As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Frankenstein the hard rock song was playing on the radio the other day and TL mentioned not having ever heard it. It is difficult for the shit which is branded as musick now to understand how monumental Frankenstein was unless one visits 1973 AD in the year of our Lord and immerses themselves in the music of the 1950's to the 1960's to arrive from ballads, the crap Beatles 4 lick rock, and what appeared later in the torture of mellow, where rock was horns and piano as the world went Elton John, whatever.
1973 was pivotal as hints began appearing in the guitar work of Three Dog Night in Shambala. A song would appear in 1973 which would change everything. In 1967, the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper which was more circle jerk weirdism, but if you listen to the Sgt. Pepper Refrain, in that only rock song the Beatles ever produced, you hear something of a coming evolution.
IT would be Edgar Winter the musical genius, who having discovered a synthesizer, wrote a 9 plus minute music evolution in Frankenstein. That song would go to #1 and shock the world of music into what would become Heavy Metal and that other Lionel Richie shit that women fucked to.
Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is known for being a multi-instrumentalist, ...
In looking at Edgar Winter, another evolution took place in the performer Rick Derringer, who started out the Keith Partridge of rock in David Cassidy, in performing with the McCoys in songs like Hang on Sloopy which is what rock was until Edgar Winter and others started amping it up.
Rick Derringer is an American guitarist, vocalist, producer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the 1960s as founding member of his band, the McCoys. At that time, they went to New York City to record what became the number one hit song "Hang on Sloopy". The McCoys then had seven songs that charted in the top 100, including versions of "Fever" and "Come on Let’s Go".Wikipedia
Derringer would shed his sloopy and with Edgar Winter enter the world of Rock n Roll Hootchie Coo, which is blues to perfection. Winter approached a jazz entering rock n roll which worked in taking blues beyond the veil.
The Doobie Brothers with Jesus is Just Alright in 1973 and Ozark Mountain Daredevils with Jackie Blue in 1974 would touch on something so evolutionary that no one quite grasps what they did.
Steely Dan almost stole the show in 1972 with Do It again, and by 1974 had rock jazzed with Rikki Don't Lose that Number in the guitar work and keyboards, but it all formed up on Edgar Winter.
In trying to search for the source of this, it comes from an unknown really to most people. While the Rolling Stones and Beatles were into the Black Blues in mum sewing their old bluejeans, England had a real mutant in Arthur Brown who released something that went like a rocket on both sides of the Atlantic in Fire.
I actually have my sister's album in the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and it is strange to this day, but Fire was a primal scream coming out of an organ that The Doors could only caress, early birthed into rock and roll.
"Fire" is a 1968 song written by Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Mike Finesilver and Peter Ker. Performed by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, it was released as a single and on the band's debut album, also called The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. The single became a transatlantic hit, reaching number one in the UK and Canada and number two in the United States, while hitting the top 10 in markets across Europe.Wikipedia
I dislike jazz immensely, but these artists tamed it to rock blues, and made rock shriek as only they could. The most sorry state of this is that they never could repeat the monumental sounds and no one could ever in Heavy Metal copy this, even if Def Lepard and Metallic did come close at times.
Just a niche nuance of rock.
Nuff Said
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