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• A package for John! Is it material?

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• A package with two (2) very special T-shirts straight from CT!

History:

• Cennaro and Pugh were looking for a drummer and Aynsley Dunbar recommended Caldwell.
• They got together and started rehearsing in late 1974.
• Cennaro had long been friends with Peter Frampton who was able to put them in touch with a record label. They were initially managed by Frampton’s manager Dee Anthony then later Jerry Weintraub who managed Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan.

Core Band:

• Arranged By – Bobby Caldwell (2), Martin Pugh
• Bass Guitar, Bass Guitar [Electric Bowed] – Louis Cennamo
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Herd_(British_band)
  • Was in The Herd with Peter Frampton
  • Bassist with Relf in Renaissance and worked with Pugh in Steamhammer
• Drums, Vocals, Piano, Percussion [Assorted] – Bobby Caldwell (2)
  • From Johnny Winter and Captain Beyond
• Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Martin Pugh
  • Lead guitar with Rod Steweart on the album “An Old raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down” and with Cennamo Steamhammer
• Vocals, Harmonica [Harp] – Keith Relf
  • In The Yardbirds and Renaissance

Technical:

• Engineer – Doug Bennett
  • work with The Stranglers. He also works with many more artists such as Rolling Stones, Stiff Little Fingers, George Hatcher Band, Buzzcocks, Liam Howlett 
• Producer – Armageddon (6)
• Tape Op [Tape Recorder] – Nigel Brooke-Harte
  • Worked with a band called Alkatraz (not Alcatrazz), The Stranglers, Motorhead, and Barbara Streitsand.

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Art Direction – Roland Young (3)
  • Did a ton of work for album covers including for Sonny & Cher, Cheech & Chong, Billy Preston, Herb Alpert, Carole King, and many more.
• Design – Joe Garnett

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. Buzzard (Caldwell, Pugh, Relf)
2. Silver Tightrope (Caldwell, Pugh, Relf)
3. Paths and Planes and Future Gains (Caldwell, Pugh, Relf)

Side Two:

4. Last Stand Before (Caldwell, Pugh, Cennamo, Relf)
5. Basking in the White of the Midnight Sun (Caldwell, Pugh, Relf)
   • a) Warning Coming On (1:00)
   • b) Basking in the White of the Midnight Sun (3:03)
   • c) Brother Ego (5:10)
   • d) Basking in the White of the Midnight Sun (Reprise) (2:18)

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Bustin’ Out The Spreadsheet

Reception and Charts:

• The band broke up shortly after the album release.
• Caldwell stated that the band had continued issues communicating with the band’s management.
• Pugh and Caldwell also were suffering from addiction.
• The band only played live twice both at The Starwood in July of 1975 in Hollywood, CA
• .Cennamo reunited with his friends from Rennaissance under the new name Illusion.
• Caldwell returned to Captain Beyond for one more album and tour.
• Relf returned to England after the recording of the album and sadly died of electrocution in 1976 while playing guitar in his basement. He had long had lung issues and had one removed when in The Yardbirds. Medication he took to control his asthma and emphysema may have lead to him being unable to survive the shock.
• In the 1980s there was an attempt by Pugh and Caldwell to reform the group with Jeff Fenholt on vocals. The attempt was unsuccessful.
• Pugh seemed to retire from music in the late 70s.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070121004102/http://www.keithrelf.com/articles.html
  • Armageddon’s Aborted 1975 Tour With Eric Clapton 
  • One of the main reasons that Armageddon did not achieve the heights of fame realized by other equally inspired rock bands was because they never got to take their mind-blowing record on the road. But it was certainly their original intention to do so, and Armageddon’s management at the time (Jerry Weintraub) had even secured a very desirable arrangement for them: an opening slot for Eric Clapton’s 1975 tour. If you think about this prospect, two things come to mind:
    
    1) Keith Relf and Clapton had been bandmates in The Yardbirds – after ten years of going in different musical directions, it might be interesting to see them reunite for a big tour.
    
