. Guns, Guns, Guns

6. Stand Tall

7. Hand Me Down World

8. Above the Ground

9. Running Back to Saskatoon

10. Undun

11. I M Scared

12. USA

13. These Eyes

14. American Woman

15. Timeless Love

16. Star Baby

17. No Time

18. Share the Land WIKIPEDIA  The Guess Who https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guess_Who Wild One - The Guess Who | Songs, Reviews, Credits ... www.allmusic.com/album/wild-one-mw0000853928 Cached Similar AllMusic Loading... AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione [+] ... and at least the spirit here is better than All This for a Song, which was Kale's post-Cummings version of the Guess Who. Born in Canada - The Guess Who | Songs ... - AllMusic www.allmusic.com/album/born-in-canada-mw0000848091 Cached Similar AllMusic Loading... Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Born in Canada - The Guess Who on AllMusic - 1969 ... AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione [+]. These Eyes - The Guess Who | Song Info | AllMusic www.allmusic.com/song/these-eyes-mt0027516417 Cached AllMusic Loading... Song Review by Joe Viglione [+]. Some songs and performances have that in-the-pocket "magic," and "These Eyes" by the Guess Who is such a recording. 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AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione [+]. ___________________________________________________________ Domenic Troiano - Domenic Troiano - 1972 - Mercury Domenic Troiano http://overdoseoffingalcocoa.blogspot.com/2012/01/domenic-troiano.html  The solo debut from guitarist Domenic Troiano came at a time when he was releasing two albums with the James Gang. Charlotte Dillon's biography on the All Media Guide states that this album was initiated prior to his joining the James Gang and completed during that phase of his career. There's a definite Steely Dan feel to the proceedings, especially on "Let Me Go Back," and the first of two compositions co-written with James Gang vocalist Roy Kenner, "Try." The rhythm section for Lou Reed's classic Rock 'n' Roll Animal album, drummer Penti Glan and bassist John Prakash, appear here a year before they would cut the historic live album with guitar heroes Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. The musicianship is superb, with a loose and funky feel, and the album looks expensive as well. A gatefold with band photos and interesting design, Mercury was no doubt serious about their artist. This was a year before that same label would release Bachman-Turner Overdrive, whose guitarist Troiano would later replace in the Guess Who. This album is distinctive, though, as it shows Troiano in an interesting light and identifies his versatility. Clichés like "The Writings on the Wall" and "Is There No Rest for the Weary" become songs, and the music is more suited to Delaney & Bonnie than the James Gang or the Guess Who. In fact, the elements here do not really show up on his work with Burton Cummings' final two '70s Guess Who LPs, Flavours and Power in the Music, which gives an indication of Troiano's ability to adapt. From the Delaney & Bonnie meets Steely Dan style so prevalent on tracks like "Let Me Go Back" and "I Just Lost a Friend," Troiano concludes the album with an about-face, nine minutes and 40 seconds of "Repossession Blues." It makes for a well-rounded debut by a journeyman who has never really gotten his due. Maybe the bands he played with wanted formula, because allowed to stretch out, the Domenic Troiano album is quite enjoyable and has lots to offer. It's also important to note the co-production work by James Gang producer Keith Olsen came at a time when Olsen was engineering Dr. John for Jerry Wexler. That seems to have had an influence on this project. © Joe Viglione © 2012 Rovi Corporation. All Rights Reserved http://www.allmusic.com/album/domenic-troiano-r51512/review _______________________________________________________ Rock Journalist Joe Viglione writes the foreword to Peter Noone's book http://joevigupdate.blogspot.com/2010/06/foreword-to-peter-noone-photo-book.html _______________________________________________________________ Joe Viglione quoted on WIKIPEDIA from AllMusic.com reviews Carole King Where You Lead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_You_Lead References[edit] Jump up ^ [1] Revised Standard Version ^ Jump up to: a b Landau, J. (April 29, 1971). "Tapestry". Rolling Stone Magazine. Retrieved 2014-05-03.  ^ Jump up to: a b Perone, J.E. (2006). The Words and Music of Carole King. Praeger. p. 37. ISBN 0275990273.  ^ Jump up to: a b Viglione, J. "Sister Kate". Allmusic. Retrieved 2014-04-13. ________________________________________________________________ The Right Thing to Do - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Thing_to_Do Cached Wikipedia Loading... Jump to Lyrics and music - ... is a love song directed to Simon's then husband James Taylor. ... Viglione and Billboard Magazine both praised the song's ... Millworker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millworker Cached Wikipedia Loading... "Millworker," or "Millwork," is a song written by James Taylor. ... Allmusic critic Joe Viglione finds her version to be entertaining, and that it plays to Midler's ... The Right Thing to Do - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Have_No_Secrets Cached Jump to Lyrics and music - ... is a love song directed to Simon's then husband James Taylor. ... Allmusic critic Joe Viglione and Billboard Magazine both ... 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Joe V. compared to Lillian Roxon The song's instrumentation includes drums and horns.[2] Allmusic critic Joe Viglione describes "Judy's Turn to Cry" as having "a monstrous hook as valuable as 'It's My Party' with violence that may have been inspired by The Crystals pushing the envelope with their withdrawn classic 'He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)'".[2] Viglione also notes that because both "It's My Party" and "Judy's Turn to Cry" are short, both at just under 2:20, and both songs are different from each other, and each starts off with its own identifiable hook, and the choruses are different but the verses tell one continuous story, the two songs could be played on the radio back to back, allowing Gore to sing the entire "soap opera."[2] This song is in the key of D Major, while "It's my Party" is in the key of A Major.[12] Connie Landers sang the two songs back to back on the 2008 album Girls Girls Girls: 1960's Rock N Roll.[13] Author Maury Dean notes that Gore's "crisp soprano uses very sophisticated jazz progressions."[7] Music journalist Lillian Roxon commented that "you could savor every bitchy second of Lesley's triumph with her sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry.'"[14][15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%27s_Turn_to_Cry __________________________________________________________________ Hinch hits back at Greer’s Roxon death claims Andrew Crook | Aug 11, 2010 1:25PM http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/11/hinch-hits-back-at-greers-roxon-death-claims/ Roxon, the aunt of federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon, served as Fairfax’s New York correspondent for 10 years before a 28-year-old Hinch took over as bureau chief — and Roxon’s boss — in 1972. Hinch, who had arrived in the Big Apple in 1966, was one of the last people to see Roxon alive on the night before her death when he swung by to pick up tickets for a Helen Reddy concert. He later identified her body in the Manhattan morgue. Roxon, who was simultaneously writing for the New York Daily News, the Herald and then-Fairfax publication Woman’s Day, as well as compiling her legendary Rock Encyclopedia, had a fatal asthma attack in her East 21st Street apartment on August 10, 1973. She had become the leading chronicler of the city’s nascent underground rock scene based around the infamous Max’s Kansas City bar frequented by Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and Alice Cooper. _________________________________________________________________ BOOK OF TALIESYN Album Features UPC: 826992022222 Artist: Deep Purple Format: CD Release Year: 2000 Record Label: Eagle Genre: Hard Rock, Rock & Pop Track Listing 1. Learn, Read On Listen 2. Hard Road 3. Kentucky Woman 4. Exposition/We Can Work It Out 5. Shield 6. Anthem 7. Mountain High River Deep 8. Oh No No No [Studio Outtake] - (take) 9. It's All Over [BBC Top Gear Session] 10. Hey Bop a Re Bop [BBC Top Gear Session] 11. Wring That Neck [BBC Top Gear Session] 12. take) Playground [Remixed Instrumental Studio Outtake] - (remix Details Playing Time: 65 min. Distributor: Universal Distribution Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album Notes Deep Purple: Rod Evans (vocals); Ritchie Blackmore (guitar); Jon Lord (keyboards); Nicky Simper (bass); Ian Paice (drums).Personnel: Jon Lord (vocals, organ); Nick Simper (vocals, bass guitar); Rod Evans (vocals); Ritchie Blackmore (guitar); Ian Paice (drums).Recording information: De Lane Lea, London (08/1968).Several months after the innovative remake of "You Keep Me Hanging On," England's answer to Vanilla Fudge, was this early version of Deep Purple, which featured vocalist Rod Evans, and bassist Nick Simper, along with mainstays Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice. This, their second album, followed on the heels of "Hush," a dynamic arrangement of a Joe South tune, far removed from the flavor of one of his own hits, "Walk a Mile in My Shoes." Four months later, this album's cover of Neil Diamond's Top 25, 1967 gem "Kentucky Woman," went Top 40 for Deep Purple. Also like Vanilla Fudge, the group's own originals were