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Monday, November 16, 2020

Kiss

Today in 1981 Kiss released the album Music from "The Elder"

New York City, New York Hard rock, heavy metal
Status:Active
Years active 1973–present
Rooted in the campy theatrics of Alice Cooper and the sleazy hard rock of glam rockers the New York Dolls, Kiss became a favorite of American teenagers in the '70s. Most kids were infatuated with the look of Kiss, not their music. Decked out in outrageously flamboyant costumes and makeup, the band fashioned a captivating stage show featuring dry ice, smoke bombs, elaborate lighting, blood spitting, and fire breathing that captured the imaginations of thousands of kids. But Kiss' music shouldn't be dismissed -- it was a commercially potent mix of anthemic, fist-pounding hard rock driven by sleek hooks and ballads powered by loud guitars, cloying melodies, and sweeping strings. It was a sound that laid the groundwork for both arena rock and the pop-metal that dominated rock in the late '80s.
Casablanca

Paul Stanley - rhythm guitar, vocals, lead guitar on "Just a Boy", "A World Without Heroes" and "The Oath"
Ace Frehley - lead guitar, bass on "Dark Light" and "The Oath", acoustic guitar on "A World Without Heroes"
Gene Simmons - bass guitar, vocals, rhythm guitar on "Only You"
Eric Carr(R.I.P. 1991) - drums, percussion, backing vocals, acoustic guitar on "Under the Rose"
With
Bob Ezrin - producer, keyboards, bass on "Escape From The Island"
Allan Schwartzberg - drums on "Odyssey" and "I", additional overdub
Tony Powers - keyboards on "Odyssey"
The American Symphony Orchestra
St. Robert's Choir

Original Version[edit]
No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
"The Oath" Paul Stanley, Bob Ezrin Stanley 4:33
"Fanfare" Stanley, Ezrin Instrumental 1:00
"Just a Boy" Stanley, Ezrin Stanley 2:34
"Dark Light" Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Anton Fig, Lou Reed Frehley 4:12
"Only You" Simmons Simmons, Stanley 4:22
"Under the Rose" Simmons, Eric Carr Simmons 4:48
"A World Without Heroes" Stanley, Simmons, Ezrin, Reed Simmons 2:39
"Mr. Blackwell" Simmons, Reed Simmons 4:49
"Escape from the Island" Frehley, Carr, Ezrin Instrumental 2:51
"Odyssey" Tony Powers Stanley 5:49
"I" Simmons, Ezrin Stanley, Simmons 3:54
"Finale" Instrumental 1:04
Remastered Version[edit]
No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
"Fanfare" Paul Stanley, Ezrin Instrumental 1:22
"Just a Boy" Stanley, Ezrin Stanley 2:25
"Odyssey" Powers Stanley 5:37
"Only You" Simmons Simmons, Stanley 4:17
"Under the Rose" Simmons, Carr Simmons 4:52
"Dark Light" Frehley, Simmons, Fig, Reed Frehley 4:19
"A World Without Heroes" Stanley, Simmons, Ezrin, Reed Simmons 2:41
"The Oath" Stanley, Ezrin, Powers Stanley 4:32
"Mr. Blackwell" Simmons, Reed Simmons 4:53
"Escape from the Island" Frehley, Carr, Ezrin Instrumental 2:52
"I" Simmons, Ezrin Stanley, Simmons 5:04

Music from "The Elder" is the ninth studio album released by American rock band Kiss.

A substantial departure from their previous output with its epic concept and orchestral elements, album sales were so poor that Kiss did not embark on a supporting tour for the first time in its eight-year history, opting instead to make a handful of promotional appearances. Music from "The Elder" was the first album with drummer Eric Carr and the last album to feature Ace Frehley until their 1996 reunion Alive/Worldwide Tour apart from appearing on the cover of the compilation album Killers and the next album Creatures of the Night and a handful of promotional appearances with the band until 1983.

While "A World Without Heroes" was later performed on the band's 1995 MTV Unplugged appearance, Kiss have largely avoided live performances of songs from the album following initial promotional appearances in 1981

The Kinks

Today in 1973 The Kinks released then album Preservation Act 1

Muswell Hill, London, England Rock
Status:Active
Years active:1964–1996, 2018–present

Although they weren't as boldly innovative as the Beatles or as popular as the Rolling Stones or the Who, the Kinks were one of the most influential bands of the British Invasion. Like most bands of their era, the Kinks began as an R&B/blues outfit. Within four years, the band had become the most staunchly English of all their contemporaries, drawing heavily from British music hall and traditional pop, as well as incorporating elements of country, folk, and blues.

