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Episode 169 Chapter 28, Moog Analog Synthesizers, Part 2. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes. This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corresponds to a chapter in the text and an associated list of recommended works, also called Listen in the text. They provide listening examples of vintage electronic works featured in the text. The works themselves can be enjoyed without the book and I hope that they stand as a chronological survey of important works in the history of electronic music. Be sure to tune-in to other episodes of the podcast where we explore a wide range of electronic music in many styles and genres, all drawn from my archive of vintage recordings. There is a complete playlist for this episode on the website for the podcast. Let's get started with the listening guide to Chapter 28, Moog Analog Synthesizers, Part 2 from my book Electronic and Experimental music. Playlist: CLASSIC SYNTHESIZER ROCK— FROM TAPE COMPOSITION TO SYNTHESIZERS Time Track Time Start Introduction –Thom Holmes 01:34 00:00 1. The Beatles, “Tomorrow Never Knows” (1966). Tape loops and Lennon's voice fed through the rotating Leslie speaker of a Hammond organ. 02:57 01:42 2. Spooky Tooth and Pierre Henry, “Have Mercy” (1969). Featured tape composition by the French composer of musique concrète as part of a collaborative rock opera. 07:55 04:40 3. Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, “Lucky Man” (1971). Featured the Moog Modular played by Keith Emerson; one of the first rock hits in which a Moog was the featured solo instrument. 04:39 12:34 4. Yes, “Roundabout” (1971). Featured the Minimoog, Mellotron, Hammond Organ and other electronic keyboards played by Rick Wakeman. 08:33 17:10 5. Elton John, “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” (1973). Featured the ARP 2600 played by Dave Henschel. 11:10 25:42 6. David Bowie, “Speed of Light” (1977). Produced by Brian Eno. Used an EMS AKS synthesizer and Eventide H910 harmonizer for the electronic effects and sounds. 02:47 36:46 7. Gary Wright, “Touch and Gone” (1977). Used Polymoog, Clavinet, Oberheim, and Fender-Rhodes electronic keyboards. 03:58 39:32 8. Gary Numan, “Cars” (1979). Early synth-rock success using electronic keyboards without guitar. Multiple Polymoog synthesizers. 03:52 43:28 9. The Art of Noise, “(Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise” (1984). Art rock devised by Anne Dudley and Trevor Horn exploring the sampling capabilities of the Fairlight CMI. 04:23 47:20 10. Grace Jones, “Slave to the Rhythm” (1985). Featured the Synclavier programmed and played by Trevor Horn. 09:39 51:43 Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations. Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and Bandcamp.
"The highways jammed with broken heroesOn a last chance power driveEverybody's out on the run tonightBut there's no place left to hide"Avoid the jammed highways and join me on this week's Super Sounds Of The 70's. Coming along are David Bowie, 10CC, Sugarloaf, The Stooges, Grass Roots, Doobie Brothers, Guess Who, Hollies, Rolling Stones, Spooky Tooth, Boz Scaggs, Ten Years After, The Pretenders, Elvin Bishop, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, The Eagles and Bruce Springsteen.
"I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanaI was playing soft while Bobby sang the bluesWindshield wipers slapping time, holding Bobby's hand in mine .We sang every song that driver knew.."Let's singalong together, please join us on this year's 1st musical journey back to the 70's. Hitching a ride are Spooky Tooth, Eric Burdon & War, Little Feat, Tower Of Power, Steve Miller Band, Peter Frampton, Savoy Brown, Foreigner, Marshall Tucker Band, Humble Pie, Fleetwood Mac, Gordon Lightfoot, Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers, Jethro Tull, The Kinks, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Police, Doobie Brothers, Earth Wind & Fire and Janis Joplin...
Fosforo 1684: I brani della striscia numero 4 della settimana: Ahmad Jamal - Poor Butterfly (Jamal at the Pershing Vol.2); Frank Zappa - Bathtub Man; Wolfgang Haffner - Second Nature; Paulinho da Viola - Cuidado, teu orgulho te mata; National - Terrible Love; Spooky Tooth with Pierre Henry - Have Mercy; Fosforo va in onda ogni giorno alle 01:20 e alle 18:00. Puoi ascoltare le sequenze musicali di Rufus T. Firefly sulla frequenza di Radio Tandem, 98.400FM, o in streaming e anche in podcast.Per info: https://www.radiotandem.it/fosforo
T.03 Choixpitre 38 - Lisa vous propose de suivre Siobhan dans les méandres d'une société établie dans l'ombre de notre monde.
Vilda tjejer, plastpengar och kusliga tänder. Ulf Henningsson och Åke Eriksson fortsätter sin musikaliska resa till Norra England och nu är det dags för de ganska glesbefolkade grevskapen County Durham och Cumberland. Några av artisterna de stöter på nådde viss framgång: Susan Maughan, Whistling Jack Smith, Plastic Penny och Spooky Tooth, medan de flesta övriga bara hade förhoppningar om något liknande: Colorados, Ceasars, Janie Jones, Valerie Mitchell, Answers, Shorty & Them, Jazzboard, Earl Vince & The Valiants, Marshall Scott Etc och Art. På bilden: V.I.P.'s från Carlisle.
T.03 Choixpitre 36 - Connaissez-vous la Mort ?
Esta semana, en Islas de Robinson, entre 1972 y 1973, tiramos de clásicos. Suenan: THE MOVE - "DO YA" (1972) / STEELY DAN - "REELIN' IN THE YEARS" ("CAN'T BUY A THRILL", 1972) / BIG STAR - "WHEN MY BABY'S BESIDE ME" ("#1 RECORD", 1972) / MOTT THE HOPPLE - "ONE OF THE BOYS" ("ALL THE YOUNG DUDES", 1972) / PETER FRAMPTON - "IT'S A PLAIN SHAME" ("WIND OF CHANGE", 1972) / FAMILY - "CHECK OUT" ("IT'S ONLY A MOVIE", 1973) / SPOOKY TOOTH - "ALL SEWN UP" ("WITNESS", 1973) / HOT TUNA - "EASY NOW" ("THE PHOSPHORESCENT RAT", 1973) / JOE WALSH - "MOTHER SAYS" ("BARNSTORM", 1972) / STRAY - "HOW COULD I FORGET YOU" ("SATURDAY MORNING PICTURES", 1972) / GOLDEN EARRING - "ALL DAY WATCHER" ("TOGETHER", 1972) /Escuchar audio
GARY WRIGHT 'THE LOST INTERVIEWS' EPISODE 4 with RAY SHASHO Gary Wright (April 26, 1943 – September 4, 2023) Gary Wright is a celestial keyboard virtuoso, idyllic songwriter, and vocalist with powerful soulful pipes. Wright is an innovator of the synthesizer and over the years has managed to condense his many synthesized melodies into a single keyboard strapped around his neck. Although born and raised in Cresskill, New Jersey, Wright founded the British rock group Spooky Tooth in 1967. Wright would later become most recognized for his two solo hit singles “Dream Weaver” in 1975 and “Love Is Alive” in 1976. Gary Wright will be joining the ‘Sail Rock 2013' tour along with Christopher Cross, Orleans, Firefall, John Ford Coley, Robbie Dupree and Player beginning August 5th in West Allis, Wisconsin. Visit Pollstar.com for all the latest concert dates. SPOOKY TOOTH: Gary Wright joined the band 'Art' in 1967. The ‘V.I.P.'S' morphed into 'Art' after several lineup changes since its inception in 1963. The British R&B music ensemble had featured various distinguished musicians including Mike Harrison, Greg Ridley, Jimmy Henshaw, Keith Emerson, Luther Grosvenor, Walter Johnstone and Mike Kellie. Keith Emerson (The Nice, ELP) left in 1967 when the name was changed to Art. The band eventually turned into Spooky Tooth with a lineup of Wright (organ, keyboards, and vocals), Harrison (vocals, keyboards) Ridley (bassist), Grosvenor (guitar, vocals) and Kellie (drums). In 1968, Spooky Tooth released their debut album entitled … It's All About. The album featured covers by Janis Ian and Bob Dylan. Most of the other tracks were either written or co-written by Gary Wright. The bands next release Spooky Two (1969) released on Island Records was hailed by critics as one of their finest recordings. The album featured many of the bands standards including “Evil Woman” and “Better by You, Better Than Me” a tune written by Wright and eventually covered by Judas Priest in 1978. Spooky Tooth quickly became a highly sought concert attraction and a mainstay on progressive rock radio. The band shared the stage with such legendary music acts as Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones. Bassist Greg Ridley left in 1969 to join Humble Pie, Andy Leigh replaced him. Also in 1969, the group released Ceremony (Spooky Tooth and Pierre Henry album) a progressive collaboration with the French electronic composer. Session musician: Wright left Spooky Tooth briefly to produce albums for Traffic and Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller and his production company. Gary Wright became an esteemed session musician and was asked to play on George Harrison's triple- album set All Things Must Pass (1970). Wright and Harrison began a long lasting friendship and musical collaboration that included Wright playing or sharing songwriting tasks on several of Harrison's subsequent albums including … Living in the Material World (1973), Dark Horse (1974), Extra Texture (Read All About It)(1975), Thirty Three & 1/3(1976), George Harrison(1979), Cloud Nine (1987). The Last Puff album (1970) primarily featured Mike Harrison while Wright focused on other projects. The release featured an incredible cover version of The Beatles, “I Am The Walrus.” Joe Cocker Grease Band members Henry McCullough, Chris Stainton and Alan Spenner were brought into the studio to work on the album. In 1971, Gary Wright performed “Two Faced Man” with George Harrison on the Dick Cavett Show. He also played piano on Harry Nilsson's #1 hit, a Badfinger cover tune entitled, “Without You.” In 1972, Gary Wright and Mike Harrison reformed Spooky Tooth with a different lineup. The new lineup featured future Foreigner founder and guitarist Mick Jones. Subsequent Spooky Tooth albums … (You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw (1973), Witness (1973), The Mirror (1974) and Cross Purpose (1999) (Reunion album without Wright, Greg Ridley returned). Spooky Tooth disbanded in 1974. Gary Wright and George Harrison visited India in 1974 as a guest of Ravi Shankar. Wright developed a long-term relationship with Shankar after the visit. SOLO CAREER: Gary Wright released two critically acclaimed solo albums on A&M Records … Extraction in 1971 and Footprint in 1972. Wright signed a record deal with Warner Brothers Records in 1974 and achieved his biggest commercial success with the release of The Dream Weaver album (1975). The single “Dream Weaver” reached #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on the Cash Box charts. The album also spawned the hit “Love is Alive” (1976) reaching #2 on Billboard's singles chart. The album peaked at #7 on Billboard's Hot 100 albums chart. The song “Dream Weaver” has been spotlighted on numerous television shows and motion pictures. “Love is Alive” was covered by several legendary artists including … Chaka Khan, Joe Cocker and Richie Havens. The Dream Weaver album featured guest musicians …guitarist Ronnie Montrose, drummers Jim Keltner and Andy Newmark, Hammond organist David Foster and Bobby Lyle on additional synthesizers. In 1981, Gary Wright scored again commercially with “Really Wanna Know You” (#16 Billboard Singles Hit). Gary Wright Solo albums … Extraction (1971), Footprint (1972), The Dream Weaver (1975), The Light of Smiles(1977), Touch and Gone (1978), Headin' Home (1979), The Right Place (1981), Who I Am (1988), First Signs of Life (1995), Human Love (1999), Waiting to Catch the Light (2008), The Light of a Million Suns (EP) (2008), Connected (2010). In 2004, Wright, Harrison and Kellie reunited Spooky Tooth for several concerts in Germany. As a result of their triumphant return, they released the Nomad Poets DVD in 2007. The same lineup played a series of European dates in 2008. Most recently: Gary Wright toured with Ringo Starr and His All-Star Band in 2008. In 2010, Wright released his latest studio album entitled Connected and features guest artists … Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh and Jeff “Skunk” Baxter. Gary Wright is currently writing his 'memoir' for the Penguin Group and should be available sometime near the end of 2014. I had the great pleasure of chatting with Gary Wright recently about ‘Sail Rock 2013,' Spooky Tooth, George Harrison, the music business, metaphysics and much-much more. Support us on PayPal!
Sam and Jason are back on the bi-coastal swing, digging into the wild world of Beatles covers, encompassing the great to the terrible. To kick the clicks off, Jason rounds up selections from Vortex favorites PM Dawn, Todd Rundgren, Tom Jones, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, plus left field takes from Boris and Merzbow, Spooky Tooth, Sinéad O'Connor, and more. Then, Sam takes things in a cosmic direction, examining multiple covers of one song, the Beatles' classic "Across the Universe," with takes by 10cc, Scorpions, Rufus Wainwright, Beady Eye, Sean Ono Lennon, and even Sam's own band, The Format. Check out a Spotify playlist of these fab selections. Call us anytime at 1-877-WASTOIDS. More podcasts and videos at WASTOIDS.com | Follow us on Instagram and YouTube.
ABOUT RICK WILLS: Legendary bass guitarist Rick Wills is best known for his work with Foreigner and his associations with the Small Faces, Roxy Music, Peter Frampton, Spooky Tooth, David Gilmour, Bad Company and The Jones Gang. ABOUT THE PODCAST: Candid discussions with and about those behind the scenes in the music business including industry veterans representing the segments of: Musician, Design & Live ABOUT THE HOSTS: All three Music Buzzz Podcast hosts (Dane Clark, Hugh Syme and Andy Wilson) have spent their careers working with the biggest names in entertainment and have been, and still are, a fly on the wall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Esta semana, en Islas de Robinson, caemos entre 1970 y 1972, con grandes clásicos de aquellos años dorados, en cruce de coordenadas americanas y británicas. Suenan: THE BAND - "THE RUMOR" ("STAGE FRIGHT", 1970) / CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG - "DÉJÀ VU" ("DÉJÀ VU", 1970) / NEIL YOUNG - "DON'T LET IT BRING YOU DOWN" ("AFTER THE GOLD RUSH", 1970) / BRONCO - "BUMPERS WEST" ("COUNTRY HOME", 1970) / COCHISE - "CHINA" ("COCHISE", 1970) / HUMBLE PIE - "A SONG FOR JENNY" ("ROCK ON", 1971) / FREE - "HEAVY LOAD" ("FIRE AND WATER", 1970) / TRAFFIC - "HIDDEN TREASURE" ("LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS", 1971) / JOHN AND BEVERLEY MARTYN - "STORMBRINGER" ("STORMBRINGER", 1970) / SPOOKY TOOTH - "DOWN RIVER" ("THE LAST PUFF", 1970) / JOE COCKER - "SOMETHING TO SAY" ("JOE COCKER", 1972) / Escuchar audio
Rich Embury is back again with another flashback to the '70s, '80s, and '90s rock and metal scene! Rock History, and Classics from Slayer / Iron Maiden / Tesla / Sex Pistols / Whitesnake / April Wine / Manic Eden / Black Sabbath / The Offspring / KISS / Ramones / Spooky Tooth! This edition […]
Start Artist Song Time Album Year 0:00:50 7. The Last Puff 1970 0:19 0:01:09 Spooky Tooth The Wrong Time 4:58 The Last Puff 1970 0:06:07 6. You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw 1973 0:22 0:06:31 Spooky Tooth This Time Around 4:06 You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw 1973 0:10:37 […]
"Speak out, you got to speak out against the madnessYou got to speak your mind, if you dareBut don't—no, don't no—try to get yourself electedIf you do you had better cut your hair, mmAnd it appears to be a long (Yes it does)Appears to be a long (Mm)Appears to be a long timeSuch a long, long, long, long time before the dawn, yeah"Things haven't changed much in 55 years, have they?Well, no worries! Join us as we begin our New Years Weekend on this weeks "Red Eye Flight" where your presence counts. Joing us on this week's flight are Eric burdon & The Animals, Traveling Wilbury's, Ambrosia, Todd Rundgren, Al Stewart, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Spooky Tooth, Weather Report, Donovan, George Harrison, Miles Davis, Beatles, Billy Joel, Traffic, Art Garfunkel, Derek & The Dominos, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Marmalade, Vanilla Fudge,, Electric Prunes, Jefferson Airplane, Badfinger, Moody Blues, Frank Sinatra, Alan Parsons Project and Crosby Stills & Nash,,,
"HelloIs there anybody in there?Just nod if you can hear me, Is there anyone at home?Come on now, I hear you're feeling downWell, I can ease your pain, Get you on your feet againThe child is grown, The dream is goneI have become comfortably numb"Join me on this afternoon's musical journey for divine distraction as we explore this wondrous thing called Music. Joining us are Frank Zappa, Procol Harum, The Doors, Richard Thompson, Black Sabbath, Creedence Clearwater Revival, King Crimson, Spooky Tooth, Grand Funk Railroad, Warren Zevon, Deep Purple, Donovan and Pink Floyd...
"Can you give me sanctuary, I must find a place to hideA place for me to hide, Can you find me soft asylumI can't make it anymore, The Man is at the doorWhen all else fails, we can whip the horse's eyesAnd make them sleep and cry"No need to find shelter, just tune in for a musical journey with fabulous sets of tunes not heard anywhere else. Joining us on this weeks Red Eye journey are Radiohead, Patti Smith, Flo & Eddie, Jefferson Starship, The Police, Beatles, Moody Blues, Kinks, Ten Years After, Nilsson, Al Kooper, Judy Collins, The Tradewinds, U2, Lou Reed, Traffic, Spooky Tooth, Trevor Gordon Hall, Tom Petty, Graham Nash, Led Zeppelin, Crosby Stills & Nash, Elton John, Jean Luc Ponty and The Doors...
