Author: Nathan Beaudry

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Album Tracks:

1. Breakfast in Bed (Blackmore, Turner, Glover)
2. Love Conquers All (Blackmore, Turner, Glover, Lord)
3. Fortuneteller (Blackmore, Turner, Glover, Lord, Paice)
4. Too Much Is Not Enough (Turner, Bob Held, Al Greenwood)
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Reception and Review

• With Gillan out they changed the set list up quite a bit, even working in songs such as “Burn” that Gillan would have never agreed to sing.
• The live set included six of the nine tracks form Slaves and Masters though “Wicked Ways” was dropped after only a few shows.
• Fan reaction to this lineup and album was largely negative.
• In “The Complete Deep Purple” Michael Heatley calls “Slaves and Masters” “the definitive Rainbow album.”
• It entered the UK charts at number, seven places below, “Nobody’s Perfect,” which was not widely regarded as a success. Then it dropped out of the charts. It was their least successful album since Mark 1.
• In the US it was number 87.
• JLT says of this album in Kerrang that this album wasn’t as forced as the Rainbow albums he’d done.  What he means is that they were more of jams than composed.
• JLT also says, “If I hear ‘Deep Rainbow’ again I think I’m gonna puke. Think of something else. There are four of the five member of Purple, three of five members of Rainbow.”

Reviews:

• The album was met with mixed reviews.
• The press seemed to be largely positive about it but fans were not.
• Simon Robinson in Darker Than Blue #40, November 1990:
  • “. . . I know damn well that if someone had sent it me out of the blue by a new group, it would have got the one play and be in the bin . . . by now.”
  • “With this new one it’s all ended. Nothing here demands of me that I should zoom to the record deck every so often to assault my senses with it. If this is really the way they think music should be going then we’ve reached the parting of the ways. Nobody wants to live in the past, but they’re damn well giving me little choice.”
  • He goes on to say he has nothing against JLT, considers him very competent. Just does not like his vocal style.
  • “It’s hard to listen to the album and ignore the JLT favor, but when you do much of it is pretty ordinary anyway.”
  • “The idea of evolving the album from jamming has given a laid back feel which might have been better tempered by a hard edge at times.”
  • On King of Dreams: “I’d like to hear mixed without vocals. Granted poor old Ian PAice sounds like he’s falling asleep (Maybe the dreams are his?) but it chugs along with some inspired keyboard work.”
  • He calls “Breakfast in Bed,” “Breakfast in Bed (Crumbs In The Duvet).
  • “. . . Ian Gillan has to be agreed with  when he says he found it almost impossible to get inspired by the stuff when he was being sent the first demos. The addition of his talent on some of the tracks might have cracked it, but elsewhere we’re looking at a group who seem to have lost all sense of purpose. Roger Glover has written off House of Blue Light as a totally wooden album in recent press articles and it makes me wonder if I’m going crackers. Sure it had its disappointments but Bad Attitude, Spanish Archer, STrangeways, and Dead or Alive wipe the floor with this one.”
• Neil Jeffries writes in Kerrang:
  • “Deep Purple’s new studio album “Slaves and Masters” is OK . . . and no-one is more surprised than me. It does lat grab-you-by-the-throat impact but it’s not the disaster I had feared and expected.”
  • It may not sound at all like “In Rock”, “Machine Head” or even “Perfect Strangers” but it doesn’t really sound much like Rainbow either. In fact just like “In Rock”, “Burn”, “Come Taste The BAnd” or “Perfect Strangers” it sounds like a band making a fresh start.
• JLT: “In my opinion the best of this album is still lying on the cutting room floor.  We’ve got some racks  you’d fuckin’ die for but we never finished them.”
• One of the things they did on tour was to open up the set list, something Gillan had also wanted to do but Blackmore had fought him on.  Gillan felt like they were just playing Made in Japan every night. The set lists for this tour were much more adventurous.

