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Foghat Records
Foghat are an English rock band formed in London in 1971. The band is known for the use of electric slide guitar in its music. Their best known song is the 1975 hit "Slow Ride". The band has released 17 studio albums, including eight gold albums and one platinum; along with one double platinum live album. Despite several line-up changes, the band continues to record and perform. History 1970s The band initially featured Dave Peverett ("Lonesome Dave") on guitar and vocals, Tony Stevens on bass, and Roger Earl on drums, after all three musicians left Savoy Brown in 1971. Rod Price, on guitar/slide guitar, joined after he left Black Cat Bones in December 1970. The new line-up was named "Foghat" (a nonsense word from a Scrabble-like game played by Peverett and his brother) in January 1971. There is a cartoon drawing on the back cover of the group's first album of a head wearing a foghat. Foghat relocated to the United States after signing a deal with Bearsville Records. Its deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Peverett
David Jack Peverett (16 April 1943 – 7 February 2000), also known as Lonesome Dave, was an English singer and guitarist, best known as the original lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Rock music, rock band Foghat, which he co-founded following his tenure in Savoy Brown. Early years Peverett was an avid fan of the blues and of blues-based rock and roll, and mastered these forms while performing. In the formative pre-Beatles early 1960s, he was the vocalist and lead guitarist of The Nocturnes, which included his brother John Peverett (later to be Rod Stewart's road manager before becoming a Baptist pastor in the United States) on drums, Keith Sutton on rhythm guitar, and Brixton neighbour Al "Boots" Collins (later to be editor of tourist magazines in the West Indies and Middle East) on tenor sax. The Nocturnes achieved London popularity as a pub and club band and provided backing for other performers at a recording studio in Soho. After a brief tour with Swiss blues band L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock And Roll Outlaws
''Rock and Roll Outlaws'' is the fourth album by Foghat, released in October 1974. The album cover shows a picture of the band near a Learjet in the Mojave Desert. Though the airplane displayed the band's logo, it did not belong to them; the band borrowed it and stuck on the logo. Track listing #"Eight Days on the Road" (Michael Gayle, Jerry Ragovoy) - 6:08 #"Hate to See You Go" (Dave Peverett, Rod Price) - 4:39 #"Dreamer" (Peverett, Price) - 6:39 #"Trouble in My Way" (Peverett) - 3:32 #"Rock and Roll Outlaw" (Felix Cavaliere Felix Cavaliere (born November 29, 1942) is an American musician. He is best known for being the co-lead vocalist and keyboard player for The Young Rascals. Although he was a member of Joey Dee and the Starliters, known for their hit " Pepperm ..., Carman Moore) - 3:53 #"Shirley Jean" (Peverett, Price) - 3:46 #"Blue Spruce Woman" (David Anderson) - 4:08 #"Chateau Lafitte '59 Boogie" (Peverett, Price) - 6:17 Foghat * Rod Price : Lead guitar, Vocals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energized
''Energized'' is the third album by rock band Foghat, released in January 1974. It peaked at #34 on the ''Billboard 200'' and was certified as an RIAA Gold Record in the United States. Track listing # "Honey Hush" – 4:19 (Big Joe Turner as "Lou W. Turner") #*Interpolates music from "Train Kept A-Rollin'" by Tiny Bradshaw, Howard Kay, and Lois Mann. # "Step Outside" – 6:18 (Dave Peverett, Rod Price, Roger Earl, Tony Stevens) # "Golden Arrow" – 4:03 (Peverett, Price) # "Home in My Hand" – 5:09 (Peverett, Price) # "Wild Cherry" – 5:27 (Peverett, Price, Earl, Stevens, Tom Dawes) # "That'll Be the Day" – 2:33 (Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) # "Fly by Night" – 4:47 (Stevens) # "Nothin' I Won't Do" – 6:54 (Peverett, Price) An edited version of "Step Outside" was released as a single, with a B-side of "Maybelline" from the band's first album, ''Foghat''. Personnel Foghat * Dave Peverett – guitar, vocals * Rod Price – guitar, slide guitar, dobro, vocals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foghat (1973 Album)
''Foghat'' is the second album, and the second self-titled album, by the English rock band Foghat, released in March 1973. It is generally known by fans as ''Rock 'n' Roll'', because of its cover picture depicting a rock and bread roll, a concept thought up by art director and filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.Pete Prown, HP Newquist, Jon F. Eiche ''The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists'', 1997, Foghat n Bearsville Foghat (1972), Rock and Roll (1973), Track listing #"Ride, Ride, Ride" (Dave Peverett, Rod Price) – 4:24 #" I Feel So Bad" (Chuck Willis) – 5:09 #"Long Way to Go" (Peverett, Price, Tony Stevens, Roger Earl) – 5:07 #"It's Too Late" (Peverett, Price) – 5:45 #"What a Shame" (Price) – 3:52 #"Helpin' Hand" (Peverett, Price, Stevens, Earl) – 4:41 #"Road Fever" (Peverett, Price) – 4:23 #"She's Gone" (Peverett, Price) – 3:12 #"Couldn't Make Her Stay" (Peverett) – 1:57 Personnel *Dave Peverett – vocals, rhythm guitar *Rod Price – lead and sli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FM Broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to transmit high fidelity, high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. FM broadcasting offers higher fidelity—more accurate reproduction of the original program sound—than other broadcasting techniques, such as AM broadcasting. It is also less susceptible to Electromagnetic interference, common forms of interference, having less static and popping sounds than are often heard on AM. Therefore, FM is used for most broadcasts of music and general audio (in the audio spectrum). FM radio stations use the very high frequency range of radio frequency, radio frequencies. Broadcast bands Throughout the world, the FM broadcast band falls within the VHF part of the radio spectrum. Usually 87.5 to 108.0 MHz is used, or some portion of it, with few exceptions: * In the Commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Just Want To Make Love To You
