This version of the group lasted for a pair of poorly recordings, 1975’s Newborn and 1976’s Jesse Come Home before the band broke up for good. " The James Gang decided to call it quits after Tommy’s departure, but not for long, as Fox and Peters launched a new version of the group in 1975 with Bubba Keith on vocals and guitar, and Richard Shack on guitar. The saving grace was actually that he recorded Cobham's Spectrum album and became an overnight sensation (whilst a member of the James Gang)-a "musician's musician"-people like Jeff Beck wanting to come and meet him etc.īolin left because he had enough of the un-interested drummer("the drummer wanted to be an accountant sitting with a calculator behind the drum set) and upstaging/in fighting by Roy Kenner (there's also a story about fights over some gal that Tommy whipped away from Kenner) After walking out of Zephyr and the failure of Energy to secure a record deal, it was almost like Tommy was down and out and had to eat some humble pie and "join the enemy" and sell his soul. It was something that Zephyr would laugh up their sleeves at. You see Zephyr always considered the bands like the Gang to have sold out and were on the gravy train -maxim commercialism. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. maybe the James Gang 2000 CD will sound better to me in a day or two.Ĭlick to expand.You know Tommy had a few restless nights deciding to Join the Gang. Maybe this CD sounds a lot better on a Macintosh tube system than my modest Japanese solid state gear? Maybe everything sounds better on such a nice system?Īh well, I'm recalibrating my ears this afternoon with some good stuff like Steve's MCA LP of Howlin' Wolf (WOW, sounds great!) and some Elvis Costello Rhino CDs. I was prompted to get this CD (low risk for $5.99) based on Eddie Williamson's recommendation that the 2000 remasters by Ted Jensen are worth getting, but checking out Eddie's profile shows that his system is in a different league than mine. Maybe my expectation was wrong and that's just the way those songs were recorded back in 1971? But then again I have Joe Walsh's 1978 "But Seriously, Folks." on LP, which Bill Szymczyk also worked on, and it sounds a lot better than what I'm hearing on the first track of this James Gang CD. Artist: James Gang Title: Thirds Year Of Release: 1990 Label: MCA Special Products / One Way Records Genre: hard rock, funk rock Quality: FLAC (tracks+. The bass seemed way too emphasized so that everything just kind of got strangled in the bass notes, including the vocals. It seemed that the drums were anemic, with no punch as I'd expected.
I expected the mix of this song to be a lot more open and dynamic, rather than compressed, flat, and lifeless - I got about halfway through "Walk Away" and was so disappointed with how compressed and un-dynamic (not a word?) it sounded that I stopped the CD and ejected. I have never owned "Walk Away" in any format, but I'm very familiar with it from the radio. I just received that 2000 greatest hits CD from in the mail today.