Album info
Label: MAMMOTH
Format: CD
Catalog: 2700-2-RDJ
Released: 1990
Country: USA
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock, Desert Rock, Alternative rock
Notes
2 - 7 Produced By: The Sidewinders
Recorded & Mixed At: New Breed Studios, NY.
Engineer: David Kumin
1 - Produced By: Richard Hopkins & David Slutes
Executive Producers: Jay Faires & Ed Morgan
Engineered & Mixed By: Eric Westfall
Line up
Rich Hopkins Guitar
David Slutes Vocals / Guitar
Bruce Halper Drums
Mark Perrodin Bass
Tracklist
01. Doesn't Anyone Believe [4:33]
Hopkins/Slutes (Also on "Auntie Ramos")
02. I'm Not With You (Acoustic) [4:37]
Hopkins/Slutes (Electric on "Auntie Ramos")
03. Signed D.C. (Acoustic) [3:40]
Arthur Lee (Electric on "Release The Hounds")
04. If I Can't Have You (Acoustic) [2:51]
Hopkins/Slutes (Electric on "Auntie Ramos")
05. Singing Cowboy (Acoustic) [2:28]
Arthur Lee
06. We Don't Do That Anymore (Acoustic) [3:56]
Hopkins/Slutes (Electric on "Auntie Ramos")
07. 7 + 7 Is (Acoustic) [2:13]
Arthur Lee (Electric on "Auntie Ramos")
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Love and Rockets dismissed Earth, Sun, Moon's folk sound in favour of a stronger rock & roll sound. Hints of the band's former psychedelic and gothic rock sound remained. Chief songwriters Daniel Ash and David J had begun concentrating strictly on their own material (rather than writing together) on Earth, Sun, Moon. By the time of Love and Rockets, their creative partnership had clearly all but dried up, as the album lurches back and forth between Ash's tech-savvy modern pop and J's bluesier, grittier experiments.
The album featured Love and Rockets' biggest hit, the Ash-penned "So Alive". The song was a surprising #3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and stayed at #1 for five weeks on the US Mainstream Rock chart. Because of the popularity of the single in the US, Love and Rockets became the band's best-selling album in America.
After the release of the album, the band embarked on a long worldwide tour. Afterwards, instead of recording a new album and a follow-up single to "So Alive", J and Ash both focused on their solo careers, continuing in the directions represented on this album. They each released two solo albums in the break (with drummer Kevin Haskins working primarily with Ash) before returning as a band to record Hot Trip to Heaven in 1994.
In 2002, the album was remastered and expanded into a double album. The bonus tracks featured a single remix, three b-sides, all five songs from the aborted Swing! EP, and a radio session. The Swing! project was to be an outlet for some of the band's stranger output, but the material was never released, except for "Bad Monkey", which ended up on the Glittering Darkness EP in 1996.
"The Purest Blue" is a radical reworking of "Waiting for the Flood" from Earth, Sun, Moon, and "**** (Jungle Law)" was later reworked as "Bad Monkey", recorded as part of the Swing! project.
Music: Love And Rockets;
Words: David J (1, 3, 6, 9), Daniel Ash (2, 4, 5, 7, 8) and Daniel Ash/Gary Ash (10).
Love and Rockets: David J, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins.
Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London except track 3 engineered by Whispering Angus at Far Heath Studios, Northamptonshire.
