Artist: Charge Title Of Album Charge Year Of Release:1973/2013 Label (Catalog#) : Wooden Hill [WHCD034] Country: UK Genre: Heavy Psych Prog Rock, Blues Rock Quality: Flac (*image + .cue,log,scans) Total Size: 360Mb
Charge were a British power-trio born from the ashes of local South Coast heavy-blues bands Baby Bertha and Sweet Poison. Comprised of Dave Ellis (guitar), Pete Gibbons (drums) and Ian Mclaughlin (bass), they played heavy rock influenced by Hendrix, Cream, Free, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, etc.
In 1973 they cut a demo album at SRT studios of which 99 copies in blank covers were pressed and later distributed between family & friends, with a few of them also shipped to record companies in what proved to be an unsuccessful attempt at earning a recording contract.
The music is raw hard-rock with unrestrained guitar, Lemmy-esque vocals and psych / heavy progressive touches. Side B contains the epic anti-war suite “Child Of Nations”.
“One of the buried treasures of the early Seventies British psychedelic / progressive underground scene.” – David Wells
Tracks: ------- 1. Glory Boy From Whipsnade - 4:02 2. To My Friends - 5:04 3. Rock My Soul - 3:45 4. Child Of Nations - 16:54 5. Looking For Somebody - 4:28 6. Goodbye Good-Day - 4:18 7. Lost My Woman - 2:29 8. The Struggle - 5:06 9. Song For The Nights - 5:03 10.Blues For You - 3:37 11.Now You're Out Of My Life - 2:39 12.Blueberry Hill - 1:53 13.Can You? Will You? - 4:18
Total Time: 01:03:37
Recorded in 1973, [private pressing of which only 1 copy believed to exist]. The bonus tracks 5-13 are from the Baby Bertha LP (pre-Charge) from 1972.
Personnel: ----- Charge Dave Ellis - Vocals, Guitars, Vox Ian McLaughlin - Bass Pete Gibbons - Drums
Baby Bertha Dave Ellis - Vocals, Guitars Ian McLaughlin - Bass Roger "Prof" Perry - Rhythm Guitar Des Law - Drums
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