Neil Storey is an old pal from our magazine days who worked in the press office at Island. He looked after U2, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, the B-52's and many others. About 15 years ago he began the mammoth task of compiling a series of books telling the story of virtually every record the label released in its pioneering history, tracking down and talking to all those involved - musicians, producers, designers, photographers, label staff – and collecting old music press ads and ephemera from the time. The book's almost a foot square so LP sleeves can be reproduced ‘actual size'. The first volume is just out, The Island Book Of Records 1959-1968, a thing of very great beauty. As David says, “it's like entering the record shop of your dreams.” We talked to Neil at his home in France about this and much else besides … … Chris Blackwell's involvement in the making of Dr No and the single Jamaican beach shot that told them they had a hit movie. … the album they released that no-one involved could remember. … Shotgun Wedding by Roy ‘C', Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, Lance Hayward, Millie Small's ‘My Boy Lollipop' … … the letter Blackwell sent to the workshy Spooky Tooth with threats of wage deductions. … the lucrative ascent of Jethro Tull. … the little-known compilations of Rugby songs, ‘Bawdy British Ballads' and risqué adult comedy that “saved the label's bacon” in the mid-‘60s. … the time Neil stumbled across Traffic's fabled Aston Tirrold cottage on a school camping trip. … the highly collectable “Birth of Ska' album that was never released. … one immortal week at the Marquee Club. … and why Island were banned for Olympic Studios. Order the Island Book of Records Vol 1 here …https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/neil-storey/the-island-book-of-records-volume-i-1959-68?channable=409d926964003230353632383608&gclid=Cj0KCQjw06-oBhC6ARIsAGuzdw1pbKtxLGkjgkiJfcAll84H65dVQ1r_h7obky-QWlVtpr21UgiQP54aAk1BEALw_wcB#hardback-signed-plusTickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21 Soho on October 30th here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ysY3FvyFaeSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyouear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Neil Storey is an old pal from our magazine days who worked in the press office at Island. He looked after U2, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, the B-52's and many others. About 15 years ago he began the mammoth task of compiling a series of books telling the story of virtually every record the label released in its pioneering history, tracking down and talking to all those involved - musicians, producers, designers, photographers, label staff – and collecting old music press ads and ephemera from the time. The book's almost a foot square so LP sleeves can be reproduced ‘actual size'. The first volume is just out, The Island Book Of Records 1959-1968, a thing of very great beauty. As David says, “it's like entering the record shop of your dreams.” We talked to Neil at his home in France about this and much else besides … … Chris Blackwell's involvement in the making of Dr No and the single Jamaican beach shot that told them they had a hit movie. … the album they released that no-one involved could remember. … Shotgun Wedding by Roy ‘C', Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, Lance Hayward, Millie Small's ‘My Boy Lollipop' … … the letter Blackwell sent to the workshy Spooky Tooth with threats of wage deductions. … the lucrative ascent of Jethro Tull. … the little-known compilations of Rugby songs, ‘Bawdy British Ballads' and risqué adult comedy that “saved the label's bacon” in the mid-‘60s. … the time Neil stumbled across Traffic's fabled Aston Tirrold cottage on a school camping trip. … the highly collectable “Birth of Ska' album that was never released. … one immortal week at the Marquee Club. … and why Island were banned for Olympic Studios. Order the Island Book of Records Vol 1 here …https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/neil-storey/the-island-book-of-records-volume-i-1959-68?channable=409d926964003230353632383608&gclid=Cj0KCQjw06-oBhC6ARIsAGuzdw1pbKtxLGkjgkiJfcAll84H65dVQ1r_h7obky-QWlVtpr21UgiQP54aAk1BEALw_wcB#hardback-signed-plusTickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21 Soho on October 30th here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ysY3FvyFaeSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyouear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Neil Storey is an old pal from our magazine days who worked in the press office at Island. He looked after U2, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, the B-52's and many others. About 15 years ago he began the mammoth task of compiling a series of books telling the story of virtually every record the label released in its pioneering history, tracking down and talking to all those involved - musicians, producers, designers, photographers, label staff – and collecting old music press ads and ephemera from the time. The book's almost a foot square so LP sleeves can be reproduced ‘actual size'. The first volume is just out, The Island Book Of Records 1959-1968, a thing of very great beauty. As David says, “it's like entering the record shop of your dreams.” We talked to Neil at his home in France about this and much else besides … … Chris Blackwell's involvement in the making of Dr No and the single Jamaican beach shot that told them they had a hit movie. … the album they released that no-one involved could remember. … Shotgun Wedding by Roy ‘C', Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, Lance Hayward, Millie Small's ‘My Boy Lollipop' … … the letter Blackwell sent to the workshy Spooky Tooth with threats of wage deductions. … the lucrative ascent of Jethro Tull. … the little-known compilations of Rugby songs, ‘Bawdy British Ballads' and risqué adult comedy that “saved the label's bacon” in the mid-‘60s. … the time Neil stumbled across Traffic's fabled Aston Tirrold cottage on a school camping trip. … the highly collectable “Birth of Ska' album that was never released. … one immortal week at the Marquee Club. … and why Island were banned for Olympic Studios. Order the Island Book of Records Vol 1 here …https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/neil-storey/the-island-book-of-records-volume-i-1959-68?channable=409d926964003230353632383608&gclid=Cj0KCQjw06-oBhC6ARIsAGuzdw1pbKtxLGkjgkiJfcAll84H65dVQ1r_h7obky-QWlVtpr21UgiQP54aAk1BEALw_wcB#hardback-signed-plusTickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21 Soho on October 30th here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ysY3FvyFaeSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyouear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 37 of Season 6 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 14 September 2023. Once again, the airwaves were cooking thanks to The Rock Doctor's Rock Power Hour Turbo edition that precedes The Story of Rock and Roll radio Show. We kicked off with Kiss, basically the band most responsible for TSORR as it was the band that melted my brain 12-year-old brain and changed everything. That story is in the book The Story of Rock and Roll which you can find on Amazon as a Kindle edition. We had a good selection as always, pretty much something for everyone with a build-up to the heavy stuff at the end. Check the artists featured to see who got a look in. The Immortals slot was ably filled by Pink Floyd. We took a listen to Sorrow off the delicate Sound Of Thunder album. For this week's Diabolical Challenge we looked at 2006 and the four albums were: Iron Maiden – A Matter of Life & DeathTom Petty – Highway CompanionThe Killers – Sam's TownMy Chemical Romance – The Black Parade Artists featured: KISS, ACDC, Bruce Dickenson, Rhino Bucket, Firehouse, Beautiful Creatures, Children of Bodom, The Jam, MC5, Spooky Tooth, Judas Priest, Van Halen, Mammoth WVH, Megadeth, Nita Strauss & Marty Friedman, Jimi Hendrix, Ozzy Osbourne, Cinderella, Vaughn Prangley, Bruce Springsteen, Texas Hippie Coalition, Tesla, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Tom Petty, The Killers, My Chemical Romance, Accept, Def Leppard, BlackØwl, Rory Gallagher, Philistine, Slayer, Hatebreed. The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock
Brian pays tribute to the 1970's blues-rocker-turned-world-music journeyman that gave the world "Dreamweaver" - and... Freddy Krueger. SHOW NOTES: Songs used in this episode include compositions performed by Gary Wright, Spooky Tooth, Judas Priest, and Ronnie Spector https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/arts/music/gary-wright-dead.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Wright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Weaver https://screenrant.com/nightmare-elm-street-dream-weaver-song-inspiration/
Start Artist Song Time Album Year Spooky Tooth Evil Woman 8:58 Spooky Two 1969 0:10:43 Spooky Tooth Tears 4:54 Cross Purpose 1999 0:15:37 Spriggan Mist Dance Of Pan 3:46 The Portal 2017 0:19:23 Spriggan Mist Isambard The Mechanical Dragon 8:06 Isambard The Mechanical Dragon 2022 0:27:28 Spriguns Dead Mans Eyes 3:41 Time Will Pass 1977 […]
Artist Song Time Album Year Jimmie Spheeris The Dragon Is Dancing 3:13 The Dragon Is Dancing 1975 Jimmie Spheeris The Nest 3:53 Isle of View 1971 Spin XXI Conflitantes Paranóias Parte 2 Sec XXI 4:44 Contrapunto 2006 Spinetta Jade Amenabar 5:23 Alma de Diamante 1980 Spiral Key Dark Path 6:45 An Error Of Judgement 2018 […]
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# 핸드폰에서 자유롭기 ♪ The sound 0f silence- Simon and Garfunkel # 뉴스 Good & Bad feat. 정새배/박혜진 기자 저출산 결혼 대책으로 ‘결혼자금'엔 증여세 면제 검토 ‘필라테스' 헬스장 먹튀 사건 빈발 # 시간을 달리는 음악 (1) - 김경진 음악평론가 # 60년대 실험 음악 레이블 # * Island Records (Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Desmond Dekker, Traffic, Spooky Tooth, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Jethro Tull, Free, Cat Stevens, King Crimson, Roxy Music) - Northern Sky (3:47) - Nick Drake (1971) * Deram Records (David Bowie, The Moody Blues, Ten Years After, Giles Giles & Fripp, Camel, Caravan, East Of Eden) - A Whiter Shade Of Pale (4:03) - Procol Harum (1967) * Vertigo Records (Colosseum, Black Sabbath, Gentle Giant, Rod Stewart, Fairfield Parlour, Gracious!, Affinity, Magna Carta, Uriah Heep, Tudor Lodge) - Alone In Georgia (4:35) - Gravy Train (1971) * Harvest Records (Pink Floyd, Kevin Ayers, Barclay James Harvest, Deep Purple) - Anthem (6:31) - Deep Purple (1969)
Luther Grosvenor ( AKA Ariel Bender) talks about Art, Spooky Tooth, Mott The Hoople, Widowmaker and his solo career with Phil Aston - The Now Spinning Magazine Podcast. Phil Aston | Now Spinning Magazine
Although one of the most successful artists and songwriters of the 60's, Marvin Gaye had not released a solo studio album for two years prior to In the Groove, his eighth studio album. Instead he had been releasing duet performances with artists like Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell. Gaye was one of the primary artists shaping what would become the Motown sound, first as a session player, then as a solo artist and songwriter. Gaye formed a vocal quartet called The Marquees shortly after leaving the Air Force in the late 50's. The Marquees performed in the D.C. area, connecting with Bo Diddley who co-wrote their first (and only) single, "Wyatt Earp." The group disbanded in 1960, and Marvin Gaye relocated to Detroit, connected with Barry Gordy around Christmas of 1960, and signing with Tamla, a Motown subsidiary. By 1962 Gaye was a success as a singer, session musician, and writer.In the Groove was released in August of 1968, and would see its third single, I Heard It Through the Grapevine released in October. This single would become Gaye's first number 1 hit. October would also bring tragedy, when his vocal duet partner Tammi Terrell collapsed from exhaustion into Gaye's arms, later being diagnosed with a brain tumor which would eventually claim her life. After the monster international success of I Heard It Through the Grapevine, the entire album would be re-released under that title. The album was both a critical and commercial success.John Lynch brings us this soulful selection. I Heard It Through the GrapevineAlthough one of Gaye's most successful songs, he was not the first artist to record or release the song. It was intended to be released by Gladys Knight & the Pips, who did so in September 1967. The Miracles also recorded the song and released it in 1968. Gaye's version would become the classic rendition.YouThis was the first single from the album, released in December of 1967, months before the album. The song was about a man wanting to keep his relationship with a woman secret, because she was upper class and he was working class. It featured a rougher Gaye vocal part than was typical of his previous songs, and went to number 34 on the pop charts.ChainedThe second single would be released in August 1968, the same month as the album release. Frank Wilson wrote and produced this song which went to number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100. The lyrics are about a man pining for a woman he lost and wants back.Some Kind of WonderfulThis deeper cut was not released as a single. The Drifters originally released this song in 1961, and it was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Many artists would cover this one, including Carole King and most recently Michael Bublé. ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:Barbarella by The Bob Crewe Generation (from the motion picture “Barbarella”) Jane Fonda's cult classic of bad science fiction films would appear in the theaters in October 1968. STAFF PICKS:On the Road Again by Canned Heat Bruce starts the staff picks with a blues and harmonica jam off Canned Heat's second album “Boogie with Canned Heat.” The group takes its name from a 1928 Tommy Johnson song entitled "Canned Heat Blues." Canned Heat's lead vocalist was Bob "The Bear" Hite, but Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson takes the lead for this song. Chewy Chewy by Ohio ExpressRob features a happy bubblegum pop number from Mansfield, Ohio. Ohio Express consisted of session musicians who put out the music for Super K Productions. The group had a previous hit in "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy."Sunshine Help Me by Spooky Tooth Wayne brings us an acid rock deep cut written by Gary Wright of “Dream Weaver” fame. The song itself is about letting the sunshine clear the singer's mind. Spooky Tooth was a blues/psychedelic band from England active between 1967 and 1974. This song was not a hit, but did appear on their greatest hits album.Hey Jude by The BeatlesLynch's staff picks is one of the Beatles' biggest hits, though it was not released on a studio album at the time. It is also the longest single in the Beatles' catalog, running 7:11, the longest single ever released at the time. It was written by Paul McCartney for John and Cynthia Lennon's son Julian when John and Cynthia were going through a divorce. NOVELTY TRACK:Mr. Tambourine Man by the William ShatnerSomehow Shatner was able to put this song in the hopper while simultaneously starring as Captain Kirk in the original run of the TV show, Star Trek. We'll let you decide whether he missed his calling as a rock star.
Episode 160 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Flowers in the Rain" by the Move, their transition into ELO, and the career of Roy Wood. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-minute bonus episode available, on "The Chipmunk Song" by Canned Heat. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Note I say "And on its first broadcast, as George Martin's theme tune for the new station faded, Tony Blackburn reached for a record." -- I should point out that after Martin's theme fades, Blackburn talks over a brief snatch of a piece by Johnny Dankworth. Resources As so many of the episodes recently have had no Mixcloud due to the number of songs by one artist, I've decided to start splitting the mixes of the recordings excerpted in the podcasts into two parts. Here's part one . I had problems uploading part two, but will attempt to get that up shortly. There are not many books about Roy Wood, and I referred to both of the two that seem to exist -- this biography by John van der Kiste, and this album guide by James R Turner. I also referred to this biography of Jeff Lynne by van der Kiste, The Electric Light Orchestra Story by Bev Bevan, and Mr Big by Don Arden with Mick Wall. Most of the more comprehensive compilations of the Move's material are out of print, but this single-CD-plus-DVD anthology is the best compilation that's in print. This is the one collection of Wood's solo and Wizzard hits that seems currently in print, and for those who want to investigate further, this cheap box set has the last Move album, the first ELO album, the first Wizzard album, Wood's solo Boulders, and a later Wood solo album, for the price of a single CD. Transcript Before I start, a brief note. This episode deals with organised crime, and so contains some mild descriptions of violence, and also has some mention of mental illness and drug use, though not much of any of those things. And it's probably also important to warn people that towards the end there's some Christmas music, including excerpts of a song that is inescapable at this time of year in the UK, so those who work in retail environments and the like may want to listen to this later, at a point when they're not totally sick of hearing Christmas records. Most of the time, the identity of the party in government doesn't make that much of a difference to people's everyday lives. At least in Britain, there tends to be a consensus ideology within the limits of which governments of both main parties tend to work. They will make a difference at the margins, and be more or less competent, and more or less conservative or left-wing, more or less liberal or authoritarian, but life will, broadly speaking, continue along much as before for most people. Some will be a little better or worse off, but in general steering the ship of state is a matter of a lot of tiny incremental changes, not of sudden u-turns. But there have been a handful of governments that have made big, noticeable, changes to the structure of society, reforms that for better or worse affect the lives of every person in the country. Since the end of the Second World War there have been two UK governments that made economic changes of this nature. The Labour government under Clement Atlee which came into power in 1945, and which dramatically expanded the welfare state, introduced the National Health Service, and nationalised huge swathes of major industries, created the post-war social democratic consensus which would be kept to with only minor changes by successive governments of both major parties for decades. The next government to make changes to the economy of such a radical nature was the Conservative government which came to power under Margaret Thatcher in 1979, which started the process of unravelling that social democratic consensus and replacing it with a far more hypercapitalist economic paradigm, which would last for the next several decades. It's entirely possible that the current Conservative government, in leaving the EU, has made a similarly huge change, but we won't know that until we have enough distance from the event to know what long-term changes it's caused. Those are economic changes. Arguably at least as impactful was the Labour government led by Harold Wilson that came to power in 1964, which did not do much to alter the economic consensus, but revolutionised the social order at least as much. Largely because of the influence of Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary for much of that time, between 1964 and the end of the sixties, Britain abolished the death penalty for murder, decriminalised some sex acts between men in private, abolished corporal punishment in prisons, legalised abortion in certain circumstances, and got rid of censorship in the theatre. They also vastly increased spending on education, and made many other changes. By the end of their term, Britain had gone from being a country with laws reflecting a largely conservative, authoritarian, worldview to one whose laws were some of the most liberal in Europe, and society had started changing to match. There were exceptions, though, and that government did make some changes that were illiberal. They brought in increased restrictions on immigration, starting a worrying trend that continues to this day of governments getting ever crueler to immigrants, and they added LSD to the list of illegal drugs. And they brought in the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act, banning the pirate stations. We've mentioned pirate radio stations very briefly, but never properly explained them. In Britain, at this point, there was a legal monopoly on broadcasting. Only the BBC could run a radio station in the UK, and thanks to agreements with the Musicians' Union, the BBC could only play a very small amount of recorded music, with everything else having to be live performances or spoken word. And because it had a legal obligation to provide something for everyone, that meant the tiny amount of recorded music that was played on the radio had to cover all genres, meaning that even while Britain was going through the most important changes in its musical history, pop records were limited to an hour or two a week on British radio. Obviously, that wasn't going to last while there was money to be made, and the record companies in particular wanted to have somewhere to showcase their latest releases. At the start of the sixties, Radio Luxembourg had become popular, broadcasting from continental Europe but largely playing shows that had been pre-recorded in London. But of course, that was far enough away that it made listening to the transmissions difficult. But a solution presented itself: [Excerpt: The Fortunes, "Caroline"] Radio Caroline still continues to this day, largely as an Internet-based radio station, but in the mid-sixties it was something rather different. It was one of a handful of radio stations -- the pirate stations -- that broadcast from ships in international waters. The ships would stay three miles off the coast of Britain, close enough for their broadcasts to be clearly heard in much of the country, but outside Britain's territorial waters. They soon became hugely popular, with Radio Caroline and Radio London the two most popular, and introduced DJs like Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Kenny Everett, and John Peel to the airwaves of Britain. The stations ran on bribery and advertising, and if you wanted a record to get into the charts one of the things you had to do was bribe one of the big pirate stations to playlist it, and with this corruption came violence, which came to a head when as we heard in the episode on “Here Comes the Night”, in 1966 Major Oliver Smedley, a failed right-wing politician and one of the directors of Radio Caroline, got a gang of people to board an abandoned sea fort from which a rival station was broadcasting and retrieve some equipment he claimed belonged to him. The next day, Reginald Calvert, the owner of the rival station, went to Smedley's home to confront him, and Smedley shot him dead, claiming self-defence. The jury in Smedley's subsequent trial took only a minute to find him not guilty and award him two hundred and fifty guineas to cover his costs. This was the last straw for the government, which was already concerned that the pirates' transmitters were interfering with emergency services transmissions, and that proper royalties weren't being paid for the music broadcast (though since much of the music was only on there because of payola, this seems a little bit of a moot point). They introduced legislation which banned anyone in the UK from supplying the pirate ships with records or other supplies, or advertising on the stations. They couldn't do anything about the ships themselves, because they were outside British jurisdiction, but they could make sure that nobody could associate with them while remaining in the UK. The BBC was to regain its monopoly (though in later years some commercial radio stations were allowed to operate). But as well as the stick, they needed the carrot. The pirate stations *had* been filling a real need, and the biggest of them were getting millions of listeners every day. So the arrangements with the Musicians' Union and the record labels were changed, and certain BBC stations were now allowed to play a lot more recorded music per day. I haven't been able to find accurate figures anywhere -- a lot of these things were confidential agreements -- but it seems to have been that the so-called "needle time" rules were substantially relaxed, allowing the BBC to separate what had previously been the Light Programme -- a single radio station that played all kinds of popular music, much of it live performances -- into two radio stations that were each allowed to play as much as twelve hours of recorded music per day, which along with live performances and between-track commentary from DJs was enough to allow a full broadcast schedule. One of these stations, Radio 2, was aimed at older listeners, and to start with mostly had programmes of what we would now refer to as Muzak, mixed in with the pop music of an older generation -- crooners and performers like Englebert Humperdinck. But another, Radio 1, was aimed at a younger audience and explicitly modelled on the pirate stations, and featured many of the DJs who had made their names on those stations. And on its first broadcast, as George Martin's theme tune for the new station faded, Tony Blackburn reached for a record. At different times Blackburn has said either that he was just desperately reaching for whatever record came to hand or that he made a deliberate choice because the record he chose had such a striking opening that it would be the perfect way to start a new station: [Excerpt: Tony Blackburn first radio show into "Flowers in the Rain" by the Move] You may remember me talking in the episode on "Here Comes the Night" about how in 1964 Dick Rowe of Decca, the manager Larry Page, and the publicist and co-owner of Radio Caroline Phil Solomon were all trying to promote something called Brumbeat as the answer to Merseybeat – Brummies, for those who don't know, are people from Birmingham. Brumbeat never took off the way Merseybeat did, but several bands did get a chance to make records, among them Gerry Levene and the Avengers: [Excerpt: Gerry Levene and the Avengers, "Dr. Feelgood"] That was the only single the Avengers made, and the B-side wasn't even them playing, but a bunch of session musicians under the direction of Bert Berns, and the group split up soon afterwards, but several of the members would go on to have rather important careers. According to some sources, one of their early drummers was John Bohnam, who you can be pretty sure will be turning up later in the story, while the drummer on that track was Graeme Edge, who would later go on to co-found the Moody Blues. But today it's the guitarist we'll be looking at. Roy Wood had started playing music when he was very young -- he'd had drum lessons when he was five years old, the only formal musical tuition he ever had, and he'd played harmonica around working men's clubs as a kid. And as a small child he'd loved classical music, particularly Tchaikovsky and Elgar. But it wasn't until he was twelve that he decided that he wanted to be a guitarist. He went to see the Shadows play live, and was inspired by the sound of Hank Marvin's guitar, which he later described as sounding "like it had been dipped in Dettol or something": [Excerpt: The Shadows, "Apache"] He started begging his parents for a guitar, and got one for his thirteenth