Tracklist
1
**** (Jungle Law) (4:34)
2
No Big Deal (4:56)
3
The Purest Blue (3:43)
4
Motorcycle (3:31)
5
I Feel Speed (3:23)
6
Bound For Hell (6:02)
7
The Teardrop Collector (4:09)
8
So Alive (4:17)
9
Rock And Roll Babylon (3:24)
10
No Words No More (3:49)
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Album info (Discogs)
Label: RCA, Mammoth Records
Catalog#: 9663-1-R, none
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1989
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
Tracklist
A1. Witchdoctor 3:30
A2. Cigarette 3:59
A3. Bad, Crazy Sun 5:09
A4. Love '88 4:58
Written-By - Andrea Curtis , Rich Hopkins
A5. Solitary Man 3:51
Written-By - Neil Diamond
B1. What Am I Supposed To Do 3:44
B2. Tears Like Flesh 3:31
B3. Before Our Time 4:22
B4. What She Said 9:23
Credits
Artwork By - Roger Alan
Bass - Mark Perrodin
Drums - Bruce Halper , Diane Padilla
Engineer - Steve English
Executive Producer - Ed Morgan , Jay Faires
Guitar - Rich Hopkins
Mixed By, Engineer - Eric Westfall
Photography [Group Photo] - Patrick Ryan
Producer - Dave Slutes , Rich Hopkins
Violin - Mindi Marts
Vocals, Drums - Andrea Curtis
Vocals, Guitar - Dave Slutes
Written-By - Dave Slutes , Rich Hopkins
Notes
Recorded at The Sound Factory and Westwood Studios, Tucson, AZ. Mixed at Traxsound Recording and Control Center, Los Angeles, CA.
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No matter how much thorough I searched, I've found only few refferences on this single. It's the first of "The Dubrovniks" and one of the rarest singles (in vinyl) of this music scene. Probably many of you know it very well and numerous of you have it in your vinyl collection. I consider this single as one of the diamonds of the alternative, independent, australian punk-rock music scene.
PLS PLAY IT LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND HAVE A HOT-HOT-HOT SUMMER...
The band were first established in August, 1986 when Radalj teamed up again with James Baker (by then ex-Beasts of Bourbon), together with Boris Sujdovic (ex-Rockets, The Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon) and Peter Simpson (Spectre's Revenge) as the Adorable Ones. Within a year the Adorable Ones had renamed themselves the Dubrovniks in honour of the fact that Radalj and Sujdovic were both born in the historical Croatian city of Dubrovnik. The band having to change names as there already was a Brisbane band with that name.
Citadel issued the singles "Fireball of Love" b/w "If I Had a Gun" in April, 1988 and a cover of Alvin Stardust's "My Coo Ca Choo" b/w "Girls Go Manic" in November, 1988. By the time the band recorded and issued the single "Speedway Girls" b/w "Freezin' Rain" in June, 1989 and their debut album, Dubrovnik Blues in August, 1989, Radalj had moved on to form a new band, the Punjabbers, comprising Radalj, Brett Ford (drums; ex-Kryptonics, Lubricated Goat), Tony Robertson (bass; ex-The Hitmen, New Christs, Naked Lunch) and Tony Thewlis (guitar; ex-Scientists) The Punjabbers only had one release, a single "Rock'n'Roll Loveletter" on Timberyard Records in December, 1988. Radalj then formed The Surfin' Caesars and recorded several albums.
Chris Flynn (guitar, vocals; ex-Headstones) eventually replaced Radalj, and the band signed to Mushroom Records. The band's releases on Mushroom, both produced by Kevin "Caveman" Shirley, maintained the revved-up, trashy rock'n'roll tradition. Audio Sonic Love Affair released September, 1990 included the singles "She Got No Love" b/w "Got this Far" (June, 1990) and "Love is on the Loose" b/w "Something's not Right in the World" (October, 1990). Glenn Armstrong (guitar; ex-Horny Toads-Girlies) replaced Simpson in 1990, and the band issued Chrome in June, 1992. The album produced two singles, "Saigon Rose" (February, 1992) and "French Revolution" (June, 1992). In between albums, Baker and Sujdovic toured and recorded with Beasts of Bourbon. In early 1991, the two severed their commitments to the Beasts in order to concentrate on The Dubrovniks. Mushroom dropped the band in 1993. German label, Normal, issued Medicine Wheel in Europe, and Mushroom Distribution Services (MDS) distributed it in Australia.