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• It was about 99/00 that I heard Jon Lord’s intro to Knocking At Your Back Door from Nobody’s Perfect and from that moment I was hooked. I went through every CD and LP that my parents owned.
• In Rock (this I did not listen to!), Fireball, Machine Head, Burn, Stormbringer, Perfect Strangers, House Of Blue Light, Slaves and Masters, Battle Rages On, Purpendicular and Abandon. A couple of compilations and Nobody’s Perfect.
• By the time I was 15 in 2004 I owned every studio album that they had released on CD. I bought In Rock that summer and I had heard Speed King, Child In Time and Black Night from the 24 Carat Purple compilation record before. 
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Lead up to the Album:

• Gillan says that with “House of Blue Light” that as long as Blackmore was happy with the guitar parts then everyone was happen. Ian says that wasn’t good enough for him.
• While RItchie recovered from a broken finger (the result of misjudging his timing when catching his guitar) Ian and Roger went to work on “Accidentally on Purpose.”
• Gillan said that when the tour resumed that the spark had gone.
• They had an odd route through their European tour and when asked about why at a press conference Ian Gillan said, “Because Bruce Payne is an asshole.” Something he regretted and said out of frustration.
• Things were very tense between Gillan and Blackmore.  It all came to a head when Ritchie burst into Ian’s room holding a plate of spaghetti which had been covered in ketchup.  Given the tension between the two Blackmore assumed it was Gillan.  He said, “Did you do this?”  Gilland says before he could answer Blackmore had smashed the plate into Ian’s face “as if it were a custard pie.”
• Gillan claims at that point Blackmore started dancing around holding up his fists and saying, “Come on! Come on!” To which Gillan replied, “I don’t want to hit you, Ritchie.”  He said he turned around and went into the bathroom where he cried with frustration.  He said, “I quit” out loud then changed his mind.
• Ian had already started working on his side project “Garth Rockett and the Moonshiners” and there was the sense he wasn’t giving his all to Deep Purple.
• After this they worked on Nobody’s Perfect.
• After this Deep Purple returned to Stowe for sessions and Ian was invited not to attend.
• Ian said he finally did show up at the sessions but ended up at the bar and was drinking very heavily.
• Gillan burst in on Blackmore and his girlfriend who were having a fight and ended up falling onto a sofa and knocking over a huge glass shelf.  He was wearing nothing.
• Darker Than Blue #38 for November 1989:
  • Article describing “Vocalist Wanted” advertisements in Kerrang! And speculating they may be for Deep Purple.  They’d previously speculated about Brian Howe from Bad Company being a potential vocalist.
  • Blackmore ended up playing on Howe’s solo album which Darker Than Blue said: “. . . to be cringingly called “Howe’d Business” (guaranteed to git it bargain bin status within weeks!)”
  • They also go on to say that Joe Lynn Turner has been on people’s minds as well as Ronnie Dio. Interestingly the Dio rumor came from none other than Don Airey who said he’d heard Dio was auditioning while he was woring with Whitesnake.
  • Coverdale also came to mind quickly to reprise his role replacing Gillan.  Whitrsnake wasn’t exactly stable but their latest album “Slip of the Tongue” was selling quite well.
  • Doug Pinnick of Kings X was also considered.
  • Word from MTV was that JLT had turned the job down.
  • Rumors were that Paul Rodgers auditioned and was “found lacking.”  Hard to believe with Blackmore’s admiration for Rodgers.
  • Jimmy Barnes was rumored to have taken the job as well.
  • The next name was Kal Swan from the band Lion.
  • Jamie Jamison from Survivor was another rumored name.
  • According to Sounds magazine Gillan was fired.  According to NME Gillan quit.
  • Jon said he’d like to work with Colin Hodgkinson again but couldn’t due to the BMG contract running until 1991.  There were so many delays from Deep Purple that Jon Lord ended up touring with him anyway with John Mayall.
  • Simon Robinson says that seeing JLT do Deep Purple material  made himn think they’d need to really rework the set to make it work.  HE said this is ironic considering this seemed to be the main stickign point with Gillan who really wanted to rework things.
• ++++ Black Knight
• Tensions were rising between Deep Purple and Polygram. In interviews Jon Lord said they got the impression that Polygram did not consider Deep Purple to be a current group.
• IT was decided in 1989 they would take a break from touring and focus on a new album.
• Lord stated they had six nearly completed songs and another six that they were working on.
• Blackmore wanted this album to go into a more commercial direction.  Gillan wanted it to be something a little more quirky.
• Gillan wanted to record in a New York studio.  Blackmore hated the idea and Lord said, “The idea of recording in New York fills me with dread.  This upset Gillan and lead to Blackmore calling a recording session without Gillan.
• Raymond D’Addario: “You almost thought tha tIan wanted to be kicked out.  That’s the impression I got.”
• Artie Hoar: “I was there when Gillan got fired. WE were in Vermont and Deep Purple was rehearsing. Rich and all of the other band members (except for Roger) went home without telling Gillan that he was going tobe replaced. I left with Rich so I guess Roger told him he was out.”
• Blackmore had lead the charge in ousting Gillan but the rest of the band backed his decision.
• Lord: “Ritchie is like a terrier or pit-bul, he gets hold of something and won’t let go. HE ahs a vision of what he wants, and he’ll fight and fight until he gets what he wants. He’s rarely wrong, and if he is wrong, he’ll admit it with utmost graciousness. Until he’s proven wrong, he won’t budge. I love him the way he is.”
• Roger said in an interview in Kerrang! “Sacking Ian Gillan was not personality clash, it was not about behaviour, it was a decision taken by all of us in the band, however painful that was.”
  • Glover goes on to say it was a difference in songwriting. Gillan wanted to go in a different direction.  He also says it’s painful to talk about and they are still great friends but that his dismissal was necessary.  He concludes with: “In many ways, I miss him a lot.”