RCA

Ray Davies - vocals, guitar, harmonica
Dave Davies - guitar, vocals
John Gosling - keyboards
John Dalton - bass
Mick Avory - drums
with:

Alan Holmes - brass
Laurie Brown - brass
John Beecham - brass
Krysia Kocjan, Lee Pavey, Lewis Rich, Pamela Travis, Sue Brown - other singers

All tracks written by Ray Davies.

Side one
No. Title Length
"Morning Song" 2:00
"Daylight" 3:19
"Sweet Lady Genevieve" 3:26
"There's a Change in the Weather" 2:59
"Where Are They Now?" 3:28
"One of the Survivors" 4:31
Side two
No. Title Length
"Cricket" 2:56
"Money and Corruption/I Am Your Man" 6:01
"Here Comes Flash" 2:41
"Sitting in the Midday Sun" 3:47
"Demolition" 4:07

Preservation: Act 1 is a 1973 concept album by the English rock group the Kinks. It is their eleventh studio album.

Preservation was not well received by critics and sold poorly (peaking on the Billboard 200 at No. 177), though the live performances of the material were much better received. Some more recent reviews of Preservation: Act 1 have been more sympathetic to its ambitions, such as AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine, who declared "Sweet Lady Genevieve" to be the "real candidate for Davies' forgotten masterpiece".

The 1991 CD reissue on Rhino was a 2-CD set combining Preservation: Act 1 with its 1974 follow-up Preservation: Act 2, but with no bonus tracks other than an extended mix of "Money & Corruption/I Am Your Man", featuring an extra instrumental break.

The 1998 CD reissue of Preservation: Act 1 on Velvel includes the single versions of "Preservation" and "One of the Survivors", neither of which are available on the original vinyl release. The latter briefly charted on the Billboard Pop Singles chart peaking at No. 108

Grand Funk Railroad

Today in 1970 Grand Funk Railroad released the Live album Live Album

Flint, Michigan Hard rock, blues rock, boogie rock
Status:Active
Years active:1969–1976, 1981–1983, 1996–1998, 2000-present

One of the 1970s' most successful hard rock bands in spite of critical pans and somewhat reluctant radio airplay (at first), Grand Funk Railroad built a devoted fan base with constant touring, a loud, simple take on the blues-rock power trio sound, and strong working-class appeal. The band was formed by Flint, MI, guitarist/songwriter Mark Farner and drummer Don Brewer, both former members of a local band called Terry Knight & the Pack. They recruited former ? & the Mysterians bassist Mel Schacher in 1968, and Knight retired from performing to become their manager, naming the group after Michigan's well-known Grand Trunk Railroad.

Capitol

Mark Farner – guitar, keyboards, vocals
Mel Schacher – bass guitar
Don Brewer – drums, vocals

"Introduction" and "Words of Wisdom" are spoken-word tracks featuring Mark Farner's stage banter with the audience; consequently, original pressings of Live Album did not list author credits for these tracks. All other tracks are by Mark Farner, except where noted.

Side one
"Introduction" – 2:30
"Are You Ready" – 3:34
"Paranoid" – 6:20
"In Need" – 9:50
Side two
"Heartbreaker" – 6:58
"Inside Looking Out" (John Lomax, Alan Lomax, Eric Burdon, Bryan "Chas" Chandler) – 12:22
Side three
"Words of Wisdom" – 0:55
"Mean Mistreater" – 4:40
"Mark Says Alright" (Farner, Don Brewer, Mel Schacher) – 5:10
"T.N.U.C." – 11:45
Side four
"Into the Sun" – 12:10

Live Album is the first live album by American hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad, originally released by Capitol Records on November 16, 1970. The first single released from the album, "Mean Mistreater", was released on November 23 and the second, "Inside Looking Out", was released in January 1971.

The album was originally released as a double album on the LP format. Subsequent reissues of the album on the compact disc format have been both double and single disc sets.

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Punk Flashback

Todays Punk Flashback The Nosebleeds

Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds was a short-lived punk band formed in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England in 1976. Though the band never recorded an album and released just one single, it is well known in modern rock history for the later successes of its individual members.

On July 20, 1976 fellow Wythenshawe band Slaughter & The Dogs supported the Sex Pistols along with the Buzzcocks at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall. The Sex Pistols were returning to the Hall after a legendary June 4 concert that served as a catalyst for Manchester’s fledgling music scene.

Garrity worked the July 20 gig as a roadie for Slaughter & the Dogs. When the crowd became violent and he and a friend were injured, someone said, “You’re a right bloody mob aren’t you? Headbanger here and him with a nosebleed,” inspiring Wild Ram’s transformation into Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds.

Vini Reilly, later of The Durutti Column played guitar, Garrity (Ed Banger) sang, Tomanov played drums and Peter Crookes played bass.

The newly-christened group changed their image and sound to concord with the punk movement and released the single “I Ain’t Been to No Music School”/”Fascist Pigs” on Rabid Records. It sold 10,000 copies but failed to launch the band to success.

At the Roxy in London the band played the same two songs over and over. “The audience went absolutely beserk (sic),” Reilly said, “and consequently we were asked to play again and again, because that was what was required.”

The band began to argue over money and fired manager Vinnie Faal. Shortly thereafter, Garrity and Reilly left the band.

Manchester music fan Steven Morrissey, later of The Smiths, replaced Garrity and Billy Duffy, later of Theatre of Hate and The Cult, replaced Reilly.

The new lineup played several gigs, one of which was well reviewed in the New Musical Express. “The Nosebleeds re-surface boasting a Front Man With Charisma, always an advantage,” wrote reviewer Paul Morley. “Lead singer is now minor local legend Steve Morrisson (sic), who, in his own way, is at least aware that rock ‘n’ roll is about magic, and inspiration.”

Morrissey’s compositions with the band included “I Get Nervous” and “(I Think) I’m Ready for the Electric Chair.”

After The Nosebleeds folded, Garrity supported Penetration and The Fall as Ed Banger and His Group Therapy. In 1978 he released a song called “Kinnel Tommy” on Rabid Records, which was rereleased in 1979 by EMI. Also in 1979 he released a single under the moniker Eddi Fiction.

In 1979-80 he sang for Slaughter & the Dogs on the Bite Back album and singles “I’m the One” and “East Side of Town.” He subsequently went solo again and released the 1981 single “I’ve Just Had My Car Nicked” on Spiv Records. In 1983 he released the single “Poor People” on Cloud Nine Records.

In 1991, under the name Sound of the Baskerville , Garrity released a complilation of Nosebleeds, Slaughter & the Dogs and Ed Banger tracks together with new material.

In 2005, vintage 1977 documentary “The Rise And Fall Of The Nosebleeds – Punk Rediscovered,” directed by John Crumpton , premiered in Salford, Manchester.

As of 2006, Garrity is “fronting a ’70s glam band called Edwina’s Rockschool.”

Hardcore Flashback

Todays Hardcore Flashback Final Fight

Los Angeles’ FINAL FIGHT embody the uplifting passion that defines the new wave of west coast hardcore. With their unique melodic sensibility, and lyrical content ranging from the political to the personal, FINAL FIGHT speak volumes.

Their first full length “Under Attack” (Straight On, 2005) is a true hardcore masterpiece that needs to be heard to be believed.

A split 7” with Life Long Tragedy was also released on Deathwish Inc.

They have most recently come out with their second full length “Half Head, Full Shred” released in 2009 on Panic Records.

FINAL FIGHT played their final show at Chain Reaction (Anaheim, California) on March 5th 2010 alongside fellow Californian Hardcore bands. They will be missed.

Classic Flashback

Todays Classic Flashback Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946 in London) is an English singer-songwriter and actress whose career spans more than four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. After a long commercial absence, she returned late in 1979 with the highly acclaimed album, Broken English. Faithfull's subsequent solo work, often critically-acclaimed, has at times been rather overshadowed by her personal history. From 1966 to 1970, she had a highly-publicised romantic relationship with Rolling Stones' lead singer Mick Jagger. She co-wrote "Sister Morphine", which is featured on the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers album.

Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London, to Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, a British Army officer and professor of Italian Literature and Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso, a Viennese noblewoman of half Jewish and half noble Austrian descent, coming from the Habsburg dynasty. Faithfull attended a Roman Catholic girls school.

Faithfull began her singing career in 1964 after being discovered at a launch party for The Rolling Stones by pop music producer Andrew Loog Oldham. Her first hit, "As Tears Go By", was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights", and "Sister Morphine" (which she co-wrote with Jagger).

Faithfull married artist John Dunbar in 1965, and in that same year gave birth to a son named Nicholas. The marriage was short-lived however, and Faithfull began a much publicised relationship with Mick Jagger. The relationship with Jagger lasted throughout the late 1960s. After they split up in 1970, Faithfull briefly stopped recording and nursed a drug addiction. She moved to Dublin in the middle of the 1970s, and had quite a success with "Dreaming My Dreams", which reached the top of the Irish pop charts.