The Dubrovniks broke up in 1995 with Baker returning to Perth, where he joined power pop band, Satellite 5, with John Rushin (vocals), Phil Bradley (guitar; ex-Jackals), Doug Thomas (guitar; ex-Dagoes, Spikes) and Howard Shawcross (bass; ex-Elks, Howard I Know, Jackals). Sujdovic went on to form a new band, Black Dirt, together with Flynn, Chris Collins and Paul Loughhead.
Denis Bortek (vocals, guitar, 1982-present), Christophe K-Bye (guitar, chorus, 1982-present), Tristan Abgrall (guitar, bass, keyboard), Louko (drum), Alice Botté (guitar), Charly Doll (drum), Nicolas Mingot (guitar), Le Baron (guitar, keyboard), Gangster (bass), Serge Cortin (bass), Arnaud Dieterlen (drum), Jonathan Handelsman (flute, saxophone), Florent Kirschmaier (guitar), Christian Montémagni (guitar), Walter Weir (guitar), Thomas Bloch (keyboard), Frédéric Gaillardé (keyboard), Véga (drum), Christophe Schwob, Paul Wallfish (piano), Michal (bass)
Bortek invented Jad Wio at the dawn of the eighties. From a projected novel he retained the main character – Jad Wiolensky – whose name he abbreviated and whose mask he assumed. A first, very confidential and self produced cassette, "L'un Seul", was distributed before the group found the right balance with Kbye entering the lists: Jad Wio would be a two-headed hydra. As of the first concerts – 1983, 1984: guitars, vocals, tapes and machines – the duo established its exceptional style and stirred up batcave hordes and electric birds of all feathers. Obsessions for the bizarre and the marginal from the outset: Jad Wio couldn't be categorised. Between 1985 and 1986 three EPs were released – "The ballad of Candy Valentine", "Colours in my dreams" and "Aubade à Simbad" – which were brought together on "Cellar Dreams", an anthology of Jad Wio phase one. Were mixed, with of a touch of the cold and dark tones of yore, rock and roll fascination and oriental reminiscences. Without letting up, Jad Wio flaunted it on stages in France and singing mainly in English throughout Europe. Experiences which would inform the atmospheres and themes of the next album to come: "Contact". more @ Here
Notes
Recorded at Garage Studios. Track 1 originally by 13th Floor Elevators, Track 10 originally by The Rolling Stones. Cat.# only appears on the cd-matrix.
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The Sidewinders formed in the spring of 1985 by guitarist Rich Hopkins and vocalist David Slutes.[1] The group released its first record, Cuacha!, in 1988, and subsequently signed to RCA/Mammoth Records, where they released two full-length albums, 1989's Witchdoctor and 1990's Auntie Ramos' Pool Hall. Witchdoctor cracked the lower echelons of the Billboard 200 at #169,[2] on the strength of two modern rock radio hits; the band scored exposure on MTV and VH1 and embarked on a worldwide tour,[3] but the band's career was soon sidelined due to legal problems. In 1991, a North Carolina cover band known as Sidewinder sued the group over the use of its name, and it took two years to sort out the proceedings and secure the release of their next album, now under the name Sand Rubies.[4]
As the Sand Rubies, they released an album on Polydor/Atlas in 1993; at one point, Pearl Jam served as their opening act.[5] However, due to attrition over the period of legal troubles, the rhythm section of the band had departed, and the Sand Rubies dissolved during a tour in 1993,[1][3] just as two other Arizona rock bands, Gin Blossoms and The Refreshments, were attracting mainstream attention.
A few one-off shows were given in 1995 and 1996 before an official Sand Rubies reunion was announced in October 1996.[1] A show at SXSW followed in 1997, as did a new album, Return of the Living Dead, in 1998. They were able to independently release a best-of collection of tracks from their major label years entitled The Sidewinders Sessions, and an all-covers album, Release the Hounds, ensued in 1999 along with a tour of Europe.[1] The band broke up again, followed by short reunion stints in 2001-02 and 2006 to support renewed local touring and special rereleases.[1Complete story @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Rubies
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