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Dave Charles
David Charles is a British drummer, recording engineer & record producer. He often appears under both names on the same album, e.g. Help Yourself's ''The Return of Ken Whaley'', where Dave Charles is credited with drums and vocals Allmusic credits for Dave CharlesRetrieved 25 March 2009. and David Charles as producer. Allmusic credits for David CharlesRetrieved 25 March 2009. Career Charles joined Walthamstow blues-rock band Sam Apple Pie, appearing on their eponymous first album in 1969, and then playing with Help Yourself at the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970.Sleevenotes by Nigel Cross to CD re-release of ''Ernie Graham'' his eponymous 1971 album (Hux 032) As well as a drummer, he was also interested in electronics, and recorded the Brinsley Schwarz Hype at the Fillmore East. Malcolm Morley left Sam Apple Pie and invited Charles to join his new band Help Yourself, for whom he drummed on all 6 of their albums, and played an early synthesiser. Whilst with Help Yourself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Rock
Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country. It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These musicians recorded rock records using country themes, vocal styles, and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitars.V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, ''All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul'' (Backbeat Books, 3rd ed., 2002), p. 1327. Country rock began with artists like Waylon Jennings, Buffalo Springfield, Michael Nesmith, Bob Dylan, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, The International Submarine Band and others, reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists such as Emmylou Harris, the Eagles, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Poco, Charlie Daniels Band, and Pure Prairie League. Country rock also influenced artists in other genres, including The Band, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockfield Studios
Rockfield Studios is a residential recording studio located in the Wye Valley just outside the village of Rockfield, Monmouthshire, Wales. It was founded in 1963 by brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward. Recording studios Rockfield is a two-studio facility consisting of The Coach House and The Quadrangle. Both studios reside within converted solid-stone farm buildings. Rockfield was one of the world's first recording studios to have living accommodation for clients. The Coach House Constructed in 1968, The Coach House includes a large live area with stone walls, a wooden ceiling, and a Yamaha grand piano. Additionally, it has a stone drum room, an acoustically variable second drum room, and two isolation booths. Recording equipment is based around a customised Neve 8128 recording console with vintage outboard processing, including Neve 1060 microphone amps, Rockfield's original Rosser Electronics microphone amps, API 550 equalisers and UREI 1176 compressors. Artists wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryn Haworth
Bryn Haworth (born 29 July 1948) is a British Christian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pioneer of Jesus music in mainstream rock. Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, he has released some twenty-two albums and several singles since the 1970s, as well as guesting as guitarist on many other albums by rock and folk artists. He continues to tour in the UK, appearing mostly at smaller venues, Christian centres and at prisons. He has also appeared three times at the UK Greenbelt Festival. His chosen instruments include guitar (particularly slide or bottleneck guitar) and mandolin. He recorded sessions for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 in 1974, 1975 and 1976, and made two television appearances on BBC Two's ''The Old Grey Whistle Test''. Also in the 1970s, Haworth appeared on the weekly ITV television show "Pop Gospel", presented by Berni Flint. Together with wife Sally, Haworth has engaged in extensive musical and evangelical work in prison settings. Haworth has hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Hear You Rockin' (Dave Edmunds Band Album)
'' I Hear You Rockin’ '' is a live album released by The Dave Edmunds Band in 1986 on Columbia LP record 40603.The Billboard Albums, 6th ed. Joel Whitburn. 2006. Record Research Inc. p. 324. Background This “live” album was tweaked in the studio by Edmunds, who is known for his production perfectionism. It was to be his last solo effort for Columbia, and mostly features songs already associated with Edmunds. Two songs were previously un-recorded by him, “Paralyzed” and “ The Wanderer.” Reception This album entered the ''Billboard'' 200 album charts on January 31, 1987 and remained on the charts for twelve weeks, peaking at position #106. The album has been reviewed as “energetic,” “enjoyable,” and “excellent.” Track listing # " Girls Talk" (Elvis Costello) # "Here Comes The Weekend" (Dave Edmunds) # " Queen of Hearts" (Hank DeVito) # "Paralyzed" (Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley) # " The Wanderer" (Ernie Maresca) # "Crawling from the Wreckage" (Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riff Raff (album)
''Riff Raff'' is a 1984 album by the Welsh rock musician Dave Edmunds. The album was his third release for Arista Records (in the UK) and Columbia Records (in the US), following 1983's ''Information''. Overview ''Riff Raff'' continued Edmunds' collaboration with Electric Light Orchestra frontman Jeff Lynne; Lynne produced six tracks on the albums, and wrote three of the songs. The majority of the tracks on ''Riff Raff'' are originals by Lynne, Edmunds, and band member John David. The most notable cover is the aforementioned " Something About You", originally a top-20 hit for the Four Tops in 1965. Edmunds also covered the Paul Brady-penned "Steel Claw" which was originally recorded, with a tighter, more frenetic hard rock arrangement, by Tina Turner for her multi-platinum comeback effort, ''Private Dancer'', released just four months prior. Reception Compared to the Edmund's success with ''Information'' (which hit #51 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart and spawned a top-4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Information (Dave Edmunds Album)