She returned to recording in 1979 with Broken English, one of her most critically hailed album releases. Broken English also saw Faithfull emerge as a songwriter of some ability, with powerful songs on follow up albums Dangerous Acquaintances and A Child's Adventure. Her success continued throughout the 1980s, culminating with Strange Weather (1987), her most critically lauded album of the decade.

When Roger Waters assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the rock opera The Wall live in Berlin in July 1990, Faithfull played the part of Pink's over-protective mother.

Faithfull's musical career had a second fillip during the early 1990s with the recording of the live album Blazing Away and performances of the work of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. She released a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins and also performed in The Threepenny Opera. Her interpretation of the music of this era has been critically acclaimed, and led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues, and a successful concert and cabaret tour.

In 1994 she published her autobiography, Faithfull. The next year she recorded A Secret Life, with songs written with Angelo Badalamenti, a composer favored by film director David Lynch.

Faithfull also sang with Metallica providing backing vocals on "The Memory Remains" from their 1997 album ReLoad, and appeared in the song's surrealistic video.

Faithfull's 1999 DVD Dreaming My Dreams contains material about her childhood and parents, historical video footage going back to 1964, and interviews with the artist and several women friends who have known her since she was a young girl. There are sections on her relationship with first husband John Dunbar and with Mick Jagger, and brief interviews with his fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards, with whom she has remained on friendly terms since the 1960s. The DVD concludes with a thirty-minute live concert.

The new millennium has seen Faithfull's talent flourish, with every album receiving critical praise. In 2000 she released Vagabond Ways, which was hailed as one of the finest of her career, and certainly showed her songwriting reaching a new peak. Her renaissance continued with Kissin' Time (2002), with songs written with Beck, Billy Corgan, Jarvis Cocker, Dave Stewart, David Courts, and the French pop singer Etienne Daho. On this record, she paid tribute to Nico (with "Song for Nico") whose work she admired, and showed a strong sense of humour with the autobiographical "Sliding Through Life on Charm". This was followed in 2004 by Before the Poison, a collaboration with PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Damon Albarn, and Jon Brion. It was considered by many critics to be the best work of her career, though to much of the public Broken English remains her definitive record. In 2005, Andre Schneider did a cover version of her song "The Hawk".

With a recording career that spans over four decades, Faithfull has continually reinvented her musical persona; experimenting in vastly different musical genres and collaborating with such varied artists as David Bowie, The Chieftans, Tom Waits, Lenny Kaye, and Pink Floyd.

Faithfull also made a modestly successful foray into an acting career and has given notable performances in the 1967 film I'll Never Forget What's 'Is Name alongside Orson Welles, as a leather-clad motorcyclist in the 1968 French film Girl on a Motorcycle opposite Alain Delon, and in the 1969 Kenneth Anger cult film Lucifer Rising. In 1969, Faithfull played Ophelia in the Nicol Williamson adaptation of Hamlet. In 1993 she played the role of Pirate Jenny in The Threepenny Opera at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Later she performed The Seven Deadly Sins with the Vienna Radio Symphony. She has made brief guest star appearances in the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (as God), in Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy (2001 film), and plays Empress Maria-Teresa in Sofia Coppola's biopic Marie-Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst in the title role.

She also pursues a theatrical career. In 2004 and in 2005, she appeared in Robert Wilson and Tom Waits's The Black Rider. Faithfull currently lives in Paris, France, and still regularly appears in concerts. Most recently she performed a duet on Patrick Wolf's new album The Magic Position.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Christian Andreu

Christian Roger Andreu (born November 15, 1976) is a French musician best known as the lead guitarist of metal band Gojira. He was guitarist on an album of Familha Artús.

Christian Andreu's influences include bands such as Death, Morbid Angel, Metallica, Slayer, Tool and classical music. His favorite musicians are Death, Metallica, Tool, Mozart, La Tordue, Barbara, Jacques Brel, and Georges Brassens among others.

He was also a guitarist in an experimental ethno-tribal progressive rock band playing in a traditional style called Familha Artús in 2007.

In an interview for ZYVA Magazine, a French media outlet, Christian Andreu explained that he listens to only a few metal artists outside his band, Gojira. Andreu stated that he listens to classical music primarily. He also listens to Bulgarian music, Indian music and Björk. In the same interview, Andreu quotes "Symbolic" from the band Death as the song that portrays him