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Vinyl Junkie
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As a continuation from last week in this series of hard rock legends, we are going to take a trip to the Asian continent. This time we are featuring a band who could have very well been the Japanese answer to Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath!
Starting out like most hard rock bands, the Blues Creation were a blues standards cover band when their first self titled album came out in 1969. By the time the Blues Creation put out their classic second album, Demon And Eleven Children in 1971, they were a full fledged hard rock band, but still with some bluesy leanings. All of the material on the album were made up of originals this time out, with no covers and sung amazingly in English!
For those of you who like a lot of sludgy, riff-ridden, at times dark sounding hard rock and roll with a little blues influence, along with some Black Sabbath inspiration, this is a killer album for all of you hardcore rockers! You will love this indeed. This is an essential piece to any hard rock collection. Yes, there are a couple of ballads, but the rest is KILLER sludgy hard rock! RECOMMENDED!! Again, way too many highlights to mention, as the whole album is full of some great killer guitar riffs!
To whet your appetite, I have here a highlight from You Tube on the album Demon And Eleven Children: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spv6ljofAso&feature=related
Finally, check this live clip out of Blues Creation in their prime in the early 70's playing a loud crunchy killer version of "Tobacco Road":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLHNeJz3S-A
In conclusion, as a courtesy from You Tube I also have added a bio about the Blues Creation for anyone who would like to learn more down below.
To Quote:
"Even by the flash-in-the-pan standards of Japan's turbulent late-60s/early-70s post-Group Sounds psychedelic rock scene, Blues Creation seemed to come out of nowhere and head right back there again faster than most anyone else. Like many of its contemporaries, Blues Creation was launched by a budding Japanese guitar hero whose mind had been effectively blown by the deafeningly heavy sounds of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath -- this being Kazuo Takeda, who had actually already spent some time playing in Europe and America, and was therefore a first-hand witness to the sonic events that spawned heavy metal's birth. But before going down that road, Takeda and his chosen Blues Creation bandmates, Fumio Nunoya (vocals), Takayuki Noji (bass), and Shinichi Tashiro (drums), recorded an eponymous 1969 debut filled with heavy-handed blues covers (a strategy copied by Flower Travellin' Band just one year later), as befit their chosen moniker. But Takeda would soon have his stylistic rethink and scrap everything for a new lineup consisting of Hiromi Osawa (vocals), Masashi Saeki (bass), and Akiyuki Higuchi (drums), returning in 1971 with Blues Creation's most legendary artifact, the cryptically named sophomore LP, Demon & Eleven Children, which was awash in primal, proto-metallic acid rock. The album would only achieve legendary status decades later, though, and so the rest of that year found a multi-tasking Blues Creation recording another album backing singer Carmen Maki (billed as Carmen Maki & Blues Creation), as well as a jam-happy concert document entitled simply Blues Creation Live. And then there was…silence; and by the very next year Takeda had decided to break up the band and move back to London, where he befriended American hard rockers Mountain (among others), and duly returned to Japan for a tour with them in 1975. Now leading a new power trio billed only as Creation, he recorded several albums well into the early '80s, including 1975's Creation, 1976's Felix Pappalardi & Creation (recorded with the man himself in Nantucket), 1977's Pure Electric Soul, 1978's Super Rock in the Highest Voltage, 1981's Lonely Heart, and 1982's Rock City. In the aftermath, Takeda continued to perform live, work sessions as a musician and producer, and released more than 20 solo albums, but it's arguably still Blues Creation's brief but volcanic existence that headlines his impressive CV. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, Rovi"
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Well, for those of you who are interested and took the time out to read this, Thank You very much. And, until next time........
Don't be afraid to turn the radio off for one second and try something different........
Yours truly,
Vinyl Junkie
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