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A Euphonious Wail

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Topic: A Euphonious Wail

Posted By: G-Bombz
Subject: A Euphonious Wail
Date Posted: June 02 2010 at 01:52

Heavily influenced by San Francisco bands (Big Brother and the Trucking Company and The Jefferson Airplane quickly come to mind), the Santa Rosa, California-based A Euphonious Wail was roughly five years behind creative and popular tastes. Not that it seemed to matter given a financially struggling Kapp Records went ahead and signed the quintet to a recording contract. Built around the talents of drummer Doug Hoffman, keyboardist Bart Libby, singer Suzanne Rey, singer/guitarist Steve Tracy and bassist Gary Violetti, the band's self-titled 1973 debut teamed them with producer Brian Ingoldsby (Lowell Levinger of Youngbloods fame reportedly also helped out). While "A Euphonious Wail" had a couple of nice moments, for the most part the LP was surprisingly lame and uninspired. As lead vocalists Rey and Tracy had decent, if unexceptional voices (though Rey tended to screech in the higher registers). The same type of limitations were true of the band as songwriters (all but Hoffman contributing material). Taken individually guitar and keyboard propelled rockers such as 'Pony', 'We've Got the Chance', 'When I Start To Live' and 'F#' weren't bad, but stretched over an entire album, there simply wasn't much that really stood out. The band were even less successful when they tried slowing things down - check out the lame ballads 'Did You Ever' and 'I Want To Be a Star'. (The Michael Hawes cover drawing was interesting. Depending on how you looked at it you saw something completely abstract, or possibly obscene.) Needless to say, the album vanished without a trace, followed in short order by the band.

personally i thought the album was very good. simple prog but good prog. definitely check it out on youtube

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Posted By: G-Bombz
Date Posted: June 02 2010 at 03:01

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZTQCuRY0_Q - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZTQCuRY0_Q

Pony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcIOGF8pCiU - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcIOGF8pCiU

Chicken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmRlHrd36UY - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmRlHrd36UY

Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: June 02 2010 at 05:41

Not a strong case, but I'll ask the Heavy Prog team to evaluate this suggestion.

Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: June 02 2010 at 06:34

Hey G-Bombz, although we appreciate suggestions, you have to understand that this is a totally volunteer unpaid staff and there is only so much time we have to put into this.

The trouble with suggesting too many bands at once is that the whole process becomes overwhelmed and then fatigue sets in followed by apathy. We just had another new member barrage the site with border-line suggestions and you are now filling the entire page of this section with your suggestions pushing everyone else's suggestions to the back burner.

Also, reading your above description I have to wonder if you get what we mean by prog. Big Brother has very little to do with prog, and although somehow the Airplane made it into proto-prog on this site, usually I would not associate them that much with prog either.