Mahogany Rush "Maxoom" 1973

1. Maxoom
2. Buddy
3. Magic Man
4. Funky Woman
5. Madness
6. All in Your Mind
7. Blues
8. Boardwalk Lady
9. Back on Home
10. New Beginning


The first album released from Frank Marino. This album was dedicated to Jimi Hendrix which enhanced the ugly rumor that Frank was Jimi's reincarnation. The record features a vast array of styles which only grace the surface of what's to come.
My favorite song is "Buddy" in which Frank is actually singing to Jimi about the affect that he had on Frank and his untimely death.

- Frank Marino of Mahogany Rush -

One day when I'm old and grey and feeble, I'm gonna open one of those cheap roadside attraction museums, and mine is going to be dedicated to the urban legends and tall tales of rock 'n' roll. Somewhere amongst exhibits like The Ham Sandwich That Killed Mama Cass, Morrison's "Little Jim" Live in Miami and The Rod Stewart Stomach Pump will be a mural depicting Frank Marino in a drug-induced coma being taught guitar by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix. To put it another way, this well-worn version of Marino's story is complete balderdash, but it's too imbedded into the rock 'n' roll consciousness to ever really go away.
But even the hard facts are pretty amazing: Canadian drug enthusiast Frank Marino taught himself how to play guitar while in the hospital (but not in a coma) recovering from a bad trip and went on to record the first Mahogany Rush album at the tender age of 16! Marino managed to make a long career out of his Hendrix obsessions, but I give the nod to the debut simply because later offerings were produced far too slickly.

Mahogany Rush "Maxoom" 1973

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Norman Haines Band (UK Heavy Progressive)

1971 classic Birmingham UK heavy prog album from Norman Haines Band (post Locomotive and formerly Sacrifice). The sound is much like Locomotive with perhaps the odd slice of Arzachel style jamming. Featuring Neil Clark on guitar, Andy Hughes on bass & vocals, Jimmy Skidmore on drums and Mr Haines himself on keyboards & vocals. A single was taken from the album (Finding My Way Home/Rabbits) and released under the name Avalanche! Great cover art and a superb version of the Locomotive track "Mr. Armageddon". .
Following the huge success of our recent reissue of prog rockers Locomotive's album, We Are Everything You See (RRLP042), it seemed only right that we should release the other album featuring the group's amazing key board player, Norman Haines.
Originally released in 1971 on the Parlophone label (PCS 7130), The Norman Haines Band's Den Of Iniquity carries on where We Are Everything You See left off, which is hardly surprising, as many believe that this album was actually recorded at the same time. Here again the genius of Haines stands out, but the entire record can be considered one of the finest and least-known prog albums ever to see the light of day.
At its time of release, many shops refused to stock Den Of Iniquity, sighting the album's grotesque cover as just too disgusting for the sensitive record-buying public to cope with. What a mistake. Not only did lovers of prog miss out on a truly great album but also its absence from record shop shelves turned it into one of the most sought-after collector’s items of all time, with originals now fetching more than £1000!
Den Of Iniquity boasts many musical highlights, but its finest moments were two instrumentals, Rabbits and Haines' Life Is So Unkind. Unfortunately, after the release of one final solo 45, Give It To You Girl, Haines called it a day and disappeared into obscurity, leaving behind not just the thought that a potentially-great and influential musician had retired far too early, but that the legacy of his brief career was one of the most collectable prog albums ever.

Side 1:

01 - Den Of Iniquity
02 - Finding My Way Home
03 - Everythibg You See (Mr Armagedon)
04 - When I Come Down
05 - Bourgeois (2:59)
06 - Rabbits
a) Sonata (For Singing Pig)
b) Joint Effort
c) Skidpatch
d) Miracle
07 - Life Is So Unkind
a) Moonlight Mazurka
b) Echoes Of The Future
08 - Elaine (Bonus)
09 - I really Need a Friend (Bonus)
10 - Daffodil (Bonus)
11 - Autumn Mobile (Bonus)
12 - Give To You Girl (Bonus)

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SCORPION

Scorpion (Tower Records ST-5171 - 1969)
Bob Babbitt: Bass
Mike Cambell: Vocals
Ray Monette: Guitars
Andrew Smith: Drums
Recorded at Tera-Shirma Studio, Detroit

Psychiadelic soul and funk rock, also exploring the blues and progressive rock fields .
Vocalist Mike Campbell (aka Michael Champion of "Total Recall" and "Beverly Hills Cop" fame) proofed that he was a talented and enthusiastic
shouter. The musicians are, of course, a strong outfit. Bob Babbitt worked as a Funk Brother for the famous Motown Studio and backed tons of hits with his sure shot bass lines.
Ray Monette is a member of Rare Earth and the Funk Brothers and shows all his skills from Funk to Blues with heavy wahwah lines on this recording!