• At a video shoot for MTV Jon Lord said he was glad that Ian had left and said it had gotten “as bad as it was the first time he left.” This caused Bruce Payne to shake his head as this was done on camera.  Several sources cite this including the Kerrang interview with Roger Glover as well as a few of the books.
• In Colin Hart’s book “A Hart Life” he mentions that Bruce Payne sided with whoever had the most power in the band. At this moment it was Ritchie.  That would change in the future.
• BMG was not happy about this change as they’d signed the Mark 2 lineup and now they did not have their signature singer to record their next album.
• The remaining four members did not have any particular singer in mind to replace Gillan.  They auditioned potential singers.
• It was during this period that Ritchie met Candice Isralow at a charity soccer match.
• Jon took the opportunity to team up with Pete York and Tony Ashton and others and they toured Germany under the name Olympic Rock and Blues Circus. By the time the tour ended they still didn’t have a singer.
• Some singers that were auditioned included Jimi Jamieson and Terry Brock.  The former was the singer in Survivor and allegedly was offered the job but refused it at the advice of his management.  Jon Lord said that’s who he really wanted but that Jimi was afraid of his managers.  He said they were “Italo-Americans; that says enough.” Brock was less well known from a band called Strangeways. There were rumors that he and Blackmore had a big altercation with Brock walking out.
• Jimi Jamieson turned down the band, opting to go with a solo career.  He ended up doing the theme song for Baywatch.  In Colin Hart’s book he says, “Good choice, Jimi!”
• It was at this point that Blackmore suggested Joe Lynn Turner. The other band members were initially not interested in this idea but eventually they relented, perhaps due to Ritchie’s pit-bull tendencies.
• When Roger first heard of the idea his first reaction was “No Way! Absolutely Not!”  He went on to say that it wasn’t for any personal reasons but he just felt it was the wrong move.  He said he though the “Deep Rainbow” criticisms would be “flying thick and fast.”
• Jerry Bloom states in Issue #32 of “More Black Than Purple” that these complaints could have been nullified given Lord and Paice joining Whitesnake and the sound staying relatively the same.  I would contest that that may have had something to do with neither of them taking much of a songwriting place with that band.
• In a 1984 interview with Mick Wall Blackmore talks about the differences between Rainbow and Deep Purple.  “. . . I feel that although Rainbow did some good stuff, it didn’t ever have the identity that Purple has.”  He goes on to say that in Rainbow he was able to have everything exactly how he wanted it but it didn’t seem to appeal to the masses.  He admitted that him in 100% control didn’t equal the best results.  He then goes on to compliment Gillan: “Ian Gillan . . . will come up with melodies and lyrics to things I’ve written which I would never have thought of. That’s part of the chemistry and magic of Purple. Nobody has a voice like Ian Gillan’s and you can’t say that about the Journeys, Foreigners, Survivors or Rainbows.”
• Joe says that when he walked in to her audition the band was playing and Ritchie went into “Hey Joe” by Hendrix and Turner got right on the mic.  It’s alleged that Roger Glover has a recording of this in his session tapes.  He goes on in Kerrang to say “I recorded that, I have it on a 12-track, and it was really good. One day I’d like to release that.”
• Glover in Kerrang: “I don’t think the real test is how well Joe performs the old songs, it’s how well he performs the new songs and how much of a career we forge from here . . .”
  • Glover goes on to talk about whole Who Do We Think We Are didn’t produce any songs that translated into live numbers so they just went back to Machine Head which is just Made in Japan.  He really wanted to focus on getting back to some old 
• Joe Lynn Turner goes on in interviews about how Ritchie was the band leader, he sided with Ritchie, and Roger and the others sort of did their own thing.  JLT has some somewhat unfavorable things to say about working with Jon Lord, a rarity in Deep Purple circles.  “I can remember Jon saying ‘Love Conquers All’ was shit and it wasn’t a good song and I said, ‘If you play it right I’m gonna sing the hell out of it and it’s going to be a great power ballad so just shut the fuck up and get started.”  He goes on to say that Ritchie had been wanting to say that to Jon for years
• JLT described Lord as being critical but not very involved in the writing “Jon would never write and he’d be sitting there drinking his glass of wine reading his book listening to classical music.”
• Despite the fight with Gillan about recording studios they ended up at Greg Rike Productions in Orlando, Florida to record “Slaves and Masters.”
• This was their first time in a proper studio to record an album since “Come Taste The Band.”  Wonder if this made Gillan mad?
• In an interview in Metal Hammer from December 1990 Jon Lord says (about why they went with an established singer instead of someone new like they’d done with Coverdale): “We area band of a certain age. And most singers we got audition tapes from were guys of 20-22 years. And two things would happen if we took a guy of that age. One it would look wrong. And two the poor guy would not stand the chance.”  He goes on to say that a young, inexperienced singer wouldn’t be able to “control the band from the front.”
• Jon said in interviews that Ritchie was the leader of the band and it wasn’t Purple without Ritchie.
• They played one show with Joe Lynn Turner but Jon Lord opted not to play as it was a very cramped venue.
• After that Colin Hart arranged a location in Altamonte Springs, Florida, north of  Orlando called Greg Rike Productions. He mentions that the band was tired of the snow.
• Colin Hart said it took six months to record.
• Ian Paice: “The thing that’s different is that Joe has the ability to sing anything well, and because of that it opens up more possibilities than ther ewere before. I mean, I an was a great rock’n’roll singer, David was a great blues singer, but Joe has the ability to do anything and everything, so where there were certain limitations on what we could do before, at the moment anything we can think of he can do.”
• During press conferences JLT wouldn’t miss an oppotunity to speak negatively about Malmsteen and pump up Blackmore.
• JLT: “Before I joined there were certain restrictions and conditions that I flet had to be met. Ome was that I’m not just gonna come into the band singing someone elses’s drivel.”

