Ancient Grease: Women and ren FirstEAC | ROCK | FLAC+CUE, LOG + Cover | 334 MBLabel: Free Records | Release: 2003 | ue No: 20147 | HFRSAncient Grease is a clever moniker for a band, although Strawberry Dust were rather baffled to find themselves so named on their 1970 debut album, Women and ren First. Dusts reputation as a rousing live act was already cemented by several years of plying cover songs around the South Wales club circuit, which is where drummer John Weathers came across them. Impressed, he oversaw their demo, which landed Dust a deal at Mercury, then co-wrote, arranged, and co-produced their full-length. And thus begins the Racing Cars story, for Dust/Grease featured both the bands future frontman, Gareth Morty Mortimer, and guitarist, Graham Williams. However, this album is very much a of its time, only hinting at whats to come. Its a heady mixture of pub rock, hard-rocking RB, blues, psychedelia, and San Francisco prog rock, with nods to the British hard! rock scene along the way, Dust/Grease hit just about every musical touchstone of their day. Incidentally, Weathers Eyes of Blue bandmate, Phil Ryan, provides the fabulous keyboard work on the gorgeous Where the Snow Lies Forever, the genre-bending Odd Song, and presumably the rest of the album, although no keyboardist is actually credited.upload[/b] the file if I can![/i][/center]
Part: 2 : Status quo - piledriver (1972) [2005 remaster]
Status Quo - Piledriver (1972) [2005 Remaster]
FLAC | EAC | LOG | CUE | Scans/Lyrics | 44:28 | 301 MB | RS
Hard Rock
Though Status Quo is best known for fast and undistinguished hard rock, they were quite capable of subtlety when it suited them. Despite the name, most of the music on Quos fifth album, Piledriver, is varied and subtle enough to be interesting. The power rock and roll is indeed there, as represented by crowd-pleasers like Dont Waste My Time and Paper Plane, but so also are quieter, softer pieces with acoustic textures and progressive structures. The melancholy A Year is a standout track, a stark, melancholy song about carrying on after a loved one has died. The soft rock intro gradually shifts to a more powerful guitar piece in a way that is reminiscent of early Fleetwood Mac and has that bands delicate sense of dynamics. Elsewhere on Piledriver the band turns in a very credible slow blues piece and a folk-inflected duet for 12-string guitars. Still, most of the Status Quo fans wanted power rock, and the band obliged with one of their best pieces, the tempo-shifting Big Fat ! Mama, which actually managed some U.S. airplay, though no actual chart position. The album rounds off with a heavy version of The Doors Roadhouse Blues. On the whole Piledriver is an enjoyable listen, one that has aged better than much other hard rock from this period. Richard Foss, All Music Guide
Includes bonus track Dont Waste My Time (Live at the 1973 Reading Festival).