''Information'' is a 1983 album by Welsh rock musician Dave Edmunds. The album was his second release for Arista Records (in the UK) and Columbia Records (in the US). ''Information'' marked the first time in Edmunds' solo career that he collaborated with an outside producer. Electric Light Orchestra frontman Jeff Lynne produced two songs on the album: the title track, and the Lynne-penned " Slipping Away". The latter would become Edmunds' first American top-40 hit in 13 years (and his last top-40 hit to date), reaching #39 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album itself reached #51 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and #92 in the UK. Other cover versions on the album include NRBQ's "I Want You Bad" and The J. Geils Band's "Wait". Track listing # " Slipping Away" (Jeff Lynne) # "Don't You Double" (Moon Martin) # "I Want You Bad" ( Terry Adams, Phil Crandon) # "Wait" (Seth Justman, Peter Wolf) # "The Watch on My Wrist" (Paul Kennerley) # "The Shape I'm In" (Lee Cathy, Otis Blackwell) # " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John David (musician)
John David Williams (born 19 January 1946 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh bassist and songwriter known equally for his work with Dave Edmunds and for his songwriting. Biography He began his musical career playing drums in his father's dance band Avalon. By 1968 he was playing bass guitar and sang backing vocals in Edmunds' first major group, Love Sculpture, best remembered for their 1968 top ten hit single " Sabre Dance". At that time he used the name John Williams. After Love Sculpture split in 1970 he concentrated on studio and session work, songwriting and engineering, as well as collaborating with Edmunds on his number one single " I Hear You Knocking", playing bass, piano, and percussion. In 1975, David played bass guitar and did some backing vocals on Andy Fairweather Low's album, '' La Booga Rooga''. In the mid-1970s, David formed a group, Airwaves, along with singer and guitarist Ray Martinez and drummer Dave Charles. In 1978, the group recorded and released an album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Parker
Graham Thomas Parker (born 18 November 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the British band Graham Parker & the Rumour. Life and career Early career (1960s–1976) Parker was born in Hackney, East London, in 1950. He was a pupil at Chobham Secondary Modern School in Surrey. After the success of the Beatles, Parker and some other 12/13-year-olds formed the Deepcut Three, soon renamed the Black Rockers. None of the members actually learned to play their instruments, however, and were merely dress-up bands, adopting Beatle haircuts, black jeans and polo neck sweaters. By the time Parker was 15 he was a fan of soul music, especially Otis Redding, and would go to dance clubs in the nearby towns of Woking and Camberley where there was a thriving appreciation of soul music, Motown and ska. Parker left school at 16 and went to work at the Animal Virus Research Institute in Pirbright, Surrey, where he bred animals for foot-and-mouth disease ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judas Priest
Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in Birmingham in 1969. They have sold over 50 million albums and are frequently ranked as one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Judas Priest have also been referred to as one of the pioneers of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) movement, and are cited as a formative influence on various metal subgenres, including speed metal, thrash metal, and power metal, as well as the hard rock/glam metal scene of the 1980s. Despite an innovative and pioneering body of work in the latter half of the 1970s, the band had struggled with poor record production and a lack of major commercial success until 1980, when their sixth studio album '' British Steel'' brought them notable mainstream attention. During the 1970s, the core of bassist Ian Hill, lead singer Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K. K. Downing saw a revolving cast of drummers (with Les Binks being the only one who played on more than one album), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get It (Dave Edmunds Album)
''Get It'' is the third album by Welsh rock musician Dave Edmunds, released in 1977. Some of the songs were performed by an early "trio" version of Rockpile (Edmunds, Nick Lowe and Terry Williams); others (such as "I Knew the Bride" and "Little Darlin'") were recorded by Edmunds solo. Also recorded in these sessions was the non-album Edmunds-Lowe tune "As Lovers Do", which was used as the B-side of both "Here Comes the Weekend" and the later "Crawling from the Wreckage". "New York's a Lonely Town", the B-side of "Where or When" was also recorded during the six-week sessions for the album. Two recordings that appear on ''Get It'' were from much earlier sessions. "Ju Ju Man" was recorded in 1975, while "My Baby Left Me' dated back to 1969, and was performed by Edmunds backed with members of his band Love Sculpture: Mickey Gee, John Williams and Terry Williams. Critical reception ''The New York Times'' called the album "an amusing disk" and "a compendium of rock styles all the way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down By The Jetty
''Down by the Jetty'' is the debut album by English rock band Dr. Feelgood, released in January 1975. The band's Johnny Kidd & the Pirates-influenced originals ("Keep It Out of Sight") appear alongside covers material like " Bonie Moronie" and "Tequila". The album was re-released as a double CD in 2006 (EMI 0946 363951 2 8). Legacy Paul Weller and Bob Geldof have acknowledged the influence of ''Down by the Jetty'', as have Blondie, the Ramones and Richard Hell, who were introduced to the album by Blondie's drummer Clem Burke. In 1976, prior to being signed, Paul Weller's band the Jam demoed a cover of "Cheque Book". A copy of the album is also glimpsed on the sleeve of the 1985 album '' Our Favourite Shop'' by his later band the Style Council. In 2006, '' Uncut'' magazine listed the album at number 87 on its list of the 100 greatest debut albums. Track listing All tracks composed by Wilko Johnson; except where indicated #"She Does It Right" – 3:25 #" Boom Boom" (John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PXR5
''PXR5'' is the ninth studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1979. It reached No. 59 on the UK album charts. A new remix and surround mix of the album by Steven Wilson was released in 2023 by Atomhenge Records as part of the ''Days Of The Underground'' boxed set. Overview Allmusic referred to ''PXR5'' as "the last in the sequence of brittle, pop-inflected records the band launched with '' Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music''", saying that Hawkwind "both understood and allowed themselves to absorb the energies of new wave" on ''PXR5''. The album was recorded and mixed at Rockfield Studios in January and February 1978. "Uncle Sam's on Mars", "Robot" and "High Rise" were originally recorded on the preceding UK tour but were partly overdubbed in the studio, particularly Robert Calvert's double-tracked vocals. "Infinity" and "Life Form" were originally to have been part of a solo album Dave Brock was working on. After the album was recorded and mixed, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
