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RARIDADE NA ÁREA!! BANDA DE CHICAGO E QUE FAZIA UM SOM COMPOSTO DE ALGUNS INGREDIENTES DO ROCK PSYCH DO INÍCIO DOS ANOS 70 COM FUSÕES ACID ROCK E TOQUES DE BLUES, FOLK E PROGRESSIVO!! UM BOM TRABALHO DE GUITARRA, BOM ORGAN JAZZISTICO/BLUES E HARMONIZAÇÃO VOCAL!! OS CARAS CHEGARAM A ABRIR SHOWS DO SMALL FACES!!! ÓTIMO VENENO E UM ALBUM EXTREMAMENTE RARO!!
A banda fez sua estreia em Nova York no Ungano's, abrindo para Rod Stewart e os Small Faces e tocou várias vezes no Electric Circus em Nova York. Em maio de 1970, quando a banda estava no auge musicalmente e ensaiava com perfeição, o massacre da Kent State University aconteceu, onde quatro estudantes foram mortos e nove feridos após serem alvejados pela Guarda Nacional de Ohio. Este evento fez com que muitas universidades e faculdades cancelassem seus shows de verão, portanto cancelando muitos dos shows da Rock Island e deixando a banda pronta e disposta a se apresentar, mas sem locais disponíveis para tocar. Nos próximos meses, a banda, sem planos claros acabou se desfazendo.
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RARITY!! BAND OF CHICAGO THAT MAKED A SOUND COMPOSED OF SOME INGREDIENTS OF THE ROCK PSYCH FROM THE EARLY 70'S WITH ACID ROCK FUSIONS AND BLUE, FOLK AND PROGRESSIVE TOUCHES!! A GOOD GUITAR JOB, GOOD ORGAN JAZZISTICO / BLUES AND VOCAL HARMONIZATION!! THE GUYS CAME TO OPEN SMALL FACES SHOWS !!! GREAT VENENO AND AN EXTREMELY RARE ALBUM!!
The band started recording at A&R Studios in New York City and made multiple trips to New York to record a few songs each trip. The single Hard and Never Easy was released at the same time as the album and was successful in the mid-west and some areas of Europe. When the band was at their peak musically and rehearsed to perfection, the Kent State University massacre took place, where four students were killed and nine wounded after being fired upon by the Ohio National Guard. This event caused many universities and colleges to cancel their summer concerts, hence cancelling many of Rock Island's concerts and leaving the band ready and willing to perform but with no available venues to play. Over the next few months the band, having no clear plans, started having internal problems and eventually one of the members left, then another.
Mike Kennedy - Guitarra
B. J. Taylor - Vocal
Bob "Cobb" Bussinger - Teclado
Tony Curcio - Baixo
Ray Mancino/Frank Schallis - Bateria
01. Blue, Blue Lady
02. Runnin' Through My Mind
03. When I Was A Boy
04. Keep On Tryin'
05. Hard And Never Easy
06. She Has Left Me
07. Won't You Stay Another Day
08. I Remember
09. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
10. Blues
11. Blues II
12. Blues III
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Excelente disco.Gracias
Rock Island guitarist Mike Kennedy would later form a quintet called Horsepower who recorded an LP in the UK with Chas Chandler from The Animals producing. Unfortunately the album was never released, but there was a 45 issued called 'Outrageous'. It received good reviews in the UK press, but by the time it was released the group were back in the U.S. A further song from the sessions appeared on the 'Metal For Muthas II' compilation LP, which led to the long held assumption among many fans that Horepower were a British NWoBHM band. There were a few other releases from Horsepower who kept going right into the 1990s, these were on cassette however, and sometimes went under the name 'Mike Kennedy & Horsepower'. Unfortunately Kennedy passed away some years ago, so an official rerelease of Horsepower's output may now be impossible.
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