Personnel:

• Bass – Roger Glover
• Drums – Ian Paice
• Keyboards, Organ – Jon Lord
• Lead Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore
• Lead Vocals – Joe Lynn Turner

Additional Personnel:

• Management – Bruce Payne
• Orchestra – Jesse Levy
  • https://www.discogs.com/artist/292826-Jesse-Levy
  • George Benson, Peggy Lee, Bette Midler, Barbara Cook, Carly Simon, Lou Rawls, Paul Simon, Lena Horne, and Gloria Estefan
  • Played on numerous film soundtracks.

Technical:

• Producer, Mixed By – Roger Glover
• Producer [assistant] – Raymond D’Addario
• Engineer, Mixed By – Nick Blagona
• Mastered By – Greg Calbi

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Artwork [enhancement] – Ralph Wernli
  • Worked on album photography  for numerous others including Art Garfunkel and Kool Moe Dee. While a photographer he is credited with artwork on this album.
• Photography – Didi Zill
• Art Direction – Roger Glover

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Album Tracks:

1. King of Dreams (Blackmore, Turner, Glover)
   1. Glover says in Kerrang: “King of Dreams is a perfect case point. That came out of a couple of days of frustration, the atmosphere in the studio was like pea soup, everyone was really down in the mouth. Then Ritchie just started playing a completely different riff. He only played it once cos when we’d done it I said “That’s really good, let’s work on it’ – but Ritchie wouldn’t!  We came back to it a couple of weeks later, did a few overdubs, I got Joe in to work on a set of lyrics I’d got, then by the time the band came in we had a song. It’s not perfect by any means. We tried to improve it, but it wouldn’t be improved. It just lived the way it live . . .”
2. The Cut Runs Deep (Blackmore, Turner, Glover, Lord, Paice)
   1. In Black Knight Joe Lynn Turner says that Jon Lord started playing the keyboard intro at his audition in Vermont and Turner started singing the vocal line “What about the heartache? What about the emptiness inside?”
3. Fire in the Basement (Blackmore, Turner, Glover, Lord, Paice)
4. Truth Hurts (Blackmore, Turner, Glover)

