I didn't think I'd like Tusk after reading a review that said it was basically Fleetwood Mac coming back to earth after Rumours. And the first few listens were sketchy but god did it grow on me. Anymore it's my favorite of the Buckingham/Nicks albums
Great outfit! Great album! Great musicians! Cream Disraeli Gears wonderful! Kinks Muswell Hillbillies I didn’t like it years ago! It's now a classic album love it! Well done Abi👍
A woman who plays Disraeli Gears over and over until the sleeve falls apart is one after my own heart, and Strange Brew is the reason we flip it over and play it again every time. Felix Pappalardi's wife Gail Collins was also co-writer on Strange Brew (and World of Pain) all of which holds bittersweet irony as their biographies unfold. A world of insight in your sunny exposition today Abby. Thank you!
Cream are what happens when 2 jazz musicians & a bluesman collide. Add a couple of 100w Marshall heads, a wall of cabs & a wah wah pedal et voila! It's one hell of a beautiful noise though lol
I would NEVER know that Clapton plays the melody of "Blue Moon" on "Sunshine Of Your Love" if it wasn't for you, Abby. Seems so obvious now and yet it totally escaped me for years!!!
Loved listening to Disraeli Gears in the 70’s and it was a magical time. It really warms my heart to seeing the torch being passed on to a new generation.
Justice for "Dance The Night Away", and "We're Going Wrong"---my favorite bangers off this album along with "World Of Pain" as an honorable mention in 3rd place! 🙌🏽 And yes, bring the psychedelic colorful 60's back to this drab, sad, plain color-less world! 🎉🍄✨💖🟣🔵🟢🟡🟠🔴
One of my all time top ten favorite Album Covers for me. and yes we need more color in this world, for sure and as far as STEREO mixes in general , on a high end Audio system room set up , It's quite enjoyable
Hi! Zappa released a 'version' of Sunshine of Your Love! It was a rehearsal/soundcheck take and is found on the Barking Pumpkin 1991 release The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life. And YOU, yes YOU should hear it as well as the song just before it - an obscure Jimi Hendrix song called Purple Haze... "Willie Mays... Helen Hayes". You know you want to. OK, Bye now!
Back into the world from Vietnam 1969 I was a small college freshman, fresh from war, older than the seniors and grad students (23)... being educated (sorta) on the G.I. Bill. and loving my POV while my dorm room neighbors played DISRAELI GEARS over and over and over and over. I liked that album... in the beginning. And there was no anti-war activism on that remote campus, even though as a vet i had changed my perspective. "Either fight to win or get the hell out of 'Nam." 58,220 Americans dead. Thanks LBJ. McNamara. A-holes. / You're fun, Abby, especially looking like a Pattie Boyd doppelganger 🙂
“I have a lot of feathers!” 😆 Another great album review. Informative and historic. My only regret about the Summer of Love is I was just a baby in the midst of it all. My family thinks I should’ve been born earlier. I will have to check out your Wheels Of Fire review. 🔥🛞 I have a lot of emojis! Long live Cream! 🍦
Growing up in the Philly suburbs, CREAM was one of those bands that if you didn't hear them one day, you heard them the next. Every program Director in town was a fan. Got in them through Hendrix. **Google Hendrix LuLu show** its indicative of the bond Jimi and Eric had. I've know people who'd been to the Electric Factory. It was an abandoned tire warehouse on Arch Street. The walls were lined with old style, kite-shaped wooden coffins, (lids removed) painted up in dayglow colors. Was once regaled with a tale by a co-worker who was quite older than myself. Said he went to see Vanilla fudge, (early 1969) at the EF, and the opening act was a nascent Led Zeppelin. He said he ignored them for a while, but in his words "they were pretty damn loud". sorry I went on there, looking forward to the GTOs. 👍😊✌
I saw Cream in Philly at the stadium with a rotating stage (distracting, but otherwise a great concert), then drove over to have a look at the liberty bell and got stopped by a cop for driving up a wrong-way street downtown. Narrow escape and minor miracle there.
