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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:16
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Jimi Hendrix - British Gold??? Confused
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^British band, Hendrix lived here....i can see a good case for it.
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

^damn straight, Hendrix was a marginal figure in the USA until Chas Chandler imported his art back to the USA from the UK. I can't resist rejoicing in the delicious irony of this musical invasion being tantamount to an aesthetic Pearl Harbour launched by the perfidious albion'
Absolutely. Hendrix was an American musician but the Jimi Hendrix Experience was a British group formed in London by Chandler as a vehicle for Hendrix with two British musicians. Wikipedia lists The Experience as an  English-American group yet calls Placebo and English group even though Molko and Olsdal are American and Swedish musicians because they were formed in London.
 
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I used to have a couple of 20 Fantastic Hits albums in the 70s. I remember a couple of Blackfoot Sue classics that were on them. Anyone remember them?
Blackfoot Sue were a great rock band that like The Sweet adopted the glam image to sell records, (I wouldn't be surprised if their name wasn't derived in part from The Sweet's Wigwambam), Standing In The Road (JAM records) is one of the great singles of the 70s. I recall they appeared on the Benny Hill show once as his backing band.


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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:19
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^I remeber not realising they were all cover versions at first and then  I  though...this Sweet song doesn't sound quite right!

Not bad versions though...not so much covers as clones.
As Bob said earlier - some of the sessions musicians on those albums later became famous in their own right. Rick Wakeman did hundreds of sessons recordings at that time (the contentious "Piano Vibrations" album is an example of that). I have an album called "Funky Junction plays Deep Purple" which was a sessions recording of Purple covers by a band that later became Thin Lizzy.
 
 
I remember that, I never realised it was Thin Lizzy though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_Junction Smile
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Points: 66256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:26
I have this album which covers Elton John's days as a cover artist:
 
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Points: 20029 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:26
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^I remeber not realising they were all cover versions at first and then  I  though...this Sweet song doesn't sound quite right!

Not bad versions though...not so much covers as clones.
As Bob said earlier - some of the sessions musicians on those albums later became famous in their own right. Rick Wakeman did hundreds of sessons recordings at that time (the contentious "Piano Vibrations" album is an example of that). I have an album called "Funky Junction plays Deep Purple" which was a sessions recording of Purple covers by a band that later became Thin Lizzy.
 
 
I remember that, I never realised it was Thin Lizzy though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_Junction Smile
In its original edition, the album was available at Woolworths for 50p. LOL
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Points: 20029 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:32
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Blackfoot Sue were a great rock band that like The Sweet adopted the glam image to sell records, (I wouldn't be surprised if their name wasn't derived in part from The Sweet's Wigwambam), Standing In The Road (JAM records) is one of the great singles of the 70s. I recall they appeared on the Benny Hill show once as his backing band.
 
I always preferred "Sing Don't Speak" - I tried to download it recently and the only version I found seems to be a recent remake . Unhappy
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:52
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

In its original edition, the album was available at Woolworths for 50p. LOL
I was working as a "Saturday Boy" in Woolies when it was released. That's when I bought it.
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