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For Further Information:

• Help from the archives of patron Jeff Breis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaves_and_Masters
• https://www.discogs.com/release/15935685-Deep-Purple-Slaves-And-Masters
• Child in Time by Ian Gillan
• Black Knight: Ritchie Blackmore by Jerry Bloom 
• A Hart Life by Colin Hart with Dick Allix
• Darker Than Blue #39, July 1990
• Darker Than Blue #38, November 1989
• More Black Than Purple #32, 2006
• Darker Than Blue #41, May 1991
• Darker Than Blue #42, December 1991
• Deep Purple Slaves And Masters: In-depth by Laura Shenton
• The Complete Deep Purple by Michael Heatley
• Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story by Dave Thompson

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See our original episode here:

• Episode #45 – Weird Versions of “Smoke on the Water” (Part 1)

The Weird Versions:

• Smoke on the Water [Bardcore]
• Deep Purple, Smoke on the water – Maël Isaac
• Deep Purple-Smoke On The Water Gayageum ver. by Luna (posted by Raj Kohli on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HantsRajKohli)
• Smoke On The Water in NEGATIVE HARMONY! (riff and solo)
• Deep Purple – Smoke On The Water [2021 Summer Remix]
• SMOKE ON THE WATER

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• I love mags (from the UK)
• 5 Stars!
• Great fun podcast on Deep Purple
• I found out about this excellent podcast by accident and I absolutely love it. It’s a great fun listen. I’ve only played a few episodes so have loads to catch up! The House of Blue Light review was interesting. I saw Purple on this tour at Wembley London UK. On that eve Blackmore refused to do an encore! So Lord and Glover played lead. It was definitely an interesting version of Smoke on the water! Having seen Gillan in mind blowing vocal form (the band) live in 81, it was noticeable Ian had lost some of his range/power by 87/88. Overall he was/is still great. Keep up the great work, thank you! Ps The latest “Accidentally on Purpose” episode was excellent, I had forgotten how good this album was. Like you l appreciate it more now. I bought it when it came out and wasn’t sure I liked it back then 🙂

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• T-Bone’s Prime Cuts On The Other Side
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• Metal Gods Podcast
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Lead up to the Album:

• The first album had been recorded in the US but for the second album Roger Glover brought them over to England to record.
• Recorded at The Manor which had opened in 1971 by Richard Branson.
• Discogs lists over 1900 recordings taking place at The Manor.  This would have been one of the earlier recordings.
• David Feinstein left the band after the first album and was replaced by Steve Edwards on this album.

Personnel:

• Bass – Craig Gruber
• Keyboards, Vocals – Micky Lee Soule
• Vocals – Ronnie Dio
• Drums, Percussion – Gary Driscoll
• Guitar – Steve Edwards (3)
  • Newly added to the band.  His only credits appear to be with Elf.

Additional Personnel:

• Clarinet – Ray Swinfield
  • Credited on many albums by people such as Lionel Bart and Irving Berlin.
• Performer [M.d.] – Martyn Ford
  • Friend of the show interviewed on our first bonus episode: Bonus Episode #1 – Interview with Martyn Ford
• Strings – Mountain Fjord
• Trombone – Chris Pyne
  • One of the best English trombonists. Frank Sinatra insisted that Chris Pyne played on all of his European tour dates.
• Trumpet – Henry Lowther
  • http://www.henrylowther.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lowther_(musician)
  • Worked with the Keef Hartley band and even played with him at Woodstock.
• Vocals [Singer] – Barry St. John
• Vocals [Singer] – Helen Chappell
• Vocals [Singer] – Liza Strike
• Choir – Manor Chorus
  • Also credited on Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells.”
  • Potentially St. John, Chappell, and Strike?
  • Tubular Bells lists it as “Choir” and the Wikipedia entry says it’s “unknown” who was in the choir.
  • Kevin Ayers’ 1973 album “Bananamour” also lists the “choir” as these three singers.

