Mountain (1995) Over The Top - Full Album

Mountain is an American blues-rock and hard rock band that formed in Long Island, New York in 1969. Originally comprising vocalist and guitarist Leslie West, bassist Felix Pappalardi and drummer N. D. Smart, the band broke up in 1972 before reuniting in 1974 and remaining active until today. Arguably best known for the song "Mississippi Queen", Mountain is one of many bands to be commonly credited as having influenced the development of heavy metal music in the 1970s.

The band was formed shortly after Leslie West, formerly of the Long Island R&B band The Vagrants, recorded a solo album titled Mountain (a reference to West's physical bulk) with bassist and former Cream collaborator Felix Pappalardi producing. The album also featured former Remains drummer N.D. Smart. The album spotlighted West's raw vocals and melodic, bluesy guitar style, and Pappalardi's heavy and elegant bass lines were heavily in evidence throughout, and according to West when Pappalardi asked what would be next West suggested the pair go on the road. Though heavily inspired by seminal British blues-rock band Cream (with which Pappalardi had been a frequent collaborator: he produced Disraeli Gears, Goodbye and Wheels of Fire, also contributing viola, brass, bells and organ to the latter), keyboardist Steve Knight was added to avoid the new band being perceived as a simple imitation. Cream drummer Ginger Baker held a brief stint as manager of the band during their early years. Naming themselves for West's album, West, Pappalardi, Smart, and Knight played shows on the West Coast before getting to play their fourth concert as a working band at the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York. (Their first album as a band, Climbing!, would include a tribute to the festival, "For Yasgur's Farm.")

Mountain was received enthusiastically by the festival audience but the band did not appear in the film of the event, nor was their performance included on volume 1 of the festival's live album, though their performances of "Blood of the Sun" (from West's album) and "Theme for an Imaginary Western" (a song they planned to record for Climbing and co-written by former Cream bassist Jack Bruce) appeared on the second volume of Woodstock performances.

Soon after Woodstock, Smart was replaced by Laurence "Corky" Laing. Climbing! was finished and released in the late fall of 1969. It led off with what becamethe band's signature song, "Mississippi Queen", which reached the middle of the top 40 charts as a single while the album reached the top 20 on the US album charts. Mountain began a hectic touring schedule in the middle of which they recorded a followup album, Nantucket Sleighride, released in 1971. This album reached the top 20 but failed to yield a hit single. The title track was used in the United Kingdom as the theme to ITV's Sunday political program Weekend World. After these early releases the band continued to receive a certain measure of critical acclaim but never again achieved great commercial success.

After Nantucket Sleighride, the band produced Flowers of Evil consisting of one side of studio material and one live side, culled from a concert at New York City's legendary Fillmore East. Within a year---Leslie West has since cited a combination of drug abuse within the band and Pappalardi's road weariness and burgeoning hearing impairment as primary factors---Mountain broke up; a live album, The Road Goes Ever On," was issued in 1972.

Pappalardi returned to studio work while West and Laing formed West, Bruce and Laing with former Cream bassist Jack Bruce. Their first American performance was a Carnegie Hall concert, prompting a bidding war that Columbia Records won, and the new trio cut two studio albums and a live release over the next two years. (Wikipedia)

Band - Mountain Origin Long Island, New York, USA Genres Blues-rock, hard rock, heavy metal, blues metal Years active 1969–1972, 1974–present Labels Windfall, Columbia, Lightyear, Recall, Big Rack Associated acts West, Bruce and Laing, Blues Creation Website www.mountainrockband.com Former members Felix Pappalardi N. D. Smart Steve Knight Allan Schwartzberg David Perry Bob Mann

Line-up: Leslie West - Guitar, vocals, Felix Pappalardi - bass Corky Laing - drums, Miller Anderson - vocals Mark Clarke - bass, Ian Hunter - keyboards Chuck Kirkpatrick - vocals, Steve Knight - keyboards Norman Landsberg - keyboards, Tommy Morrongiello - guitar David Perry - guitar, Noel Redding - bass N.D. Smart II - drums, Norman D. Smart - drums Ritchie Scarlett Randy Coven Mark Hitt Rev Jones Steve "Budgie" Werner Track list:

Disc 1 1. Blood of the Sun 2:35 2. Long Red 3:15 3. Blind Man 3:54 4. Dreams of Milk and Honey 3:34 5. Southbound Train 2:59 6. Because You Are My Friend 3:12 7. Mississippi Queen 2:31 8. Theme from an Imaginary Western 5:06 9. Never in My Life 3:51 10. Silver Paper 3:17 11. For Yasgur's Farm 3:23 12. To My Friend 3:37 13. Sittin' on a Rainbow 2:22 14. Stormy Monday [live] 19:30 15. Waiting to Take You Away [live] 3:38 16. Guitar Solo [live] 5:48

Disc 2 1. Don't Look Around 3:43 2. Taunta (Sammy's Tune) 1:00 3. Nantucket Sleighride 5:51 4. You Can't Get Away! 3:25 5. The Animal Trainer and the Toad 3:26 6. My Lady 4:33 7. Travelin' in the Dark 4:24 8. The Great Train Robbery 5:43 9. Flowers of Evil 4:53 10. One Last Cold Kiss 3:51 11. Crossroader 4:48 12. Roll over Beethoven [live] 4:08 13. You Better Believe It 5:49 14. Back Where I Belong 2:57 15. Bardot Damage 4:05 16. Shimmy on the Footlights 4:23 17. Talking to the Angels 3:42 18. Solution 4:13

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Discography

Studio albums

* Climbing! (1970)

* Nantucket Sleighride (1971)

* Flowers of Evil (1971; partially live)

* Avalanche (1974)

* Go for Your Life (1985)

* Man's World (1996)

* Mystic Fire (2002)

* Masters of War (2007)

Live albums

* Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On (1972)

* Twin Peaks (1974)

Compilations

* The Best of Mountain (1973)

* Over the Top (2001)

Download Ten Years After - Undead

Complete Album Download - Undead; Ten Years After

Undead is the second album by Ten Years After, recorded live at the small jazz club, Klook's Kleek, in London, May 1968. This album set out to give listeners a real feel to what it was like to hear Ten Years After. Their eponymous first album was bluesy, but less emotional and passionate, and so the band decided to record the album live. The result was a combination of blues, boogie and the sometimes remarkable jazz playing ability of the band members.

 

The approach of the band on this album remains unique in that it is a rock/blues approach to swing. And swing it does! Although the soloing remains almost exclusively in the pentatonic scale and adheres strictly to a basic 1/IV/V 12 bar blues (with no traditional jazz substitutions), the boys manage to pull off a confident and aggressive post bop feel. This album became the introduction that many aspiring musicians used as a learning tool to explore beyond rock and pop boundaries and into more improvised stylings.

 

Ten Years After; Undead (1968)
Line-up:
Chick Churchill - keyboards
Alvin Lee - guitar, vocals
Leo Lyons - bass
Ric Lee - drums
Joe Gooch - guitar, vocals

Additional Album Info; Original LP on DERAM 1023
Download Tracks;
1. I May Be Wrong But I Won't Be Wrong Always (Alvin Lee)- 9:49
2. At The Woodchopper's Ball (Woody Herman/Joe Bishop)- 7:38
3. Spider In My Web (Alvin Lee)- 7:42
4. Summertime (George Gershwin)/ Shantung Cabbage (Ric Lee)- 5:44
5. I'm Going Home (Alvin Lee)- 6:24


2002 CD Re-release
1. Rock Your Mama - 3:46
2. Spoonful - 6:23
3. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always - 9:49
4. Summertime / Shantung Cabbage - 5:44
5. Spider In My Web - 7:43
6. (At the) Woodchopper's Ball - 7:38
7. Standing At The Crossroads - 4:10
8. I Can't Keep From Crying, Sometimes / Extension On One Chord / I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes - 17:04
9. I'm Going Home - 6:24
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Texas International Pop Festival 1969 - Spoonful - Alvin Lee/Ten Years After

Ten Years After is an English blues-rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition they have had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200, and are best known for their tracks "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", "I'd Love To Change the World" and "Love Like a Man".

