Electric Flag - An American Music Band / A Long Time Comin' (1968-69 us, psychedelic blues soul rock masterpieces)

I was suppoose to add the Joe Viglione's fantastic reviews about these two albums, but it got me when I started to listen 'm again ( I own the vinyl version), Bloomfield's guitar is ..just heavenly, my man Nick the Greek is singing like raging lava, Buddy Miles beats the hell out of his drums and all the band stands in their highest level.  This was about 44 years ago, the music that flows into the grooves hasn't  lost any drop of its magic. If you haven't got (by fault I presume) these two masterpieces don't make any further mistakes, just get them, add them to your audio player, close your eyes and let the music guide you.

Tracks
1969  An American Music Band
1. Soul Searchin' - 2:58
2. Sunny - 3:58
3. With Time There Is Change - 3:15
4. Nothing to Do - 4:20
5. See to Your Neighbour - 2:34
6. Qualified - 2:59
7. Hey Little Girl - 2:37
8. Mystery - 2:55
9. My Woman Hangs Around the House - 3:15
1968  A Long Time Comin'
10.Killing Floor - 4:10
11.Groovin' Is Easy - 3:03
12.Over-Lovin' You - 2:10
13.She Should Have Just - 5:01
14.Wine - 3:12
15.Texas - 4:46
16.Sittin' in Circles - 3:51
17.You Don't Realize - 4:58
18.Another Country - 8:44
19.Easy Rider - 0:51

Musicians
1968  A Long Time Comin'
*Mike Bloomfield – Guitar, Vocals
*Buddy Miles – Drums, Vocals
*Barry Goldberg – Keyboards
*Harvey Brooks – Bass
*Nick Gravenites – Vocals, Guitar
*Herbie Rich – Organ, Baritone Saxophone, Guitar, Vocals
*Michael Fonfara – Keyboards
*Marcus Doubleday – Trumpet
*Peter Strazza – Tenor Saxophone
*Stemsy Hunter – Alto Saxophone
*Richie Havens – Percussion, Sitar
*Sivuca – Guitar, Percussion
*Paul Beaver – Keyboards, Moog Synthesizer
*Leo Daruczek – Strings
*Charles Mccracken – Strings
*Bobby Notkoff – Strings
*Julius Held – Strings
*Roy Segal – Engineer
*Jim Marshall – Cover Photo
*Joe Church – Percussion, Producer
*John Court – Percussion, Vocals, Producer

1969  An American Music Band
*Harvey Brooks - Bass, Guitars, Tenor Sax, Vocals
*Terry Clements – Tenor Saxophone
*Marcus Doubleday - Trumpet
*Virgil Gonsalves - Flute, Baritone, Soprano Horn, Wind
*Nick Gravenites  - Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
*Stemsy Hunter - Alto Saxophone, Vocals
*Buddy Miles - Drums, Vocals
*Herbie Rich - Guitar, Horn, Keyboards, Organ, Tenor  Saxophone, Vocals
*John Simon - Horn, Organ, Piano,
*Roger Troy - Bass
*Hoshal Wright - Guitar

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Brownsville Station - School Punks (1974 uk, sharp hard boogie glam rock, Wounded Bird issue)

Flush from the success of "Smokin' in the Boys Room," which climbed all the way to number three on the pop charts, Brownsville Station was eager to keep the party going, deciding the best way to do so was to capitalize on the juvenile delinquent image they captured so perfectly on their big breakthrough.

Hence, the title of their quickly released follow-up is School Punks; the illustrated cover pictures the trio all decked out in leather in front of a graffiti-ridden school wall; the opening cut, "Kings of the Party," references the hit; "Meet Me on the Fourth Floor" rewrites it; and "Mama Don't Allow No Parkin'" and "Fast Phyllis" tell similar tales of high-school misadventures.

Unlike Yeah!, which had only two originals, School Punks is heavy on new material from Cub Koda and Michael Lutz, which are punctuated by well-chosen covers like Geno Washington's "I Get So Excited," a blues medley of "I've Got Love if You Want It/I'm a King Bee," and Gary Glitter's "I'm the Leader of the Gang." The other big change is that Koda has become the unofficial leader of the band. He sang "Smokin' in the Boys Room" and he sings everything here with the exception of the cover of Dee Clark's "Hey Little Girl," which Lutz sings.

Cub gives the band an appealing, funny, down-and-dirty persona that suits the band's heavier attack on School Punks. While there's nothing as undeniable as "Smokin' in the Boys Room," "Kings of the Party" and "I'm the Leader of the Gang" are rampaging rockers, "Ostritch" is a very funny stomping country-rocker, the band gets to stretch out on the blues medley, and the whole record just feels like one nonstop party.
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracks
1. Kings of the Party (Koda, Weck, Lutz) - 4:16
2. Mama Don't Allow No Parkin' (Koda, Lutz) - 3:07
3. Meet Me on the Fourth Floor (Koda, Lutz) - 2:58
4. Fast Phyllis (Koda, Morris, Lutz) - 2:40
5. I Get So Excited. (Gordon, Grant) - 2:55
6. Ostritch (Koda, Lutz) - 2:53
7. I Got It Bad for You (Koda, Lutz) - 2:32
8. Hey Little Girl (Stevenson, Blackwell) - 2:04
9. I've Got Love if You Want It/I'm a King Bee (Moore) - 4:07
10. I'm the Leader of the Gang (Glitter, Leander) - 3:20

Brownsville Station
*Cub Koda - Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica
*Michael Lutz - Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
*Henri "H-Bomb" Weck - Drums, Vocals

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