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Post by broadsword on Nov 26, 2012 18:39:41 GMT
Have a listen to this boys and girls, poor sod died way before his time in very dubious circumstances.
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 26, 2012 18:57:36 GMT
Definately. He influenced Gary Moore one of Martin's favourite guitarists. Good thread Sword
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 26, 2012 19:06:46 GMT
Have a listen to this boys and girls, poor sod died way before his time in very dubious circumstances. A rather unique guitarist and a master of the Fender Telecaster. A great find and another musician to put on the list of "must listen to" when I get a chance. Thanks broadsword
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 26, 2012 19:25:05 GMT
It's a tricky one and I can think more of bands that shouldn't have made it .......you too? What is the top? Some bands/musicians are relatively undiscovered by choice,that is they don't seek the fame and are happy to just produce or play for a great living. If we're talking prog then it has to be Gentle Giant. Rock - SAHB Pop - Tasmin Archer Guitarist - Jan Akkerman Folk - Dougie MacLean Dougie MacLean is very well known in Scotland but I don't how well elsewhere. This video is such a masterclass in talent and audience participation. He should be much more famous for his songwriting/singing talent and for being such a lovely person.
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 26, 2012 20:03:02 GMT
For me the most under-rated is Randy California...guitar/vocals/songwriter for Spirit...John Cippolina is also short-changed on respect and accolades as is the great Eric Burdon.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 27, 2012 8:35:43 GMT
Published on 16 Oct 2012 by LetzteZufluchtx
Steamhammer: Frankfurt, FFM 1969
LetzteZufluchtx comments
Hey friends, here´s something really great from STEAMHAMMER! Although they played only 2 songs in this 36 mins. set, their playing is absolutely outstanding compared to all other circulating STEAMHAMMER recordings! The Jam parts with superp sax and flute Jams are sure amoung the finest music played during this period!
Tracklist: 1 Junior´s Wailing 6:10 2 Riding on the L & N /great sax Jam/Jam 29:00
Lineup 1969: Kieran White: lead voc., harp, Martin Pugh:lead guit. Stevie Davy: Bass, org. Michael Rushton: dr. Harold Mc Nair(?). sax, flute
The extraordinary blues-rock band Steamhammer was formed at the end of 1968 in Worthing. Martin Quittenton (g) and Kieran White. came out of the British folk circuit. Quittenton had worked together with the Liverpool Scene and, like the other members Martin Pugh, Steve Davy and Michael Rushton, had played with numerous R&B groups.
Blues hero Freddie King ordered Steamhammer as his backing band on tour through Great Britain. Come Spring time, 1969, they signed a record contract with CBS. The first album, "Steamhammer", was a mixture of classic blues by B.B.King and Eddie Boyd and modern blues written by White and Quittenton with the help of Pugh. At the end of the British blues boom, only a few hardcore fans took interest on the finest lyrical blues-rock statement of the century.
Not selling as many records as they'd hoped to, Steamhammer nevertheless became a top European open-air attraction, mainly due to their brilliant live performance. For over two hours each night they would indulge in wide excursions in instrumental improvisations, embodied by the impressive guitar riffage of Martin Pugh and the sensitive harmonica of Kieran White. In the Summer of 1969, Quittenton left the band, followed by drummer Michael Rushton. They were replaced by Steve Jollife (sax, fl.) and Mick Bradley.
Jollife's feel for precise arrangements and jazz influences especially inspired the recording of Steamhammer's second, "Mk II", album. Overstepping the boundaries of traditional blues forms, they unleashed their own musical creativity and imagination without resorting to any technical trickery. These highly professional and creative musicians performed many live shows at various festivals in Scandinavia, West Germany and the Netherlands. On the continent, it turned out, they had become more popular than in England.
In the Summer of 1970, Steamhammer recorded their "definitive album" (rock session), called "Mountains", as a quartet. White, Pugh, Davy and Bradley were really working as a team and offering electrified white urban blues of highest quality. The live cut, "Riding On The L&N", is one of the highlights of the "Mountains" album, which contains straight-ahead blues numbers with a healthy dose of rock'n'roll. It was only with the release of this album that Steamhammer began to be noticed by the rock world. After the Altamont and Fehmarn fiascos, the era of open-air events of such calibre was ended at least for quite a while. In the late Summer of that same year, Steamhammer toured for the last time in Germany and the Benelux. The following Autumn, the line-up changed again. Only Pugh and Bradley stayed together and engaged ex-Renaissance member Louis Cennamo (b) for the recording of one more album. "Speech" was recorded in the Winter of 1971 and released in the beginning of 1972. By that time, Steamhammer had ceased to exsist. "Speech" was a disappointing, partly chaotic album, and the negative reception of the record led to the end of the group's popularity. Mick Bradley died in February 1972 of leukemia. Kieran White released a solo LP, "Open Door", in 1975 and Martin Pugh and Louis Cennamo put together a cult band Armageddon (with Keith Relf on vocals), which released only one album
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 27, 2012 9:07:56 GMT
Mick Softley my fellow Fermanagh resident. Genius who wrote some of the most beautiful pure songs ever and gave up the music scene in the early 70's as it was becoming too commercialised ;D ;D
Recovering well from his stroke a couple of years ago.
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