An album that came out when I was a Freshman in high school--yep, I'm that old, but still DAMN cool!! I had two pressings of it, including one that was a British audiophile pressing! It was through that album that I eventually met and worked with the brilliant Eric Clapton...in fact, one of the first concerts I ever went to was at the Anaheim Convention Center--to see Cream, and the opening act: "Spirit"!!...with them premiering "The 12 Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus"!! A masterpiece as much as Disraeli Gears itself! Anyway...a quick side note--in regards to "Stereo" albums...in rock, the first "True" fully stereo album was: "Days Of Future Past" from The Moody Blues...and from it, was how I eventually met Justin Hayward--a fantastically gifted singer and composer! And btw...Tom Dowd did some "side work" as a TV voiceover artist...as he had a marvelous speaking voice perfect for emerging FM radio back in the day! (if you haven't watched "Classic Albums--Cream--Disraeli Gears", you really should!) And not all THAT much "acid" was consumed as often!!! You really should. Keep up the fun work. It's charming and delightful...and you actually get a resonable amount of your information and research correct!! BRAVA !!
You coulda been a historian; you shoulda been a detective. Instead, we get -- THIS! Thank Goddess! Thanks for bringing an overwhelming amount of info to light each week, and for your appreciation of what the music and that period represented. That said -- your energy is simply exhausting, in a good and appreciated way. Be well!
Iconic look, iconic band, iconic album, iconic music!!! My dad saw them back in either 1967 or 1968 during their psych/The Fool era, he told me that Clapton and Jack Bruce walked off stage at some point and just let Ginger Baker do his thing for like 20 minutes and it totally blew him away lol
The Marvelous Devoe does it again. When I think of "Disraeli Gears" I always think of a Dakota Red Fender Mustang. It was maybe 1968, I was a teenager and visiting with a friend. I was sitting on his bed and there on the bedspread was his Dakota Red Fender Mustang, which I desperately coveted and a copy of "Disraeli Gears", the two reds bouncing off each other and stuck in my brain forever.
Love the effort you go to to do these video essays. You put a lot of love into these. Thank you. Your outfit this week is truly trippy. Brings me back.
'Rubbery, trampoline-like valence' is now my absolute favourite description of a bass line. I shall try it out on our bassist at the first possible opportunity just to see if something gets thrown.
My uncle has this record on LP and I instantly fell in love! Masterful performances, great lyrics and riffs, excellent sleeve design and terrific bunch of songs. Disraeli Gears is a true classic and testament to these guys’ super talent. Dance the night away is an absolute wonder.
I remember this album since I was a kid when my mother had this on cassette, and it was an RSO reissue from the 1980’s. And just to let you know that RSO was the label brought you the Bee Gees, along with the soundtracks to “Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease” were timeless masterpieces, the songs “Staying Alive” and “Night Fever” were massive hits for RSO, and by the 1980’s, RSO did acquired the rights to reissue all of Eric Clapton’s albums along with the Cream albums with Eric when he was part of the band. “Sunshine Of Your Love” was the lead out single on this album. This album was from late 1967 which was following the success of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by the Beatles, “Sold Out” by the Who, and “Surrealistic Pillow” by Jefferson Airplane, all three albums were part of the “Summer of Love”.
This is a very good review. I only knew part of the history. I bought gears, in mono, when it came out. Yes, I am that old. Sunshine became a must play for the campus bands. Unfortunately, no one could play Clapton;s licks. My vinyl was worn out. THe album was a solid album. I have the privileged of having been thrown ot of a campus bar for singing "Mother's Lament" in that strong English accent from the record. My friends were not drunk; so the bar staff figured we were on something else. Mother's Lament is just fun. It's silly pointless and imperfect. And for a bunch of Americans who found the accents unusual, we enjoyed the hell out of it. To this day I remember the words. I never forgave Rolling Stone for giving the album a bad review. I saw Cream on the US tour. They only had an opening act and did a full set. THat was my first real rock concert. A recommendation from the era is the Moby Grape album. It got a little airplay, but many of the later releases had a certain band member's middle finger edited off the washboard.
