Stone The Crows
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Topic: Stone The Crows
Posted By: Alucard
Subject: Stone The Crows
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 11:48
 Stone The Crows is one of my favourite 70's bands and one of the most forgotten. I was astonished to see that not one thread was dedicated to the band, who got really bad luck when just prior to a breakthrough to eternal fame and glory, guitarist Lesley Harvey (brother of Alex) was electrocuted on stage. The band plays a sophisticated blues rock with prog elements starting with a long 18 minutes epic "I Saw America" on their first record and other interesting arrangements on their records. Maggie Bell's voice is great as is Lesley Harvey's guitar play (David Gilmore has listened carefully to LH)
All their records are great with a preference for their live records, one on BBC records with exerpts from two London concerts 70 & 71, and a double CD with a extended version of the 71 concert and a stunning 70 concert containing a 15 minutes version of "Big Jim Salter" one of the highlights of 70' s Blues Rock, a desert Island record!!
 a Wikipedia bio:
Stone the Crows
Stone The Crows was a band formed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow - Glasgow in late 1969. HistoryThe band was formed after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Bell - Maggie Bell was introduced to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Harvey - Les Harvey by his elder brother, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Harvey - Alex Harvey . After playing together in the Kinning Park Ramblers, they rejoined in a band Power, later renamed Stone The Crows, after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 's manager, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grant_%28music_manager%29 - Peter Grant , heard them and took them on. Original line-up
The band's first two albums were produced by the above line-up, with Bell's vocals "reminiscent of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin - Janis Joplin " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_the_Crows#cite_note-0 - [1] . Second line-upMcGinnis and Dewar left in 1971, to be replaced by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Leahy - Ronnie Leahy and Steve Thompson. The tragic death of Les Harvey (electrocuted by a live microphone on stage at Swansea's Top Rank Suite in May 1972) almost led to the breakup of the band. After trying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Green_%28musician%29 - Peter Green , the band brought in ex- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderclap_Newman - Thunderclap Newman prodigy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McCulloch - Jimmy McCulloch as lead guitarist. Stone the Crows broke up in June 1973. Maggie Bell recorded two albums in the early seventies, Queen Of The Night and Suicide Sal and joined http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Stewart - Rod Stewart on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Picture_Tells_A_Story - Every Picture Tells A Story . Discography
Notes
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stone_the_Crows&action=edit§ion=6 - edit ] External linkshttp://alexgitlin.com/stc.htm - Stone the Crows biography from linernotes by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Welch - Chris Welch at Alex Gaitlin's web site Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_the_Crows - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_the_Crows " ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 15:08
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They have been discussed here before, and mooted for inclusion.
A fine band indeed. It was good to see their albums getting re-issued recently on CD.
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