Wild Butter - Wild Butter - 1970 (Hard Progressive Folk Rock {US})

A Wild Butter começou em 1970, em Ohio, pelo baterista/vocalista Rick Garen e pelo tecladista Jerry Buckner. Garen já havia tocado na Collection e gravou uma demo chamada “Little man”. Jerry, ex-membro do Rogues, ficou impressionado e recebeu Eric Stevens, diretor do programa WIXY e gerente da Damnation of Adam Blessing, que também estava interessado. Stevens levou para Nova York e depois de uma semana ou duas Buckner recebeu um telefonema dizendo que a banda tinha um contrato de gravação de LP com a United Artists, mas não havia banda ainda, embora UA não soubesse disso. Rick e Jerry conversaram com seus companheiros Akron e encontraram Jon Senne (guitarra) e Steve Price (baixo) dispostos a embarcar, Wild Butter tocou um mês antes de gravar o LP na Cleveland Recording. "Little man" não foi feita, mas todo um LP foi, incluindo excelentes contribuições de todos os compositores.

Considerando o pouco tempo que a banda teve para trabalhar as músicas, o alto nível de escrita, musicalidade e vocais são incríveis, e o LP é certamente um tesouro perdido do rock melódico contemporâneo e despretensioso de 1970. As gravações incluíram algumas partes de guitarra de Mark Price (irmão do segundo grau de Steve e futuro membro da Tin Huey), Jim Quinn e Bob Kalamasz (ambos da Damnation).

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Wild Butter was started in 1970, in Ohio, by drummer/lead singer Rick Garen and keyboard player Jerry Buckner. Garen had previously been played in the Collection and recorded a demo called “Little man”. Former Rogues member Jerry was impressed and got Eric Stevens, WIXY program director and manager of Damnation of Adam Blessing, who was interested as well. Stevens took it to New York and after a week or two Buckner got a call saying the band had a LP recording deal with United Artists, only there was no band, yet, although UA didn’t know that. Rick and Jerry talked to their Akron peers and found Jon Senne’ (guitar) and Steve Price (bass) willing to get on board, Wild Butter played a month or so before recording the LP at Cleveland Recording. “Little man” was not done, but a whole LP was, including excellent song-writing contributions from everyone.

Considering the short time the band had to work up the songs, the high level of writing, musicianship, and vocals are amazing, and the LP is certainly a lost treasure of 1970 contemporary unpretentious melodic rock. The recordings included some guitar parts from Mark Price (Steve’s high school aged brother and future Tin Huey member), Jim Quinn and Bob Kalamasz (both from Damnation).

Membros

Jerry Buckner - teclados,

autoharp, vocal de apoio

Rick Garen - vocal principal, bateria

Steve Price - baixo, vocal de apoio

Jon Senne - guitarra, vocal de apoio

Convidado

Mark Price - guitarra solo

01. Roxanna

(Thank you for

getting me high)

02. Terribly blind

03. From one

who sang the song

04. Come fly with me

05. Oh, Martha!

06. Never comes the day

07. And we loved it

08. I've been

waiting for you

09. Tommy the cat

10. New York mining

disaster 1941

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Wild Butter - Wild Butter - 1970 (full album)