I was 17 in 2001, driving home from school and hearing Tales of Brave Ulysses on the Q104.3 and just loving every second of it...of course my dad had the vinyl buried somewhere and I devoured it...great record, great cover! Fantastic video Abby as usual!
A superfluous rant: There's not enough credit given to the Who for all their pioneering achievements. They were the first to use maximum volume during their shows. Pete Townshend actually helped design the Marshall stack. They were pioneers in eliminating a second guitarist in a rock band. Townshend pioneered the control of guitar feedback. ❤All the bands of this era were copying the Who's live show. Hendrix, Cream, Blue Cheer, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin. Townshend was really a punk rock guitarist turned beatnik/flower that transitioned into Prog. He is not a blues guitarist, but he played blues songs. They returned to the acid rock sound on Tommy. When the Who made live at leeds, they were trying to bury the blues based loud rock concert. Townshend is an artsy character who always wants to change with the fashion. That is why the Who would reinvent themselves every couple years. But, they were the original. Their live shows throughout the 60s really did not correlate with their albums. Why talk about this? Hendrix, Cream, Led Zeppelin glorified The loud, hard rock sound, while The Who really haven't been credited for it. Maybe this comment should be on a Who album video, but this violent urge struck me today. Btw, I still love Cream, Hendrix, LZ.
Now go listen to *Hell You Call a Dream* (Live at Pepsi Center) and *Automatic Sun* (Live in Studio on MTV Push) by The Warning, and tell me you don't hear the ghosts of Keith Moon and John Entwistle and a few licks from Townshend...
Very true. I absolutely love and adore The Who.....one of my top 10 favorite all-time bands, but as much as I love their studio albums, they're just not heavy like their contemporary live recordings. Sometimes it even comes off sounding thin. Keith was a powerhouse drummer, but you'd never know it because it's very light on a lot of studio recordings. Take "Who Sell Out" for example. Not very heavy, but look what they were doing at Monterey. Going crazy, destroying instruments, feedback etc. It's a weird dichotomy with them. I wish they could've had more early psychedelic era albums where they could've pushed the envelope with the heaviness and experimentation. One more thing. I remember seeing an interview w/Townsend in the "Kids Are Alright" documentary film talking about the silliness of listening to the Beatles in Stereo with vocals and instruments separated on the speaker channels sounding thin, which; ironically he was doing himself on Who recordings! Lmao! Oh, Pete. Smh.
Yeah, that's why I disagree with Abby about Jack being an AMAZING blues singer. Just look at "Rollin And Tumbling", "Train time". His blues singing gives me goosebumps.
My favorite parts of this album are the pink cover and Eric's thick guitar tones on songs like Sunshine of Your Love and SWALBR. Both remind me of strawberry ice cream with whipped cream. Yum! A good album overshadowed by Sgt Peppers and debuts by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Doors, and VU&Nico, IMO.
I can recall the first time I purchased this record out of a pawn shop in Southern Minnesota... The place was like walking into a scene from David Lynch's "Blue Velvet"..
You do your homework, Abby! I wore the grooves out of my vinyl copy back in the early 1970 as I myself was approaching draft age with dread and enjoyed "Take It Back" in an abstract way, with no knowledge of the specific subject matter that Jack was responding to. I got the feeling he was rejecting something from another culture, but figured he had some bad experience in a European country, perhaps. Had no idea he was also dreading something that was particularly American and that I was subject to in my own experience. Of course, I was already drafted once back in 1962. An officer called my home and yelled at my Mom, threatening to send MPs to haul my ass down to the barracks. But in their infinite wisdom, the U.S Army did grant me a reprieve due to my age, as I was only three years old at the time.