Technical:

• Arranged By [String Arrangements], Producer – Roger Glover
• Engineer – Simon Heyworth
  • https://www.superaudiomastering.com/
  • UK engineer and producer, famous for being instrumental in launching Virgin with Richard Branson. He started his own company Super Audio Mastering in July 2002. 
• Engineer [Mixing] – Lou (Conway) Austin
  • https://www.louisaustin.com/about-2/
  • Worked at De Lane Lea studios
  • Worked with Fleetwood Mac, Queen, The Butterfly Ball, Deep Purple (Fireball), Hardin & York, Thin Lizzy
• Mastered By – Pecko, Melo
• Mixed at Kingsway Recorders.

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Photography By – Fin Costello
  • Legendary rock photographer.
• Art Studio – Nesbit Phipps and Froome LTD
  • Worked on Deep Purple In Rock and Burn. 

• Original US and Japanese release as “L.A. 59”
  • Art Direction – Sheri Leverich
    • Worked on albums for The Osmonds
  • Elf Illustration – Nigel Brook
    • Couldn’t find any additional information

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. Carolina County Ball
2. L.A. 59
3. Ain’t It All Amusing
4. Happy

Side Two:

1. Annie New Orleans
2. Rocking Chair Rock ‘N’ Roll Blues
3. Rainbow
4. Do The Same Thing
5. Blanche

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• On some European releases the first song is listed as “Carolina Country Ball.”

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_County_Ball
• https://www.discogs.com/release/4841186-Elf-Carolina-County-Ball
• https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/elf-carolina-county-ball-album-of-the-week-club-review

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Lead up to the Recording

• Recorded January 14th 1969.

Tracks:

1. 14:40 – Hey Bob A Rebop (Gloria?)
   • Group were invited to play on BBC TV on a show called “Late Night Line Up” to play this new track. Nigel Young, archivist, said this was the show they played. There are no tapes from the show that survived.
   • This song would eventually be reworked into “The Painter.”
2. 18:10 – Emmaretta
   • They would be back in the studio three days later to record this one.
3. 21:18 – Wring That Neck

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1. 26:00 – Interview
2. 27:29 – Hey Joe
   • The first live broadcast had an intro taken from ballet called “The Three Cornered Hat.”
3. 31:31 – It’s All Over (version two)
   • Original by Ben E. King from the 1965 album “Seven Letters”

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Lead Up To The Album:

• Moxy was formed in Toronto in 1974. Douglas “Buzz” Shearman had previously been in a band called Leigh Ashford that had formed in 1967.  They had some fair success including a top 30 single.
• Earl Johnson, Terry Juric and Billy Wade had been in another Torongo band called Outlaw Music.  Johnson and Wade had also been in a previous lineup of Leigh Ashford.
• When Leigh Ashford broke up in 1973 Shearman teamed up with Johnson, wade and Kim Fraser on bass and continued to use the name Leigh Ashford.
• Fraser left shortly after that and Johnson recommended Juric.  They then changed their name to Moxy and released “Can’t You See I’m a Star” as a single in 1974.
• They were soon signed to Polydoor and went to record their first album in the early months of 1975.
• During the sessions Johnson had a disagreement with M. Smith, the producer, and Smith brought in Bolin to record solos on six of the eight songs on the album.
• Bolin was in the studio next door and Moxy’s manager Roland Paquin knew of Tommy from his work with James Gang.
• Tommy came in and played the solos on very short notice.
• It’s noted that his guitar tone is similar to his tone on Spectrum.
• From Chris Schild’s notes: In January of 1975, when Tommy Bolin was asked to play the solos for Moxy’s first album, he recorded demos for Teaser at Brothers studio of the Beach Boys in Santa Monica CA.. Moxy was 30 minutes away at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys CA. Tommy played solos on six of the eight songs, and they got massive airplay on US radio stations. I know for sure that Tommy was paid on Cocaine, it is said half an ounce per track, so he must have gotten three ounces.
• Tom Stephenson, Stanley Sheldon’s cousin and keyboarder of Energy also played on a track on the Moxy album.

