 The Answer (1970) - Pete(r) (Skiving) Bardens
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Pete(r) (Skiving) Bardens
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The Answer
Date Performance: 1969-10-00, Running Time: 5:25
Comments: Original session recording (with Peter Green) in October 1969, though further work was carried out in June 1970. |
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Don't Goof With A Spook
Date Performance: 1969-10-00, Running Time: 7:22
Comments: Original session recording (with Peter Green) in October 1969, though further work was carried out in June 1970. |
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I Can't Remember
Date Performance: 1969-10-00, Running Time: 10:42
Comments: Original session recording (with Peter Green) in October 1969, though further work was carried out in June 1970. |
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I Don't Want To Go Home
Date Performance: 1969-10-00, Running Time: 5:14
Comments: Original session recording (with Peter Green) in October 1969, though further work was carried out in June 1970. |
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Let's Get It On
Date Performance: 1969-10-00, Running Time: 6:37
Comments: Original session recording (with Peter Green) in October 1969, though further work was carried out in June 1970. |
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Homage To The God Of Light
Date Performance: 1969-10-00, Running Time: 13:36
Comments: Original session recording (with Peter Green) in October 1969, though further work was carried out in June 1970. |
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Rocky Dijon (Kwazi Dzidzornu), Steve Ellis, Peter Green, Andy Grober, Reg(gie) Isadore/Isidore, Linda Lewis, Alan Marshall, John Scott, Bruce Thomas, David Wooley
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1970-09
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Import Vinyl/CD Album
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Jerry/Gerry Boyce/Boys (Engineer), Pete(r) (Skiving) Bardens (Producer), Pete(r) (Skiving) Bardens (Songwriter), Pete(r) (Skiving) Bardens (Liner Notes), Leonard Brown (Liner Notes), David Wooley (Prop Design) |
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Verve Records/Transatlantic Records/Breathles |
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FTS3088 (Verve (US) Release) TRA 222 (Transatlantic (UK) Release) BR52010CD (2005 Breathless CD Reissue)
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48:56
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Stripped down jammer
Review written by John Fitzgerald, September 23rd, 2004 This early pre Camel Peter Bardens album may be quite shocking to those used to his latter day softer new age albums but fans of more wah wah guitar dominated Peter Green licks will eat up this album. This is not as free form as say, "The end of the game" but a couple of it's longest tracks basically jam off of a one riff they came up with and a few words thrown in as excuses for songs so they could let loose. The opening title track is a highlight. A galloping rock song including ahead of it's time keys has shouting lyrics sections that aren't easily likable at first but you learn to deal with them with more listens as you eagerly wait for the dramatic minor key Green solo crying. The most stirring licks on the album are found here. On the other hand, "Don't goof with a spook" is not a highlight. It tries to be a slow blues beat builder but it comes off as rather dead pan. "Let's get it on" is another skipable track, with it's "Sesame street" theme type piano riff in boogie mode and including Duster Bennett sounding vocals (though obviously not him, of course). "I can't remember" is a ten minute fairly tasty funk with strong Green wah wah guitars in the left channel, they howl louder here than on any other track. However, some other high points are "I don't want to go home" (which is a nice popish track, with it's happy feel, it helps to lighten the mainly mean mood this album employs, with a good hook and flute toots, this one will get you smiling) and the closing "Homage to the god of light" (which is like "I can't remember" in it's building off of the one riff idea but it's more enjoyable here with it's nasty organ flashes and no let up from PG throughout it's 13 minutes. Even when he's not soloing, he provides some useful funky rhythm guitar. I probably shouldn't say that Green is on all of the tracks here as fact but I'd be surprised to learn of it not being true because the CD edition of this album does not list Green at all and I never had the vinyl version but I used to have "Vintage '69" which was all of the material here (minus "Let's get it on" and including one of Bardens' finest tracks, "Write my name in the dust" from his selftitled solo album from around the same time period as "The answer") and the "Vintage '69" notes did list Green as playing on all tracks on there (expect "Write my name in the dust" of course) so I think it's reasonable for us to assume he is also playing on "Let's get it on" as well though even if he isn't, it's no loss since that's one of this album's worst tracks anyways. Fans of Camel's stretched out tracks with instrumental passages will probably enjoy this album given that the wah wah groovy-ness of these tracks are oceans away from Camel guitarist Andy Latimer's wonderfully sweet guitar tones on most of their efforts.
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Andy Grober is credited as "Andy Gee" on the album's liner notes.
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2011-05-03 |
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Discography entry submitted by Anders Linnartsson & John Fitzgerald. |