Woodchoppers Ball

After several years of local success in the Nottingham/Mansfield area as a band known since 1962 as The Jaybirds (its core was formed in late 1960 as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats), and later as Ivan Jay and the Jaymen, Ten Years After was founded by Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons. Ivan Jay sang lead vocals from late 1960 to 1962 and was joined by Ric Lee in August 1965, replacing drummer Dave Quickmire, who had replaced Pete Evans in 1962. In 1966 The Jaybirds moved to London, where Chick Churchill joined the group. That November the quartet signed a manager, Chris Wright, and decided to change its name to Blues Trip, Blues Yard (under which they played a show at the Marquee Club supporting the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band), and finally in November 1966, to Ten Years After, (in honor of Elvis Presley, an idol of Lee's whose momentous year in rock, 1956, helps to better explain the band's title).

The group became the first act booked by the soon-to-be Chrysalis Agency. It secured a residency at the Marquee, and received an invitation to play at the Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967. That performance led to a contract with Deram, a subsidiary of Decca – the first band so signed without a hit single. In October, its 1967 self-titled debut album was released.

In 1968, after touring Scandinavia and the United States, Ten Years After released its second album, live Undead, which brought the noteworthy song "I'm Going Home". This was followed in February 1969 by the studio issue Stonedhenge, a British hit, that included another well known track, "Hear Me Calling" (it was released also as a single, and covered in 1972 by the British glam rock rising stars, Slade). In July 1969 the group appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival, in the first event to which rock bands were invited. In August, the band performed a breakthrough American appearance at Woodstock; their rendition of "I'm Going Home" featuring Alvin Lee as lead singer, was featured in both the subsequent film and soundtrack album and catapulted them to star status.

Ten Years After- Spider in my Web (live audio)

During 1970, Ten Years After released "Love Like a Man", the group's only hit in the UK Singles Chart. This song was on the band's fifth album, Cricklewood Green.The name of the album comes from a friend of the group who lived in Cricklewood, London. He grew a sort of plant which was said to have hallucinogenic effects. The band did not know the name of this plant, so the members called their album Cricklewood Green. It was the first record to be issued with a different playing speed on each side – one a three-minute edit at 45rpm, the other, a nine-minute live version at 33rpm. In August 1970, Ten Years After played the Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto, and the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.

In 1971, the band released the album A Space in Time, which marked a move toward more commercial material. It featured the group's biggest hit, "I'd Love To Change The World". But the band broke up after the 1974 album Positive Vibrations. The members re-united in 1983 to play the Reading Festival,and this performance was later released on CD as The Friday Rock Show Sessions - Live At Reading '83' . In 1988, the members re-united for a few concerts and recorded the album About Time (1989). In 1994, they participated in the Eurowoodstock festival in Budapest.

Alvin Lee has since then mostly played and recorded under his own name. In 2004, the other band members replaced him with Joe Gooch, and recorded the album, Now.Material from the following tour was used for the 2005 double album, Roadworks.[4] Ric Lee is currently in a band called The Breakers, along with Ian Ellis (ex-Clouds). (Wikipedia)

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Groundhogs -Best 1969-72- full album download

The Groundhogs - Groundhogs Best 1969 - 72 (1995)

Blues - Rock
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1995
Label: United Artists

Side One 1. Groundhog - Groundhogs, McPhee, Tony "T.S." 2. Strange Town 3. Bog Roll Blues 4. You Had a Lesson 5. Express Man 6. Eccentric Man 7. Earth Is Not Room Enough 8. BDD	Side Two 1. Cherry Red 2. Mistreated 3. 3744 James Road 4. Soldier 5. Sad Is the Hunter 6. Garden 7. Split, Pt. 4 8. Amazing Grace - Groundhogs, Newton, John

Groundhogs - Cherry Red