SPOOKY TOOTH LOST BROADCASTS BELGIAN REVIEW

I am particularly fond of some of the releases in the critically acclaimed 'Lost Broadcasts' series of DVDs which showcase material recorded for German TV back in the day. The first one of these that I came across was the one featuring Spooky Tooth, and it was this DVD that was the subject of my first slice of writing for what was to become The Gonzo Daily...

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It must have been somewhere summer 1969 when we were here in Belgium were surprised with a song that sounded so beautiful that we have more information about this band went searching. With "That Was Only Yesterday", and the raw vocals of frontman Mike Harrison, I was a bird for the cat. Spooky Tooth will from that moment the band in my miserable life. Unfortunately, this number never really in our Flemish charts correctly but from the same album, "Spooky Two ', were two impressive songs" Feelin' Bad 'and' Better By You, Better Than Me ", songs that we did on Radio Luxembourg 208 got to know.

A few weeks later I the album, you have the specialized record could find a bargain. My surprise was even greater when I heard this album was full of great songs. Spooky Tooth was a unique bond: two keyboard players, one with American roots Gary Wright and Mike Harrison of English soil, two singers together in terms of voice timbre in a wonderful way to supplement knew. 'Spooky Two' was the only Spooky Tooth album which enormous emotion sat and an album that was not matched. Listen carefully to their version of Larry Weiss' "Evil Woman", a performance you today still by the throat. Just the guitar work of Grosvenor spoke volumes. Unfortunately, this DVD release only one song from this classic, namely "Waiting For The Wind '. The DVD starts with a black / white shot from the German program "Beat Club". We see and hear a beautiful version of the Band's "The Weight" played by the line-up of 'Spooky Two', so Gary Wright (keys, and he sits with his back to the audience), Mike Harrison (vocals), Luther Grosvenor (guitar, later as Ariel Bender in Mott The Hoople, Widowmaker and his own Ariel Bender Band goes), Greg Ridley (bass) and Mike Kellie (drums).

This number is nowhere to be found on their studio albums but was released as a single in 1968. Esoteric Recordings released a few years back a 'Best Of' from them, and then we find the number back. Strangely enough, the b-side of this single 'Bubbles' is their first album "It's All About". The rest of this DVD contains all recordings that other interesting TV program "Music Loading 'in color broadcast. "Old As I Was Born "," Cotton Growing Man "and" Moriah "(the latter two titles we get two versions) can be found on their" You Broke My Heart .. So I Busted Your Jaw "immediately had a different lineup. If we now guitarist Mick Jones on bass and Chrissy Stewart. Bryson Graham was the drummer of the band on this longplayer but during the sessions for Music Laden was replaced by Mike Kellie. 'Waiting For The Wind', from their second album, was broadcast in the same program. Here, but also on the dreamy "Moriah", we see singer Mike Harrison on the piano while he and Gary Wright on vocals worry. A DVD with nothing but goodies.

That these images provide the necessary nostalgia, is a fact. The images are of relative quality but I think the soundtrack was replaced with the original songs. "The Lost Broadcasts" are a series of audiovisual documents that show performances of rarely broadcast live performances. Some of the musicians we have here at work is now true legends become these DVDs are a serious addition to your music collection. Thanks Gonzo Multimedia we get back now that opportunity which we have long been waiting for: our favorite bands yet even live to admire ... "The Lost Broadcasts" are valuable treasures amongst other live performances. Thanks to Gonzo Multimedia we can relive the great moments of Spooky Tooth's brilliant performances in 'Beat Club' and 'Music Loading. This DVD Should be your next purchase to extend your record and DVD collection. Alfons Maes (5)

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SPOOKY TOOTH: The Weight

I actually posted this about a month ago, but considering last week's death of Levon Helm, drummer and singer with The Band it seems appropriate to post it again. This cover version of 'The Weight', one of the best known and best loved songs from The Band's debut album Music from Big Pink comes from the Gonzo DVD Spooky Tooth: The Lost Broadcasts.

Rest in Peace Levon

SPOOKY TOOTH: A Fantastic band

I blush to admit that although I had been vaguely aware of Spooky Tooth and had heard a few tracks here and there, I didn't really know anything much about them. The one thing that I did know was that organist Gary Wright was a good friend of the late George Harrison, and played on a number of his albums. So I was particularly interested to get the latest installment of the 'Lost Broadcast' series on Gonzo, which features the band.

Now I am a huge fan of the 'quiet Beatle' and have always rather meant to check out Gary Wright. Over the years I have found some great music, just from checking out the sidesmen on various albums by ex-Beatles. One of the best was Lon and Derek Van Eaton who are massively good and even more massively obscure and whom I probably shouldn't eulogise about too much because they have no records out on Gonzo.

I can see why Gary Wright was George Harrison's keyboard player of choice, but I was particularly impressed by the ensemble playing of the band themselves. The interplay between two different keyboards (always something that impresses me) with completely disparate textures, gave it an unexpectedly funky edge, and the whole thing sounded like an English analogue of The Band which as this is a clip of them singing 'The Weight' in November 1968 (the song originally appeared on The Band's 'Music From Big Pink' earlier that year) is quite a convenient analogy: