Steve Drake Band "Easten Wind"1976 US Prog Rock
- 11 years ago
From album Steve Drake Band "Nature Intended" 1976 US.
'Eastern Wind'. Nice mix of pop sensibilities, tasty slide guitar, and light psych moves. Someone out there knows where this one came from.
You have to look to Palmer Rockey or Alexander Spence to find an LP with an artifact buzz to challenge this unbelievable item. A young New Yorker, a pathological liar and con artist, creates a fictious rock star career by stealing other people's music, and then unexpectedly meets his match in the most dishonest, crooked record label of all time! In terms of artist and label combinations, nothing can match the meeting between 'Steve Drake' and Tiger Lily. I have written about the whole bizarre story in Ugly Things magazine; suffice it to say that this karaoke rock extravaganza proves that in the rock music business, things were as weird and 'anything goes' in the mid-1970s as they were in the mid-50s. The two Steve Drake LPs floated around on rare dealer lists for a good dozen years, usually commanding high prices since they are pretty rare, before the actual story behind them (and the even rarer Steve Kaczorowski LP) was broken by myself in 2006, with some input from Rockadelic Rich and a couple of Drake's old band buddies from Long Island. Nature Intended is ridiculously schizophrenic, ranging from ballsy guitar-rock to orchestrated soft-prog, and despite the 'Steve Drake' credit, some tracks feature female lead vocals -- incidentally, Jennie Haan from UK band Babe Ruth, who unknowingly supplied music for Drake's karaoke scheme, alongside Stackridge, Be-Bop Deluxe, and others. This is a priceless item to pull out when music-interested friends are over for a stoned or drunk evening, where the parallel train derailments of Drake and Tiger Lily can fuel philosophical debates into the wee hours..
'Eastern Wind'. Nice mix of pop sensibilities, tasty slide guitar, and light psych moves. Someone out there knows where this one came from.
You have to look to Palmer Rockey or Alexander Spence to find an LP with an artifact buzz to challenge this unbelievable item. A young New Yorker, a pathological liar and con artist, creates a fictious rock star career by stealing other people's music, and then unexpectedly meets his match in the most dishonest, crooked record label of all time! In terms of artist and label combinations, nothing can match the meeting between 'Steve Drake' and Tiger Lily. I have written about the whole bizarre story in Ugly Things magazine; suffice it to say that this karaoke rock extravaganza proves that in the rock music business, things were as weird and 'anything goes' in the mid-1970s as they were in the mid-50s. The two Steve Drake LPs floated around on rare dealer lists for a good dozen years, usually commanding high prices since they are pretty rare, before the actual story behind them (and the even rarer Steve Kaczorowski LP) was broken by myself in 2006, with some input from Rockadelic Rich and a couple of Drake's old band buddies from Long Island. Nature Intended is ridiculously schizophrenic, ranging from ballsy guitar-rock to orchestrated soft-prog, and despite the 'Steve Drake' credit, some tracks feature female lead vocals -- incidentally, Jennie Haan from UK band Babe Ruth, who unknowingly supplied music for Drake's karaoke scheme, alongside Stackridge, Be-Bop Deluxe, and others. This is a priceless item to pull out when music-interested friends are over for a stoned or drunk evening, where the parallel train derailments of Drake and Tiger Lily can fuel philosophical debates into the wee hours..