birthday -- and by the time he was fourteen he was already in a band, the Falcons, whose members were otherwise eighteen to twenty years old, but who needed a lead guitarist who could play like Marvin. Wood had picked up the guitar almost preternaturally quickly, as he would later pick up every instrument he turned his hand to, and he'd also got the equipment. His friend Jeff Lynne later said "I first saw Roy playing in a church hall in Birmingham and I think his group was called the Falcons. And I could tell he was dead posh because he had a Fender Stratocaster and a Vox AC30 amplifier. The business at the time. I mean, if you've got those, that's it, you're made." It was in the Falcons that Wood had first started trying to write songs, at first instrumentals in the style of the Shadows, but then after the Beatles hit the charts he realised it was possible for band members to write their own material, and started hesitantly trying to write a few actual songs. Wood had moved on from the Falcons to Gerry Levene's band, one of the biggest local bands in Birmingham, when he was sixteen, which is also when he left formal education, dropping out from art school -- he's later said that he wasn't expelled as such, but that he and the school came to a mutual agreement that he wouldn't go back there. And when Gerry Levene and the Avengers fell apart after their one chance at success hadn't worked out, he moved on again to an even bigger band. Mike Sheridan and the Night Riders had had two singles out already, both produced by Cliff Richard's producer Norrie Paramor, and while they hadn't charted they were clearly going places. They needed a new guitarist, and Wood was by far the best of the dozen or so people who auditioned, even though Sheridan was very hesitant at first -- the Night Riders were playing cabaret, and all dressed smartly at all times, and this sixteen-year-old guitarist had turned up wearing clothes made by his sister and ludicrous pointy shoes. He was the odd man out, but he was so good that none of the other players could hold a candle to him, and he was in the Night Riders by the time of their third single, "What a Sweet Thing That Was": [Excerpt: Mike Sheridan and the Night Riders, "What a Sweet Thing That Was"] Sheridan later said "Roy was and still is, in my opinion, an unbelievable talent. As stubborn as a mule and a complete extrovert. Roy changed the group by getting us into harmonies and made us realize there was better material around with more than three chords to play. This was our turning point and we became a group's group and a bigger name." -- though there are few other people who would describe Wood as extroverted, most people describing him as painfully shy off-stage. "What a Sweet Thing That Was" didn't have any success, and nor did its follow-up, "Here I Stand", which came out in January 1965. But by that point, Wood had got enough of a reputation that he was already starting to guest on records by other bands on the Birmingham scene, like "Pretty Things" by Danny King and the Mayfair Set: [Excerpt: Danny King and the Mayfair Set, "Pretty Things"] After their fourth single was a flop, Mike Sheridan and the Night Riders changed their name to Mike Sheridan's Lot, and the B-side of their first single under the new name was a Roy Wood song, the first time one of his songs was recorded. Unfortunately the song, modelled on "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones, didn't come off very well, and Sheridan blamed himself for what everyone was agreed was a lousy sounding record: [Excerpt: Mike Sheridan's Lot, "Make Them Understand"] Mike Sheridan's Lot put out one final single, but the writing was on the wall for the group. Wood left, and soon after so did Sheridan himself. The remaining members regrouped under the name The Idle Race, with Wood's friend Jeff Lynne as their new singer and guitarist. But Wood wouldn't remain without a band for long. He'd recently started hanging out with another band, Carl Wayne and the Vikings, who had also released a couple of singles, on Pye: [Excerpt: Carl Wayne and the Vikings, "What's the Matter Baby"] But like almost every band from Birmingham up to this point, the Vikings' records had done very little, and their drummer had quit, and been replaced by Bev Bevan, who had been in yet another band that had gone nowhere, Denny Laine and the Diplomats, who had released one single under the name of their lead singer Nicky James, featuring the Breakaways, the girl group who would later sing on "Hey Joe", on backing vocals: [Excerpt: Nicky James, "My Colour is Blue"] Bevan had joined Carl Wayne's group, and they'd recorded one track together, a cover version of "My Girl", which was only released in the US, and which sank without a trace: [Excerpt: Carl Wayne and the Vikings, "My Girl"] It was around this time that Wood started hanging around with the Vikings, and they would all complain about how if you were playing the Birmingham circuit you were stuck just playing cover versions, and couldn't do anything more interesting. They were also becoming more acutely aware of how successful they *could* have been, because one of the Brumbeat bands had become really big. The Moody Blues, a supergroup of players from the best bands in Birmingham who featured Bev Bevan's old bandmate Denny Laine and Wood's old colleague Graeme Edge, had just hit number one with their version of "Go Now": [Excerpt: The Moody Blues, "Go Now"] So they knew the potential for success was there, but they were all feeling trapped. But then Ace Kefford, the bass player for the Vikings, went to see Davy Jones and the Lower Third playing a gig: [Excerpt: Davy Jones and the Lower Third, "You've Got a Habit of Leaving"] Also at the gig was Trevor Burton, the guitarist for Danny King and the Mayfair Set. The two of them got chatting to Davy Jones after the gig, and eventually the future David Bowie told them that the two of them should form their own band if they were feeling constricted in their current groups. They decided to do just that, and they persuaded Carl Wayne from Kefford's band to join them, and got in Wood. Now they just needed a drummer. Their first choice was John Bonham, the former drummer for Gerry Levene and the Avengers who was now drumming in a band with Kefford's uncle and Nicky James from the Diplomats. But Bonham and Wayne didn't get on, and so Bonham decided to remain in the group he was in, and instead they turned to Bev Bevan, the Vikings' new drummer. (Of the other two members of the Vikings, one went on to join Mike Sheridan's Lot in place of Wood, before leaving at the same time as Sheridan and being replaced by Lynne, while the other went on to join Mike Sheridan's New Lot, the group Sheridan formed after leaving his old group. The Birmingham beat group scene seems to have only had about as many people as there were bands, with everyone ending up a member of twenty different groups). The new group called themselves the Move, because they were all moving on from other groups, and it was a big move for all of them. Many people advised them not to get together, saying they were better off where they were, or taking on offers they'd got from more successful groups -- Carl Wayne had had an offer from a group called the Spectres, who would later become famous as Status Quo, while Wood had been tempted by Tony Rivers and the Castaways, a group who at the time were signed to Immediate Records, and who did Beach Boys soundalikes and covers: [Excerpt: Tony Rivers and the Castaways, "Girl Don't Tell Me"] Wood was a huge fan of the Beach Boys and would have fit in with Rivers, but decided he'd rather try something truly new. After their first gig, most of the people who had warned against the group changed their minds. Bevan's best friend, Bobby Davis, told Bevan that while he'd disliked all the other groups Bevan had played in, he liked this one. (Davis would later become a famous comedian, and have a top five single himself in the seventies, produced by Jeff Lynne and with Bevan on the drums, under his stage name Jasper Carrott): [Excerpt: Jasper Carrott, "Funky Moped"] Most of their early sets were cover versions, usually of soul and Motown songs, but reworked in the group's unique style. All five of the band could sing, four of them well enough to be lead vocalists in their own right (Bevan would add occasional harmonies or sing novelty numbers) and so they became known for their harmonies -- Wood talked at the time about how he wanted the band to have Beach Boys harmonies but over instruments that sounded like the Who. And while they were mostly doing cover versions live, Wood was busily writing songs. Their first recording session was for local radio, and at that session they did cover versions of songs by Brenda Lee, the Isley Brothers, the Orlons, the Marvelettes, and Betty Everett, but they also performed four songs written by Wood, with each member of the front line taking a lead vocal, like this one with Kefford singing: [Excerpt: The Move, "You're the One I Need"] The group were soon signed by Tony Secunda, the manager of the Moody Blues, who set about trying to get the group as much publicity as possible. While Carl Wayne, as the only member who didn't play an instrument, ended up the lead singer on most of the group's early records, Secunda started promoting Kefford, who was younger and more conventionally attractive than Wayne, and who had originally put the group together, as the face of the group, while Wood was doing most of the heavy lifting with the music. Wood quickly came to dislike performing live, and to wish he could take the same option as Brian Wilson and stay home and write songs and make records while the other four went out and performed, so Kefford and Wayne taking the spotlight from him didn't bother him at the time, but it set the group up for constant conflicts about who was actually the leader of the group. Wood was also uncomfortable with the image that Secunda set up for the group. Secunda decided that the group needed to be promoted as "bad boys", and so he got them to dress up as 1930s gangsters, and got them to do things like smash busts of Hitler, or the Rhodesian dictator Ian Smith, on stage. He got them to smash TVs on stage too, and in one publicity stunt he got them to smash up a car, while strippers took their clothes off nearby -- claiming that this was to show that people were more interested in violence than in sex. Wood, who was a very quiet, unassuming, introvert, didn't like this sort of thing, but went along with it. Secunda got the group a regular slot at the Marquee club, which lasted several months until, in one of Secunda's ideas for publicity, Carl Wayne let off smoke bombs on stage which set fire to the stage. The manager came up to try to stop the fire, and Wayne tossed the manager's wig into the flames, and the group were banned from the club (though the ban was later lifted). In another publicity stunt, at the time of the 1966 General Election, the group were photographed with "Vote Tory" posters, and issued an invitation to Edward Heath, the leader of the Conservative Party and a keen amateur musician, to join them on stage on keyboards. Sir Edward didn't respond to the invitation. All this publicity led to record company interest. Joe Boyd tried to sign the group to Elektra Records, but much as with The Pink Floyd around the same time, Jac Holzman wasn't interested. Instead they signed with a new production company set up by Denny Cordell, the producer of the Moody Blues' hits. The contract they signed was written on the back of a nude model, as yet another of Secunda's publicity schemes. The group's first single, "Night of Fear" was written by Wood and an early sign of his interest in incorporating classical music into rock: [Excerpt: The Move, "Night of Fear"] Secunda claimed in the publicity that that song was inspired by taking bad acid and having a bad trip, but in truth Wood was more inspired by brown ale than by brown acid -- he and Bev Bevan would never do any drugs other than alcohol. Wayne did take acid once, but didn't like it, though Burton and Kefford would become regular users of most drugs that were going. In truth, the song was not about anything more than being woken up in the middle of the night by an unexpected sound and then being unable to get back to sleep because you're scared of what might be out there. The track reached number two on the charts in the UK, being kept off the top by "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees, and was soon followed up by another song which again led to assumptions of drug use. "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" wasn't about grass the substance, but was inspired by a letter to Health and Efficiency, a magazine which claimed to be about the nudist lifestyle as an excuse for printing photos of naked people at a time before pornography laws were liberalised. The letter was from a reader saying that he listened to pop music on the radio because "where I live it's so quiet I can hear the grass grow!" Wood took that line and turned it into the group's next single, which reached number five: [Excerpt: The Move, "I Can Hear the Grass Grow"] Shortly after that, the group played two big gigs at Alexandra Palace. The first was the Fourteen-Hour Technicolor Dream, which we talked about in the Pink Floyd episode. There Wood had one of the biggest thrills of his life when he walked past John Lennon, who saluted him and then turned to a friend and said "He's brilliant!" -- in the seventies Lennon would talk about how Wood was one of his two favourite British songwriters, and would call the Move "the Hollies with balls". The other gig they played at Alexandra Palace was a "Free the Pirates" benefit show, sponsored by Radio Caroline, to protest the imposition of the Marine Broadcasting (Offences) Act. Despite that, it was, of course, the group's next single that was the first one to be played on Radio One. And that single was also the one which kickstarted Roy Wood's musical ambitions. The catalyst for this was Tony Visconti. Visconti was a twenty-three-year-old American who had been in the music business since he was sixteen, working the typical kind of jobs that working musicians do, like being for a time a member of a latter-day incarnation of the Crew-Cuts, the white vocal group who had had hits in the fifties with covers of "Sh'Boom" and “Earth Angel”. He'd also recorded two singles as a duo with his wife Siegrid, which had gone nowhere: [Excerpt: Tony and Siegrid, "Up Here"] Visconti had been working for the Richmond Organisation as a staff songwriter when he'd met the Move's producer Denny Cordell. Cordell was in the US to promote a new single he had released with a group called Procol Harum, "A Whiter Shade of Pale", and Visconti became the first American to hear the record, which of course soon became a massive hit: [Excerpt: Procol Harum, "A Whiter Shade of Pale"] While he was in New York, Cordell also wanted to record a backing track for one of his other hit acts, Georgie Fame. He told Visconti that he'd booked several of the best session players around, like the jazz trumpet legend Clark Terry, and thought it would be a fun session. Visconti asked to look at the charts for the song, out of professional interest, and Cordell was confused -- what charts? The musicians would just make up an arrangement, wouldn't they? Visconti asked what he was talking about, and Cordell talked about how you made records -- you just got the musicians to come into the studio, hung around while they smoked a few joints and worked out what they were going to play, and then got on with it. It wouldn't take more than about twelve hours to get a single recorded that way. Visconti was horrified, and explained that that might be how they did things in London, but if Cordell tried to make a record that way in New York, with an eight-piece group of session musicians who charged union scale, and would charge double scale for arranging work on top, then he'd bankrupt himself. Cordell went pale and said that the session was in an hour, what was he going to do? Luckily, Cordell had a copy of the demo with him, and Visconti, who unlike Cordell was a trained musician, quickly sat down and wrote an arrangement for him, sketching out parts for guitar, bass, drums, piano, sax, and trumpets. The resulting arrangement wasn't perfect -- Visconti had to write the whole thing in less than an hour with no piano to hand -- but it was good enough that Cordell's production assistant on the track, Harvey Brooks of the group Electric Flag, who also played bass on the track, could tweak it in the studio, and the track was recorded quickly, saving Cordell a fortune: [Excerpt: Georgie Fame, "Because I Love You"] One of the other reasons Cordell had been in the US was that he was looking for a production assistant to work with him in the UK to help translate his ideas into language the musicians could understand. According to Visconti he said that he was going to try asking Phil Spector to be his assistant, and Artie Butler if Spector said no. Astonishingly, assuming he did ask them, neither Phil Spector nor Artie Butler (who was the arranger for records like "Leader of the Pack" and "I'm a Believer" among many, many, others, and who around this time was the one who suggested to Louis Armstrong that he should record "What a Wonderful World") wanted to fly over to the UK to work as Denny Cordell's assistant, and so Cordell turned back to Visconti and invited him to come over to the UK. The main reason Cordell needed an assistant was that he had too much work on his hands -- he was currently in the middle of recording albums for three major hit groups -- Procol Harum, The Move, and Manfred Mann -- and he physically couldn't be in multiple studios at once. Visconti's first work for him was on a Manfred Mann session, where they were recording the Randy Newman song "So Long Dad" for their next single. Cordell produced the rhythm track then left for a Procol Harum session, leaving Visconti to guide the group through the overdubs, including all the vocal parts and the lead instruments: [Excerpt: Manfred Mann, "So Long Dad"] The next Move single, "Flowers in the Rain", was the first one to benefit from Visconti's arrangement ideas. The band had recorded the track, and Cordell had been unhappy with both the song and performance, thinking it was very weak compared to their earlier singles -- not the first time that Cordell would have a difference of opinion with the band, who he thought of as a mediocre pop group, while they thought of themselves as a heavy rock band who were being neutered in the studio by their producer. In particular, Cordell didn't like that the band fell slightly out of time in the middle eight of the track. He decided to scrap it, and get the band to record something else. Visconti, though, thought the track could be saved. He told Cordell that what they needed to do was to beat the Beatles, by using a combination of instruments they hadn't thought of. He scored for a quartet of wind instruments -- oboe, flute, clarinet, and French horn, in imitation of Mendelssohn: [Excerpt: The Move, "Flowers in the Rain"] And then, to cover up the slight sloppiness on the middle eight, Visconti had the wind instruments on that section recorded at half speed, so when played back at normal speed they'd sound like pixies and distract from the rhythm section: [Excerpt: The Move, "Flowers in the Rain"] Visconti's instincts were right. The single went to number two, kept off the top spot by Englebert Humperdinck, who spent 1967 keeping pretty much every major British band off number one, and thanks in part to it being the first track played on Radio 1, but also because it was one of the biggest hits of 1967, it's been the single of the Move's that's had the most airplay over the years. Unfortunately, none of the band ever saw a penny in royalties from it. It was because of another of Tony Secunda's bright ideas. Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister at the time, was very close to his advisor Marcia Williams, who started out as his secretary, rose to be his main political advisor, and ended up being elevated to the peerage as Baroness Falkender. There were many, many rumours that Williams was corrupt -- rumours that were squashed by both Wilson and Williams frequently issuing libel writs against newspapers that mentioned them -- though it later turned out that at least some of these were the work of Britain's security services, who believed Wilson to be working for the KGB (and indeed Williams had first met Wilson at a dinner with Khrushchev, though Wilson was very much not a Communist) and were trying to destabilise his government as a result. Their personal closeness also led to persistent rumours that Wilson and Williams were having an affair. And Tony Secunda decided that the best way to promote "Flowers in the Rain" was to print a postcard with a cartoon of Wilson and Williams on it, and send it out. Including sticking a copy through the door of ten Downing St, the Prime Minister's official residence. This backfired *spectacularly*. Wilson sued the Move for libel, even though none of them had known of their manager's plans, and as a result of the settlement it became illegal for any publication to print the offending image (though it can easily be found on the Internet now of course), everyone involved with the record was placed under a permanent legal injunction to never discuss the details of the case, and every penny in performance or songwriting royalties the track earned would go to charities of Harold Wilson's choice. In the 1990s newspaper reports said that the group had up to that point lost out on two hundred thousand pounds in royalties as a result of Secunda's stunt, and given the track's status as a perennial favourite, it's likely they've missed out on a similar amount in the decades since. Incidentally, while every member of the band was banned from ever describing the postcard, I'm not, and since Wilson and Williams are now both dead it's unlikely they'll ever sue me. The postcard is a cartoon in the style of Aubrey Beardsley, and shows Wilson as a grotesque naked homunculus sat on a bed, with Williams naked save for a diaphonous nightgown through which can clearly be seen her breasts and genitals, wearing a Marie Antoinette style wig and eyemask and holding a fan coquettishly, while Wilson's wife peers at them through a gap in the curtains. The text reads "Disgusting Depraved Despicable, though Harold maybe is the only way to describe "Flowers in the Rain" The Move, released Aug 23" The stunt caused huge animosity between the group and Secunda, not only because of the money they lost but also because despite Secunda's attempts to associate them with the Conservative party the previous year, Ace Kefford was upset at an attack on the Labour leader -- his grandfather was a lifelong member of the Labour party and Kefford didn't like the idea of upsetting him. The record also had a knock-on effect on another band. Wood had given the song "Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree" to his friends in The Idle Race, the band that had previously been Mike Sheridan and the Night Riders, and they'd planned to use their version as their first single: [Excerpt: The Idle Race, "Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree"] But the Move had also used the song as the B-side for their own single, and "Flowers in the Rain" was so popular that the B-side also got a lot of airplay. The Idle Race didn't want to be thought of as a covers act, and so "Lemon Tree" was pulled at the last minute and replaced by "Impostors of Life's Magazine", by the group's guitarist Jeff Lynne: [Excerpt: The Idle Race, "Impostors of Life's Magazine"] Before the problems arose, the Move had been working on another single. The A-side, "Cherry Blossom Clinic", was a song about being in a psychiatric hospital, and again had an arrangement by Visconti, who this time conducted a twelve-piece string section: [Excerpt: The Move, "Cherry Blossom Clinic"] The B-side, meanwhile, was a rocker about politics: [Excerpt: The Move, "Vote For Me"] Given the amount of controversy they'd caused, the idea of a song about mental illness backed with one about politics seemed a bad idea, and so "Cherry Blossom Clinic" was kept back as an album track while "Vote For Me" was left unreleased until future compilations. The first Wood knew about "Cherry Blossom Clinic" not being released was when after a gig in London someone -- different sources have it as Carl Wayne or Tony Secunda -- told him that they had a recording session the next morning for their next single and asked what song he planned on recording. When he said he didn't have one, he was sent up to his hotel room with a bottle of Scotch and told not to come down until he had a new song. He had one by 8:30 the next morning, and was so drunk and tired that he had to be held upright by his bandmates in the studio while singing his lead vocal on the track. The song was inspired by "Somethin' Else", a track by Eddie Cochran, one of Wood's idols: [Excerpt: Eddie Cochran, "Somethin' Else"] Wood took the bass riff from that and used it as the basis for what was the Move's most straight-ahead rock track to date. As 1967 was turning into 1968, almost universally every band was going back to basics, recording stripped down rock and roll tracks, and the Move were no exception. Early takes of "Fire Brigade" featured Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum on piano, but the final version featured just guitar, bass, drums and vocals, plus a few sound effects: [Excerpt: The Move, "Fire Brigade"] While Carl Wayne had sung lead or co-lead on all the Move's previous singles, he was slowly being relegated into the background, and for this one Wood takes the lead vocal on everything except the brief bridge, which Wayne sings: [Excerpt: The Move, "Fire Brigade"] The track went to number three, and while it's not as well-remembered as a couple of other Move singles, it was one of the most influential. Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols has often said that the riff for "God Save the Queen" is inspired by "Fire Brigade": [Excerpt: The Sex Pistols, "God Save the Queen"] The reversion to a heavier style of rock on "Fire Brigade" was largely inspired by the group's new friend Jimi Hendrix. The group had gone on a package tour with The Pink Floyd (who were at the bottom of the bill), Amen Corner, The Nice, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and had become good friends with Hendrix, often jamming with him backstage. Burton and Kefford had become so enamoured of Hendrix that they'd both permed their hair in imitation of his Afro, though Burton regretted it -- his hair started falling out in huge chunks as a result of the perm, and it took him a full two years to grow it out and back into a more natural style. Burton had started sharing a flat with Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Burton and Wood had also sung backing vocals with Graham Nash of the Hollies on Hendrix's "You Got Me Floatin'", from his Axis: Bold as Love album: [Excerpt: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, "You Got Me Floatin'"] In early 1968, the group's first album came out. In retrospect it's arguably their best, but at the time it felt a little dated -- it was a compilation of tracks recorded between late 1966 and late 1967, and by early 1968 that might as well have been the nineteenth century. The album included their two most recent singles, a few more songs arranged by Visconti, and three cover versions -- versions of Eddie Cochran's "Weekend", Moby Grape's "Hey Grandma", and the old standard "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", done copying the Coasters' arrangement with Bev Bevan taking a rare lead vocal. By this time there was a lot of dissatisfaction among the group. Most vocal -- or least vocal, because by this point he was no longer speaking to any of the other members, had been Ace Kefford. Kefford felt he was being sidelined in a band he'd formed and where he was the designated face of the group. He'd tried writing songs, but the only one he'd brought to the group, "William Chalker's Time Machine", had been rejected, and was eventually recorded by a group called The Lemon Tree, whose recording of it was co-produced by Burton and Andy Fairweather-Low of Amen Corner: [Excerpt: The Lemon Tree, "William Chalker's Time Machine"] He was also, though the rest of the group didn't realise it at the time, in the middle of a mental breakdown, which he later attributed to his overuse of acid. By the time the album, titled Move, came out, he'd quit the group. He formed a new group, The Ace Kefford Stand, with Cozy Powell on drums, and they released one single, a cover version of the Yardbirds' "For Your Love", which didn't chart: [Excerpt: The Ace Kefford Stand, "For Your Love"] Kefford recorded a solo album in 1968, but it wasn't released until an archival release in 2003, and he spent most of the next few decades dealing with mental health problems. The group continued on as a four-piece, with Burton moving over to bass. While they thought about what to do -- they were unhappy with Secunda's management, and with the sound that Cordell was getting from their recordings, which they considered far wimpier than their live sound -- they released a live EP of cover versions, recorded at the Marquee. The choice of songs for the EP showed their range of musical influences at the time, going from fifties rockabilly to the burgeoning progressive rock scene, with versions of Cochran's "Somethin' Else", Jerry Lee Lewis' "It'll Be Me", "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star" by the Byrds, "Sunshine Help Me" by Spooky Tooth, and "Stephanie Knows Who" by Love: [Excerpt: The Move, "Stephanie Knows Who"] Incidentally, later that year they headlined a gig at the Royal Albert Hall with the Byrds as the support act, and Gram Parsons, who by that time was playing guitar for the Byrds, said that the Move did "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star" better than the Byrds did. The EP, titled "Something Else From the Move", didn't do well commercially, but it did do something that the band thought important -- Trevor Burton in particular had been complaining that Denny Cordell's productions "took the toughness out" of the band's sound, and was worried that the group were being perceived as a pop band, not as a rock group like his friends in the Jimi Hendrix Experience or Cream. There was an increasing tension between Burton, who wanted to be a heavy rocker, and the older Wayne, who thought there was nothing at all wrong with being a pop band. The next single, "Wild Tiger Woman", was much more in the direction that Burton wanted their music to go. It was ostensibly produced by Cordell, but for the most part he left it to the band, and as a result it ended up as a much heavier track than normal. Roy Wood had only intended the song as an album track, and Bevan and Wayne were hesitant about it being a single, but Burton was insistent -- "Wild Tiger Woman" was going to be the group's first number one record: [Excerpt: The Move, "Wild Tiger Woman"] In fact, it turned out to be the group's first single not to chart at all, after four top ten singles in a row. The group were now in crisis. They'd lost Ace Kefford, Burton and Wayne were at odds, and they were no longer guaranteed hitmakers. They decided to stop working with Cordell and Secunda, and made a commitment that if the next single was a flop, they would split up. In any case, Roy Wood was already thinking about another project. Even though the group's recent records had gone in a guitar-rock direction, he thought maybe you could do something more interesting. Ever since seeing Tony Visconti conduct orchestral instruments playing his music, he'd been thinking about it. As he later put it "I thought 'Well, wouldn't it be great to get a band together, and rather than advertising for a guitarist how about advertising for a cellist or a French horn player or something? There must be lots of young musicians around who play the... instruments that would like to play in a rock kind of band.' That was the start of it, it really was, and I think after those tracks had been recorded with Tony doing the orchestral arrangement, that's when I started to get bored with the Move, with the band, because I thought 'there's something more to it'". He'd started sketching out plans for an expanded lineup of the group, drawing pictures of what it would look like on stage if Carl Wayne was playing timpani while there were cello and French horn players on stage with them. He'd even come up with a name for the new group -- a multi-layered pun. The group would be a light orchestra, like the BBC Light Orchestra, but they would be playing electrical instruments, and also they would have a light show when they performed live, and so he thought "the Electric Light Orchestra" would be a good name for such a group. The other band members thought this was a daft idea, but Wood kept on plotting. But in the meantime, the group needed some new management. The person they chose was Don Arden. We talked about Arden quite a bit in the last episode, but he's someone who is going to turn up a lot in future episodes, and so it's best if I give a little bit more background about him. Arden was a manager of the old school, and like several of the older people in the music business at the time, like Dick James or Larry Page, he had started out as a performer, doing an Al Jolson tribute act, and he was absolutely steeped in showbusiness -- his wife had been a circus contortionist before they got married, and when he moved from Manchester to London their first home had been owned by Winifred Atwell, a boogie piano player who became the first Black person to have a UK number one -- and who is *still* the only female solo instrumentalist to have a UK number one -- with her 1954 hit "Let's Have Another Party": [Excerpt: WInifred Atwell, "Let's Have Another Party"] That was only Atwell's biggest in a long line of hits, and she'd put all her royalties into buying properties in London, one of which became the Ardens' home. Arden had been considered quite a promising singer, and had made a few records in the early 1950s. His first recordings, of material in Yiddish aimed at the Jewish market, are sadly not findable online, but he also apparently recorded as a session singer for Embassy Records. I can't find a reliable source for what records he sang on for that label, which put out budget rerecordings of hits for sale exclusively through Woolworths, but according to Wikipedia one of them was Embassy's version of "Blue Suede Shoes", put out under the group name "The Canadians", and the lead vocal on that track certainly sounds like it could be him: [Excerpt: The Canadians, "Blue Suede Shoes"] As you can tell, rock and roll didn't really suit Arden's style, and he wisely decided to get out of performance and into behind-the-scenes work, though he would still try on occasion to make records of his own -- an acetate exists from 1967 of him singing "Sunrise, Sunset": [Excerpt: Don Arden, "Sunrise, Sunset"] But he'd moved first into promotion -- he'd been the promoter who had put together tours of the UK for Gene Vincent, Little Richard, Brenda Lee and others which we mentioned in the second year of the podcast -- and then into management. He'd first come into management with the Animals -- apparently acting at that point as the money man for Mike Jeffries, who was the manager the group themselves dealt with. According to Arden -- though his story differs from the version of the story told by others involved -- the group at some point ditched Arden for Allen Klein, and when they did, Arden's assistant Peter Grant, another person we'll be hearing a lot more of, went with them. Arden, by his own account, flew over to see Klein and threatened to throw him out of the window of his office, which was several stories up. This was a threat he regularly made to people he believed had crossed him -- he made a similar threat to one of the Nashville Teens, the first group he managed after the Animals, after the musician asked what was happening to the group's money. And as we heard last episode, he threatened Robert Stigwood that way when Stigwood tried to get the Small Faces off him. One of the reasons he'd signed the Small Faces was that Steve Marriott had gone to the Italia Conti school, where Arden had sent his own children, Sharon and David, and David had said that Marriott was talented. And David was also a big reason the Move came over to Arden. After the Small Faces had left him, Arden had bought Galaxy Entertaimnent, the booking agency that handled bookings for Amen Corner and the Move, among many other acts. Arden had taken over management of Amen Corner himself, and had put his son David in charge of liaising with Tony Secunda about the Move. But David Arden was sure that the Move could be an albums act, not just a singles act, and was convinced the group had more potential than they were showing, and when they left Secunda, Don Arden took them on as his clients, at least for the moment. Secunda, according to Arden (who is not the most reliable of witnesses, but is unfortunately the only one we have for a lot of this stuff) tried to hire someone to assassinate Arden, but Arden quickly let Secunda know that if anything happened to Arden, Secunda himself would be dead within the hour. As "Wild Tiger Woman" hadn't been a hit, the group decided to go back to their earlier "Flowers in the Rain" style, with "Blackberry Way": [Excerpt: The Move, "Blackberry Way"] That track was produced by Jimmy Miller, who was producing the Rolling Stones and Traffic around this time, and featured the group's friend Richard Tandy on harpsichord. It's also an example of the maxim "Good artists copy, great artists steal". There are very few more blatant examples of plagiarism in pop music than the middle eight of "Blackberry Way". Compare Harry Nilsson's "Good Old Desk": [Excerpt: Nilsson, "Good Old Desk"] to the middle eight of "Blackberry Way": [Excerpt: The Move, "Blackberry Way"] "Blackberry Way" went to number one, but that was the last straw for Trevor Burton -- it was precisely the kind of thing he *didn't* want to be doing,. He was so sick of playing what he thought of as cheesy pop music that at one show he attacked Bev Bevan on stage with his bass, while Bevan retaliated with his cymbals. He stormed off stage, saying he was "tired of playing this crap". After leaving the group, he almost joined Blind Faith, a new supergroup that members of Cream and Traffic were forming, but instead formed his own supergroup, Balls. Balls had a revolving lineup which at various times included Denny Laine, formerly of the Moody Blues, Jackie Lomax, a singer-songwriter who was an associate of the Beatles, Richard Tandy who had played on "Blackberry Way", and Alan White, who would go on to drum with the band Yes. Balls only released one single, "Fight for My Country", which was later reissued as a Trevor Burton solo single: [Excerpt: Balls, "Fight For My Country"] Balls went through many lineup changes, and eventually seemed to merge with a later lineup of the Idle Race to become the Steve Gibbons Band, who were moderately successful in the seventies and eighties. Richard Tandy covered on bass for a short while, until Rick Price came in as a permanent replacement. Before Price, though, the group tried to get Hank Marvin to join, as the Shadows had then split up, and Wood was willing to move over to bass and let Marvin play lead guitar. Marvin turned down the offer though. But even though "Blackberry Way" had been the group's biggest hit to date, it marked a sharp decline in the group's fortunes. Its success led Peter Walsh, the manager of Marmalade and the Tremeloes, to poach the group from Arden, and even though Arden took his usual heavy-handed approach -- he describes going and torturing Walsh's associate, Clifford Davis, the manager of Fleetwood Mac, in his autobiography -- he couldn't stop Walsh from taking over. Unfortunately, Walsh put the group on the chicken-in-a-basket cabaret circuit, and in the next year they only released one record, the single "Curly", which nobody was happy with. It was ostensibly produced by Mike Hurst, but Hurst didn't turn up to the final sessions and Wood did most of the production work himself, while in the next studio over Jimmy Miller, who'd produced "Blackberry Way", was producing "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones. The group were getting pigeonholed as a singles group, at a time when album artists were the in thing. In a three-year career they'd only released one album, though they were working on their second. Wood was by this point convinced that the Move was unsalvageable as a band, and told the others that the group was now just going to be a launchpad for his Electric Light Orchestra project. The band would continue working the chicken-in-a-basket circuit and releasing hit singles, but that would be just to fund the new project -- which they could all be involved in if they wanted, of course. Carl Wayne, on the other hand, was very, very, happy playing cabaret, and didn't see the need to be doing anything else. He made a counter-suggestion to Wood -- keep The Move together indefinitely, but let Wood do the Brian Wilson thing and stay home and write songs. Wayne would even try to get Burton and Kefford back into the band. But Wood wasn't interested. Increasingly his songs weren't even going to the Move at all. He was writing songs for people like Cliff Bennett and the Casuals. He wrote "Dance Round the Maypole" for Acid Gallery: [Excerpt: Acid Gallery, "Dance Round the Maypole"] On that, Wood and Jeff Lynne sang backing vocals. Wood and Lynne had been getting closer since Lynne had bought a home tape recorder which could do multi-tracking -- Wood had wanted to buy one of his own after "Flowers in the Rain", but even though he'd written three hit singles at that point his publishing company wouldn't give him an advance to buy one, and so he'd started using Lynne's. The two have often talked about how they'd recorded the demo for "Blackberry Way" at Lynne's parents' house, recording Wood's vocal on the demo with pillows and cushions around his head so that his singing wouldn't wake Lynne's parents. Lynne had been another person that Wood had asked to join the group when Burton left, but Lynne was happy with The Idle Race, where he was the main singer and songwriter, though their records weren't having any success: [Excerpt: The Idle Race, "I Like My Toys"] While Wood was writing material for other people, the only one of those songs to become a hit was "Hello Suzie", written for Amen Corner, which became a top five single on Immediate Records: [Excerpt: Amen Corner, "Hello Suzie"] While the Move were playing venues like Batley Variety Club in Britain, when they went on their first US tour they were able to play for a very different audience. They were unknown in the US, and so were able to do shows for hippie audiences that had no preconceptions about them, and did things like stretch "Cherry Blossom Clinic" into an eight-minute-long extended progressive rock jam that incorporated bits of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", the Nutcracker Suite, and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: [Excerpt: The Move, "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited (live at the Fillmore West)"] All the group were agreed that those shows were the highlight of the group's career. Even Carl Wayne, the band member most comfortable with them playing the cabaret circuit, was so proud of the show at the Fillmore West which that performance is taken from that when the tapes proved unusable he kept hold of them, hoping all his life that technology would progress to the point where they could be released and show what a good live band they'd been, though as things turned out they didn't get released until after his death. But when they got back to the UK it was back to the chicken-in-a-basket circuit, and back to work on their much-delayed second album. That album, Shazam!, was the group's attempt at compromise between their different visions. With the exception of one song, it's all heavy rock music, but Wayne, Wood, and Price all co-produced, and Wayne had the most creative involvement he'd ever had. Side two of the album was all cover versions, chosen by Wayne, and Wayne also went out onto the street and did several vox pops, asking members of the public what they thought of pop music: [Excerpt: Vox Pops from "Don't Make My Baby Blue"] There were only six songs on the album, because they were mostly extended jams. Other than the three cover versions chosen by Wayne, there was a sludge-metal remake of "Hello Suzie", the new arrangement of "Cherry Blossom Clinic" they'd been performing live, retitled "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited", and only one new original, "Beautiful Daughter", which featured a string arrangement by Visconti, who also played bass: [Excerpt: The Move, "Beautiful Daughter"] And Carl Wayne sang lead on five of the six tracks, which given that one of the reasons Wayne was getting unhappy with the band was that Wood was increasingly becoming the lead singer, must have been some comfort. But it wasn't enough. By the time Shazam! came out, with a cover drawn by Mike Sheridan showing the four band members as superheroes, the band was down to three -- Carl Wayne had quit the group, for a solo career. He continued playing the cabaret circuit, and made records, but never had another hit, but he managed to have a very successful career as an all-round entertainer, acting on TV and in the theatre, including a six-year run as the narrator in the musical Blood Brothers, and replacing Alan Clarke as the lead singer of the Hollies. He died in 2004. As soon as Wayne left the group, the three remaining band members quit their management and went back to Arden. And to replace Wayne, Wood once again asked Jeff Lynne to join the group. But this time the proposition was different -- Lynne wouldn't just be joining the Move, but he would be joining the Electric Light Orchestra. They would continue putting out Move records and touring for the moment, and Lynne would be welcome to write songs for the Move so that Wood wouldn't have to be the only writer, but they'd be doing it while they were planning their new group. Lynne was in, and the first single from the new lineup was a return to the heavy riff rock style of "Wild Tiger Woman", "Brontosaurus": [Excerpt: The Move, "Brontosaurus"] But Wayne leaving the group had put Wood in a difficult position. He was now the frontman, and he hated that responsibility -- he said later "if you look at me in photos of the early days, I'm always the one hanging back with my head down, more the musician than the frontman." So he started wearing makeup, painting his face with triangles and stars, so he would be able to hide his shyness. And it worked -- and "Brontosaurus" returned the group to the top ten. But the next single, "When Alice Comes Back to the Farm", didn't chart at all. The first album for the new Move lineup, Looking On, was to finish their contract with their current record label. Many regard it as the group's "Heavy metal album", and it's often considered the worst of their four albums, with Bev Bevan calling it "plodding", but that's as much to do with Bevan's feeling about the sessions as anything else -- increasingly, after the basic rhythm tracks had been recorded, Wood and Lynne would get to work without the other two members of the band, doing immense amounts of overdubbing. And that continued after Looking On was finished. The group signed a new contract with EMI's new progressive rock label, Harvest, and the contract stated that they were signing as "the Move performing as The Electric Light Orchestra". They started work on two albums' worth of material, with the idea that anything with orchestral instruments would be put aside for the first Electric Light Orchestra album, while anything with just guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, and horns would be for the Move. The first Electric Light Orchestra track, indeed, was intended as a Move B-side. Lynne came in with a song based around a guitar riff, and with lyrics vaguely inspired by the TV show The Prisoner, about someone with a number instead of a name running, trying to escape, and then eventually dying. But then Wood decided that what the track really needed was cello. But not cello played in the standard orchestral manner, but something closer to what the Beatles had done on "I am the Walrus". He'd bought a cheap cello himself, and started playing Jimi Hendrix riffs on it, and Lynne loved the sound of it, so onto the Move's basic rhythm track they overdubbed fifteen cello tracks by Wood, and also two French horns, also by Wood: [Excerpt: The Electric Light Orchestra, "10538 Overture"] The track was named "10538 Overture", after they saw the serial number 1053 on the console they were using to mix the track, and added the number 8 at the end, making 10538 the number of the character in the song. Wood and Lynne were so enamoured with the sound of their new track that they eventually got told by the other two members of the group that they had to sit in the back when the Move were driving to gigs, so they couldn't reach the tape player, because they'd just keep playing the track over and over again. So they got a portable tape player and took that into the back seat with them to play it there. After finishing some pre-existing touring commitments, the Move and Electric Light Orchestra became a purely studio group, and Rick Price quit the bands -- he needed steady touring work to feed his family, and went off to form another band, Mongrel. Around this time, Wood also took part in another strange project. After Immediate Records collapsed, Andrew Oldham needed some fast money, so he and Don Arden put together a fake group they could sign to EMI for ten thousand pounds. The photo of the band Grunt Futtock was of some random students, and that was who Arden and Oldham told EMI was on the track, but the actual performers on the single included Roy Wood, Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton, and Andy Bown, the former keyboard player of the Herd: [Excerpt: Grunt Futtock, "Rock 'n' Roll Christian"] Nobody knows who wrote the song, although it's credited to Bernard Webb, which is a pseudonym Paul McCartney had previously used -- but everyone knew he'd used the pseudonym, so it could very easily be a nod to that. The last Move album, Message From The Country, didn't chart -- just like the previous two hadn't. But Wood's song "Tonight" made number eleven, the follow-up, "Chinatown", made number twenty-three, and then the final Move single, "California Man", a fifties rock and roll pastiche, made the top ten: [Excerpt: The Move, "California Man"] In the US, that single was flipped, and the B-side, Lynne's song "Do Ya", became the only Move song ever to make the Hot One Hundred, reaching number ninety-nine: [Excerpt: The Move, "Do Ya"] By the time "California Man" was released, the Electric Light Orchestra were well underway. They'd recorded their first album, whose biggest highlights were Lynne's "10538 Overture" and Wood's "Whisper in the Night": [Excerpt: The Electric Light Orchestra, "Whisper in the Night"] And they'd formed a touring lineup, including Richard Tandy on keyboards and several orchestral instrumentalists. Unfortunately, there were problems developing between Wood and Lynne. When the Electric Light Orchestra toured, interviewers only wanted to speak to Wood, thinking of him as the band leader, even though Wood insisted that he and Lynne were the joint leaders. And both men had started arguing a lot, to the extent that at some shows they would refuse to go on stage because of arguments as to which of them should go on first. Wood has since said that he thinks most of the problems between Lynne and himself were actually caused by Don Arden, who realised that if he split the two of them into separate acts he could have two hit groups, not one. If that was the plan, it worked, because by the time "10538 Overture" was released as the Electric Light Orchestra's first single, and made the top ten -- while "California Man" was also still in the charts -- it was announced that Roy Wood was now leaving the Electric Light Orchestra, as were keyboard playe
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Spooky Tooth - Ceremony In this episode, we are joined by Charles Traynor to review an album by an English progressive rock band who collaborated with a French avant-garde purveyor of what could be called Musique concrète or experimentalism. Our opinions fly all over the place on this album but that's what makes reviewing albums fun. Our tracks of the week are, Jill Kroesen's "I Am Not Seeing That You Are Here", Ghost's "Darkness At The Heart Of My Love" and Pink Floyd's "Breathe." We conclude with Lee's song "7th Experimental Piece." Have a happy listen! Cheers! Facebook-https://www.facebook.com/groups/320107654991449/ YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp8LsYcUiAUJzfqau4jSXjA Come Interact with Us!! Join the Facebook Group and Subscribe to the YouTube Channel
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YouTube version: https://youtu.be/--rLFi4FL1o Lyle Rubin, anti-war activist and author, talks with Henri about his new book, “Pain Is Weakness Leaving The Body: A Marine's Unbecoming.” Lyle shares his story of becoming a marine officer, the dehumanization process of military enlistment and training, the weaponization of trauma to encourage violent processes over multiple generations, and a lot more. Lyle Jeremy Rubin is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who writes about capitalism and U.S. empire. He has a doctorate in history from the University of Rochester and has contributed to a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Raritan, and n+1. When he is not working or reading, he likes to pay attention to the birds. We're now on Telegram!!!! Please come join us and talk about militarism and anti-imperialism: https://t.me/fortressonahill Main website: https://www.fortressonahill.com Let me guess. You're enjoying the show so much, you'd like to leave us a review?! https://lovethepodcast.com/fortressonahill Email us at fortressonahill@protonmail.com Check out our online store on Spreadshirt.com. T-shirts, cell phone covers, mugs, etc.: https://bit.ly/3qD63MW Not a contributor on Patreon? Sign up to be one of our patrons today! - https://www.patreon.com/fortressonahill A special thanks to our Patreon honorary producers - Fahim Shirazee, James O'Barr, James Higgins, Eric Phillips, Paul Appell, Julie Dupris, Thomas Benson, Janet Hanson, Tristan Oliver, Daniel Fleming, Michael Caron, Zach H, Ren Jacob, Howard Reynolds, Rick Coffey, Scott Spaulding, Spooky Tooth, and the Statist Quo Podcast. You all are the engine that helps us power the podcast. Thank you so much!!! Not up for something recurring like Patreon, but want to give a couple bucks?! Visit https://paypal.me/fortressonahill to contribute!! Fortress On A Hill is hosted, written, and produced by Chris 'Henri' Henrikson, Danny Sjursen, Keagan Miller, and Jovanni Reyes. https://bit.ly/3yeBaB9 Intro / outro music "Fortress on a hill" written and performed by Clifton Hicks. Click here for Clifton's Patreon page: https://bit.ly/3h7Ni0Z Cover and website art designed by Brian K. Wyatt Jr. of B-EZ Graphix Multimedia Marketing Agency in Tallehassee, FL: https://bit.ly/2U8qMfn Note: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts alone, expressed in an unofficial capacity, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.
