Monday, July 28, 2008

Bee Gees - 1st (Remaster)

To my knowledge we never had an Australian recording. So here's the first one and it don't will be the last.
1st is the debut album by the Bee Gees, released in July 1967. Contrary to the group's later disco-oriented releases, 1st was a psychedelic rock album with some folk aspects. The album cover was designed by no other than Klaus Voorman who had previously done the cover for the Beatles Revolver album. Klaus is a German bassist who played sessions with Beatles members and the likes. A really nice guy, I know him myself. This remaster from 2006, reissues both stereo and mono mixes on one disc and a bonus disc of unreleased songs and alternate takes. Bee Gees 1st peaked at #7 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Various - Easy Rider (OST)

As a biker myself I'm forced to post this one:

Easy Rider is the soundtrack to the cult classic 1969 film, often remembered for its epic late 1960s music. The album was released in August 1969, and was a strong success along with the film, peaking at #6 on the Billboard album charts in September of that year. It features music from The Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Steppenwolf besides others.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Desert Rose Band - Life Goes On

Excerpt from the DamGreek's review:
1993's Life Goes On sticks very closely to the previous format and style of the earlier Desert Rose Band albums, with Chris writing nearly all of the songs, and singing lead, with Herb Pedersen’s vocal backing him up. Some classic stuff here, and Chris Hillman was also able to recruit Tom Brumley to play very cool Steel Guitar on this record and join this short lived lineup of the band. His Pedal Steel is one of the highlights of this record.
Shortly after the CD was finished, Chris Hillman decided it was pretty much over, and broke up the band. This line-up, as far as I know, never toured together, although Bill Bryson had been a touring member of the band for a while.
This download came possible due to the DamGreek.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Scorpions - Scorpions As Hunters

This is the rarest Scorpions recording you will ever own. In 1975 the Scorpions went into the studio under their pseudonym The Hunters and recorded two songs by the British band Sweet. The Songs are Fox on the run and Action. They released these recordings on single only . Klaus Meine sings both songs with German lyrics and Uli Roth plays killer guitar solos as usual for this era. I like the cover, the little fox on the cover try to look dangerous. Nice try foxy:-)
Have found this somewhere on the net and cleaned this vinyl rip a bit.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Stone Poneys Discography

The Stone Poneys were a, California folk trio consisting of Bob Kimmel on rhythm guitar, Ken Edwards on lead guitar, and Linda Ronstadt (vocals). Most of the songs on their three albums were written by Kimmel and Edwards.
The first selftitled album, was released in January 1967. The album is notable for having solo vocal performances by Ronstadt on only three of the songs, plus one verse in a fourth song, with harmony vocals otherwise.

The Stone Poneys are best known for a song on their second album, Evergreen, Vol. 2 (released June 1967) that they did not write:Mike Nesmith's Differtent Drum. Ronstadt was surprised when it was a hit because she was unsatisfied with its arrangements.



Their third album was titled Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III (released April 1968), and only her picture was on the cover. It included another Nesmith song, Some of Shelly's Blues, and ended with the Laura Nyro song, Stoney End, which turned out to have been aptly named. By then, Linda Ronstadt had become at least as well known as the band following the success of Different Drum, and she was off on her solo career.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

AlbumExtractorX (MacOS)

This application lets you split AlbumWrap MP3 files, those files whose name contains the ALBW strings and which contain multiple tracks. By just dragging your ALBW files onto AlbumExtractorX's icon you can extract their contents.

Download:http://alex.primafila.net/albumextractorx/AlbumExtractorX-1.0.dmg

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Desert Rose Band - True Love

The Desert Rose Band had major personnel turnover in 1991; Jay Dee Maness was replaced by steel guitarist Tom Brunley, John Jorgenson by guitarist Jeff Ross, and Steve Duncan by drummer Tim Grogan. This lineup recorded 1991's True Love, but failed to duplicate the success of the band's first incarnation.

Desert Rose Band - Pages Of Life

Their third album Pages of Life featured a remake of Desert Rose as well as a remake of Herb's beautiful folk song about his daughter Our Baby's Gone which was originally recorded on his 1976 album Southwest. Missing You is a notable song for the bluegrass feel and Herb's soaring vocal harmony.
Jay Dee Maness left the band in 1990 and was replaced on pedal steel guitar by Tom Brumley whom Jay Dee replaced in the Buckaroos. Jay Dee Maness would again play with Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen on their post Desert Rose Band albums Bakersfield Bound and Way Out West.