creative, thought-provoking, but not nearly as interesting as their take on cover tunes. Vanilla Fudge did "Eleanor Rigby," and Deep Purple respond by going inside "We Can Work It Out" -- it falls out of nowhere after the progressive rock jam "Exposition," Ritchie Blackmore's leads zipping in between Rod Evans smooth and precise vocals. As Vanilla Fudge was progressively leaning more towards psychedelia, here Deep Purple are the opposite. The boys claim to be inspired by the Bard of King Arthur's court in Camelot, Taliesyn. John Vernon Lord, under the art direction of Les Weisbrich, paints a superb wonderland on the album jacket, equal to the madness of Hieronymous Bosch's cover painting used for the third album. Originals "The Shield" and "Anthem" make early Syd Barrett Pink Floyd appear punk in comparison. Novel sounds are aided by Lord's dominating keyboards, a signature of this group.Though "The Anthem" is more intriguing than the heavy metal thunder of Machine Head, it is overwhelmed by the majesty of their "River Deep, Mountain High" cover, definitely not the inspiration for the Supremes and Four Tops 1971 hit version. By the time 1972 came around, Deep Purple immersed themselves in dumb lyrics, unforgettable riffs, and a huge presence, much like Black Sabbath. The evolution from progressive to hard rock was complete, but a combination of what they did here -- words that mattered matched by innovative musical passages -- would have been a more pleasing combination. Vanilla Fudge would cut Donovan's "Season of the Witch," Deep Purple followed this album by covering his "Lalena"; both bands abandoned the rewrites their fans found so fascinating. Rod Evans voice was subtle enough to take "River Deep, Mountain High" to places Ian Gillam might have demolished. Some CD reissues contain an additional five tracks. ~ Joe Viglione http://www.ebay.com/p/The-Book-of-Taliesyn-by-Deep-Purple-CD-2000-Eagle/103099117?_trksid=p2047675.l2644 http://aceterrier.com/?cat=4&paged=3 File Between: Janis Joplin and Maggie Bell Comments: I’ve known who Genya Ravan was for years — in fact, I first learned of her, and of this album, when I first began looking up obscure 1972 records, and the Allmusic review by Joe Viglione put it at the top of my wishlist. But I didn’t find it, and didn’t find it, and in the meantime I listened to her 60s girl-group work in Goldie & the Gingerbreads (as Goldie Zelkowitz), J. Geils Band One Last Kiss Overview Lyrics ↓          email http://ko.outlet02.com/song/one-last-kiss-mt0018794463        Song Review by Joe Viglione  [+] Sounding more like Blue Oyster Cult with a heavy and fatalistic song, the group's Top 40 debut on the EMI America label - 45 RPM #8007 - is four minutes and twenty-two seconds of J.Geils Band taking their blues/rock and pouring more gloss and pop into it than ever before. That's because Joe Wissert, producer of Earth, Wind & Fire, Gordon Lightfoot, Helen Reddy as well as another Boston phenomenon, Robin Lane & The Chartbusters, made things nice and slick for the Geils guys. Helen Reddy's producer, one might say? Well, the production is much better than the job Wissert did with Robin Lane, this title coming four years and a couple of months after Jay, Seth, Peter, Danny, Stephen and Magic Dick went Top 12 when Bill Szymczyk cut "Give It To Me" at Jerry Ragovoy's Hit Factory. That purist element is still inherent in the music, though this new sound only reached #35, but the liquid guitar under the verses and the borderline metal sound everywhere else was certainly something new and derived from B.O.C., a flavor that New York group would borrow back for their own "Burnin' For You" single a couple of years later. This isn't the J. Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers tragedy, "Last Kiss" from 1964, but it is a sixties sound built into a hard rock foundation. Over a Ronettes "Be My Baby" drumbeat (which comes out of nowhere) Peter Wolf tells his paramour "the good times are the best times/the bad times fade away" but that's just the set up for the fact that it's over..."the feeling's gone, I can feel it in my veins". The final chorus comes long before the song ends with the simple and ominous riff in repeat mode allowing Jay Geils to play some great rock and roll guitar. This ensemble was becoming more chameleon like as their sound evolved and the focus mutated into a popular song direction. The album Sanctuary itself may have been a declaration of independence - free from the restrictions of the previous record deal, and Magic Dick's harp playing is more consistent with a pop/rock commercial sound, blending in as a component of a unified front. Perhaps the producer had the ambiance and feel of this episode emulating Earth, Wind & Fire as it all works magnificently, a balanced evolution and far cry from the earthy first steps on Atlantic. Read More ↓