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Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Colabora Con Biblioteca Del Metal: En Twitter - https://twitter.com/Anarkometal72 Y Donanos Unas Propinas En BAT. Para Seguir Con El Proyecto De la Biblioteca Mas Grande Del Metal. Muchisimas Gracias. La Tienda De Biblioteca Del Metal: Encontraras, Ropa, Accesorios,Decoracion, Ect... Todo Relacionado Al Podcats Biblioteca Del Metal Y Al Mundo Del Heavy Metal. Descubrela!!!!!! Ideal Para Llevarte O Regalar Productos Del Podcats De Ivoox. (Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Judas Priest es una banda británica de heavy metal fundada en 1969 en Birmingham, Inglaterra. Su alineación inicial estuvo liderada por el vocalista Al Atkins, por ello la prensa ha nombrado esta primera etapa como Al Atkin’s Judas Priest. Más tarde a mediados de 1970, Atkins se unió a K.K. Downing, Ian Hill y John Ellis —provenientes del grupo Freight— que se considera como la primera alineación oficial de la agrupación. Tras algunos años donde no consiguieron apoyo discográfico y luego de algunos cambios en la formación, debutaron con Rocka Rolla en 1974; con Glenn Tipton como guitarrista y con Rob Halford y John Hinch, en reemplazo de Atkins y Ellis respectivamente. Dos años después lanzaron Sad Wings of Destiny, considerado como uno de sus mejores registros y que inició su ciclo más influyente para el metal de acuerdo a ciertos críticos con los álbumes Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Killing Machine y la producción en vivo, Unleashed in the East. A principios de los ochenta gracias a British Steel y Point of Entry, se consagraron en los mercados mundiales sobre todo en los Estados Unidos y Canadá. Más tarde las producciones Screaming for Vengeance y Defenders of the Faith, llegaron a ser sus discos más pesados de la década. En 1986 apareció su álbum más controvertido, Turbo, que poseía un nuevo sonido creado por guitarras sintetizadoras y el uso de letras más comerciales. Con Ram It Down de 1988 retornaron en gran medida a su sonido característico, pero al igual que su predecesor recibió una variedad de críticas. En 1990 lanzaron Painkiller, que contó con Scott Travis en reemplazo del baterista Dave Holland y que obtuvo muy buenos comentarios de la prensa especializada. Tras una gira especial en 1991 donde colideraron con Alice Cooper, Halford anunció su salida de la banda, que provocó un receso de casi cinco años. En 1996 el resto del grupo decidió volver a los escenarios con Tim “Ripper” Owens como nuevo vocalista, de cuya etapa publicaron Jugulator en 1997, Demolition en 2001 y dos álbumes en directo. Para mediados de 2004 el rumor sobre el regreso de Halford a la banda se concretó con la gira de reunión, Reunited Summer Tour. En 2005 lanzaron Angel of Retribution, que logró muy buenas posiciones en las listas mundiales y que en ciertas revisiones incluso se consideró como uno de sus mejores trabajos. Tres años más tarde publicaron el doble disco Nostradamus, un álbum conceptual que relata la vida y obra del profeta francés, Michel de Nostradamus. Ya en 2014 salió a la venta Redeemer of Souls, que es su primera producción sin el guitarrista K.K. Downing, y que fue apoyado por una gira que contempló fechas hasta el 2015. Judas Priest es considerada la banda que terminó de definir el género y como una de las más influyentes no solo para el heavy metal, sino también para el thrash, power, speed, glam, death y black metal, entre otros. Por otra parte, sus ventas fluctúan entre los 45 y los 50 millones de copias en todo el mundo. En septiembre de 1969 en el pueblo de West Bromwich —a las afueras de Birmingham— el vocalista Al Atkins formó una nueva banda con sus amigos Bruno Stapenhill en el bajo, John Perry en la guitarra y John Partridge en la batería. Sin embargo, a los pocos días Perry falleció en un accidente automovilístico, por lo que tuvieron que buscar un nuevo guitarrista. Para ello hicieron audiciones en una pequeña sala de Birmingham donde llegaron entre otros, K.K. Downing, pero fue descartado por la poca experiencia que tenía en ese momento. Finalmente el escogido fue Earnest "Ernie" Chataway que además sabía tocar la armónica y los teclados, y que provenía de la banda Earth, el prototipo de lo que fue más tarde Black Sabbath. Por su parte y tras experimentar con diversos nombres, Stapenhill les propuso llamarse Judas Priest, que tomó de la canción «The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest» del cantautor Bob Dylan. Iniciaron su carrera versionando temas de las bandas Spirit y Quicksilver Messenger Service, para más tarde y con la ayuda de Alan Eade —dueño de un pequeño estudio de grabación— compusieron sus primeras canciones; «Good Time Woman» y «We'll Stay Together». Con ellas dieron una serie de conciertos por pequeños clubes de Inglaterra como parte de la llamada Judas Priest Tour. En una de esas presentaciones, específicamente la realizada el 25 de noviembre de 1969 en The George Hotel de Walsall, estaban dentro del público algunos ejecutivos de Harvest Records y de Immediate Records, como también el vocalista de Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant. Gracias a Plant, la banda firmó esa misma noche un contrato por tres años con el sello Immediate, del cual saldría su disco debut. No obstante, a los pocos meses el sello quebró y con ello los ánimos de sus integrantes decayó, provocando la separación del grupo. A mediados de 1970, Atkins regresó a Birmingham, donde y según sus propias palabras, una noche escuchó desde fuera del recinto Holy Joe's de Wednesbury a una banda que sonaba bastante bien; su nombre era Freight y estaba integrada por K.K. Downing, Ian Hill y John Ellis. Al notar que no tenían vocalista Atkins se ofreció a unirse a la banda, a lo cual ellos aceptaron. Con su llegada, les presentó las canciones escritas con su agrupación anterior y además les propuso utilizar el nombre de Judas Priest. Esta segunda alineación conformada por Atkins en la voz, Downing en la guitarra, Hill en el bajo y Ellis en la batería, empezó a componer nuevas canciones enfocadas en una posterior gira basadas en el blues rock y el hard rock. Es así que el 16 de marzo de 1971 dieron su primer concierto en el Essington St. John's Hall de Staffordshire, que inició a su vez la gira The Return of the Priest Tour. Esta serie de conciertos les permitió tocar en varios clubes y teatros del Reino Unido, generalmente como teloneros de las bandas Slade, Budgie y Warhorse, y en ocasiones compartieron escenario con el guitarrista Gary Moore. En julio del mismo año, Atkins compuso los temas «Holy is the Man» y «Mind Conception», que fueron lanzados como maqueta de manera independiente y que según él solo diez personas lo escucharon en ese tiempo. Durante la gira, el grupo no recibió ningún apoyo discográfico y los dineros que ganaban no les alcanzaba para cubrir los gastos del traslado. Es por ello que Ellis se retiró de la banda el 6 de octubre de 1971, luego de tocar como banda soporte de Slade en el recinto Yeoman de Derby, dando paso a Alan Moore, que debutó el 11 del mismo mes en el Slough College. En 1972 compusieron las canciones «Whiskey Woman», «Winter», «Never Satisfied» y «Caviar and Meths» e iniciaron la gira Whiskey Woman Tour, con Chris Campbell como nuevo baterista, que fue apodado por sus compañeros como «Congo» debido a su color de piel. Durante ese año fueron teloneros de bandas como Status Quo, Thin Lizzy, UFO y Family, y a su vez ellos fueron teloneados por los recién formados Magnum. A pesar de ser hasta ese momento su gira con mayor cantidad de fechas los problemas financieros continuaron, lo que provocó la salida de Atkins a principios de 1973 para conseguir un trabajo estable, puesto que había nacido su hija. A mediados de 1973 la novia de Hill le presentó a su hermano, Rob Halford, que por ese entonces se desempeñaba como técnico iluminador de teatros y que en sus tiempos libres era vocalista de la banda local Hiroshima. Un día en la casa de los Halford, Hill lo escuchó por casualidad cantar frente a la radio y quedó impresionado por los agudos que alcanzaba. Por ello tanto Hill como Downing le solicitaron que se uniera a la banda, opción que sin dudar aceptó. Con Halford en el grupo, llamaron a Atkins para preguntarle si le molestaba que usaran el nombre de Judas Priest y las canciones que habían escrito con él, a la cual dio su aprobación. Al poco tiempo después Campbell renunció a la banda y en su reemplazo entró John Hinch, que era baterista y compañero de Halford en Hiroshima. En 1973 escribieron los temas «Run of the Mill» y «Ladies» —prototipo de «Red Light Lady»—, que junto a «Caviar and Meths» fueron lanzados como demo por producción independiente. Para promocionarlas salieron nuevamente como teloneros de Budgie, cuya gira se llamó Never Turn Your Back on a Friend Tour. El demo llamó la atención del sello independiente Gull Records que a principios de 1974 les ofreció un contrato con la condición de que incluyeran a un teclista o un trompetista para engrosar el sonido. Dicha idea no les agradó, pero con el fin de publicar su primera producción Downing sugirió agregar a otro guitarrista, propuesta que fue aceptada por la discográfica. Para ello escogieron a Glenn Tipton, que se desempeñaba como guitarrista y vocalista de The Flying Hat Band, conocidos en aquel tiempo por telonear a Deep Purple. Con su primer contrato discográfico firmado grabaron su primer sencillo, «Rocka Rolla», que se publicó en agosto de 1974 y que sirvió de preludio para su álbum debut. Finalmente en septiembre del mismo año debutaron con el álbum de mismo nombre, que estaba más enfocado al hard rock y al rock progresivo, con una gran influencia de Led Zeppelin y Queen tanto en su sonido como en su vestimenta. Para promocionarlo el 10 de septiembre iniciaron el Rocka Rolla Tour, con una serie de conciertos por varias ciudades de Inglaterra y que al año siguiente les permitió tocar por primera vez en Suecia, Noruega, Países Bajos y Dinamarca. Durante noviembre y diciembre de 1975 ingresaron nuevamente a los estudios para grabar su nuevo álbum titulado Sad Wings of Destiny, que contó con muy poco dinero para su producción pero con un sonido puramente ligado al heavy metal. A pesar de que no logró atención en las listas musicales, con el pasar de los años ha llegado a ser uno de los discos más influyentes para el género, incluso es citado como la producción que redefinió el heavy metal. Cabe señalar que fue grabado con Alan Moore en la batería, luego que en 1975 John Hinch se retirara de la banda, o de acuerdo a sus otros miembros, fuera despedido. Los buenos resultados que obtuvo el disco llamó la atención de los ejecutivos de CBS Records, que a fines del mismo año les ofrecieron un nuevo contrato discográfico. Este requería su renuncia a Gull, que significó que el sello independiente se quedara con todos los derechos de sus dos primeros álbumes. A principios de 1977, el gerente artists and repertoire, Paul Atkinson, se interesó en ellos y les consiguió un contrato con Columbia Records para la distribución de sus siguientes trabajos en los Estados Unidos. Con la idea de potenciarlos, CBS invirtió 60 000 libras esterlinas para su siguiente disco y que contó con Roger Glover como coproductor. Finalmente en abril de 1977 se lanzó Sin After Sin, que alcanzó el puesto 23 en los UK Albums Chart, convirtiéndose en su primer long play en ingresar en la lista británica. Sin After Sin es su único álbum en el que participó Simon Phillips en la batería, puesto que Moore renunció antes de iniciar el proceso de grabación. En lo musical, el disco introdujo la combinación del doble bombo con ritmos rápidos en semicorchea de bajo y guitarra, que llegó a redefinir el género. A su vez, algunas de sus canciones como «Call for the Priest» y «Dissident Aggressor» han sido consideradas por la crítica como los primeros escalones del speed metal y thrash metal, respectivamente. A pesar de que se le ofreció un contrato como miembro activo de la banda, Phillips no pudo participar de la gira Sin After Sin Tour, ya que según él tenía compromisos previos con Jack Bruce Band. Por ello y a solo días de iniciar la gira, Glover sugirió al baterista Les Binks para reemplazarlo, un joven inglés que había participado en el disco The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast del bajista de Deep Purple. Su respectiva gira les permitió tocar por primera vez en Suiza y de igual manera en junio del mismo año iniciaron su primera gira por los Estados Unidos como teloneros en ciertas ocasiones de REO Speedwagon. Su última presentación en el país norteamericano fue en el festival Day on the Green como banda de soporte de Led Zeppelin, ante más de 55 000 personas. Entre octubre y noviembre de 1977 comenzaron a trabajar en su siguiente producción discográfica, Stained Class, que se grabó en Chipping Norton Studios bajo la producción de Dennis Mackay. Salió al mercado en febrero de 1978 e incluyó la primera aparición del característico logotipo, creado por el artista polaco Rozslav Szyabo. Sus letras van desde el ocultismo, la ciencia ficción, la fantasía y temas futuristas, que lo convirtieron en una de sus producciones más oscuras. De igual manera, es una de sus obras más influyentes para el thrash metal y speed metal, y también para la llamada Nueva ola del heavy metal británico. Su cuarto disco de estudio significó un gran avance en el mercado estadounidense, ya que alcanzó el puesto 173 en la lista Billboard 200. Mientras que su gira Stained Class Tour, los llevó por primera vez a Japón con tres presentaciones en Tokio, una en Osaka y otra en Nagoya. Para promocionarlo en enero de 1978 se lanzó el sencillo «Better By You, Better Than Me» —original de Spooky Tooth— que poseía una portada con la banda vestida completamente de cuero, que se convirtió en la primera imagen pública con esta nueva vestimenta. En 2015, K.K. Downing confirmó que fue el primero en usar dicha vestimenta en la banda y que luego Rob Halford comenzó a adoptar el uso del cuero de manera más extravagante, hasta que finalmente toda la banda hizo lo mismo. De acuerdo a Halford: «...Necesitábamos una nueva imagen que identificara el poder de nuestra música. Las bandas de heavy metal no podían usar tutú y tocar esas canciones». Por ello, propuso crear una imagen propia que se sintiera identificada con la energía que expresaban con su música. Es así que en 1978 acudió a una tienda en Londres llamada Mr. S especializada en sex-shop y comenzó a comprar ropa de cuero y accesorios de metal vinculados al fetichismo sexual y al masoquismo. Luego indujo a K.K. Downing a comprar en el mismo lugar y así motivó a todos los integrantes de la banda en hacerse con dicha imagen. Esta fue muy influyente durante los años posteriores tanto para la Nueva ola del heavy metal británico, el glam metal y los subgéneros del metal extremo. Durante el segundo semestre de 1978 publicaron su quinto álbum Killing Machine, que tuvo que ser renombrado como Hell Bent for Leather en los Estados Unidos por ser considerado un título violento. El disco incluyó las canciones «Take On the World» y «Evening Star», que ingresaron en los puestos 14 y 53 en los UK Singles Chart respectivamente, siendo sus primeros sencillos en debutar en dicha lista británica. Por su parte y solo para el mercado norteamericano se incluyó la canción «The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)», tema original de Fleetwood Mac y que ha llegado a ser una de sus mejores versiones. En octubre iniciaron su gira Killing Machine Tour en el Reino Unido con el grupo Lea Hart como teloneros. A su vez, giraron por los Estados Unidos en ocasiones abriendo los conciertos de sus compatriotas UFO y llegaron por segunda vez a Japón, donde se grabaron algunos de sus shows para un eventual álbum en vivo. En septiembre de 1979 volvieron a tocar por varias ciudades estadounidenses junto a Kiss, para dar en octubre sus propios conciertos por aquel país norteamericano. Por su parte, durante noviembre y diciembre tocaron por primera vez en Bélgica, Alemania Occidental y Francia como artistas invitados de AC/DC. A mediados de julio de 1979 el baterista Les Binks renunció a la banda, entrando en su lugar el exintegrante de Trapeze, Dave Holland, que dio su primer concierto el 1 de septiembre del mismo año. Sin embargo y antes de su partida, Binks participó de la grabación del primer disco en vivo Unleashed in the East, que llegó hasta el puesto 10 en el Reino Unido, convirtiéndose en su primera producción en entrar en los top 10 de dicho país. Durante los primeros meses, después de su publicación, la prensa especuló que el disco fue grabado en su totalidad en un estudio, pero dichos rumores fueron desmentidos por la banda afirmando que lo único que se retocó en el proceso de masterización fue la voz de Halford, que durante las presentaciones por la capital japonesa sufría una laringitis parcial. En abril de 1980 publicaron British Steel, considerado como la producción que los consagró en los mercados mundiales. Tras su lanzamiento llegó hasta el cuarto puesto en el Reino Unido y solo en un poco más de un mes vendió más de 60 000 copias, convirtiéndose en su producción más exitosa en su propio país. De dicho álbum destacaron las canciones «Living After Midnight» y «Breaking the Law» que llegaron ambas al puesto 12 en los UK Singles Chart. Además del tema «Metal Gods», que años más tarde sirvió de apodo de los integrantes de la banda, en especial de Rob Halford. Para promocionarlo se embarcaron en una extensa gira llamada British Steel Tour, que contó a Iron Maiden como telonero en los conciertos por el Reino Unido, mientras que por los Estados Unidos giraron en ocasiones con Def Leppard y Scorpions como bandas de soporte. Esta destacó por contar con muy pocas canciones del álbum, de las cuales se interpretaban «Steeler» y «You Don't Have to Be Old to Be Wise» principalmente. En agosto de 1980 fueron parte del primer festival Monsters of Rock celebrado en el Donington Park de Derby, junto a Rainbow, April Wine, Scorpions, Saxon, Riot y Touch. Entre octubre y noviembre de 1980 viajaron a Ibiza en España para trabajar en su séptimo álbum de estudio Point of Entry, que fue puesto a la venta en febrero de 1981. A pesar de contener un sonido más cercano al hard rock, en un principio sus ventas igualaron a British Steel. De él se extrajeron tres sencillos; «Don't Go» y «Hot Rockin'» que se ubicaron en los top 60 en su propio país, y «Heading Out to the Highway» que llegó hasta el puesto 10 en los Mainstream Rock Tracks de los Estados Unidos, convirtiéndose así en su primer sencillo en ingresar a dicha lista. Por su parte, su gira promocional denominada World Wide Blitz Tour les permitió volver a tocar en varias ciudades europeas y estadounidenses e incluso en diciembre se presentaron por primera vez en Puerto Rico. Durante el segundo semestre de 1981 comenzaron a escribir y grabar nuevas canciones para su siguiente producción que originalmente se llamaría Screaming. Sin embargo, tanto la banda como el productor Tom Allom no quedaron conformes con dichas grabaciones, por lo cual decidieron realizar todo el proceso de nuevo. Finalmente entre enero y mayo de 1982 completaron esta nueva regrabación para lanzar en julio del mismo año el álbum Screaming for Vengeance, que se ha convertido en su producción más vendida en el mundo. El disco llegó hasta el puesto 11 en el Reino Unido y hasta la posición 17 en los Estados Unidos, país donde ha sido certificado con doble disco de platino tras vender más de 2 millones de copias. Para promocionarlo se publicaron tres canciones como sencillos, de los cuales destacó «You've Got Another Thing Comin'» que llegó hasta el cuarto lugar en los Mainstream Rock Tracks y hasta la posición 67 en los Billboard Hot 100, siendo hasta el día de hoy su único sencillo en ingresar en esta última lista estadounidense. En agosto de 1982 iniciaron la gira World Vengeance Tour, que los llevó hasta febrero de 1983 a tocar en varias ciudades de Estados Unidos y Canadá. También y dentro de sus noventa fechas, el 29 de mayo de 1983 se presentaron en el certamen US Festival durante el día del heavy metal donde compartieron escenario con Van Halen, Scorpions, Ozzy Osbourne, Triumph, Quiet Riot y Mötley Crüe, ante más de 350 000 personas. Por último, en diciembre del mismo año tocaron en varias ciudades británicas y en el Rock and Pop Festival de Dortmund en Alemania, festival que también participaron Scorpions, Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Michael Schenker Group y Def Leppard. Solo días de culminar la gira World Vengeance Tour, en enero de 1984 se puso a la venta Defenders of the Faith que a pesar de no generar éxitos radiales en comparación a sus predecesores, fue considerado como uno de sus discos más pesados de la década de los ochenta. Por su parte, en su respectiva gira de conciertos llamada Metal Conqueror Tour, interpretaron en vivo todas sus canciones a excepción de «Eat Me Alive» y les permitió tocar por primera vez en España con tres presentaciones en tres de sus ciudades. Tras el éxito de la gira promocional de Defenders of the Faith, la banda se tomó un receso de varios meses durante 1985, cuya única presentación en vivo fue en el festival Live Aid celebrado en julio del mismo año en Filadelfia y donde tocaron las canciones «The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)», «Living After Midnight» y «You've Got Another Thing Comin'». A mediados del mismo, comenzaron la grabación de un nuevo álbum de estudio que originalmente sería de doble disco y se llamaría Twin Turbos, pero la discográfica CBS canceló el proyecto por los altos costos de su publicación. Debido a ello, se escogieron nueve de las diecinueve canciones grabadas, que se publicaron el 14 de abril de 1986 bajo el nombre de Turbo. Dicha producción incluyó el uso de las guitarras sintetizadoras, que a través de pedales creaban diversos efectos sonoros similares a lo que produce el sintetizador. La incorporación de estos instrumentos posicionó a Judas Priest como los pioneros en usarlos en la música metal. De la mano a este cambio de sonido, sus integrantes comenzaron a utilizar una nueva indumentaria de cuero con colores negros, azules, blancos y rojos y con una visión más futurista. Al respecto Rob Halford en una entrevista a Radio MCB dada el 2 de febrero de 1991 comentó: «Creo que si nos hubiéramos avergonzado de Turbo no lo hubiéramos publicado. De hecho, Turbo fue muy exitoso en especial en América. Tú sabes que las bandas pasan por diferentes períodos, tanto en lo musical como en la imagen y estoy feliz que hayamos sido capaces de hacer eso». Para promocionarlo se publicaron tres canciones como sencillos, entre ellos «Turbo Lover» que hasta el día de hoy es el único tema del disco en ser tocado frecuentemente en vivo. Además, el 2 de mayo iniciaron la gira Fuel for Life Tour que los llevó por varios países de Europa y por Norteamérica hasta mediados de diciembre del mismo año. Adicionalmente, y antes del suceso que generó Turbo, Rob Halford trató de quitarse la vida por una grave depresión debido a que durante años tuvo que mantener en secreto su condición de homosexual y además de que por aquel entonces consumía en exceso drogas y alcohol. A finales de noviembre y después de ensayar el espectáculo de lo que fue la gira de Turbo, se tomó una gran cantidad de analgésicos con la idea de terminar con su vida. A pesar de que no pudo lograrlo, fue internado en un hospital para desintoxicarse, y el 6 de enero de 1986 ingresó en un centro de rehabilitación en Phoenix. Tras 33 días de tratamiento, finalmente, en febrero de 1986, fue dado de alta y comenzó un extenso trabajo en su voz con la idea de potenciar nuevamente su carrera. Al respecto en 2001 el productor Tom Allom comentó: «Rob tiene esa voz irreal que cualquier cantante de metal moriría por tener y que está mejor que nunca desde que dejó de beber». De la gira promocional de Turbo se grabó material en vivo de las presentaciones dadas el 20 de junio en Atlanta y el 27 del mismo mes en Dallas, para publicarlo en un nuevo álbum en directo, cuyo resultado fue Priest...Live! que se puso a la venta el 21 de junio de 1987. Su segundo álbum en vivo se lanzó también en formato VHS que vendió mucho más que el disco compacto y que recibió diversas críticas por parte de la prensa especializada. En octubre de 1987 fueron convocados para grabar una versión del tema «Johnny B. Goode» del guitarrista y cantante Chuck Berry, para ser el tema principal de la película cómica del mismo nombre. A pesar de que inicialmente rechazaron la propuesta, decidieron grabarla como una especie de homenajear a unos de los