    2) It may not have been a perfect match to have Armageddon as an opening band (listen to the Armageddon album, then put on “461 Ocean Boulevard”). At that time, Clapton was re-inventing himself as an artist, favoring more of a singer – frontman role. It seems that Eric had been greatly influenced by his associations with George Harrison, The Band, and Delaney & Bonnie, and this was reflected in his music circa the mid 70’s.
    
    Unfortunately, for still unknown reasons, it was decided at the 11th hour to cancel the tour. Without a doubt, a tour of this type would have sealed their fate as rock & roll legends. But as Martin Pugh said  recently “We were anxious to go on the road, and a tour with Eric certainly had great possibilities for us. But in retrospect, Armageddon was not an opening act anyway – we really were a headlining band”.  
  • Two live performances did take place in Hollywood, CA in July of 1975 – below is an advertisment from the “LA Times” for the only Armageddon shows that ever occured:

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Album Tracks:

1988 CD Release – https://www.discogs.com/release/634373-Deep-Purple-Nobodys-Perfect

1. Highway Star
2. Strange Kind of Woman
3. Perfect Strangers
4. Hard Lovin’ Woman
5. Knocking At Your Back Door
6. Child In Time
7. Lazy
8. Black Night
9. Woman From Tokyo
10. Smoke On The Water
11. Hush

1988 2 LP Release – https://www.discogs.com/release/2816738-Deep-Purple-Nobodys-Perfect

1999 2 CD Release – https://www.discogs.com/release/3422631-Deep-Purple-Nobodys-Perfect

Disc 1:

1. Highway Star
   • Recorded in Irvine Meadows, California on 23 May 1987
2. Strange Kind of Woman
   • Recorded in Irvine Meadows, California on 23 May 1987
3. Dead or Alive
   • Recorded in Milan, Italy on 4 September 1987
   • Not on original CD Release
4. Perfect Strangers
   • Recorded in Irvine Meadows, California on 23 May 1987
5. Hard Lovin’ Woman
   • Oslo, Norway on 22 August 1987
6. Bad Attitude
   • Recorded in Phoenix, Arizona on 30 May 1987
   • Not on original CD Release
7. Knocking At Your Back Door
   • Recorded in Phoenix, Arizona on 30 May 1987

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Disc 2

1. Child In Time
   • Recorded in Oslo, Norway on 22 August 1987 and Recorded in Phoenix, Arizona on 30 May 1987??
2. Lazy
   • Recorded in Phoenix, Arizona on 30 May 1987
3. Space Trucking
   • Recorded in Oslo, Norway on 22 August 1987
   • Not on original CD Release
4. Black Night
   • Recorded in Oslo, Norway on 22 August 1987 and Recorded in Verona, Italy on 6 September 1987?
5. Woman From Tokyo
   • Recorded in Irvine Meadows, California on 23 May 1987
6. Smoke On The Water
   • Recorded in Oslo, Norway on 22 August 1987
7. Hush
   • Live Jam recorded at Hook End Manor on 26 February 1988
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_End_Recording_Studios

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody%27s_Perfect_(Deep_Purple_album)
• https://www.discogs.com/release/634373-Deep-Purple-Nobodys-Perfect
• https://www.discogs.com/release/2065740-Deep-Purple-Nobodys-Perfect
• https://www.discogs.com/release/2911846-Deep-Purple-Nobodys-Perfect
• https://musicbrainz.org/release/cf153792-365b-3a7a-b531-1062acc901d1
• Deep Purple’s Nobody’s Perfect Radio Special from 1988
• Ritchie Blackmore breaks his finger -A TV News Report from May 1987

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History:

