 | Регистрация • Вход |
Сегодня 14 Января |
| Празднуют ДР: Emmy, Shalfey, FrosTTroll, MasterT, Veman, carbide |
| Правила • Помощь • Поиск • Кто в он-лайне • Статистика • Ссылки • Кто откуда • Команда |
|
|
|
Metal Land » Progressive, Technical & Avant-Metal » Progressive rock » Jackson Heights |
|
| ||
Jackson Heights Информация о группе There are a few misconceptions about the group Jackson Heights, the first of which was that it was mostly Lee Jackson’s group (true at first, but hardly the case later on) and that the disappearance and split of THE NICE had been an acrimonious one. Indeed, Keith Emerson regularly dropped buy gigs to cheer on the mainly acoustic trio, and Emerson and main songwriter Brian Chatton had many family-related contacts. So when the famed trio did split, Lee dropped the bass guitar and picked his acoustic guitar and started writer songs in the singer/songwriter mode. Named after a NY district, the group’s debut album King Progress got a release on the Charisma label (The Nice’s old label), but it didn’t dent the charts despite its very poppish nature. Indeed, the songs were sometimes short pop tunes like some of those early The Nice tune, and there is even a rework of Cry Of Eugene on this record. But the group was falling apart and Lee Jackson had to rebuild it from scratch, this time much sturdier including songwriters Brian Chatton and John McBurnie, thus adopting the acoustic trio mentioned in the first paragraph. For the three albums they will make, ex-Crimson man Mike Giles will play drums when asked to, but will never tour with the band, as they were very much a sort of British CS&N on most songs, while some of the group’s longer tracks still maintained a high musicianship. Both Fifth Avenue Bus and Raggamuffin’s Fool have pleasant but unexceptional songs; none to bring enough attention for the group to develop a loyal following outside the Uni circuit. The group tried with their last album an ill-fated concept album about bands and groupies (a dimension Lee Jackson was always very aware of) called Bump & Grind, which would prove catastrophic (both in sales and arts) and the group wouldn’t survive the album very long. In the late 90’s, the trio reconvened and played a bunch of concerts, but no records came out to celebrate this…. Although largely forgotten about nowadays and greatly ignored back in those days, JH did manage to release four albums, which is more than many bands can say. Информация взята: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3762 Участники Lee Jackson -vocals, bass, electric cello Brian Chatton-vocals, keyboards John McBurnie-vocals, acoustic guitars Дискография King Progress 1970 Fifth Avenue Bus 1972 Raggamuffin,s Fool 1972 Bump,n,Grind 1973 Страна Англия Стиль Официальный сайт: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/james.sutherland/JH.HTML |
|
  |
| ||||
|
| © 2002-2024 Metal Land | О защите личной информации |
Читать 