For a time in my life, there was a trio of albums I would listen to continuously : In The Court of the Crimson King, Procol Harum, and Disraeli Gears. I soon realized they had one thing in common : they used bona fide poets as lyricists (and in the case of PH and KC, even made them full members). They're a still very close to my heart. DG probably had my favorite artwork of the three. Also, it was the first one I've listened to among the three, and when it came to the first three songs on side two, it seemed like someone had "kicked a door open in my mind" (as Springsteen described his first experience of hearing Bod Dylan).
Since you like Prog and poet inspired music, you might check out Renaissance eg Ashes are Burning or Turn of the Cards (‘73/‘74). Amazing vocalist and nothing like them.
Heaviness - capture the flag - you GOT it. And Felix hated Ginger? Could have. Fiery personality - could have been the red hair. This is the year of REAL change (1967 lyrics). Fabulous review. Sweet spot indeed.
The production by Felix Pappalardi ( R. I. P. and there’s a tragic story involving a co writer on the album Gail Collins, go check it out ) is weirdly off kilter / balance. Yes I agree about the drums, which sound like cardboard boxes being hit with wooden spoons ffs and stuck in one ( right ) channel. Ginger has frequently complained about being drowned out on stage by Jack’s amp stacks and I’m sure he would have hated how he’s been mixed on this album. Maybe Felix learned from this because the balance is much better on” Wheels Of Fire “. To put it in to context, I’ve got home made bootleg live recordings of Cream from 1967/8 where the drums sound pretty good. Maybe Ginger pulled a knife in Felix just like he did on Jack ( pre - Cream )! Great quality work again young lady. Best wishes from England 🏴.
I saw Eric playing the Fool SG in Santa Monica and my life was changed forever, I had literally wasted 14 years. It would take me 5 years to save up for a forgotten Les Paul Junior, best neck ever. Keith followed suit ten years later (Yellow LP Junior).
You are so right baby why couldn't it be 1967 again I mean the colors the music everything about the summer of love and disaraeli gears was one of the best albums that came out that summer along with sgt peppers and are you experienced another great video abby thanx
This is a brilliant album song and playing wise, which is what counts! CREAM was incredibly influential, HENDRIX and this era of Clapton influenced countless would be guitar heroes and many real ones! Every power trio in the future or 3 piece with a singer was vastly influenced by CREAM from Zeppelin to BLUE CHEER to ZZ TOP and VAN HALEN. EDDIE claimed this era Clapton as his primary influence even if it does not sound like it! Enjoyed your vid as always.
Far Out! Abigail, you look like you just stepped away from the corner of Haight Ashbury girl. I dig it. Great album and review, I enjoyed it. Cream, what a legendary band. You're a very groovy chick... ☮ n' ❤
That rattle is the snare drum. It's so loud in the room that it's rattling the snares against the head. Either they're playing in the same room or the guitar or bass is cranked so loud that the booth can't dampen it (apparently that happend on the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers album). I'm a music recording student, and that stuff happens all the time during our projects, especially if we choose to have all the artists in the same room together. The beads clinking could also be the mics picking up Ginger's jewelry, and the shouting could be the other band members or producers giving cues.
In those days, a lot of posters featuring rock groups were done in 'dayglo' paint, which came alive when a room was darkened and a black light (ultraviolet) was turned on. Any that are still out there in someone's collection are worth a lot of money.
I think Jack once described Cream during this period as "Blues in Technicolour". Even crazier is the draft story - If you were in the States for more than six months you were actually eligible for the draft and could have been sent to Vietnam. Mitch Mitchell was apparently sent a draft card in '68 because the Jimi Hendrix Experience was touring there for almost all of that year. They shifted Mitch over the border into Canada for a few days and then high-tailed it back to the U.K.! Disraeli Gears was one of the first albums I fell in love when I started buying records, aged 11 in 1970, and Cream remain one of my top3 bands (along with the Stones and Led Zep).
You should know: Underappreciated 'san francisco sound' greatness: "It's a Beautiful Day" 1969 and the songs 'Hot Summer Day', 'Wasted Union Blues'...then you'll be ready for 'Time Is'. "Sons Of Champlin" - the album 'Loosen Up Naturally' 1969 and the songs 'Freedom' or 'Get High'. (Although 'Get High' has a gimmick it is a very interestingly constructed song that will satisfy what you are looking for.)
