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BroSpence
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Topic: The Green Bullfrog Posted: March 27 2008 at 00:03 |
Green Bullfrog: Green Bullfrog was a one time studio super-session organized
in early 1970 by producer Derek Lawrence.
The group featured many famous rock musicians such as, Ritchie
Blackmore, Albert Lee, Matthew Fischer, and Tony Ashton. The group members were all coming from
several other labels and bands, so the original sessions were kept secret and
the members went by pseudonyms to avoid contractual difficulties. Ritchie and Ian were in Deep Purple, Albert
Lee and Chas Hodges were with Heads Hands & Feet, Matthew Fischer with
Procol Harum, Jim Sullivan with Tom Jones, Tony Ashton with Ashton Gardner
& Dyke, and Earl Jordon was in Les Humphries. Rod Alexander was an unknown player at the
time, but he was an old friend of Blackmore’s which is how he got the
opportunity to play. Rod did have a band
at the time, Biskit, which later changed it’s name to JoDo which got signed by
MCA and put out an album produced by Derek Lawrence had the privilege of organizing the session because he produced the first few Deep Purple albums and he had recently produced the first Wishbone Ash album. Martin Birch is credited as the engineer behind the album. Birch had previously engineered and mixed albums by Deep Purple, The Groundhogs, Fleetwood Mac, Wishbone Ash, Beggar’s Opera, and went on to produced albums by Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Whitesnake. The group played all covers except for “Bullfrog”, and the
somewhat original “Lovin’ You Is Good for Me Baby” a previously penned song by Members: Boots/Ritchie Blackmore – Guitar Pinta/Albert Lee – Guitar Boss/ “Big” Jim Sullivan – Guitar Vicar/Rod Alexander – Guitar Speedy/Ian Paice – Drums Sleepy/Chas Hodges - Bass Sorry/Matthew Fischer – Keyboards Bevy/Tony Ashton - Keyboards Jordon/Earl Jordon - Vocals Discography (sans reissues): My Baby
Left Me/Loving You Is Good For Me Baby : US March 1971 Decca 32831 Green
Bullfrog [lp] : US March 1971 Decca D 75269 Green
Bullfrog [lp] : Edited by BroSpence - March 27 2008 at 00:04 |
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 27 2008 at 01:13 |
I haven't found much evidence or documentation that they were progressive, they're not even in ProgGnosis (and they have almost everyone).. found some sound-videos and they don't exactly scream prog rock -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWX4wjfFCtM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Zjwt7Ppa4&feature=related Edited by Atavachron - March 27 2008 at 01:17 |
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BroSpence
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Posted: March 27 2008 at 15:44 |
I am suggesting them for Prog-related addition
Edited by BroSpence - March 27 2008 at 15:44 |
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NotAProghead
Special Collaborator Errors & Omissions Team Joined: October 22 2005 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 7678 |
Posted: March 27 2008 at 19:23 |
As I know, it is a blues project.
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