clásicos del rock and roll. Solo dos meses después iniciaron las grabaciones de su undécimo disco llamado Ram It Down, que contó con cuatro canciones escritas para Twin Turbos las que fueron retocadas y regrabadas. La producción obtuvo un éxito relativo en Norteamérica, ya que a los dos meses de su publicación recibió disco de oro en los Estados Unidos, por vender más de 500 000 copias. Por su parte, su respectiva gira denominada Mercenaries of Metal Tour les permitió volver a tocar en su país luego de cuatro años de ausencia de los escenarios ingleses y además volvieron a tocar las canciones escritas en los años setenta como «Sinner» y «Beyond the Realms of Death», las que fueron omitidas del listado oficial del tour Fuel for Life. En 1989, el baterista Dave Holland anunció su retirada de la banda y para reemplazarlo, a fines de mencionado año, ingresó Scott Travis proveniente de Racer X. Tras su llegada la banda comenzó a grabar un nuevo disco de estudio, que salió al mercado el 3 de septiembre de 1990 bajo el título de Painkiller y que recibió muy buenas críticas de la prensa, quienes elogiaron el retorno de su sonido agresivo y característico. Su respectiva gira llamada Painkiller Tour les permitió tocar por primera vez en Austria, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Irlanda del Norte y en el estado de Alaska, e incluso el 23 de enero de 1991 dieron su primer show en Brasil en el festival Rock in Rio, que se celebró en el Estadio Maracaná. Por otro lado, en julio de 1990 la banda fue demandada por una corte estadounidense, donde se les acusó como involucrados indirectos del intento de suicidio de dos de sus fanáticos. El hecho ocurrió el 23 de diciembre de 1985 en el poblado de Sparks, Nevada cuando James Vance de entonces 20 años edad y Ray Belknap de tan solo 18 años, mientras estaban bajo los efectos del alcohol, los jóvenes se dirigieron hacia el patio de una iglesia y mientras repetían una frase subliminal que supuestamente escucharon en un tema de la agrupación. Los jóvenes cargaban una escopeta con la idea de acabar con sus vidas. Belknap quien jaló el gatillo primero murió instantáneamente, mientras que James Vance sufrió serias heridas que le desfiguraron su rostro. El joven Vance viviría tres años más antes de fallecer en diciembre de 1988 luego de caer en una fuerte depresión médica que causó al joven a entrar en estado de coma. De acuerdo al abogado de la familia de Vance, los jóvenes estaban escuchando el disco Stained Class en especial las canciones «Exciter» y «Better By You, Better Than Me». Precisamente esta última contenía el supuesto mensaje subliminal «do it», hazlo en español, y que fue la causante del intento de suicidio. Luego de tres semanas de juicio, la corte dictaminó que tal mensaje subliminal no existía y que la banda no tuvo ninguna relación directa o indirecta con la muerte de Belknap y la desfiguración de Vance. Aun así, el sello CBS Records tuvo que cancelar 40 000 dólares a la familia de Vance. En julio de 1991 iniciaron la gira Operation Rock 'N' Roll Tour, solo tres meses después de terminar la gira promocional de Painkiller. Su última fecha dada el 19 de agosto en Toronto fue también el último concierto con Rob Halford, ya que en 1992 renunció a la banda por diferencias musicales con el resto del grupo. Esto provocó un receso de un poco más de cinco años, donde cada uno de sus integrantes tuvo distintas vivencias, por ejemplo Halford fundó la banda Fight y Glenn Tipton trabajó en su primer disco de estudio, Baptizm of Fire. A fines de 1994, Tipton y Downing se reunieron para definir el futuro de la banda, cuya decisión final fue continuar, pero con la difícil tarea de buscar un nuevo vocalista. Luego de algunas audiciones, finalmente encontraron al estadounidense Tim Owens que cantaba en una banda tributo a Judas Priest, llamada British Steel. En 1996 ingresó oficialmente a la banda y a los días después recibió el apodo de "Ripper", tomado de la canción del mismo nombre, y que fue aceptado por los fanáticos e incluso por su propia madre. Entre los últimos meses de 1996 y el primer trimestre de 1997 grabaron el primer disco con Owens, Jugulator, que salió al mercado en octubre de 1997. Su sonido estaba más orientado al groove metal que al clásico sonido de la agrupación, convirtiéndose en uno de sus trabajos más agresivos de toda su discografía. Dicho cambio se debió en gran parte al tono y el uso de la voz gutural de Owens y por la baja afinación de las guitarras de K.K. Downing y Glenn Tipton. Para promocionarlo publicaron el sencillo «Bullet Train» y en enero de 1998 se embarcaron en la gira Jugulator World Tour, con gran éxito en Norteamérica y Europa, y que les permitió tocar por primera vez en México. Durante ciertas presentaciones se grabó el material para su tercer álbum en vivo '98 Live Meltdown, publicado en septiembre de 1998. El 23 de julio de 2001 pusieron a la venta su decimocuarto disco de estudio Demolition, considerado como uno de sus trabajos más controversiales, ya que incluyó algunos elementos del metal industrial y del nu metal. Además de las críticas variadas que recibió en su momento, sus ventas lo convierten hasta el día de hoy en su producción menos vendida en el mundo. Aun así, su respectiva gira obtuvo una gran concurrencia en los países en los que se presentaron. Por otro lado, el 19 de diciembre de 2001 grabaron en el recinto Brixton Academy de Londres su cuarto álbum en directo Live in London, que se editó en 2003 en formato doble disco y en DVD. Tras varios meses de especulación sobre el retorno del vocalista Rob Halford a Judas Priest, la banda a través de una carta entregada a los medios de comunicación en julio de 2003, confirmaron su regreso y con ello informaron sobre una pequeña gira para conmemorar dicho evento. Esto provocó la salida de Tim Owens que se retiró en buenos términos y que al poco tiempo se convirtió en el cantante del grupo Iced Earth y de su propia banda, Beyond Fear. En mayo de 2004 el sello Columbia publicó Metalogy, su primera caja recopilatoria, que estaba compuesta de cuatro discos que recorrían la carrera de la banda desde su debut Rocka Rolla a Demolition, último trabajo con Tim Owens. Por otro lado, en junio del mismo año iniciaron la gira de reunión llamada Reunited Summer Tour, conformada por 15 presentaciones por algunos países de Europa, principalmente en los mayores festivales de música como el Gods of Metal de Italia y el Graspop Metal Meeting de Bélgica. Mientras que su paso por Norteamérica, se llevó a cabo como colíderes de cartel del festival Ozzfest entre julio y septiembre. En 2004 también comenzaron a escribir las primeras canciones de su álbum de reunión, Angel of Retribution, que salió al mercado el 28 de febrero de 2005 en Europa y el 1 de marzo en los Estados Unidos. A los pocos días de su lanzamiento logró posicionarse en el puesto 13 en la lista Billboard 200, convirtiéndose hasta en ese momento en la mejor posición para uno de sus discos en dicha lista estadounidense. Cinco días antes del lanzamiento oficial de Angel of Retribution en Europa, iniciaron la gira promocional Retribution World Tour, que durante el 2005 los llevó a varios países europeos, Norteamérica, Japón y Latinoamérica, y les permitió tocar por primera vez en los países bálticos, Ucrania, Rusia y Chile. El 18 de mayo en su presentación en el Nippon Budokan de Tokio grabaron el DVD, Rising in the East, que se lanzó el 8 de noviembre del mismo año a través de Rhino Records y que a los pocos meses logró disco de oro en los Estados Unidos luego de vender más de 50 000 copias. En el año 2008 y luego de un poco más de un año de arduo trabajo publicaron Nostradamus, álbum de doble disco que fue su primer álbum conceptual y que relata la historia del profeta francés Nostradamus. Al momento de su publicación recibió una gran variedad de críticas y además una gran atención en las listas musicales, entre ellas la estadounidense, donde alcanzó el puesto 11. Además y para promocionarlo, el 3 de junio de 2008 iniciaron la gira 2008/2009 World Tour que durante dos años los llevó a varios países del mundo y que contó con varios artistas como teloneros entre ellos Megadeth, Testament y Whitesnake. Entre junio y agosto de 2009, regresaron a Norteamérica con la gira que conmemoraba los primeros treinta años del lanzamiento de British Steel y que destacó porque tocaron en vivo todas las canciones del álbum. Además y en el mismo año publicaron, A Touch of Evil: Live, que incluyó once canciones grabadas en las giras promocionales de Angel of Retribution y Nostradamus. El álbum contenía una versión en vivo de «Dissident Aggressor», que ganó el premio Grammy en el 2010 en la categoría mejor interpretación de metal. El 7 de diciembre de 2010 a través de su página oficial anunciaron la Epitaph World Tour, que sería la gira de despedida y que estaba contemplada hasta el año 2012. Sin embargo, el 27 de enero de 2011, anunciaron que no era el final de la banda ya que tenían escritas nuevas canciones para un eventual disco, y que la Epitaph World Tour pretendía ser la última gran gira mundial. Tres meses después K.K. Downing anunció que no participaría de la gira y además informaba su salida de Judas Priest por problemas con el resto de la banda. Con las fechas ya programadas la banda contrató al inglés Richie Faulkner, conocido por ser el guitarrista de Lauren Harris, pero el comunicado de prensa solo lo confirmaba para la gira, que comenzó el 7 de junio de 2011 en los Países Bajos y que les permitió tocar por primera vez en Serbia, Costa Rica, Venezuela y Singapur. La última presentación se celebró el 26 de mayo de 2012 en el Hammersmith Apollo de Londres, que fue escogido para la grabación del DVD Epitaph, puesto a la venta en 2013. Tras meses de rumores sobre la publicación de su décimo séptimo disco de estudio, a fines de 2013 la banda informó a través de su sitio web que su nuevo álbum aparecería a mediados de 2014. Es así que el 28 de abril, la banda anunció el título del disco y además publicó el tema «Redeemer of Souls» por streaming en su página oficial y al día siguiente se lanzó como sencillo, pero solo como descarga digital en los medios ITunes y Amazon. Finalmente el 8 de julio se publicó Redeemer of Souls, con gran éxito en las listas musicales de varios países del mundo, entre ellas alcanzó el sexto lugar en los Billboard 200, convirtiéndose en su primer disco en ingresar en los top 10 de la lista estadounidense. El 1 de octubre en Rochester (Nueva York) se inició la gira promocional llamada simplemente Redeemer of Souls Tour y que durante dos meses tocaron en varias ciudades estadounidenses con Steel Panther como artistas invitados. En total, la gira contempló 130 presentaciones por Europa, Asia, Latinoamérica y Oceanía hasta diciembre de 2015. En octubre de 2017 a través de su página oficial anunciaron la salida de un nuevo álbum de estudio llamado Firepower para marzo de 2018 y junto a ello, se confirmaron las primeras presentaciones de su gira correspondiente. Más tarde, el 5 de enero de 2018 se publicó el video musical de su primer sencillo «Lightning Strike» y doce días después se subió a las redes sociales el riff de otra canción del disco, «Spectre». El 12 de febrero del mismo año Glenn Tipton anunció que no sería parte de la gira promocional del disco debido a que padece de la enfermedad de Parkinson, la cual le fue diagnosticada hace diez años. A pesar del progreso de la enfermedad, que le dificulta tocar las canciones más complejas de la banda, aseguró que seguirá siendo parte de Judas Priest y que en un futuro no descarta tocar en algunos conciertos de la agrupación. Por último, en el mismo comunicado se confirmó que el productor y guitarrista Andy Sneap sería su reemplazante para la gira. La página oficial ha anunciado las fechas de los próximos conciertos en 2021 con un total de 31 presentaciones en Europa comenzando el 28 de mayo y terminando el 15 de agosto. Esta gira continuara en EE. UU. desde el 11 de septiembre hasta el 30 de octubre. Judas Priest es reconocida como una de las bandas más representativas del heavy metal y a su vez, una de las más influyentes. Al respecto, la MTV los nombró como la segunda agrupación más influyente en la historia del género, solo superados por Black Sabbath. Además y de acuerdo a varios críticos, son nombrados como el grupo que terminó de definir el género, gracias a los álbumes Sad Wings of Destiny —considerado como el disco que reinventó el metal— y Sin After Sin, que introdujo la combinación del doble bombo con ritmos rápidos en semicorchea de bajo y guitarra, que llegó a definir el sonido del género. Por otra parte, son considerados precursores de la indumentaria del metal, cuyo principal artífice fue su vocalista Rob Halford. Esta nueva vestimenta basada en el cuero y las tachas metálicas, tomada del masoquismo y del fetichismo sexual, se vio por primera vez en la portada del sencillo «Better By You, Better Than Me» (enero de 1978) y fue altamente popularizada durante el lanzamiento de Hell Bent for Leather. Esta nueva forma de vestir recibió una gran atención en el metal posterior, desde la Nueva ola del heavy metal británico, pasando por el metal extremo, hasta el glam metal de los ochenta. En cuanto a su música, sus primeros álbumes son citados como influencias directas para el metal y sus posteriores subgéneros. Por ejemplo, en la revisión de Sad Wings of Destiny realizada por Steve Huey de Allmusic mencionó: «llevó al heavy metal a nuevas profundidades de oscuridad y a nuevos niveles de precisión técnica». De igual manera, Stained Class, es nombrado como una de las obras más influyentes para el thrash metal y el speed metal, como también para la NWOBHM. Igualmente sus canciones han sido importantes para el desarrollo de la música metal. Un ejemplo es «Genocide» de 1976, que de acuerdo al escritor Mikal Gilmore es una de las primeras raíces del thrash y una gran inspiración para las bandas del metal extremo de los ochenta. También «Call for the Priest» y «Dissident Aggressor» de 1977 son citadas como los primeros escalones del speed y del thrash, respectivamente. Por otro lado, y al igual que ocurre con Motörhead, existe cierta discrepancia sobre si realmente son o no parte de la Nueva ola del heavy metal británico. Sin embargo, varios críticos coinciden en que fueron uno de los precursores del movimiento; incluso algunas de sus bandas, como Saxon, Venom, Blitzkrieg y Iron Maiden, por citar algunas, los han nombrado como una de sus principales influencias. De igual modo, los alemanes Accept los nombraron como la «piedra de toque» en su carrera. Asimismo su influencia y legado ha sido importante en el posterior thrash metal y el groove metal en bandas como Overkill, Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Annihilator, Kreator,Sodom , Sepultura, Exodus y Pantera. También en el power metal en agrupaciones como Helloween, Gamma Ray o Primal Fear, por ejemplo. De igual manera, decenas de grupos de otros subgéneros como el glam, black y death los han nombrado como sus influencias directas, como es el caso de Twisted Sister, Lizzy Borden, Skid Row, Death, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Queensrÿche, Opeth, Gorgoroth y Slipknot, entre muchos otros. Pero su legado no solo se mantiene en lo musical, ya que tanto sus canciones como ellos mismos han sido nombrados en películas y en series de televisión. Un ejemplo de ello son dos capítulos de Los Simpson donde se pueden escuchar dos de sus temas; en uno de ellos suenan tres segundos de «Breaking the Law», y en el otro cuatro segundos de «Living After Midnight». Más recientemente, en el capítulo Steal this episode de la vigésima quinta temporada de la serie, hacen un cameo con su formación actual, donde Rob Halford interpreta una versión cómica de «Breaking the law».En un capítulo de la serie Me llamo Earl, Earl dice: «Yo solo recuerdo las letras de Judas Priest y los chistes de polacos». Además en la serie Vaya Semanita, Evaristo, el hermano de "El Jonan de Baraka", cuando le roban, dice: «Estos tipos son profesionales,... ¡como los Judas Priest!» en clara alusión al videoclip de «Breaking the law». A su vez, han recibido decenas de premios y homenajes, tanto para sus álbumes o como conjunto. De ellos destacan la inclusión al Salón de la Fama de la revista Kerrang! en 2007 y los premios Revolver Golden Gods en el 2010 y el Golden Gods Icon, ambos otorgados por la revista Metal Hammer. Además en el 2006, junto a Queen, Kiss y Def Leppard fueron los primeros artistas en ser inducidos en el VH1 Rock Honors, ceremonia que honra a las bandas que han influido en la música rock.Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Biblioteca Del Metal - (Recopilation). Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/308558
Wenn die Rollings Stones auf Tournee sind und die Sommerfestivals ihre Tore öffnen, erinnert sich einer an unzählige Konzerte, bei denen er mithalf, Sound-Anlagen bereitzustellen: Bobby Leiser, Roadie-Pionier und Backline-Spezialist der ersten Stunde. Der pensionierte Unternehmer erzählt aus seinem Leben an der Seite von Rock- und Jazzgrössen und lässt in seine Playlist hineinhören. Stars, die Konzerte geben, bringen nicht ihr ganzes Equipment selber mit. Drums, Hammondorgeln, Verstärker, Effektgeräte – was zur sogenannten Backline gehört, wird meist vom Veranstalter gestellt. Bobby Leiser war sein Berufsleben lang dafür besorgt, dass Künstler wie Miles Davis oder die Stones auf der Bühne genau das vorfanden, was sie vertraglich bestellt hatten. Aus der Arbeit für die Stars sind im Laufe der Jahre einige Freundschaften entstanden. Bobby Leiser hat seine Firma Swiss Cheese and Chocolate Backline Ltd inzwischen einem Partner und seiner Tochter weitergegeben. Der umtriebige Unternehmer (Markenzeichen: dicker Schnauz, Zylinder, kurze Hosen) hat aber nichts an Emotionalität verloren. Mit Begeisterung wühlt er in Anekdoten und präsentiert Geschichten, die nur ein Backstage-Insider erlebt haben kann. Für den Talk mit Röbi Koller hat Leiser Musik von Spooky Tooth, Jeff Beck, Roy Orbison und natürlich von Miles Davis und den Rolling Stones ausgesucht.
Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Colabora Con Biblioteca Del Metal: En Twitter - https://twitter.com/Anarkometal72 Y Donanos Unas Propinas En BAT. Para Seguir Con El Proyecto De la Biblioteca Mas Grande Del Metal. Muchisimas Gracias. La Tienda De Biblioteca Del Metal: Encontraras, Ropa, Accesorios,Decoracion, Ect... Todo Relacionado Al Podcats Biblioteca Del Metal Y Al Mundo Del Heavy Metal. Descubrela!!!!!! Ideal Para Llevarte O Regalar Productos Del Podcats De Ivoox. (Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Judas Priest es una banda británica de heavy metal fundada en 1969 en Birmingham, Inglaterra. Su alineación inicial estuvo liderada por el vocalista Al Atkins, por ello la prensa ha nombrado esta primera etapa como Al Atkin’s Judas Priest. Más tarde a mediados de 1970, Atkins se unió a K.K. Downing, Ian Hill y John Ellis —provenientes del grupo Freight— que se considera como la primera alineación oficial de la agrupación. Tras algunos años donde no consiguieron apoyo discográfico y luego de algunos cambios en la formación, debutaron con Rocka Rolla en 1974; con Glenn Tipton como guitarrista y con Rob Halford y John Hinch, en reemplazo de Atkins y Ellis respectivamente. Dos años después lanzaron Sad Wings of Destiny, considerado como uno de sus mejores registros y que inició su ciclo más influyente para el metal de acuerdo a ciertos críticos con los álbumes Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Killing Machine y la producción en vivo, Unleashed in the East. A principios de los ochenta gracias a British Steel y Point of Entry, se consagraron en los mercados mundiales sobre todo en los Estados Unidos y Canadá. Más tarde las producciones Screaming for Vengeance y Defenders of the Faith, llegaron a ser sus discos más pesados de la década. En 1986 apareció su álbum más controvertido, Turbo, que poseía un nuevo sonido creado por guitarras sintetizadoras y el uso de letras más comerciales. Con Ram It Down de 1988 retornaron en gran medida a su sonido característico, pero al igual que su predecesor recibió una variedad de críticas. En 1990 lanzaron Painkiller, que contó con Scott Travis en reemplazo del baterista Dave Holland y que obtuvo muy buenos comentarios de la prensa especializada. Tras una gira especial en 1991 donde colideraron con Alice Cooper, Halford anunció su salida de la banda, que provocó un receso de casi cinco años. En 1996 el resto del grupo decidió volver a los escenarios con Tim “Ripper” Owens como nuevo vocalista, de cuya etapa publicaron Jugulator en 1997, Demolition en 2001 y dos álbumes en directo. Para mediados de 2004 el rumor sobre el regreso de Halford a la banda se concretó con la gira de reunión, Reunited Summer Tour. En 2005 lanzaron Angel of Retribution, que logró muy buenas posiciones en las listas mundiales y que en ciertas revisiones incluso se consideró como uno de sus mejores trabajos. Tres años más tarde publicaron el doble disco Nostradamus, un álbum conceptual que relata la vida y obra del profeta francés, Michel de Nostradamus. Ya en 2014 salió a la venta Redeemer of Souls, que es su primera producción sin el guitarrista K.K. Downing, y que fue apoyado por una gira que contempló fechas hasta el 2015. Judas Priest es considerada la banda que terminó de definir el género y como una de las más influyentes no solo para el heavy metal, sino también para el thrash, power, speed, glam, death y black metal, entre otros. Por otra parte, sus ventas fluctúan entre los 45 y los 50 millones de copias en todo el mundo. En septiembre de 1969 en el pueblo de West Bromwich —a las afueras de Birmingham— el vocalista Al Atkins formó una nueva banda con sus amigos Bruno Stapenhill en el bajo, John Perry en la guitarra y John Partridge en la batería. Sin embargo, a los pocos días Perry falleció en un accidente automovilístico, por lo que tuvieron que buscar un nuevo guitarrista. Para ello hicieron audiciones en una pequeña sala de Birmingham donde llegaron entre otros, K.K. Downing, pero fue descartado por la poca experiencia que tenía en ese momento. Finalmente el escogido fue Earnest "Ernie" Chataway que además sabía tocar la armónica y los teclados, y que provenía de la banda Earth, el prototipo de lo que fue más tarde Black Sabbath. Por su parte y tras experimentar con diversos nombres, Stapenhill les propuso llamarse Judas Priest, que tomó de la canción «The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest» del cantautor Bob Dylan. Iniciaron su carrera versionando temas de las bandas Spirit y Quicksilver Messenger Service, para más tarde y con la ayuda de Alan Eade —dueño de un pequeño estudio de grabación— compusieron sus primeras canciones; «Good Time Woman» y «We'll Stay Together». Con ellas dieron una serie de conciertos por pequeños clubes de Inglaterra como parte de la llamada Judas Priest Tour. En una de esas presentaciones, específicamente la realizada el 25 de noviembre de 1969 en The George Hotel de Walsall, estaban dentro del público algunos ejecutivos de Harvest Records y de Immediate Records, como también el vocalista de Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant. Gracias a Plant, la banda firmó esa misma noche un contrato por tres años con el sello Immediate, del cual saldría su disco debut. No obstante, a los pocos meses el sello quebró y con ello los ánimos de sus integrantes decayó, provocando la separación del grupo. A mediados de 1970, Atkins regresó a Birmingham, donde y según sus propias palabras, una noche escuchó desde fuera del recinto Holy Joe's de Wednesbury a una banda que sonaba bastante bien; su nombre era Freight y estaba integrada por K.K. Downing, Ian Hill y John Ellis. Al notar que no tenían vocalista Atkins se ofreció a unirse a la banda, a lo cual ellos aceptaron. Con su llegada, les presentó las canciones escritas con su agrupación anterior y además les propuso utilizar el nombre de Judas Priest. Esta segunda alineación conformada por Atkins en la voz, Downing en la guitarra, Hill en el bajo y Ellis en la batería, empezó a componer nuevas canciones enfocadas en una posterior gira basadas en el blues rock y el hard rock. Es así que el 16 de marzo de 1971 dieron su primer concierto en el Essington St. John's Hall de Staffordshire, que inició a su vez la gira The Return of the Priest Tour. Esta serie de conciertos les permitió tocar en varios clubes y teatros del Reino Unido, generalmente como teloneros de las bandas Slade, Budgie y Warhorse, y en ocasiones compartieron escenario con el guitarrista Gary Moore. En julio del mismo año, Atkins compuso los temas «Holy is