Excellent job, as usual, and I love your outfit and your stand for bringing back color. Laura and I hate the current trend of everything from cars to houses to clothes to furniture being white or gray. I once took some photos in a furniture store and posted them on my Facebook page, challenging people to guess whether they were color or black and white. Trick question: they were color photos, but everything in them was black, white or gray, even the framed art for sale. I never want to hear young people claim they can't stand black and white movies when they choose to live in one. BTW, I had this album on cassette, which really reduces the effectiveness of the cover art.
Boom! Thank you! 100% agreed! I absolutely cannot stand how everything you see everywhere is so plain and lifeless! Every house made, every business, every building has white walls!!! All you have to do is watch any home show on HGTV and every home is white/gray. And people enjoy this?!? To each their own, but I don't understand people being happy in a monotone, colorless world. Life should be full of art with lots of color!
I always identified the "woman tone" term with that liquid sound Clapton got by using a lot of gain and turning the treble right down with the tone knob on the guitar - eg. "SWLABR", the lead parts of "Outside Woman Blues" and "We're Going Wrong", or turning it part way down.
Love your work Abby. I love Cream. They were just awesome. Haven't listened to this as an album though, must do that. I really got into Cream and Hendrix in my late teens. Considering that was the late 80's it was an unusual thing to be doing.
Interestingly, I once read somewhere that the extreme panning of the stereo mix of the album was a direct influence on that of the Ramones' 1976 debut, though they were obviously more clearly musically indebted to the MC5, Stooges and 60's garage/ bubblegum pop as opposed to indulgent bluesy noodling/showboating.
Again Abby - Good content and presentation ! You really need to talk to Pam who wrote "I'm With The Band" (GTO's) which I just listened to on audible - Fun Listen !!
every time, the production values get so much better, I dig that. I haven't touched this album in a long time , I hope my long ago acquired copy is in good shape, as I am now curious to hear the puzzling sonic artifacts mentioned.
Disraeli Gears first seared my 11-year-old brain at a friend's party soon after its release. Over time "Sunshine of Your Love" went from "beginner guitar riff you must learn" to annoyingly repetitive. "World of Pain" and "Dance the Night Away" each evoke psychedelic moods otherwise lost to time. Ginger Baker's song contributions have, and always will, mar an otherwise amazing album. A bit like ending Sgt. Pepper with "Act Naturally" or "Don't Pass Me By."
Abby, you were for sure born in the wrong decade, as you look like you just stepped out from Soho Street in the 1960's. If you put a black & white filter on, we might never know the difference, as usual your hair, makeup and fashion are all next level.
The background you provide on album cover origins, the artists and artwork technique are cool deep dives not found elsewhere.. I had no idea.... Can't ask Ginger...
I love "Strange Brew", "Tales of Brave Ulysses" "SWLABR " & "Sunshine of Your Love" from Disraeli Gears. Still a mind-blowing album with totally unique, psychedelic guitar sounds!
Armageddon is one of my favorite record stores ever. Last time I was in Providence, I almost over-spent there. Great store, super cool people. Members of the legendary punk band DROPDEAD own it.
Desrali is not only my favorite album from Cream, but an album that influenced my own playing and writing over the years. And I have always loved covering SWABLR.
Pete Brown will always be an under appreciated talent. His solo work is wild but his collaborations w/ Bruce were magic. The mono version of DG is a must have….but I need both versions.
1975 had an college apartment party at PSU, put this record on and I had a number of guests come up to me asking what the heck was this record…they were blown away even 8 years after it was recorded, total classic
Abby as a Clapton devotee have you ever seen the "unofficial" video for I Feel Free? I saw it on Night Flight a few times in the 80s but anymore I can't find any trace of it. The video starts with Clapton loading some gear into a Porsche, then driving through the countryside, and then we get to the feelin free part where he is flyfishing on some pond or chalk stream in the British countryside. As a flyfisherman myself I remember thinking wow Clapton can really work a fly rod (there's one shot where Clapton drops a fly inches in front of the camera lense at water level). Anyway if you are interested in seeing the nature boy side of Clapton maybe you'll have better luck finding it
White Room, Summer in the City, Dear Prudence, Tales of Brave Ulyssyses, Can't Find My Way Home, all in D with descending bassline. Absolute must for guitar players. You could do a montage and never run out of songs.
Back in the begone times we planted the transistor radio speaker right into the ear-hole and cranked it to ten. Mono. In the ear. Too simple? Sunshine of Your Love ruled the airwaves for a while. The Doors, the Beatles, the Who, and a gajillion other great songs were on the radio and Sunshine ruled. When that riff hit your brain all bets were off. School of Rock does a nice homage to Sunshine. Mono, mono, mono, mono, mono,
a beautiful looking video for sure but i thought that for anyone wanting to understand the big sound of cream and the construction of the songs this video would be very helpful. musical analysis is so central to vinyl monday now. i didn't know anything about the magpie musical moments but though they put them in their pockets the music that emerges is so strange and so them. i love the album and i'm a fan of jack bruce's voice: so differently textured for this kind of music. songs for a tailor, jazzy, very good. controversially ( actually it's just me) i get as much enjoyment from these tracks as i get from jimi's studio albums. this album and are you experienced neck a neck. your dress deserves it's own fan club, night out and red carpet.
As an interesting aside, in the doc Beware of Mr. Baker, it was alleged that Jack Bruce and Robert Stigwood lionized the royalties from Cream's catalog and stiffed both Baker and Eric Clapton. Even Clapton chimed in how he and Baker were.stiffed.
Was fortunate enough to find an original UK press about a year ago. You don't know what you're missing until you own one of those; most of the UK sleeves were laminated, and they didn't have the stupid stereo banner at the top, just absolutely beautiful and they give the coverart the image it truly deserves.
The UK may look better, but certainly doesnt sound better. The hand etched matrix US copies(both 1st and 2nd pressings with the longwear plating LW and autodisc W runout marks) are the consensus best originals and are the only pressings from the master tape. While the UKs are pressed from copy tapes(which means information loss and thus lower fidelity). Disraeli gears is one of the uncommon but not rare cases of this happening with UK bands. Often country of origin means theyre cut from the master, but not always. And while superior copies have been cut from copy tapes, the mastering of the UK is not good enough to close the sonic gap. The uk copies are still good and are better than the stamped US copies(also from copy tapes) but the etched US atcos are widely considered the best. Where even a US etched yellow label 2nd pressing stereo sounds better than a 1st UK stereo. A similar record is shades of deep purple. The original US vinyl was the only one that used the master tape, as it was lost on tour, so UK got a copy tape. Same with the first pressings of aqualung, the 1A US reprise was cut from the master as the 1st UK was a copy. Im happy you enjoy your copy, the UK reactions are still great sounding, but people with US etched copies are not missing a thing by not having a UK. Its infact those with UK copies who are missing out(unless they care more about looking at their record over playing it). The only pressing that compares to the etched US copies is the abbey road half speed mono. Some even prefer it to the US. And the sleeve and label is designed just like the first UK, while sounding better. Now UK definitely got the better pressings of other albums like fresh cream but not disraeli gears. If you don't hear an etched US you won't be missing something, but side by side it's clearly better than the UK and is why consensus is such.
@@simonemurray1345 I actually do happen to own an etched US stereo press and haven't really noticed much improvement from the UK. I'll have to give it another listen and compare the two side by side. I wasn't aware that the UK copies were from a copy tape! Where did you hear that?
Clapton’s nickname of slow hand came about because of how long it took him to change broken strings on stage with the yardbirds. P. S. You’re so cute and cool and knowledgeable of the same things I’m interested in I can barely stand it. If only it was still the 90s or if only I wasn’t twice your age, if only.