• This band was put together for the express purpose of recording this one album.
• The man behind the idea was a German businessman, Leo Muller. The name was actually an alias used by Dave Miller who was a record producer who ran a number of budget music companies. He was actually an American.
• His budget label was called Stereo Gold Award and he also did an album called “Tribute to Jimi Hendrix by The Purple Fox.”
• Muller got in touch with Thin Lizzy to do the project.
• The group did not want to do the project as they were trying to make Thin Lizzy their own thing but they were also desperately in need of money.
• Phil Lynott decided that he wasn’t able to sing like Gillan and decided to only play bass and do backing vocals.
• The result was that they recruited a singer, Benny White, from the Dublin-based group Elmer Fudd as they were known for doing Deep Purple covers at their shows.
• Brian Downey called Benny White “an Ian Gillan clone.”
• Thin Lizzy had no keyboard player so Elmer Fudd’s keyboard player Dave “Mojo” Lennox  jumped in.
• The band members were paid 60 pounds a day to travel in to De Lane Lea in London to record the album.
• Brian Downey recalls that the rehearsals for recording took about “Two or three hours” before the full day recording session.
• Thin Lizzy were paid 1000 pounds for the recording but their names were not included on the album.

Core Band:

• Eric Bell – guitar
• Phil Lynott – bass guitar
• Brian Downey – drums
• Benny White – vocals
• Dave Lennox – keyboards
  • https://www.irish-showbands.com/Bands/elmerfudd.htm
  • https://www.facebook.com/themoondogsrock/posts/i-will-miss-dave-lennox-who-passed-away-last-week-he-was-an-exceptional-keyboard/1042737191195335/

Album Art & Booklet Review

• The band pictured on the cover is not Funky Junction as they never played live. Instead they used a concert photo of the band Hard Stuff featuring John Gustafson.
• In Germany the album was called “The Rock Machine Plays the Best of Deep Purple.
• The album was sold at Woolworths for 50p.

Notes

MER373 seen on sleeve and spine, MER 373 seen on labels. Yellow labels – on this version the ‘Made in England’ is directly below the publisher credits (there is another UK version where the text is at the label rim).

Text on back cover of LP:

Funky Junction are an exciting new group that has the pulse of today. In this tribute to Deep Purple, they play many of Purple’s hits. UK and world wide audiences are acclaiming them for the great group they are.

FUNKY JUNCTION – THE SOUND OF TODAY!

Both disc and sleeve made in UK/England.

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. Fireball
2. Dan (Leo Muller)
   • A take on the Irish traditional “Danny Boy.”
3. Black Night
4. Palamatoon (Leo Muller)
   • http://www.mushrumps.com/shrumps/FunkyJunction-Palamatoon-111.html
   • What is a Palamatoon? I have no idea but it seems to be the sound of young Thin Lizzy dicking about on synths while in the midst of making a cack-handed Deep Purple knockoff LP for the Woolworths crowd. Yes it’s that good.

Side Two:

5. Strange Kind of Woman
6. Hush
7. Rising Sun (Muller)
   • Instrumental version of “House of the Rising Sun.”
8. Speed King
9. Corina (Muller)
   • Based on traditional Irish tune “Corrina, Corinna.”

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Bustin’ Out The Spreadsheet

Reception and Charts:

• Muller would go on to use the name Funky Junction as a band name for another album in 1973: “Especially for You… credited to Gladys Knight & the Pips featuring Funky Junction.

Reviews

• Reviews on Discogs:
  • https://www.discogs.com/release/10403127-Funky-Junction-Play-A-Tribute-To-Deep-Purple
• 1996 Review from The Highway Star:
  • https://thehighwaystar.com/specials/funky/review%201.html

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For More Information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_Junction
• https://www.discogs.com/release/1496503-Funky-Junction-Play-A-Tribute-To-Deep-Purple
• https://thehighwaystar.com/specials/funky/rundown.html
• https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dl-miller-mn0001217938#biography
• https://www.thinlizzyguide.com/discography_info/information/info_album/funky_junction.htm
• https://mikeladano.com/2014/07/12/co-review-funky-junction-play-a-tribute-to-deep-purple-1973/
• https://www.irish-showbands.com/Bands/elmerfudd.htm
• https://irishrockers.com/artist/Elmer%20Fudd
• https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dl-miller-mn0001217938#biography

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