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Forty years ago this month (September 1972), the British rock band Family released their sixth album, Bandstand.
Bandstand was a straightforward rock album with some tough soul-based numbers and some intense ballads. It's more conventional that its predecessor, the superb and innovative Fearless, but the musicianship remained first-rate and enjoyable. Roger Chapman continued to make good use of his growling vibrato, while Charlie Whitney took a more pensive, nuanced approach to his guitar on lighter numbers and offered up some crunchy riffs on others. Poli Palmer's flute and vibraphone remain highlights on the record, as well as the tight rhythms of drummer Rob Townsend and bassist John Wetton.
Bandstand opened with “Burlesque,” a fun, gut-busting tune about a nightclub of that name in Chapman and Whitney's hometown of Leicester, and features some punchy tunes such as "Ready To Go," a jab at the band’s detractors with some inspired drum work from Townsend. "Broken Nose" may be one of the most terrifying songs Family committed to disc, full of sexual and class politics between a hapless working-class bloke and his rich girlfriend. The biting music is complemented by the angry voice of Roger Chapman competing with his backing vocalist, British soul singer Linda Lewis, for attention. "The day that I stopped loving you was the day you broke my nose," the lyrics go. (Chapman sings them. She broke his nose!)
Bandstand offers some nice ballads as well, with the hopeful, optimistic acoustic ballad "My Friend The Sun" that promises better , sunnier days ahead, much like the Beatles’ "Let It Be" does, while the short "Dark Eyes" is a gentle harmonic song reminiscent of Crosby, Stills and Nash." Only "Bolero Babe" and "Top of the Hill," the closing cut, fall short of the rest of the LP by meandering a bit, but not by that much. The worst things you can say about Bandstand is that John Wetton, having been a vital presence vocally on Fearless, doesn't sing lead anywhere here, and that there's no instrumental track on the record - Bandstand is the only Family LP not to have one - to pique your interest.
The cover artwork didn't disappoint, showing the band in the studio listening to a playback in an image on an antique television screen. The outer sleeve, cut in the shape of a TV cabinet, is a gatefold that opens up to reveal the inner workings of a TV set underneath. John Kosh, who designed the innovative layered-paging cover of Fearless, also designed the Bandstand cover, with pictures of the band from photographer Peter Howe.
For more on Bandstand, go to my Family page - A Family Affair - and the fan Web site Family Bandstand.
Family in 1972 was:
Roger Chapman (vocals)
Charlie Whitney (guitar)
John Wetton (guitar, bass, vocals)
Poli Palmer (keyboards, vibraphone, flute, vocals)
Rob Townsend (drums)
Happy New Year to everyone!
Most of you should recognize this album cover. To fellow strobists, especially Loko Tripper & Michael Herb , thanks for your inspiration in 2011. Keep Rock'n those cameras and flashing them strobes in 2012.
Strobist: YN560 camera left at ceiling with foam reflector on flash. Sigma 500 Super camera right with foam snoot. Trigger RF602.
A young John Fogerty. Pencil on Paper. 6.25” x 8.25” I had a 60’s and 70’s playlist on to keep me inspired.
Forty years ago this month (September 1973) Family released their seventh and final album, It's Only a Movie.
It's Only a Movie is generally underrated by Family fans, and some of them even consider it to be a disappointment. But it's still a charming and enjoyable album in many ways. Recorded with the understanding that it was to be their swan song, It's Only a Movie, like Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection album of three years earlier, was an affectionate tribute to Americana music, mainly country and western and a bit of New Orelans soul.
Family showed off their humor with the title track, a song about a confused director trying to make a Hollywood western, with some smoky piano by new keyboardist Tony Ashton and biting guitar from Charlie Whitney, and they threw in some relaxed singalongs such as "Sweet Desiree" (their final single) and "Suspicion" Frontman Roger Chapman shows a wide range on this record, from his deadpan vocal on "Boots 'n' Roots" to his strident fireworks on "Check Out," the appropriately titled LP closer about an escaped convict. Guitarist/bassist Jim Cregan kept the pacing steady throughout, but Rob Townsend, as always, kept everything together with his spectacular drumming.
About a month after It's Only a Movie was issued, Family closed their farewell tour with a final show in their hometown of Leicester, England, their last concert before reuniting (with the lineup of Chapman,. Townsend, Cregan and earlier member Poli Palmer) for one-off shows in 2013.
In keeping with their fondness for all things American, the group featured on the front cover of It's Only a Movie a still from a 1919 silent Western motion picture released by Fox Films (before it merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935). John Kosh, who desinged teh innovative sleeve for Family's previous album, Bandstand, once again conceived the front cover here.
For more on It's Only a Movie, go to my Family page - A Family Affair - and the fan Web site Family Bandstand.
Family in 1973 was:
Roger Chapman (vocals)
Charlie Whitney (guitar)
Jim Cregan (guitar, bass, vocals)
Tony Ashton (keyboards)
Rob Townsend (drums)
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Mai & Greg Leisz were married in April 2018. In this image they are performing on tour with David Crosby.
2018 Lowell Summer Music Series - June 14, 2018 - Boarding House Park, Lowell MA
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Taken at SWG3 in Glasgow on Thursday 13th December 2018 while they were supporting Uriah Heep on UK tour.
Going through an old duffle bag filled with slides I had shot years ago and came up with these LOST TREASURES from the Kings of Prog Rock. This is from the Tales From Topographic Oceans Tour.
Rick Wakeman would leave the band less than three months later.
I think they still hold up pretty well. I believe I was shooting Ektachrome 400 -- hence the grain.
Here's the cover of the original vinyl edition of Bandstand, opened up to show how the gatefold, in the shape of a cabinet for an antique TV set, opens up to show the inner workings of such a device. The sleeve didn't really have anything to do with the contents of the record, but it was still fun to open it up at look at it.
I own a vinyl copy of this album, as well as a vinyl copy of Fearless, but the conventional plastic jewel-box format of the CD made it impossible to replicate completely. I believe that CD sleeves of thick laminated paper made for a special edition of Bandstand successfully reproduced the original die-cut vinyl sleeve, as was done with a special CD edition of Fearless, but, of course it would be a very rare limited-edition issue.
For more on Bandstand, go to my Family page - A Family Affair - and the fan Web site Family Bandstand.
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Mattias Jabs and Klaus Meine live with the Scorpions at the Legendary Buffalo Chip in Sturgis, South Dakota on August 13, 2010
Photo by Matthew Becker - www.melodicrockconcerts.com
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