the Man» y «Mind Conception», que fueron lanzados como maqueta de manera independiente y que según él solo diez personas lo escucharon en ese tiempo. Durante la gira, el grupo no recibió ningún apoyo discográfico y los dineros que ganaban no les alcanzaba para cubrir los gastos del traslado. Es por ello que Ellis se retiró de la banda el 6 de octubre de 1971, luego de tocar como banda soporte de Slade en el recinto Yeoman de Derby, dando paso a Alan Moore, que debutó el 11 del mismo mes en el Slough College. En 1972 compusieron las canciones «Whiskey Woman», «Winter», «Never Satisfied» y «Caviar and Meths» e iniciaron la gira Whiskey Woman Tour, con Chris Campbell como nuevo baterista, que fue apodado por sus compañeros como «Congo» debido a su color de piel. Durante ese año fueron teloneros de bandas como Status Quo, Thin Lizzy, UFO y Family, y a su vez ellos fueron teloneados por los recién formados Magnum. A pesar de ser hasta ese momento su gira con mayor cantidad de fechas los problemas financieros continuaron, lo que provocó la salida de Atkins a principios de 1973 para conseguir un trabajo estable, puesto que había nacido su hija. A mediados de 1973 la novia de Hill le presentó a su hermano, Rob Halford, que por ese entonces se desempeñaba como técnico iluminador de teatros y que en sus tiempos libres era vocalista de la banda local Hiroshima. Un día en la casa de los Halford, Hill lo escuchó por casualidad cantar frente a la radio y quedó impresionado por los agudos que alcanzaba. Por ello tanto Hill como Downing le solicitaron que se uniera a la banda, opción que sin dudar aceptó. Con Halford en el grupo, llamaron a Atkins para preguntarle si le molestaba que usaran el nombre de Judas Priest y las canciones que habían escrito con él, a la cual dio su aprobación. Al poco tiempo después Campbell renunció a la banda y en su reemplazo entró John Hinch, que era baterista y compañero de Halford en Hiroshima. En 1973 escribieron los temas «Run of the Mill» y «Ladies» —prototipo de «Red Light Lady»—, que junto a «Caviar and Meths» fueron lanzados como demo por producción independiente. Para promocionarlas salieron nuevamente como teloneros de Budgie, cuya gira se llamó Never Turn Your Back on a Friend Tour. El demo llamó la atención del sello independiente Gull Records que a principios de 1974 les ofreció un contrato con la condición de que incluyeran a un teclista o un trompetista para engrosar el sonido. Dicha idea no les agradó, pero con el fin de publicar su primera producción Downing sugirió agregar a otro guitarrista, propuesta que fue aceptada por la discográfica. Para ello escogieron a Glenn Tipton, que se desempeñaba como guitarrista y vocalista de The Flying Hat Band, conocidos en aquel tiempo por telonear a Deep Purple. Con su primer contrato discográfico firmado grabaron su primer sencillo, «Rocka Rolla», que se publicó en agosto de 1974 y que sirvió de preludio para su álbum debut. Finalmente en septiembre del mismo año debutaron con el álbum de mismo nombre, que estaba más enfocado al hard rock y al rock progresivo, con una gran influencia de Led Zeppelin y Queen tanto en su sonido como en su vestimenta. Para promocionarlo el 10 de septiembre iniciaron el Rocka Rolla Tour, con una serie de conciertos por varias ciudades de Inglaterra y que al año siguiente les permitió tocar por primera vez en Suecia, Noruega, Países Bajos y Dinamarca. Durante noviembre y diciembre de 1975 ingresaron nuevamente a los estudios para grabar su nuevo álbum titulado Sad Wings of Destiny, que contó con muy poco dinero para su producción pero con un sonido puramente ligado al heavy metal. A pesar de que no logró atención en las listas musicales, con el pasar de los años ha llegado a ser uno de los discos más influyentes para el género, incluso es citado como la producción que redefinió el heavy metal. Cabe señalar que fue grabado con Alan Moore en la batería, luego que en 1975 John Hinch se retirara de la banda, o de acuerdo a sus otros miembros, fuera despedido. Los buenos resultados que obtuvo el disco llamó la atención de los ejecutivos de CBS Records, que a fines del mismo año les ofrecieron un nuevo contrato discográfico. Este requería su renuncia a Gull, que significó que el sello independiente se quedara con todos los derechos de sus dos primeros álbumes. A principios de 1977, el gerente artists and repertoire, Paul Atkinson, se interesó en ellos y les consiguió un contrato con Columbia Records para la distribución de sus siguientes trabajos en los Estados Unidos. Con la idea de potenciarlos, CBS invirtió 60 000 libras esterlinas para su siguiente disco y que contó con Roger Glover como coproductor. Finalmente en abril de 1977 se lanzó Sin After Sin, que alcanzó el puesto 23 en los UK Albums Chart, convirtiéndose en su primer long play en ingresar en la lista británica. Sin After Sin es su único álbum en el que participó Simon Phillips en la batería, puesto que Moore renunció antes de iniciar el proceso de grabación. En lo musical, el disco introdujo la combinación del doble bombo con ritmos rápidos en semicorchea de bajo y guitarra, que llegó a redefinir el género. A su vez, algunas de sus canciones como «Call for the Priest» y «Dissident Aggressor» han sido consideradas por la crítica como los primeros escalones del speed metal y thrash metal, respectivamente. A pesar de que se le ofreció un contrato como miembro activo de la banda, Phillips no pudo participar de la gira Sin After Sin Tour, ya que según él tenía compromisos previos con Jack Bruce Band. Por ello y a solo días de iniciar la gira, Glover sugirió al baterista Les Binks para reemplazarlo, un joven inglés que había participado en el disco The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast del bajista de Deep Purple. Su respectiva gira les permitió tocar por primera vez en Suiza y de igual manera en junio del mismo año iniciaron su primera gira por los Estados Unidos como teloneros en ciertas ocasiones de REO Speedwagon. Su última presentación en el país norteamericano fue en el festival Day on the Green como banda de soporte de Led Zeppelin, ante más de 55 000 personas. Entre octubre y noviembre de 1977 comenzaron a trabajar en su siguiente producción discográfica, Stained Class, que se grabó en Chipping Norton Studios bajo la producción de Dennis Mackay. Salió al mercado en febrero de 1978 e incluyó la primera aparición del característico logotipo, creado por el artista polaco Rozslav Szyabo. Sus letras van desde el ocultismo, la ciencia ficción, la fantasía y temas futuristas, que lo convirtieron en una de sus producciones más oscuras. De igual manera, es una de sus obras más influyentes para el thrash metal y speed metal, y también para la llamada Nueva ola del heavy metal británico. Su cuarto disco de estudio significó un gran avance en el mercado estadounidense, ya que alcanzó el puesto 173 en la lista Billboard 200. Mientras que su gira Stained Class Tour, los llevó por primera vez a Japón con tres presentaciones en Tokio, una en Osaka y otra en Nagoya. Para promocionarlo en enero de 1978 se lanzó el sencillo «Better By You, Better Than Me» —original de Spooky Tooth— que poseía una portada con la banda vestida completamente de cuero, que se convirtió en la primera imagen pública con esta nueva vestimenta. En 2015, K.K. Downing confirmó que fue el primero en usar dicha vestimenta en la banda y que luego Rob Halford comenzó a adoptar el uso del cuero de manera más extravagante, hasta que finalmente toda la banda hizo lo mismo. De acuerdo a Halford: «...Necesitábamos una nueva imagen que identificara el poder de nuestra música. Las bandas de heavy metal no podían usar tutú y tocar esas canciones». Por ello, propuso crear una imagen propia que se sintiera identificada con la energía que expresaban con su música. Es así que en 1978 acudió a una tienda en Londres llamada Mr. S especializada en sex-shop y comenzó a comprar ropa de cuero y accesorios de metal vinculados al fetichismo sexual y al masoquismo. Luego indujo a K.K. Downing a comprar en el mismo lugar y así motivó a todos los integrantes de la banda en hacerse con dicha imagen. Esta fue muy influyente durante los años posteriores tanto para la Nueva ola del heavy metal británico, el glam metal y los subgéneros del metal extremo. Durante el segundo semestre de 1978 publicaron su quinto álbum Killing Machine, que tuvo que ser renombrado como Hell Bent for Leather en los Estados Unidos por ser considerado un título violento. El disco incluyó las canciones «Take On the World» y «Evening Star», que ingresaron en los puestos 14 y 53 en los UK Singles Chart respectivamente, siendo sus primeros sencillos en debutar en dicha lista británica. Por su parte y solo para el mercado norteamericano se incluyó la canción «The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)», tema original de Fleetwood Mac y que ha llegado a ser una de sus mejores versiones. En octubre iniciaron su gira Killing Machine Tour en el Reino Unido con el grupo Lea Hart como teloneros. A su vez, giraron por los Estados Unidos en ocasiones abriendo los conciertos de sus compatriotas UFO y llegaron por segunda vez a Japón, donde se grabaron algunos de sus shows para un eventual álbum en vivo. En septiembre de 1979 volvieron a tocar por varias ciudades estadounidenses junto a Kiss, para dar en octubre sus propios conciertos por aquel país norteamericano. Por su parte, durante noviembre y diciembre tocaron por primera vez en Bélgica, Alemania Occidental y Francia como artistas invitados de AC/DC. A mediados de julio de 1979 el baterista Les Binks renunció a la banda, entrando en su lugar el exintegrante de Trapeze, Dave Holland, que dio su primer concierto el 1 de septiembre del mismo año. Sin embargo y antes de su partida, Binks participó de la grabación del primer disco en vivo Unleashed in the East, que llegó hasta el puesto 10 en el Reino Unido, convirtiéndose en su primera producción en entrar en los top 10 de dicho país. Durante los primeros meses, después de su publicación, la prensa especuló que el disco fue grabado en su totalidad en un estudio, pero dichos rumores fueron desmentidos por la banda afirmando que lo único que se retocó en el proceso de masterización fue la voz de Halford, que durante las presentaciones por la capital japonesa sufría una laringitis parcial. En abril de 1980 publicaron British Steel, considerado como la producción que los consagró en los mercados mundiales. Tras su lanzamiento llegó hasta el cuarto puesto en el Reino Unido y solo en un poco más de un mes vendió más de 60 000 copias, convirtiéndose en su producción más exitosa en su propio país. De dicho álbum destacaron las canciones «Living After Midnight» y «Breaking the Law» que llegaron ambas al puesto 12 en los UK Singles Chart. Además del tema «Metal Gods», que años más tarde sirvió de apodo de los integrantes de la banda, en especial de Rob Halford. Para promocionarlo se embarcaron en una extensa gira llamada British Steel Tour, que contó a Iron Maiden como telonero en los conciertos por el Reino Unido, mientras que por los Estados Unidos giraron en ocasiones con Def Leppard y Scorpions como bandas de soporte. Esta destacó por contar con muy pocas canciones del álbum, de las cuales se interpretaban «Steeler» y «You Don't Have to Be Old to Be Wise» principalmente. En agosto de 1980 fueron parte del primer festival Monsters of Rock celebrado en el Donington Park de Derby, junto a Rainbow, April Wine, Scorpions, Saxon, Riot y Touch. Entre octubre y noviembre de 1980 viajaron a Ibiza en España para trabajar en su séptimo álbum de estudio Point of Entry, que fue puesto a la venta en febrero de 1981. A pesar de contener un sonido más cercano al hard rock, en un principio sus ventas igualaron a British Steel. De él se extrajeron tres sencillos; «Don't Go» y «Hot Rockin'» que se ubicaron en los top 60 en su propio país, y «Heading Out to the Highway» que llegó hasta el puesto 10 en los Mainstream Rock Tracks de los Estados Unidos, convirtiéndose así en su primer sencillo en ingresar a dicha lista. Por su parte, su gira promocional denominada World Wide Blitz Tour les permitió volver a tocar en varias ciudades europeas y estadounidenses e incluso en diciembre se presentaron por primera vez en Puerto Rico. Durante el segundo semestre de 1981 comenzaron a escribir y grabar nuevas canciones para su siguiente producción que originalmente se llamaría Screaming. Sin embargo, tanto la banda como el productor Tom Allom no quedaron conformes con dichas grabaciones, por lo cual decidieron realizar todo el proceso de nuevo. Finalmente entre enero y mayo de 1982 completaron esta nueva regrabación para lanzar en julio del mismo año el álbum Screaming for Vengeance, que se ha convertido en su producción más vendida en el mundo. El disco llegó hasta el puesto 11 en el Reino Unido y hasta la posición 17 en los Estados Unidos, país donde ha sido certificado con doble disco de platino tras vender más de 2 millones de copias. Para promocionarlo se publicaron tres canciones como sencillos, de los cuales destacó «You've Got Another Thing Comin'» que llegó hasta el cuarto lugar en los Mainstream Rock Tracks y hasta la posición 67 en los Billboard Hot 100, siendo hasta el día de hoy su único sencillo en ingresar en esta última lista estadounidense. En agosto de 1982 iniciaron la gira World Vengeance Tour, que los llevó hasta febrero de 1983 a tocar en varias ciudades de Estados Unidos y Canadá. También y dentro de sus noventa fechas, el 29 de mayo de 1983 se presentaron en el certamen US Festival durante el día del heavy metal donde compartieron escenario con Van Halen, Scorpions, Ozzy Osbourne, Triumph, Quiet Riot y Mötley Crüe, ante más de 350 000 personas. Por último, en diciembre del mismo año tocaron en varias ciudades británicas y en el Rock and Pop Festival de Dortmund en Alemania, festival que también participaron Scorpions, Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Michael Schenker Group y Def Leppard. Solo días de culminar la gira World Vengeance Tour, en enero de 1984 se puso a la venta Defenders of the Faith que a pesar de no generar éxitos radiales en comparación a sus predecesores, fue considerado como uno de sus discos más pesados de la década de los ochenta. Por su parte, en su respectiva gira de conciertos llamada Metal Conqueror Tour, interpretaron en vivo todas sus canciones a excepción de «Eat Me Alive» y les permitió tocar por primera vez en España con tres presentaciones en tres de sus ciudades. Tras el éxito de la gira promocional de Defenders of the Faith, la banda se tomó un receso de varios meses durante 1985, cuya única presentación en vivo fue en el festival Live Aid celebrado en julio del mismo año en Filadelfia y donde tocaron las canciones «The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)», «Living After Midnight» y «You've Got Another Thing Comin'». A mediados del mismo, comenzaron la grabación de un nuevo álbum de estudio que originalmente sería de doble disco y se llamaría Twin Turbos, pero la discográfica CBS canceló el proyecto por los altos costos de su publicación. Debido a ello, se escogieron nueve de las diecinueve canciones grabadas, que se publicaron el 14 de abril de 1986 bajo el nombre de Turbo. Dicha producción incluyó el uso de las guitarras sintetizadoras, que a través de pedales creaban diversos efectos sonoros similares a lo que produce el sintetizador. La incorporación de estos instrumentos posicionó a Judas Priest como los pioneros en usarlos en la música metal. De la mano a este cambio de sonido, sus integrantes comenzaron a utilizar una nueva indumentaria de cuero con colores negros, azules, blancos y rojos y con una visión más futurista. Al respecto Rob Halford en una entrevista a Radio MCB dada el 2 de febrero de 1991 comentó: «Creo que si nos hubiéramos avergonzado de Turbo no lo hubiéramos publicado. De hecho, Turbo fue muy exitoso en especial en América. Tú sabes que las bandas pasan por diferentes períodos, tanto en lo musical como en la imagen y estoy feliz que hayamos sido capaces de hacer eso». Para promocionarlo se publicaron tres canciones como sencillos, entre ellos «Turbo Lover» que hasta el día de hoy es el único tema del disco en ser tocado frecuentemente en vivo. Además, el 2 de mayo iniciaron la gira Fuel for Life Tour que los llevó por varios países de Europa y por Norteamérica hasta mediados de diciembre del mismo año. Adicionalmente, y antes del suceso que generó Turbo, Rob Halford trató de quitarse la vida por una grave depresión debido a que durante años tuvo que mantener en secreto su condición de homosexual y además de que por aquel entonces consumía en exceso drogas y alcohol. A finales de noviembre y después de ensayar el espectáculo de lo que fue la gira de Turbo, se tomó una gran cantidad de analgésicos con la idea de terminar con su vida. A pesar de que no pudo lograrlo, fue internado en un hospital para desintoxicarse, y el 6 de enero de 1986 ingresó en un centro de rehabilitación en Phoenix. Tras 33 días de tratamiento, finalmente, en febrero de 1986, fue dado de alta y comenzó un extenso trabajo en su voz con la idea de potenciar nuevamente su carrera. Al respecto en 2001 el productor Tom Allom comentó: «Rob tiene esa voz irreal que cualquier cantante de metal moriría por tener y que está mejor que nunca desde que dejó de beber». De la gira promocional de Turbo se grabó material en vivo de las presentaciones dadas el 20 de junio en Atlanta y el 27 del mismo mes en Dallas, para publicarlo en un nuevo álbum en directo, cuyo resultado fue Priest...Live! que se puso a la venta el 21 de junio de 1987. Su segundo álbum en vivo se lanzó también en formato VHS que vendió mucho más que el disco compacto y que recibió diversas críticas por parte de la prensa especializada. En octubre de 1987 fueron convocados para grabar una versión del tema «Johnny B. Goode» del guitarrista y cantante Chuck Berry, para ser el tema principal de la película cómica del mismo nombre. A pesar de que inicialmente rechazaron la propuesta, decidieron grabarla como una especie de homenajear a unos de los clásicos del rock and roll. Solo dos meses después iniciaron las grabaciones de su undécimo disco llamado Ram It Down, que contó con cuatro canciones escritas para Twin Turbos las que fueron retocadas y regrabadas. La producción obtuvo un éxito relativo en Norteamérica, ya que a los dos meses de su publicación recibió disco de oro en los Estados Unidos, por vender más de 500 000 copias. Por su parte, su respectiva gira denominada Mercenaries of Metal Tour les permitió volver a tocar en su país luego de cuatro años de ausencia de los escenarios ingleses y además volvieron a tocar las canciones escritas en los años setenta como «Sinner» y «Beyond the Realms of Death», las que fueron omitidas del listado oficial del tour Fuel for Life. En 1989, el baterista Dave Holland anunció su retirada de la banda y para reemplazarlo, a fines de mencionado año, ingresó Scott Travis proveniente de Racer X. Tras su llegada la banda comenzó a grabar un nuevo disco de estudio, que salió al mercado el 3 de septiembre de 1990 bajo el título de Painkiller y que recibió muy buenas críticas de la prensa, quienes elogiaron el retorno de su sonido agresivo y característico. Su respectiva gira llamada Painkiller Tour les permitió tocar por primera vez en Austria, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Irlanda del Norte y en el estado de Alaska, e incluso el 23 de enero de 1991 dieron su primer show en Brasil en el festival Rock in Rio, que se celebró en el Estadio Maracaná. Por otro lado, en julio de 1990 la banda fue demandada por una corte estadounidense, donde se les acusó como involucrados indirectos del intento de suicidio de dos de sus fanáticos. El hecho ocurrió el 23 de diciembre de 1985 en el poblado de Sparks, Nevada cuando James Vance de entonces 20 años edad y Ray Belknap de tan solo 18 años, mientras estaban bajo los efectos del alcohol, los jóvenes se dirigieron hacia el patio de una iglesia y mientras repetían una frase subliminal que supuestamente escucharon en un tema de la agrupación. Los jóvenes cargaban una escopeta con la idea de acabar con sus vidas. Belknap quien jaló el gatillo primero murió instantáneamente, mientras que James Vance sufrió serias heridas que le desfiguraron su rostro. El joven Vance viviría tres años más antes de fallecer en diciembre de 1988 luego de caer en una fuerte depresión médica que causó al joven a entrar en estado de coma. De acuerdo al abogado de la familia de Vance, los jóvenes estaban escuchando el disco Stained Class en especial las canciones «Exciter» y «Better By You, Better Than Me». Precisamente esta última contenía el supuesto mensaje subliminal «do it», hazlo en español, y que fue la causante del intento de suicidio. Luego de tres semanas de juicio, la corte dictaminó que tal mensaje subliminal no existía y que la banda no tuvo ninguna relación directa o indirecta con la muerte de Belknap y la desfiguración de Vance. Aun así, el sello CBS Records tuvo que cancelar 40 000 dólares a la familia de Vance. En julio de 1991 iniciaron la gira Operation Rock 'N' Roll Tour, solo tres meses después de terminar la gira promocional de Painkiller. Su última fecha dada el 19 de agosto en Toronto fue también el último concierto con Rob Halford, ya que en 1992 renunció a la banda por diferencias musicales con el resto del grupo. Esto provocó un receso de un poco más de cinco años, donde cada uno de sus integrantes tuvo distintas vivencias, por ejemplo Halford fundó la banda Fight y Glenn Tipton trabajó en su primer disco de estudio, Baptizm of Fire. A fines de 1994, Tipton y Downing se reunieron para definir el futuro de la banda, cuya decisión final fue continuar, pero con la difícil tarea de buscar un nuevo vocalista. Luego de algunas audiciones, finalmente encontraron al estadounidense Tim Owens que cantaba en una banda tributo a Judas Priest, llamada British Steel. En 1996 ingresó oficialmente a la banda y a los días después recibió el apodo de "Ripper", tomado de la canción del mismo nombre, y que fue aceptado por los fanáticos e incluso por su propia madre. Entre los últimos meses de 1996 y el primer trimestre de 1997 grabaron el primer disco con Owens, Jugulator, que salió al mercado en octubre de 1997. Su sonido estaba más orientado al groove metal que al clásico sonido de la agrupación, convirtiéndose en uno de sus trabajos más agresivos de toda su discografía. Dicho cambio se debió en gran parte al tono y el uso de la voz gutural de Owens y por la baja afinación de las guitarras de K.K. Downing y Glenn Tipton. Para promocionarlo publicaron el sencillo «Bullet Train» y en enero de 1998 se embarcaron en la gira Jugulator World Tour, con gran éxito en Norteamérica y Europa, y que les permitió tocar por primera vez en México. Durante ciertas presentaciones se grabó el material para su tercer álbum en vivo '98 Live Meltdown, publicado en septiembre de 1998. El 23 de julio de 2001 pusieron a la venta su decimocuarto disco de estudio Demolition, considerado como uno de sus trabajos más controversiales, ya que incluyó algunos elementos del metal industrial y del nu metal. Además de las críticas variadas que recibió en su momento, sus ventas lo convierten hasta el día de hoy en su producción menos vendida en el mundo. Aun así, su respectiva gira obtuvo una gran concurrencia en los países en los que se presentaron. Por otro lado, el 19 de diciembre de 2001 grabaron en el recinto Brixton Academy de Londres su cuarto álbum en directo Live in London, que se editó en 2003 en formato doble disco y en DVD. Tras varios meses de especulación sobre el retorno del vocalista Rob Halford a Judas Priest, la banda a través de una carta entregada a los medios de comunicación en julio de 2003, confirmaron su regreso y con ello informaron sobre una pequeña gira para conmemorar dicho evento. Esto provocó la salida de Tim Owens que se retiró en buenos términos y que al poco tiempo se convirtió en el cantante del grupo Iced Earth y de su propia banda, Beyond Fear. En mayo de 2004 el sello Columbia publicó Metalogy, su primera caja recopilatoria, que estaba compuesta de cuatro discos que recorrían la carrera de la banda desde su debut Rocka Rolla a Demolition, último trabajo con Tim Owens. Por otro lado, en junio del mismo año iniciaron la gira de reunión llamada Reunited Summer Tour, conformada por 15 presentaciones por algunos países de Europa, principalmente en los mayores festivales de música como el Gods of Metal de Italia y el Graspop Metal Meeting de Bélgica. Mientras que su paso por Norteamérica, se llevó a cabo como colíderes de cartel del festival Ozzfest entre julio y septiembre. En 2004 también comenzaron a escribir las primeras canciones de su álbum de reunión, Angel of Retribution, que salió al mercado el 28 de febrero de 2005 en Europa y el 1 de marzo en los Estados Unidos. A los pocos días de su lanzamiento logró posicionarse en el puesto 13 en la lista Billboard 200, convirtiéndose hasta en ese momento en la mejor posición para uno de sus discos en dicha lista estadounidense. Cinco días antes del lanzamiento oficial de Angel of Retribution en Europa, iniciaron la gira promocional Retribution World Tour, que durante el 2005 los llevó a varios países europeos, Norteamérica, Japón y Latinoamérica, y les permitió tocar por primera vez en los países bálticos, Ucrania, Rusia y Chile. El 18 de mayo en su presentación en el Nippon Budokan de Tokio grabaron el DVD, Rising in the East, que se lanzó el 8 de noviembre del mismo año a través de Rhino Records y que a los pocos meses logró disco de oro en los Estados Unidos luego de vender más de 50 000 copias. En el año 2008 y luego de un poco más de un año de arduo trabajo publicaron Nostradamus, álbum de doble disco que fue su primer álbum conceptual y que relata la historia del profeta francés Nostradamus. Al momento de su publicación recibió una gran variedad de críticas y además una gran atención en las listas musicales, entre ellas la estadounidense, donde alcanzó el puesto 11. Además y para promocionarlo, el 3 de junio de 2008 iniciaron la gira 2008/2009 World Tour que durante dos años los llevó a varios países del mundo y que contó con varios artistas como teloneros entre ellos Megadeth, Testament y Whitesnake. Entre junio y agosto de 2009, regresaron a Norteamérica con la gira que conmemoraba los primeros treinta años del lanzamiento de British Steel y que destacó porque tocaron en vivo todas las canciones del álbum. Además y en el mismo año publicaron, A Touch of Evil: Live, que incluyó once canciones grabadas en las giras promocionales de Angel of Retribution y Nostradamus. El álbum contenía una versión en vivo de «Dissident Aggressor», que ganó el premio Grammy en el 2010 en la categoría mejor interpretación de metal. El 7 de diciembre de 2010 a través de su página oficial anunciaron la Epitaph World Tour, que sería la gira de despedida y que estaba contemplada hasta el año 2012. Sin embargo, el 27 de enero de 2011, anunciaron que no era el final de la banda ya que tenían escritas nuevas canciones para un eventual disco, y que la Epitaph World Tour pretendía ser la última gran gira mundial. Tres meses después K.K. Downing anunció que no participaría de la gira y además informaba su salida de Judas Priest por problemas con el resto de la banda. Con las fechas ya programadas la banda contrató al inglés Richie Faulkner, conocido por ser el guitarrista de Lauren Harris, pero el comunicado de prensa solo lo confirmaba para la gira, que comenzó el 7 de junio de 2011 en los Países Bajos y que les permitió tocar por primera vez en Serbia, Costa Rica, Venezuela y Singapur. La última presentación se celebró el 26 de mayo de 2012 en el Hammersmith Apollo de Londres, que fue escogido para la grabación del DVD Epitaph, puesto a la venta en 2013. Tras meses de rumores sobre la publicación de su décimo séptimo disco de estudio, a fines de 2013 la banda informó a través de su sitio web que su nuevo álbum aparecería a mediados de 2014. Es así que el 28 de abril, la banda anunció el título del disco y además publicó el tema «Redeemer of Souls» por streaming en su página oficial y al día siguiente se lanzó como sencillo, pero solo como descarga digital en los medios ITunes y Amazon. Finalmente el 8 de julio se publicó Redeemer of Souls, con gran éxito en las listas musicales de varios países del mundo, entre ellas alcanzó el sexto lugar en los Billboard 200, convirtiéndose en su primer disco en ingresar en los top 10 de la lista estadounidense. El 1 de octubre en Rochester (Nueva York) se inició la gira promocional llamada simplemente Redeemer of Souls Tour y que durante dos meses tocaron en varias ciudades estadounidenses con Steel Panther como artistas invitados. En total, la gira contempló 130 presentaciones por Europa, Asia, Latinoamérica y Oceanía hasta diciembre de 2015. En octubre de 2017 a través de su página oficial anunciaron la salida de un nuevo álbum de estudio llamado Firepower para marzo de 2018 y junto a ello, se confirmaron las primeras presentaciones de su gira correspondiente. Más tarde, el 5 de enero de 2018 se publicó el video musical de su primer sencillo «Lightning Strike» y doce días después se subió a las redes sociales el riff de otra canción del disco, «Spectre». El 12 de febrero del mismo año Glenn Tipton anunció que no sería parte de la gira promocional del disco debido a que padece de la enfermedad de Parkinson, la cual le fue diagnosticada hace diez años. A pesar del progreso de la enfermedad, que le dificulta tocar las canciones más complejas de la banda, aseguró que seguirá siendo parte de Judas Priest y que en un futuro no descarta tocar en algunos conciertos de la agrupación. Por último, en el mismo comunicado se confirmó que el productor y guitarrista Andy Sneap sería su reemplazante para la gira. La página oficial ha anunciado las fechas de los próximos conciertos en 2021 con un total de 31 presentaciones en Europa comenzando el 28 de mayo y terminando el 15 de agosto. Esta gira continuara en EE. UU. desde el 11 de septiembre hasta el 30 de octubre. Judas Priest es reconocida como una de las bandas más representativas del heavy metal y a su vez, una de las más influyentes. Al respecto, la MTV los nombró como la segunda agrupación más influyente en la historia del género, solo superados por Black Sabbath. Además y de acuerdo a varios críticos, son nombrados como el grupo que terminó de definir el género, gracias a los álbumes Sad Wings of Destiny —considerado como el disco que reinventó el metal— y Sin After Sin, que introdujo la combinación del doble bombo con ritmos rápidos en semicorchea de bajo y guitarra, que llegó a definir el sonido del género. Por otra parte, son considerados precursores de la indumentaria del metal, cuyo principal artífice fue su vocalista Rob Halford. Esta nueva vestimenta basada en el cuero y las tachas metálicas, tomada del masoquismo y del fetichismo sexual, se vio por primera vez en la portada del sencillo «Better By You, Better Than Me» (enero de 1978) y fue altamente popularizada durante el lanzamiento de Hell Bent for Leather. Esta nueva forma de vestir recibió una gran atención en el metal posterior, desde la Nueva ola del heavy metal británico, pasando por el metal extremo, hasta el glam metal de los ochenta. En cuanto a su música, sus primeros álbumes son citados como influencias directas para el metal y sus posteriores subgéneros. Por ejemplo, en la revisión de Sad Wings of Destiny realizada por Steve Huey de Allmusic mencionó: «llevó al heavy metal a nuevas profundidades de oscuridad y a nuevos niveles de precisión técnica». De igual manera, Stained Class, es nombrado como una de las obras más influyentes para el thrash metal y el speed metal, como también para la NWOBHM. Igualmente sus canciones han sido importantes para el desarrollo de la música metal. Un ejemplo es «Genocide» de 1976, que de acuerdo al escritor Mikal Gilmore es una de las primeras raíces del thrash y una gran inspiración para las bandas del metal extremo de los ochenta. También «Call for the Priest» y «Dissident Aggressor» de 1977 son citadas como los primeros escalones del speed y del thrash, respectivamente. Por otro lado, y al igual que ocurre con Motörhead, existe cierta discrepancia sobre si realmente son o no parte de la Nueva ola del heavy metal británico. Sin embargo, varios críticos coinciden en que fueron uno de los precursores del movimiento; incluso algunas de sus bandas, como Saxon, Venom, Blitzkrieg y Iron Maiden, por citar algunas, los han nombrado como una de sus principales influencias. De igual modo, los alemanes Accept los nombraron como la «piedra de toque» en su carrera. Asimismo su influencia y legado ha sido importante en el posterior thrash metal y el groove metal en bandas como Overkill, Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Annihilator, Kreator,Sodom , Sepultura, Exodus y Pantera. También en el power metal en agrupaciones como Helloween, Gamma Ray o Primal Fear, por ejemplo. De igual manera, decenas de grupos de otros subgéneros como el glam, black y death los han nombrado como sus influencias directas, como es el caso de Twisted Sister, Lizzy Borden, Skid Row, Death, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Queensrÿche, Opeth, Gorgoroth y Slipknot, entre muchos otros. Pero su legado no solo se mantiene en lo musical, ya que tanto sus canciones como ellos mismos han sido nombrados en películas y en series de televisión. Un ejemplo de ello son dos capítulos de Los Simpson donde se pueden escuchar dos de sus temas; en uno de ellos suenan tres segundos de «Breaking the Law», y en el otro cuatro segundos de «Living After Midnight». Más recientemente, en el capítulo Steal this episode de la vigésima quinta temporada de la serie, hacen un cameo con su formación actual, donde Rob Halford interpreta una versión cómica de «Breaking the law».En un capítulo de la serie Me llamo Earl, Earl dice: «Yo solo recuerdo las letras de Judas Priest y los chistes de polacos». Además en la serie Vaya Semanita, Evaristo, el hermano de "El Jonan de Baraka", cuando le roban, dice: «Estos tipos son profesionales,... ¡como los Judas Priest!» en clara alusión al videoclip de «Breaking the law». A su vez, han recibido decenas de premios y homenajes, tanto para sus álbumes o como conjunto. De ellos destacan la inclusión al Salón de la Fama de la revista Kerrang! en 2007 y los premios Revolver Golden Gods en el 2010 y el Golden Gods Icon, ambos otorgados por la revista Metal Hammer. Además en el 2006, junto a Queen, Kiss y Def Leppard fueron los primeros artistas en ser inducidos en el VH1 Rock Honors, ceremonia que honra a las bandas que han influido en la música rock.Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Biblioteca Del Metal - (Recopilation). Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/308558
Today's program features tuneage from Miles Davis, The Blues Project, Janis Joplin, Stevie Wonder, Steve Winwood, Doors, James Gang, Spooky Tooth, Nina Simone, Style Council, Buffalo Springfield, Donovan, Blind Faith, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Led Zeppelin, Traffic and King Crimson.
"YeahI heard a funny thing, Somebody said to meYou know that I could be in love with almost everyoneI think that people are the greatest funAnd I will be alone again tonight my dear"No need to be alone, please join me for the Sunday Edition of Whole 'Nuther Thing. Joining us for today's musical journey are Laura Nyro, Tom Petty, Dire Straits, Jim Croce, Brian Auger, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, The Band, Doors, Spooky Tooth, Don McLean, Elton John, The Band, Graham Nash, Paul Butterfield's Better Days, Traffic, The Bee Gees, Jeff Beck Group, Jefferson Airplane, Hall & Oates, Cat Stevens, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac and Love.
I neglected to mention the significance of 4-20 so please forgive me. I DO share a Doobie with you. Isn't that worth something? This time I also share the electric violin of Jean Luc Ponty, Doobies and Little River Band from my LPs and more. How about the 23rd love letter from a 17 year old, in song? Spooky Tooth is here too. Spring is in full bloom now. Suddenly, the leaves have popped out on our maples and it's all so green! Be sure to vote May 3rd! Coming up Wednesday the 27th at 5 central time on RadioFreeNashville.org and at 103.7 and 107.1 in Nashville, Tales Vinyl Tells plays Badfinger, Peace and Quiet (they're NOT), Mose Allison, Jimmie Spheeris and a few more. Refresh your memory and your senses when you join me! And please consider donating to community radio with money or even your old auto. Check RadioFreeNashville. Thanks!
Esta semana en Islas de Robinson, retomamos el pulso de las canciones un par de años, más o menos, de donde lo dejamos hace un par de semanas. Psicodelia camino del progresivo, con discos clásicos plenos de clase, y espíritu aventurero, aún marcado por la prioridad de la canción y la melodía, envueltas, eso sí, en sugerente bruma. Suenan: ARCADIUM - "CHANGE ME" ("BREATHE AWHILE", 1969) / ANDWELLAS DREAM - "THE DAYS GREW LONGER FOR LOVE" ("LOVE AND POETRY", 1969) / JAMES GANG - "COLLAGE" ("YER' ALBUM", 1969) / SPIRIT - "SHE SMILES" ("THE FAMILY THAT PLAYS TOGETHER", 1968) / TRAFFIC - "CRYIN' TO BE HEARD" ("TRAFFIC", 1968) / PROCOL HARUM - "SHINE ON BRIGHTLY" ("SHINE ON BRIGHTLY", 1968) / FAMILY TREE - "SIMPLE LIFE" ("MISS BUTTERS", 1968) / THE ZOMBIES - "IMAGINE THE SWAN" (SINGLE 1969) / STRAWBS - "WHERE IS THIS DREAM OF YOUR YOUTH?" ("STRAWBS", 1969) / THE STEVE MILLER BAND - "KOW KOW" ("BRAVE NEW WORLD", 1969) / QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE - "TOO FAR" ("SHADY GROVE", 1969) / SPOOKY TOOTH - "I'VE GOT ENOUGH HEARTACHES" ("SPOOKY TWO", 1969) / FLEETWOOD MAC - "CLOSING MY EYES" ("THEN PLAY ON", 1969) / Escuchar audio
"Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake, floatin' in my bowl takin' movies,Relaxin' awhile, livin' in styleTalkin' to a raisin who occasionally plays L.A.Casually glancing at his toupeeAh, South California"Me, I prefer Raisin Bran... Please join me for some tasty morsels on the Sunday Edition of Whole 'Nuther Thing. Our Menu today is replete with favorites, many not served anywhere else including Kenny Rankin, Deep Purple, Moody Blues, Carole King, YES, Love, James Taylor, Mike & The Mechanics, Todd Rundgren, Billy Joel, Spooky Tooth, Spirit, The Eagles, Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, Traffic, Doobie Brothers, Flash, Trevor Gordon Hall, Spirit, Beau Brummels, Joni Mitchell, The Who, Orleans, Bee Gees and Simon & Garfunkel...
On today's episode, Scott interviews a renowned songwriter/singer, Larry Weiss, who penned such classic hits that include, Glen Campbell's hit “Rhinestone Cowboy” (1976 CMA Country Song of the Year), “Bend Me, Shape Me” (1968 International Song), recorded by The American Breed, and “Hi Ho Silver Lining”, recorded by English rock guitarist, Jeff Beck in 1967. He is also recognized for his vocal on “Brand New Life” the theme song, on TV's “Who's The Boss.” He has numerous gold and platinum album credits as a writer for artists that include Nat King Cole, Eric Burton & The Animals, Barry Manilow, Michael Jackson, Spooky Tooth, Maureen McGovern and Dionne Warwick, just to name a few. Scott was hired for a recording session to overdub a few saxophone tracks for today's guest. This highly skilled songwriter/singer certainly GOT CHOPS! Follow Larry on Website: www.rhinestonecowboy.com Instagram: @larryweissofficial Follow Got Chops on Instagram: @gotchopspodcast Listen to Got Chops Podcast on - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Pjh7tC3aTpeMFEhmn4fp4?si=699ae5b84e544cb5 - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/got-chops/id1587699754 - Anchor: https://anchor.fm/gotchops - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp5wwP8DvMPkqI4VM2VMlcufn6a-CzlHM Follow Scott on Instagram: @scottgrimaldimusic Twitter: @GrimaldiMusic Facebook: Scott Grimaldi - "The Color Of Midnight" Website: www.grimaldimusic.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gotchops/message
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the retirement of Kyle Seager and the lockout implications of a recent report about player payrolls, then discuss an assortment of listener-nominated, team-centric topics that they had previously overlooked on the podcast in 2021. Audio intro: Spooky Tooth, “Kyle” Audio outro: Hockey Dad, “I Missed Out” Link to list of […]
Tres bandas de los 60´s que quizá conoces, pero que cuentan con discografía digna de escucharse y que está a la manoSpooky Tooth, The Sonics y Traffic tienen un álbum del que posiblemente no sabes o no has escuchado, y en esta entrega en solitario te los desmenuzamos un poco, para que tengas en qué clavarte en tus ratos libres de fin de año. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/flashblackep1. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
#musicaligera #musicavocal #rockpsicodelico #rockexperimental #jazzrock #rock #rockprogresivo #popprogresivo #sinfonautas #sinfonautaspodcast En este capítulo la Sinfoprise es piloteada por el Almirante José Manuel Mora Lajarín. En este capítulo especial de Sinfonautas, de mayor duración de lo habitual, se produce la cena de gala en la Sinfoprise y el Almirante Mora imparte el "Master of the Telecaster" impuesto por los auditores. En esta clase magistral el Almirante nos comenta sus inicios en los planetas Los Pájaros y Tommy's, cómo comenzó su amor por la música y su particular evolución. No te pierdas este programa porque estimulará tu curiosidad –o tu nostalgia- y te aportará datos de una época (sesentas y principios de los setenta) que quizá aún no conozcas. Un programa inolvidable para ti y para el equipo. Suscríbete pulsando el botón naranja de la página de Ivoox. Escúchalo en: https://linktr.ee/sinfonautas Etiquetas: #pinkfloyd #caravan #colosseum #spookytooth #ericburdon&war #graceslick #richardharris
In this episode the boys talk about, antisocial issues, how Cody sucks at painting, horror movie characters, NASA dolphins, Moona Lisa, and more. Beer of the week: Spooky Tooth by Fatheads Brewing Co. Merch Link: The Cummcast Store Follow us: @thecummcast @codycummingsofficial @cumm007ryan Email: thecummcast@gmail.com Sources: untapd.com ladbible.com imdb.com Music: Rival - Throne (ft. Neoni) (Lost Identities Remix) [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds Free Download/Stream: http://NCS.io/ThroneRemix Watch: http://youtu.be/7yitxFDUVf0 Floatinboat - Limbo (feat. ELIOTT) [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds Free Dowload/Stream: http://ncs.io/Limbo Watch: http://youtu.be/n2kldFRUCpM
The Rock n Roll Archaeologist gets to talk extensively with Mick Jones of Foreigner. This is Mick's first interview since the Covid-19 pandemic took all acts off the road. We talk a little about that, but mostly it is a deep dig into his life as a working musician climbing the ranks until hitting it big with one of the best selling classic rock acts ever.The architect behind Foreigner's extraordinary catalogue of smash hits, Mick has crafted some of rock music's most enduring songs and produced 10 multi-platinum albums. Grammy and Golden Globe nominated songwriter, performer and producer and winner of the prestigious Ivor Novello songwriter award in Britain in 1998, Mick first began playing guitar in his early teens. "I knew early on that I could never hold a regular job. I had to play guitar. I had to somehow make my way into music" he says.After starting his own Blues/Rock band and opening for the Rolling Stones in pubs across South London, Mick's first big break came in 1964 when he moved to Paris and was hired to play with French singer Sylvie Vartan and later hired to work as musical director for French rock icon, Johnny Hallyday. Jones returned to his native England in the early 70's to reform the band Spooky Tooth with Gary Wright. After Spooky Tooth broke up, Mick moved to New York City and, in 1976, formed Foreigner with fellow Brits Ian Mc Donald and Dennis Elliott, and Americans Lou Gramm, Alan Greenwood and Ed Gagliardi.In his own words:"My initial musical vision for Foreigner was to combine Blues and R&B with British Rock and make it sound soulful and authentic. I?d grown up in England and had the English influence but I was also inspired by many elements of American music, from Mississippi Blues to Country and Western. Foreigner was the vehicle to get that musical blend across.""I'm grateful to be surrounded by the talented musicians that make up Foreigner today. Now each night on stage brings Foreigner's music alive with energy and excitement. Thanks guys for making it all new again!"Quotes from Mick talking about Foreigner and the new "Feels Like The First Time" 3-Disc Album:"When doing the ‘Hot Blooded' solo I did my damnedest to set the amp on fire, which is what originally happened," Mick says laughing, "I turned it up to 11, I kicked it. . . ""My feeling over the years is that if you can write a song on an acoustic instrument, and it sounds good, you know you have a good song," Mick explains. "The first time we approached these songs this way I was flabbergasted about how well they adapted back to their nucleus. It's been an eye opener how stripping the songs bare brings fresh meaning and emotion out of them. The reaction has been so strong that it made me rethink the whole thing and put more attention to the unplugged show. People feel the intimacy, I talk about the songs and how they came about.""It's' been 6 years since the new line-up has been in place. The success, for me, merited giving the public studio recordings of songs by the new band," Mick Jones asserts. "People know the new Foreigner, so the Foreigner they see live is the same Foreigner they can get on record."https://www.foreigneronline.com/welcomehttps://www.amazon.com/Foreigners-Tale-Mick-Jones/dp/1910978167/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=mick+jones&qid=1589822628&sr=8-4 (edited)
The Rock n Roll Archaeologist gets to talk extensively with Mick Jones of Foreigner. This is Mick's first interview since the Covid-19 pandemic took all acts off the road. We talk a little about that, but mostly it is a deep dig into his life as a working musician climbing the ranks until hitting it big with one of the best selling classic rock acts ever.The architect behind Foreigner's extraordinary catalogue of smash hits, Mick has crafted some of rock music's most enduring songs and produced 10 multi-platinum albums. Grammy and Golden Globe nominated songwriter, performer and producer and winner of the prestigious Ivor Novello songwriter award in Britain in 1998, Mick first began playing guitar in his early teens. "I knew early on that I could never hold a regular job. I had to play guitar. I had to somehow make my way into music" he says.After starting his own Blues/Rock band and opening for the Rolling Stones in pubs across South London, Mick's first big break came in 1964 when he moved to Paris and was hired to play with French singer Sylvie Vartan and later hired to work as musical director for French rock icon, Johnny Hallyday. Jones returned to his native England in the early 70's to reform the band Spooky Tooth with Gary Wright. After Spooky Tooth broke up, Mick moved to New York City and, in 1976, formed Foreigner with fellow Brits Ian Mc Donald and Dennis Elliott, and Americans Lou Gramm, Alan Greenwood and Ed Gagliardi.In his own words:"My initial musical vision for Foreigner was to combine Blues and R&B with British Rock and make it sound soulful and authentic. I?d grown up in England and had the English influence but I was also inspired by many elements of American music, from Mississippi Blues to Country and Western. Foreigner was the vehicle to get that musical blend across.""I'm grateful to be surrounded by the talented musicians that make up Foreigner today. Now each night on stage brings Foreigner's music alive with energy and excitement. Thanks guys for making it all new again!"Quotes from Mick talking about Foreigner and the new "Feels Like The First Time" 3-Disc Album:"When doing the ‘Hot Blooded' solo I did my damnedest to set the amp on fire, which is what originally happened," Mick says laughing, "I turned it up to 11, I kicked it. . . ""My feeling over the years is that if you can write a song on an acoustic instrument, and it sounds good, you know you have a good song," Mick explains. "The first time we approached these songs this way I was flabbergasted about how well they adapted back to their nucleus. It's been an eye opener how stripping the songs bare brings fresh meaning and emotion out of them. The reaction has been so strong that it made me rethink the whole thing and put more attention to the unplugged show. People feel the intimacy, I talk about the songs and how they came about.""It's' been 6 years since the new line-up has been in place. The success, for me, merited giving the public studio recordings of songs by the new band," Mick Jones asserts. "People know the new Foreigner, so the Foreigner they see live is the same Foreigner they can get on record."https://www.foreigneronline.com/welcomehttps://www.amazon.com/Foreigners-Tale-Mick-Jones/dp/1910978167/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=mick+jones&qid=1589822628&sr=8-4 (edited)
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