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Personnel:

• Bass – Terry Juric
  • Moxy is only real credit.
• Drums – Bill Wade
  • Went on to play with Thor and The Cry and Bongo Fury.
  • Sadly passed away in 2001.
• Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Earl Johnson (5)
  • Johnson performs all rhythm guitar on the album.
• Lead Guitar – Tommy Bolin [Uncredited]
• Rhythm Guitar – Buddy Caine (2)
  • Credited but didn’t join the band until after they’d recorded the album. Does not appear on this album.
  • Mostly Moxy, also went on to Bongo Fury with Bill Wade.
• Vocals – Buzz Shearman
  • Tragically died in a motorcycle accident in 1983. He was 33 years old.
• Written-By – Buzz Shearman (tracks: A3, A4, B4), Earl Johnson (5)
  • Moxy was main credit. Played with Lee Aaron as well.

Technical:

• Engineer – Richard Dashut
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dashut
  • Hundreds of credits including Bachman Turner Overdrive and Fleetwood Mac.
• Engineer, Producer – M. Smith*
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Smith_(sound_engineer)
  • Mark K. Smith.
  • Canadian musician, sound engineer and producer from Toronto, Ontario. A member of The Mid-Knights (trombone) after Richie Knight left.
  • Worked with Bachman Turner Overdrive, Fleetwood Mac as well.
  • Also worked with Bob Seger and Rick Springfield.

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Design [Front] – Heiner Geisel
  • Credited with a few Moxy albums as well as a couple of other bands:The Pucker and Valve Society Band and Don Jewitt.
• Photography By – Larry Nickels
  • Only credit on Discogs

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Album Tracks:

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1. Fantasy (Johnson)
   • Guitar [Uncredited] – Tommy Bolin
   • Piano – Tom Stephenson
   • Tom Stephenson had been playing with Tommy in Energy.
2. Sail On Sail Away (Johnson)
3. Can’t You See I’m A Star (Johnson)
4. Moon Rider (Johnson, Shearman)
   • Guitar [Uncredited] – Tommy Bolin

Side Two:

1. Time To Move On (Johnson, Shearman)
   • Guitar [Uncredited] – Tommy Bolin
2. Still I Wonder (Johnson)
   • Guitar [Uncredited] – Tommy Bolin
3. Train (Johnson, Bonnell)
   • Guitar [Uncredited] – Tommy Bolin
   • Johnson also credited with lead on this track
4. Out Of The Darkness (Johnson, Shearman)
   • Guitar [Uncredited] – Tommy Bolin

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Reception and Review

• After Bolin worked on this album he went on to work on Teaser and went on to join Deep Purple.
• Moxy would get some significant airplay in the US where the album was released on Mercury records. It was released on Polydor in Canada.
• Tommy being on the album helped the band get some traction for the album.
• The Tommy Bolin Band played at the Convention Center Arena in San Antonio on July 13, 1976. They played with Moxy, opening for Santana. It was a Feyline production (by Tommy Bolin,s manager Barry Fey). Tommy Bolin jammed two songs with Moxy on stage. There’s a poster of that event.
• The next gig was in Albuquerque NM, July 16, 1976. Moxy did not take part, just the Tommy Bolin Band and Santana. That’s where Santana joined the Bolin Band on stage to jam. The only existing photo of the event, you can clearly see Norma Jean Bell in the background.
• They went on to headline in the US with AC/DC as their opening act.
• They went on to record Moxy II which many believe Tommy played on as well (he did not).
• Shearman began having vocal trouples and was replaced with Brian Maxim, their soundman. They broke up shortly after that.
• Mike Rynowski then joined the band and released “Under the Lights” in 1978.
• Rynowski would go on to change his name to Mike Reno and went on to form the group Loverboy.
• Buzz Shearman died on June 16, 1983 in a motorcycle act.
• The back of the CD states: “Speed ills . . . and Moxy was a band on the fast track!”
• Back of the CD ends with: “Shearman later made his final exit in a fiery motorcycle crash. Speed kills!”
• Earl Johnson: “I was very surprised to see the two of the songs on the TOMMY BOLIN 2 CD set (“The Ultimate”), which I have a copy of. I wrote the two tunes mentioned and it’s always nice to get a complement, when people think enough of your songs to include them on such a disc.”

For Further Information:

• https://www.discogs.com/release/3124366-Moxy-Moxy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxy_(band)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxy_(album)
• Help from the archives of Chris Schild
• The former tommybolin.com site managed by John Herdt.
• https://johnbeaudin.com/earl-johnson-of-moxy-explains-being-replaced-by-tommy-bolin-on-debut-lp/
• http://bordeldorock.blogspot.com/2011/08/moxy-moxy-canadian-hard-rock-1977-flac.html

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