Round One - The Roxy London W.C.2 (Jan-Apr 77) - Royals

ROUND ONE



Dance to the Music / Wonderland (1986/1987)






Tapani Ripatti soitti tämän Sly and the Family Stone -coverin joskus 1986 tai 1987 Ocsidissa, ja vuosia myöhemmin kaipasin biisiä takaisin. Siitä tuli yksi ensimmäisistä MusicStack-tilauksistani 21. maaliskuuta 2006.



Eri Esittäjiä: THE ROXY LONDON W.C.2 (JAN-APR 77)




Various Artists: The Roxy London W.C.2 (Jan-Apr 77)





Löysin tämän Leppävaaran kirjastosta silloin kun se oli vielä alkuperäisellä syrjäisellä paikallaan opistojen vieressä. Nauhoitin aika suuren osan levystä kasetille. Minusta oli kiehtovaa, että se oli toteutettu aivan kuin dokumentaarisena kuvauksena yhdestä illasta ko. punk-klubin elinkaaressa. Asiakkaiden höpinää, sekalaista puheensorinaa, ja bändien soittoa livenä. Lopussa ilta on finito ja ihmiset alkavat valua ulos paikasta.

En minä pidä kaikista bändeistä tällä kokoelmalla. The Unwanted on surkea bändi ja X-Ray Spex kuuntelukelvoton. Onneksi molemmilta kuullaan vain yksi kappale, joten hyvät puolet painavat vaakakupissa enemmän.

Omaksi levy löytyi Kampin Levykauppa Äxästä useita vuosia sitten.



ROYALS




Spring 76 (1976)

Out (1977)

Live (1978)

FinnArctic-esittely:

Royals was originated in 1975 after guitarist Albert Järvinen was sacked from Hurriganes. The intention was to form a Cream-type blues/rock power trio, a supergroup. Ace drummer Ippe Kätkä and young bassist Paavo "Pave" Maijanen were the other two.

Maijanen started his career in small bands like Top Cats (1964), Ours (1965-1968) and Kopet (1968-1969), and moved on to Kristian's backing group Mielikummitus and pop band Pepe & Paradise. When Royals was formed, he had just produced Wigwam's "Nuclear Nightclub", played in Dave Lindholm's Rock'n'Roll Band and released the single "Fever / Seventh Son" with Jan Ödner and Affe Forsman.





Royals' first album "Spring '76" suffered from lack of material and heavy reliance on covers. As a songwriter, Maijanen was still budding, and indeed the reason why the debut single "High" is also included as a backwards version, is that someone in the studio had accidentally put the tape in the machine the wrong way. The band thought the result sounded so fascinating that they decided to add it to the album, relieved that they were saved from the trouble of coming up with a new song to fill up the space.

"Night Funk", despite being a studio jam, is one of my favourites, and they did a nice, distorted slow version of the blues standard "Hoochie Coochie Man". The rest is OK, not much more.






The second album "Out" shows a tighter and more self-confident band. The single "Kings of Power" is a good opener, the post-psychedelia in "Tomorrow Never Knows" is pulled off well, and from me personally, an applause for choosing a Joe Walsh song ("Happy Ways").

"About Not Worth Writin' Home About" was Maijanen's first self-written song that was good enough to be recorded, and "Monoply" is OK too. "Rolling Bones" was a late-1977 single, and it's one of the best originals Royals had.






Royals was ultimately a disappointment for many who had expected them to be something really super. It was evident that they couldn't quite pull it off as a trio, so the lineup was augmented with keyboardist Mikko Rintanen. Despite this, the albums weren't good enough to satisfy everyone and the band had to split eventually. The double album "Royals Live" was taped from the farewell gig in the legendary Tavastia Club in Helsinki. Dave Lindholm and Kojo joined in on the closer "Last Jump" and saw that Royals got a fitting farewell.



Artikkeliskannaukset:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=10efywcMKsNx51cFxpojiu4AIURFL9IpE





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