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ALACRAN

1 Sticky
2 Son (Amèrica , Amèrica)
3 My Soul (Suddenly)
4 San Francisco (California)
5 Take a Look Around You, Baby
6 Will You Keep My Love Forever


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Gyspy Blood

Japanese band:

The second and last album of a little known Japanese band. I heard mentions that these five musicians were insired by works of Happy End but I think that their immediate inspirers were rather American bands of that time than local performers. Particularly the sound comparing to Happy End is harder although some parallels can be drawn on second part of the record. Stylistically the album is made in the manner of typical American folk- and country-rock a la CSN&Y, Buffalo Springfield, late Byrds, early Eagles etc., in some tracks you can find a decent grain of psychedelia in Grateful Dead style and a couple of songs closer to bluesy psychedelia in the vein of Quicksilver Messenger Service. In CD reissue there are 4 bonus tracks – this is an addition of 1973 band work, and one of the compositions there includes oriental motives. In the role of record producer was Miki Curtis – a well-known figure of Japanese stage of the time and the ex-leader of Samurai. All piano parts were performed by Alan Merrill, future leader of Japanese glam-rockers Vodka Collins, and organ parts by former Spiders member Katsuo Ohno. In general it's a very good performance, very consistens play of instrumentalists, great vocal harmonies. Nice work.

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Samurai

Samurai - "Kappa" {Japan} [1971] (Heavy-Progressive)

This was not the British band with Dave Lawson, but a Japanese one.

They moved to Britain in the late 60's, and got a contract with Philips.

They were also joined by several British members and released a couple of albums. "Kappa" from 1971 reveals a band in the heavy-progressive vein and with a thing for lengthy jams and improvisations. This is especially apparent on the instrumental 22-minute "King Riff and Snow Flakes" that takes up the whole of side 2. Heavy guitar and organ dominates the sound, and literally every musician in the group is allowed to stretch out. The first side is a lot more structured and song-oriented, although the 10-minute opener "Trauma" also features lengthy improvisations. "Same Old Reason" is a strong tune with harpsichord and nice themes. The ballad "Daredatta" is sung in Japanese and dominated by the flute of Miki Curtis. "Vision of Tomorrow" is a straightforward and traditional 70's hard rock song. Overall, quite solid and enjoyable stuff if you're into early 70's heavy progressive rock with lengthy solos and instrumental passages. http://www.vintageprog.com/sss.htm
Samurai – a Japanese group led by vocalist/flautist Miki Curtis. They went to Europe in late 1967, picking up some European members and thus becoming half-Japanese. In London they recorded a single and their debut album, the double-LP [so I’m told] ‘Samurai’ a.k.a. ‘Miki Curtis & Samurai’ [German Metronome, 1970], as well as a single only released in Italy. They should not be confused with the UK group of the same name, who released a self-titled LP on Greenwich in 1971.
Their second album, ‘Green Tea’ [Philips, 1970], is as far as I can tell simply a single-LP repackaging of the debut only released in Japan, to where the band had returned. The last album that I know of is ‘Kappa’ [Philips, 1971]. The band played a varied kind of psychedelic progressive rock, occasionally a bit hard-rocking, with jazzy and exotic Asian touches. They’ve been compared by Vernon Joyson to Andwella’s Dream and early Traffic. The music on their first album [the only one I’ve heard] is fairly accessible, but without at all sacrificing quality or creativity. On ‘Kappa’ they reputedly played lengthier tracks with more of a heavy progressive leaning. ‘Samurai’/’Green Tea’ [single LP version] was reissued on CD by P-Vine. The bass player, Tetsu Yamauchi, was later in Friends [see above], Free and The Faces, as well as pursuing a brief solo career. Drummer Yujin Harada was later in the last incarnation of Far East Family Band [see above]. Graham Smith, credited on harmonica on the first 2 albums, is probably the same person who later played violin in String Driven Thing and Van Der Graaf.

1 - Trauma (10:18)

2 - Same Old Reason (2:49)

3 - Daredatta (3:38)

4 - Vision Of Tomorrow (3:52)

5 - King Riff And Snow Flakes (22:28)

Line-up- Miki Curtis: Vocals, Flute- Joe Dunnet: Guitar- Yamauchi Tetsuo: Bass- Harada Yuji: Drums- John Redfern: Organ- Hiro Izumi: Guitar, Koto- Mike Walker: Vocals, Piano- Graham Smith: Harmonica

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Czy Mnie Jeszcze Pamietasz

Czesław Niemen

was one of the most important and original Polish singer-songwriters and rock balladeers of the last quarter-century.

He made his debut in the early 1960s, singing Polish rock and soul music.

Raccomandate

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