Spooky Tooth - Witness & You Broke My Heart...(2 fer)

Spooky Tooth - Witness

Studio Recordings - @320

Out of Print

 

$49 at the 'Zon

I had some friends that loved this recording. Me not so much, I liked the earlier recordings better. This one never to reach any high points and seemed to stay pretty much the same tempo though out. Some have said if it wasn't for Spooky Tooth there wouldn't haven been a Foreigner. That could be a good thing or a bad thing depending or your point of veiw.

 

Mike Harrison – Vocals, Percussion, Keyboards, Vocals (bckgr)
Mick Jones – Guitar, Vocals (bckgr)
Mike Kellie – Percussion, Drums
Chris Stewart – Bass
Gary Wright – Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
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Bryson Graham – Drums

Track List:

1. Ocean Of Power
2. Wings On My Heart
3. As Long As The World Keeps Turning
4. Don't Ever Stray Away
5. Things Change
6. All Sewn Up
7. Dream On A Mountain
8. Sunlight Of My Mind
9. Pyramids 

 

 

This record was originally posted September 9, 2013

 

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Witness

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Spooky Tooth - You Broke My Heart

...So I Busted Your Jaw

Studio recordings @320

Out Of Print

$56 at the 'Zon

Bass Guitar – Chris Stewart
Drums – Bryson Graham
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Mick Jones (2)
Lead Vocals, Piano, Harmonica – Mike Harrison (2)
Organ, Piano, Vocals – Gary Wright

 

Track List:

Cotton Growing Man
Old As I Was Born
This Time Around
Holy Water
Wildfire
Self Seeking Man
Times Have Changed
Moriah

 

While I agree with the general consensus that 'Spooky two' is their best album, I've always found this and the follow up offering 'Witness', also released in 1973 equally as enjoyable.
After the 'Ceremony' debacle that arguably derailed the bands journey toward the upper echelons of rock stardom, this feisty comeback album, the first to feature future 'Foreigner' guitarist Mick Jones, sounds to my ears like the natural progression for the band to take.
From the crunching blues rock of opener 'Cotton growing man' to the spooky (no pun intended) 'Moriah', all eight tracks exhibit the bands trademark soulful charm.
The addition of Mick Jones injects some guitar urgency to driving rockers 'This time around', 'Wild fire' and 'Self seeking man'. But underpinning the whole thing for me is the Fabulous vocal ability of the late Mike Harrison; surely one of the most underrated rock singers of all.
For me, on a few of the tracks the song writing borders on average, hence the four stars, but Mike Harrison elevates them to a pleasant listening experience as only top vocalists can.
 ~D. Fields

...Jaw

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Luther Grosvenor ‎– Under Open Skies -1971 {Out of Print}

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Originally posted February 11, 2014

Luther Grosvenor ‎– Under Open Skies -1971

Studio Recordings @256

Out of Print

Luther James Grosvenor (born 23 December 1946, Evesham, Worcestershire, England) is an English rock musician, who played guitar in Spooky Tooth, briefly in Stealers Wheel and, under the pseudonym "Ariel Bender", in Mott the Hoople and Widowmaker.
~Wiki

Better known to Mott The Hoople and Widowmaker fans by the non de plume "Ariel Bender", Luther Grosvenor (who had used his "real name" during his earlier stint with Spooky Tooth) released this solo effort in the mid-70's. The album has a loose, "home studio" feel overall (although it should be noted that Edsel does a nice job with the remaster.) Guitar fans will likely find "Under Open Skies" more collectable than casual listeners as the fretwork is excellent. Grosvenor holds his own alongside contemporaries like Chris Spedding and Mick Ronson, who also excelled as sidemen but tended to deliver more workmanlike product as solo artists.
~D. Harley

Luther Grosvenor Bio

Track Listing:
01. Ride On
02. Here Comes the Queen
03. When I Met You
04. Love the Way
05. Waiting
06. Rocket
07. Under Open Skies

*Luther Grosvenor: vocals, lead guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar, tambourine, cymbal wood scraper, shaker;
*Mike Kelly: drums [1, 3, 5-7], harmony vocals [7];
*John Hawken: piano [1, 3, 5], organ [5];
*Jim Capaldi, Mick Ralphs: harmony vocals [1];
*Mike Giles: drums [2];
*Trevor Burton: bass guitar [3, 7];
*Trevor Lucas: harmony vocals [5];
*Paul Bennet: harmony vocals [7]

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Open Skies

Spooky Tooth - Live Agora Ballroom 1974

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Originally posted July 24, 2010

Spooky Tooth - Agora Ballroom
Cleveland, OH. 1974
FM Source @320

*Original Notes*
This is Spooky Tooth at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland OH from 1974. Probably an FM broadcast, but no specific info was provided in the info file I originally got with this. I got this from Pink Robert last year - many thanks to him for sharing his fabulous music collection with us. I checked various sites such as All Music Guide, Spooky Tooth discography sites, and Amazon.com to see if any official releases contained any material from this recording. The only official release of live material I could find was the BBC release, which includes some of their BBC recordings, and also a couple of cuts from an unknown show in 1970. There is another bootleg called "First Tooth", which contains some of the songs from this show, but not all of them. All the references I could find show "First Tooth" to be a bootleg, and not an official release.

Broadcast on WMMS-FM, Cleveland, OH.

Track List:
1 Waiting For The Wind
2 Cotton Growing Man
3 Old As I Was Born
4 The Mirror
5 Fantasy Satisfier
6 I Am The Walrus
7 Evil Woman

Mike Patto--Vocals & Keyboard
Gary Wright--Vocals & Keyboard
Mick Jones--Guitar
Val Burke--Bass
Bryson Graham--Drums

 

The Agora '74

 

Spooky Tooth - Live West Berlin 1970

Spooky Tooth - West Berlin, Germany
December 1, 1970

FM Source @192

Spooky Tooth's show at a venue in West Berlin, West Germany, on 1 December 1970, plus some songs recorded for BBC Radio's Top of the Pops (exactly the same ones as on "First Tooth". The sound is slightly indistinct, but it sounds as if it's (ultimately) a soundboard recording. Pretty good show and recording.

~BootlegZone


Set List:
01 - Something To Say
02 - I Am The Walrus
03 - The Wrong Time
04 - I Wanna Be Free
05 - Son Of Your Father
06 - Better By You By Me
07 - Along
08 - Soulful Lady
09 - Love Really Changed
10 - Pretty Woman
11 - Feelin Bad
12 - I Can't Quit Her
13 - Evil Woman   

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Berlin '70