last night @ hpb
...my sweetie found a whole slew of cassettes formerly belonging to a local priest of (heh heh) very catholic taste. lotsa african and latin american toonage, which she's gonna use to try and connect with some of the kids at her school. she remarked that her aunt carol -- who told her it didn't matter if she never went to church, "once you're confirmed, we've got you for life!" -- would have been pleased. she also got a t. waits alb that she hadn't heard in many yrs.
myself, i scored the cd versh of the '75 alb by armageddon, the last musical stand of ex-yardbirds singer keith relf, who was trying to put together softer-sounding musical outfits after the yardbirds' last incarnation morphed into led zeppelin, but somehow wound up joining forces with the drummer from captain beyond in a proggy and sometimes zeppelinesque hard rock outfit. their one rec is pert damn fine, with keith's voxxx strangely low in the mix (he suffered from asthma and emphysema; maybe the producer didn't dig his pipes). gtrist martin pugh has a proto-metal overdriven sound and interesting ideas (influenced by near eastern sounds as much as blues in a way that's reminiscent of j. page). while listening, i re-read a relf int that formerly appeared in the liner notes to an infamous yardbirds bootleg i usedta own. a shame he died, aged 33, back in '76 from electrocution while playing gtr at home. r.i.p.
some fun facts:
1) someone (st. lester?) wrote about how ozzy sounded like "keith relf whining about the tampons stuck up his nose" in a rolling stone review of master of reality. myself, i always thought the yardbirds' "ever since the world began" (from their s/t '66 album aka roger the engineer, which is what revolver would have sounded like if the beatles only had a week to write and record it in between jaunts up and down the m1) furnished the blueprint for early sab songcraft, minus the fuzztones.
2) armageddon got their record contract with a&m via peter frampton, who was then riding the wave that'd crest with pink hair and the biggest selling album you can't find a single human being who'll admit to having owned in 2008. depending on whose story you believe, frampton either pulled jerry moss's coat or gave armageddon bassplayer louis cennamo somebody's phone number.
and here's keith singing yet another late-period yardbirds song that wound up in led zep's rep.
myself, i scored the cd versh of the '75 alb by armageddon, the last musical stand of ex-yardbirds singer keith relf, who was trying to put together softer-sounding musical outfits after the yardbirds' last incarnation morphed into led zeppelin, but somehow wound up joining forces with the drummer from captain beyond in a proggy and sometimes zeppelinesque hard rock outfit. their one rec is pert damn fine, with keith's voxxx strangely low in the mix (he suffered from asthma and emphysema; maybe the producer didn't dig his pipes). gtrist martin pugh has a proto-metal overdriven sound and interesting ideas (influenced by near eastern sounds as much as blues in a way that's reminiscent of j. page). while listening, i re-read a relf int that formerly appeared in the liner notes to an infamous yardbirds bootleg i usedta own. a shame he died, aged 33, back in '76 from electrocution while playing gtr at home. r.i.p.
some fun facts:
1) someone (st. lester?) wrote about how ozzy sounded like "keith relf whining about the tampons stuck up his nose" in a rolling stone review of master of reality. myself, i always thought the yardbirds' "ever since the world began" (from their s/t '66 album aka roger the engineer, which is what revolver would have sounded like if the beatles only had a week to write and record it in between jaunts up and down the m1) furnished the blueprint for early sab songcraft, minus the fuzztones.
2) armageddon got their record contract with a&m via peter frampton, who was then riding the wave that'd crest with pink hair and the biggest selling album you can't find a single human being who'll admit to having owned in 2008. depending on whose story you believe, frampton either pulled jerry moss's coat or gave armageddon bassplayer louis cennamo somebody's phone number.
and here's keith singing yet another late-period yardbirds song that wound up in led zep's rep.
posted by stashdauber at 8:13 AM
1 Comments:
What a great album, Armageddon, a favorite from the 70's. I still have the lp and have transferred it to digital. Always reminded me a bit of old Blue Oyster Cult. I remember hearing Silver Tightrope on the radio often back in the day..back when they would play songs that were longer than 4 min.
-Kavin
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