Episode #63 – Trapeze – You Are The Music, We’re Just The Band

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  • Oct. 11, 1998
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Lead up to the Album:

• This was their last album with the lineup of Hughes, Galley, Holland.
• First album not produced by John Lodge of the Moody Blues who had produced the first two
• Songs split evenly between Hughes solo compositions and Mel/Tom Galley compositions.

Personnel

• Bass, Piano, Vocals – Glenn Hughes

• Drums, Percussion – David Holland*

• Guitar – Mel Galley

• B. J. Cole – steel guitar on “Keepin’ Time” and “Coast to Coast”
  • http://www.bjcole.co.uk/
  • Prolific session musician with Elton John (plays on “Tiny Dancer”), Kiki Dee, Uriah Heep, Cat Stevens
• Rod Argent – electric piano on “Coast to Coast”, piano on “Feelin’ So Much Better Now”
  • http://www.rodargent.com/
  • Played in a band called The Zombies, long solo career
• Kirk Duncan – electric piano on “What Is a Woman’s Role”
  • Played with The Moody Blues, The Spencer Davis Group
• John Ogden – percussion on “What Is a Woman’s Role”
  • Main credit, also played on Trapeze’s “Hot Wire” album
• Frank Ricotti – vibraphone on “Will Our Love End”
  • http://www.superbrass.co.uk/meet-superbrass/frank-ricotti/
  • https://musicianbio.org/frank-ricotti/
  • Very prolific session musician, played with Hans Zimmer, Mark Knopfler, Rick Wakeman, Oasis, Meat Loaf
• Jimmy Hastings – alto saxophone on “Will Our Love End”
  • http://www.jimmyhastings.co.uk/
  • Played extensively with UK prog band Caravan, 

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Photography By [Back Cover]
  • Carl Dunn
    • Album art for Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Who
  • Fin Costello
    • Covered in numerous episodes.

• Photography By [Front Cover] – Carl Dunn

Technical:

• Engineer
  • Dave Grinstead*
    • Worked with John Mayall, The Moody Blues, David Bowie
  • John Burns
    • http://www.johnnieburns.co.uk/
    • Worked with Genesis, Traffic, Jethro Tull’s first 3 albums
  • John Burns (2)
    • https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-burns-24546744/
    • If one is incorrect it may be this one.  Credits mostly start in late 70s.  Says on his Discogs not to be confused with the other John Burns.
• Producer – Neil Slaven
  • Nickname of Neil “The Curmudgeon” Slaven
  • Would produce later Trapeze albums post-Hughes “The Loser” and “The Final Swing”
  • Worked with John Lee Hooker, Otis Rush, Peter Green, and John Mayall

Album Tracks:

Side one:

1. Keepin’ Time (M. Galley, T. Galley)
   • Steel Guitar – B.J. Cole*
2. Coast To Coast (Hughes)
   • Electric Piano – Rod Argent
   • Steel Guitar – B.J. Cole*
3. What Is a Woman’s Role (Hughes)
   • Electric Piano – Kirk Dungan*
   • Percussion – John Ogden
4. Way Back To The Bone (Hughes)

Side two:

1. Feelin’ So Much Better Now (Hughes)
   • Organ – Rod Argent
2. Will Your Love End (Hughes)
   • Alto Saxophone – Jimmy Hastings
   • Vibraphone [Vibes] – Frank Ricotti
3. Loser (M. Galley, T. Galley)
4. You Are The Music (M. Galley, T. Galley)

For Further Information:

• TRAPEZE – A BRIEF HISTORY (1969-1994)
• Glenn Hughes The Autobiography: From Deep Purple to Black Country Communion by Glenn Hughes

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