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Re: Lost Gems

hansamike wrote:

Ah I can see you folks are really getting into this now.

Michael, nice list, but can we consider Frampton Comes Alive a lost gem? Hasn't everybody in China got a copy? and is it possible anything by Floyd or Dylan or even Sabbath could be 'lost'. And isn't Jeff Becks 'Wired' the seminal rock album that inspired Led Zeppelin.

Sorry to go all German on you but zis a list vor ze lost gems ja? Dude you gotta delve deeper and as my beloved Nils would say - Cry Tough

Mike you're right Frampton / Floyd / Dylan & Jeff Beck's Wired are of course well known to elders (hic!) like us, but to some of the uninitiated and younger members here these may have past them by, plus not all of us here got to catch some of the more shall we say well known classics when they were first released
was just going through my old vinyl and thought I REMEMBER THAT ONE smile and that one, give 'em a dusting down and tripped down memory lane surprised the old needle still worked
i'm youtubing nearly every recommendation here
Mike still think Wired is a gem but not as lost as some of the rarer stuff mentioned here on this fine thread , hey i'm going in deep dust to delve some more, have over 500 LP's around this place
Keep em coming folks

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Re: Lost Gems

Nah, its ok Michael. I like the idea that I've got people going through their cellars and boxes digging out old vinyl and other stuff. 'Wired' is a gem, and to be honest one I never owned until a few years ago! I shall be leafing thru some of my stuff over the next days. I found something by the Souther Hillmann Furay Band last night and the Guess Who, but I need to listen to it again to see if it was any good. Yes it's been that long!

At the moment I am running a cassette (remember them) - 'In the Hearing of....Atomic Rooster'. Following that will be Groundhogs 'Split' - a classic.

BTW, the original motivation for this thread was a band called 'The Mother Station'. They had an ace female guitarist called Gwin Spencer. Anyone heard of her...Blinding!

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Hansa, never heard of them or her!! How bout April Lawton (RIP) and Ramatam, you remember her? Mitch Mitchell was in that band with April.

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Dirty Looks - Cool From The Wire. A great slice of dirty late '80's hard rock. Listen to 'Oh Ruby' with your eyes closed and tell me that is not Bon Scott singing..........

I would also add any of the Riverdogs albums. Absolutely Live is probably my favourite. Rob Lamothe has released a load of solo albums too. Most of them are very quiet and acoustic, but he is a great songwriter and his voice just kills me - he should have been a huge star.

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I dug out a few nuggets from my vinyl stacks, Halfbreed is among them as well as Buckingham Nicks, the picture of Stevie on the cover was worth buying the LP alone. Anybody ever heard of a band out of Boulder, Co. called Zephyr from 1969 featuring a very young Tommy Bolin on lead guitar? Great blues stuff with a Janis like vocalist named Candie Givens. Some others:

Jackie Lomax/ Three

10 C.C./Deceptive Bends

Sea Level     Allman Bros. spinoff

Spooky Tooth/The Mirror    Gary Wright & Mick Jones

The Man Band/Slow Motion     Anybody from the UK remember these guys?

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks/ Striking It Rich    Great shtick band from the Bay Area

Robert Cray/Who's Been Talkin'     Earlier LP re-issued after Bad Influence took off.

The Crusaders/ Scratch Live @ The Roxy  1974    A jazz classic w/ Larry Carlton in the band.

The Outlaws had a new studio effort in the can at the time of Hughie's passing, but as far as I know they still haven't released it, hope they will.

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Re: Lost Gems

There's a few in my collection that could be classed as lost gems, most of modern British blues has ben lost to the larger audience, however I've found one in my collection that will interest you classic rockers, plus there's a Joe connectaction:

Hughes/Thrall recorded in 1982 - 10 origonal songs co-wrtten by Glenn Hughes and Pat Thrall and one interpretation of the Trapeze song Coast To Coast. Check it out, it's prety radio friendly, but show's a great deal of variety.
Glen Hughes you should have heard of, Pat Thrall has worked with artists such as Pat Travers and Meatloaf - and of course he plays a solo on the You & Me recording of Bridge To Better Days! smile
http://www.amazon.com/Hughes-Thrall/dp/B0000025RM

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Greenose wrote:

Pat Thrall has worked with artists such as Pat Travers and Meatloaf - and of course he plays a solo on the You & Me recording of Bridge To Better Days! smile
http://www.amazon.com/Hughes-Thrall/dp/B0000025RM

And of course he was also in the groups Automatic Man (referenced earlier in this thread), Stomu Yahashta's "Go" projects (again with Shrieve and also Al Dimeola) and Asia. Pat Thrall, a great second/lead guitar player!!!

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Re: Lost Gems

I suppose its happenedto all of us sometimes. You look at your serried ranks of filed CD's and vinyl and just can't think of anything that you want to hear. There's nothing that [in that moment] inspires you. What to do?

Tonight that decision was solved when a missplaced step caused an outstretched hand to grab a structure (you get the picture) and a CD falls at my feet. Divine intervention, perhaps.

So, I find myself listening to, well, not a 'Lost Gem' but maybe a forgotten one. Now, Elton John may not figure too much in my musical conciousness these days but there's no denying that he and Bernie Taupin could write a good tune. 'Two Rooms' a celebration of the songs of the aforementioned duo is a good listen, especially when you didn't expect it.

My neighbours were out, my trusty KEF's well warmed up and this album proved to be, again, a sonic delight. I really like Bruce Hornsby treatment of 'Madman across the Water' and I chuckled at how Phil Collins could reinvent 'Burn down the Mission' as well, just another Phil Collins song.

With the CD player on shuffle it's a feast of styles with a running theme. Last track up was Rod Stewart's 'Your Song', nicely delivered with my system picking up some serious window frame reverberating bottom end work. A quick look at the liner notes reveals the handiwork of one Carmine Rojas. Nice one. I guess a gem is still a gem, lost, forgotten or otherwise.

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