"I Just Want to Make Love to You" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon. In 1954, it was recorded by Muddy Waters, and released as a single with the title "Just Make Love to Me". The song reached number four on '' Billboard'' magazine's R&B Best Sellers chart. Backing Waters on vocals are Little Walter on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Otis Spann on piano, Willie Dixon on bass, and Fred Below on drums. Waters recorded the song again for the album '' Electric Mud'' (1968). Versions by other artists In 1960, Etta James recorded the song for her debut album '' At Last!'' Her rendition also served as the B-side to her hit of that name. In 1996, it was released as a single in the UK and other European markets after being featured in a Diet Coke advertising campaign. The single reached No. 7 in Ireland, No. 27 in the Netherlands, and, in Belgium, Nos. 31 (Flanders) and 15 (Wallonia). The Rolling Stones covered the song on their 1964 debut album ''The Rolling Stones''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Dixon
William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time. Next to Muddy Waters, Dixon is recognized as the most influential person in shaping the post–World War II sound of the Chicago blues. Dixon's songs have been recorded by countless musicians in many genres as well as by various ensembles in which he participated. A short list of his most famous compositions includes "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "Little Red Rooster", "My Babe", "Spoonful", and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover". These songs were written during the peak years of Chess Records, from 1950 to 1965, and were performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Bo Diddley; they influenced a generation of musicians wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Edmunds
David William Edmunds (born 15 April 1944) is a Welsh retired singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Although he is mainly associated with Pub rock (United Kingdom), pub rock and New wave music, new wave, having many hit record, hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s-style rock and roll and rockabilly. Career Early bands Edmunds was born in Cardiff, Wales. As a ten-year-old, he first played in 1954 with a band called the Edmunds Bros Duo with his older brother Geoff (born 5 December 1939, Cardiff); this was a piano duo. Then the brothers were in the Stompers, later called the Heartbeats, formed around 1957 with Geoff Edmunds and Allan Goldsworty on rhythm guitars, Dave on lead guitar, Denny Driscoll on lead vocals, Johnny Stark on drums, and Tom Edwards on bass. Then Dave and Geoff were in the 99ers along with scientist and writer Brian J. Ford. After that Dave Edmunds was in Crick Feathers' Hill-Bills formed in about 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foghat (1972 Album)
''Foghat'' is the debut studio album by American-based English rock band Foghat. The first of their two self-titled albums, it was released in 1972 on Bearsville Records. Track listing #"I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) – 4:21 #"Trouble, Trouble" (Dave Peverett) – 3:20 #"Leavin' Again (Again!)" (Peverett, Tony Stevens) – 3:36 #"Fool's Hall of Fame" (Peverett) – 2:58 #"Sarah Lee" (Peverett, Rod Price) – 4:36 #"Highway (Killing Me)" (Peverett, Price) – 3:51 #"Maybelline" (Chuck Berry) – 3:33 #"A Hole to Hide In" (Peverett, Price, Roger Earl) – 4:06 #"Gotta Get to Know You" (Deadric Malone, Andre Williams) – 7:44 Personnel Foghat *Dave Peverett – vocals, rhythm guitar *Rod Price – lead and slide guitar, dobro *Tony Stevens – bass guitar, harmony vocals *Roger Earl – drums, percussion Additional musicians * Colin Earl – piano *Dave Edmunds – additional guitars *Kipps – unknown *Todd Rundgren – piano on "Trouble Trouble" *John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Recording Sales Certification
Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units. The threshold quantity varies by type (such as album, single, music video) and by nation or territory (see List of music recording certifications). Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after precious materials (gold Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal ..., platinum and diamond). The threshold required for these awards depends upon the population of the territory where the recording is released. Typically, they are awarded only to international releases and are awarded individually for each country where the album is sold. Different sales levels, some perhaps 10 times greater t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slow Ride
"Slow Ride" is a song by the English rock band Foghat. It was the lead single from their fifth studio album, '' Fool for the City'' (1975), released on Bearsville Records. In 2009, it was named the 45th "Best Hard Rock" song of all time by VH1. There are five versions of the song. The original LP version from ''Fool for the City'' lasts 8 minutes and 14 seconds. The single version, found in several compilations, was truncated to 3:56 with a fade-out ending. The 1977 live version is 8:21, the ''King Biscuit Flower Hour'' Foghat version is 10:37 and the 2007 live version is 9:44. According to drummer Roger Earl, the song was created during a jam session with then new bassist Nick Jameson. The song is the band's highest charting ''Billboard'' single and remains a staple of classic rock Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