I saw Cream at the Fillmore in 1967 and in 1968 I saw them at Winterland during one of the shows being recorded for “Wheels of Fire”. Cream is my #2 all time favorite band (after the Beatles).
@@abigaildevoe Before Cream's first set Bill Graham announced the performance was going to be recorded and to please refrain from playing tambourines in the audience. The four songs I can still visualize are the four on the album, "Traintime": watching Jack Bruce belting out the song and playing his harmonica alongside Ginger. "Toad" because who didn't want to hear a drum solo in those days. "Spoonful" with Jack's powerful voice and the extended improvised middle with the three virtuoso's just killing it. But the song that I can most visualize to this day is "Crossroads" with Eric's blistering guitar solo. An aside, I forget which album cut it is but if you listen closely you can hear a tambourine in the beginning coming from the audience. 🙂 This is a set list I found of the songs Cream played during their first set of the Sunday night performance at Winterland, Tales Of Brave Ulysses, Spoonful, Crossroads, We're Going Wrong, Sweet Wine. ( These performances of Spoonful & Crossroads are on the LP.).
Having mastered "Sunshine " in 1969 I would jam on the song with other players, most of whom didn't get the beat right. When we were kids we played Cowboys and Indians and the Indians would sing Hi-yuh-yuh-yuh, emphasis on the "hi". This turned out to be the same beat as Sunshine. For some reason the beat confused many "musicians". I guess the musicians didn't play Cowboys and Indians.
Greetings from another fellow New Englander! I really enjoy these vinyl Mondays- I often find them educational and entertaining...I find the wit and sense of humor a breath of fresh air...thanks for all your hard work - it feels like you research the hell out of your subjects !
Great unappreciated LPs from the 'Sixties, and 'Seventies: Best of Under-Appreciated Albums 01 M Y S T E R Y T O M E (1973) Fleetwood Mac 02 A N I M A L I Z A T I O N (1966) the Animals 03 M O N A B O N E J A K O N (1970) Cat Stevens 04 C H I L D I S F A T H E R T O T H E M A N (1968) Blood, Sweat & Tears 05 B O Z S C A G G S ( I ) (1969) Boz Scaggs 06 A L O N E T O G E T H E R (1970) Dave Mason 07 R O C K ' N ' R O L L I S B I O D E G R A D A B L E (1971) Stoneground 08 T H E M (US Parrot label) (1965) Them 09 K A R L A B O N O F F (1977) Karla Bonoff 10 Y O U ' R E G O N N A G E T I T (1978) Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 11 H O L L I E S (1974) the Hollies 12 G H O S T W R I T E R (1981) Garland Jeffreys 13 D I X I E C H I C K E N (1973) Little Feat 14 L I S T E N L I K E T H I E V E S (1985) INXS 15 L E O N R U S S E L L ( Atco label ) (1970) Leon Russell 16 T O W N A N D C O U N T R Y (1969) Humble Pie 17 S P O O K Y T W O (1969) Spooky Tooth 18 A L O N G T I M E C O M I N G (1967) the Electric Flag 19 S H I N E O N B R I G H T L Y (1968) Procol Harum 20 S U N S H I N E S U P E R M A N (1966) Donovan
Well done Abby 😊 I stayed up early in the morning to see this one. And you didn’t disappoint. I’ve always liked this record thanks to a relative of mine doing the cover. (You’re right Martin was quite a character! Lol). But this album had a big impact here in Australia. It kicked off a big blues scene in Melbourne in 1968 - 1969. It inspired one of our rockers Billy Thorpe of Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. He got a copy off a US marine on RnR from Vietnam. And became obsessed with trying to get that guitar sound. He actually was offered a deal with Robert Stigwood. But in order to afford a plane ticket to London he decided to do a quick tour of Australia. His guitar player didn’t turn up so he played the guitar himself. Decided he liked it too much and said to heck with London and stayed in Australia! Lol. Check out a performance of “ Mamma” from 1971 on you tube to see the results! Lol
As always.......great job........ Hey I miss the black lights and posters and bean bag furniture........I'll have to create a music room like the 60's.........
