Denmark’s premier hippie band, Young Flowers were formed in the immediate wake of Hendrix’s first performance in Copenhagen. Original guitarist Jens Dahl and drummer Ken Gudmann were in support band The Defenders on that epochal occasion, and summarily assembled Young Flowers with bassist Peter Ingemann. After releasing the thudding, Cream-y single Like Birds/City Of Friends, Dahl suddenly quit; the recruitment of guitarist Per Frost made for the perfect alchemy.
Take Warning collates everything the band recorded between 1968-1970: that debut single, both albums (Blomsterpistolen and No 2), three tracks recorded for a Danish film of Quiet Days In Clichy and some haywire, colossally exciting live performances drenched in wah-wah that posit them as a more personable Edgar Broughton Band.
They ostensibly considered themselves as blues-rockers – 25 Øre is On The Road Again by any other name, while their flailing version of You Upset Me Baby sounds like they’re sweeping the floor with their own hair. And Who Should I Be is, however, proper hard psych with its heavily accented vocals and indiscriminate slathering of jet-stream phasing. Slow Down Driver is as thick-set as May Blitz until multi-tracked Arabic guitar parts niggle the track to death, while Kragerne Vender is a glowering jam with Burning Red Ivanhoe.
by Oregano Rathbone, 13 August 2012
Tracks
Disc 1
1. Overture / Take Warning (Peter Ingemann, Jens Henrik Dahl, Ken Gudman, Walt Whitman) - 4:30
2. The Moment Life Appeared (Peter Ingemann, Ken Gudman, Peer Frost, Walt Whitman) - 2:30
3. 25 Øre (Peer Frost, Jørgen Larsen) - 8:02
4. Oppe I Træet (Peter Ingemann, Thomas Winding) - 3:31
5. To You (Peter Ingemann, Walt Whitman) - 2:07
6. Down Along The Cove (Bob Dylan) - 4:04
7. April '68 (Peter Ingemann, Ken Gudman, Peer Frost) - 8:56
8. Like Birds (Jens Henrik Dahl, Ken Gudman, Peter Ingemann) - 3:23
9. City Of Friends (Jens Henrik Dahl, Ken Gudman, Peter Ingemann) - 3:10
10.Behind The Golden Sun (Ken Gudman, Peer Frost, Peter Ingemann) - 2:18
11.Menilmontant (Ken Gudman, Peer Frost, Peter Ingemann) - 4:09
12.Party Beat (Ken Gudman, Peer Frost, Peter Ingemann) - 4:08
Tracks 1-7 from "Blomsterpistolen" LP 1968
Tracks 8-9 from 1967
Tracks 10-12 from the film "Quiet Days In Clichy" 1970
Disc 2
1. You Upset Me Baby (B.B. King) - 3:52
2. And Who But I Should Be (Niels Ringling, Peter Ingemann, Walt Whitman) - 5:33
3. Calypso (Niels Skousen, Peter Ingemann) - 2:49
4. Won't You Take My Place In The Queue (Niels Skousen, Peter Ingemann, Ken Gudman, Peer Frost) - 5:20
5. Slow Down Driver (Niels Skousen, Peter Ingemann, Ken Gudman, Peer Frost) - 5:28
6. The Daybreak (Niels Skousen, Peter Ingemann, Ken Gudman, Peer Frost) - 6:10
7. Kragerne Vender (Free Form Jam Session with Burnin Red Ivanhoe) - 10:40
8. Hey Princess (Niels Skousen, Peter Ingemann, Ken Gudman, Peer Frost) - 4:31
9. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Bob Dylan) - 3:24
10.Won't You Sit Down (Niels Skousen, Peter Ingemann, Ken Gudman, Peer Frost) - 7:07
Tracks 1-7 from "No. 2" LP 1969
Bonus Tracks 8-10 Live, Århus Stadionhal, 25 Sep 1969
Young Flowers
*Peter Ingemann - Bass, Vocals
*Peer Frost - Guitar
*Ken Gudman - Drums
*Jens Dahl - Guitar
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