Egor - Street 1971

Yes, this is a post about a single song. why you ask, why bother with posting about one bloody song ,why don you put it on the "Page 45" feature on your page? (which, by the way, you should really check out!!).
Well, my answer is simply BECAUSE I WANT TO. Ha! so there!

Seriously, I came across this track a while ago and there really isn't that much info about them out there. And as it turns out, this is the only recording the band ever made! as I was hinting for info on the interwebs, i came across a post in the Steve Hoffman music forms.
Basically , someone was asking about this track that wound up on a comp (Downer Rock Genocide), and the bass player said G'head, ask me anything ya want!!!
What luck.

So as per the story he told, here's some history: "my name is Nick Diss, and I am the drummer that  formed the band Egor with Mike Foster on bass, Eric Taylor on guitar, and John Flite on harmonica and vocals. We formed around 69/70 in East London, UK. I was 20 years old when we recorded that track and Mike was about 24, John was in his early thirties, and Eric that brilliant guitarist was 16!

We played all over the Southeast of London and had a three night a week residency at a pub called the Plough and Harrow in Lytenstone East London. One night a guy came up to us and asked if he could record a song for a record of local artists. We said yes and he came in the next week and stuck a single microphone abouve the band and recorded the set. A few weeks later he came back with a disc for each member of the group and that was the last we hears of it.

Somehow the compilation album surfaced on a CD in the US about ten years ago....?

i am still in touch with Mike who lives in Thailand now and plays with another band called T2, another well know band from that era. John died of a heart attack in his fifties (he wasn't known as "Fat John for nothing), and Eric vanished without a trace. All efforts to track him down over the years have been in vain. (He was fond of LSD so I assume he became another acid victim and probably died young)Oh and somehow, a rumor got around on one of these boards that we used to open for Black Sabbath ....NOT TRUE..... We did play on the same circuit as them, but the band w supported were just as known as Sabbath back then and was called Black Widow. And finally, I have seen many articles over the years crediting us with being one of the band swho created Heavy Metal, but we always considered us as a heavy blues band. ....make of that what you will. 

well there you have it, another one lost to the ages, and recovered years later and given the proper credit it deserves. it's hard to comprehend how many of these bands would have gotten somewhere had the times been a bit different.

Then again, when I look at music today, perhaps not.
Cheers all!

Enigma! - s/t 1972

Enigma! (and simply known as Enigma and previously as Las Ventanas) was formed in Mexico City in 1970. Originally by Pablo Gonzolez Cancer (voice/guitar),  Sergio Gonzalez "Aquario", (Vocal support/bass), Hector Zenil "Virgo" (support vocal/drums), and Carlo Gonzalez Escorpion (guitar)

Apparently considered one of the best and most prestigious Mexican Rock bands, they succeeded due to the 1972 album ''Enigma!"  and for the singles "Under the sign of Aquarius" which is currently considered a Mexican rock anthem and one of all time. the song was sang in Spanish and translated to English. "Save My Soul" and "The Call of the Woman" were to other of the groups big hits.

Rolling Stone considers "Enigma!" one of the 25 most important Spanish rock albums of the seventies.

The group continues to this day to to play in the greater Mexico /city area until after the last album "2001 DC" lp, now only playing for cult followers and private shows.

I Teoremi - S/T 1972

I Teoremi is the first and only album released by Italian band I Teoremi in 1972 THIS ALBUM IS BALLS TO THE WALL!

The music on this album resemble Led Zeppelin style rock, but a bit more progressive due to the heavy, imaginative rhythm section.     The music highlights electric guitar, however the bassist steals the show. One track feature keys. 

The album is not considered a  good '''progressive'' album in the true sense , but it fucknig rips none the less!

Foe a complete history of this awesome band go to: http://www.italianprog.com/a_teoremi.htm

TEST - s/t 1974 Poland

The only album from Warsawa, (the first hard rock album). The first version of the band ws from 1971-'73 6 members) the second, '74 to '76, (4 members). The leaders and regular members of the band were guitarist / author Dariusz Kozakiewicz, and vocalist Wojciech Gassovski, Explicit followers of Deep Purple (even a cover of Smoke on the Water was incorporated - in English) while the rest of their catalog was performed in Polish

   

McPhee - 1971

McPhee was a short lived Australian prog band, that played organ heavy rock much like Deep Purple, but with more of a boogie to it.element They recorded one album in 1971, loaded with covers.

Clark Hutchinson - 1969-'71

Andy Clarke (vocals, keyboards, percussion, saxophone, flute, rhythm guitar), and Clark Hutchinson (Lead guitar, piano, percussion, bass), first worked together in Vamp ,a short lived English quartet founded by ex= Pretty Things drummer Viv Prince in the late 60's. the group split up after completing one single, but Andy and Clark remained together to record the remarkable A=MH2. The impromptu set proved immensely popular especially for the latter's impressive guitar work. A former member of Sam Gopal's Dream. Hutchinson brought that groups neo-eastern influence to that new venture. Highlighted superbly by the 13 minute 'Improvisation on an Indian scale'. The album's success inspires=d a permanent groups lineup including;Stephan Amazing (bass), & Dale Covenry (drums). Subsequent releases failed to capture that innovation of their debut release and so the band split up after their third album

Morning After ''Blue Blood" 1971

A completely unknown album from England 1971. This album was recorded as a demo only so as to try to snag a record deal, this of course is why it was only pressed in very small amounts. Recorded on home equipment, some of the tunes on the record sound like old blues ala Fletwood Mac, still, others have a more progressive touch to them. Great, heavy guitar work with lots of fuzz all over it, wah and snotty vocals featured on original material. The album title "Blue Blood" assumed a noble wealthy English family ,something that this band is definitely NOT!
pure British underground. Raw and gritty. Beautiful.