Frijid Pink - "Frijid Pink" (1970) - Parrot Records
Hello Friends,
Tiki T. and I picked this little treasure up at a flea market over the summer. We got home, poured ourselves some drinks and dropped the needle down only to be emotionally devastated when we realized the copy of the record we just bought was warped and littered with skips!
ARGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Now its winter and we're freezing our asses off! Luckily, we found another, more pristine copy on Ebay and we just couldn't say no!
So crank up the distortion to 10, kids, the order of the Universe has been restored!
Frijid Pink's debut album is an unsung psych-blues rock classic! This band was so well received in their hometown of Detroit that they shared bills with such legendary acts as The Stooges, The MC5 and The Amboy Dukes; they even had a British band of young upstarts going by the name of Led Zeppelin opening for them at Detroit's Grande Ballroom. Motor City madness!
The opener "God Gave Me You", a bluesy ballad, features some passionate growling vocals by lead singer Kelly Green which builds up to a blistering guitar solo. The songs, "Crying Shame" and "Drivin' Blues" both sound very Cream influenced. (Tiki T. hears a lot of "Tales of Brave Ulysses" on the former!) "I'm On My Way" is a fun boogie-blues number which includes vocal shout-outs to blues-rock contemporaries like Canned Heat & Savoy Brown (who were also Parrot Records labelmates.)
The album's high point is the band's cover of "House of the Rising Sun". It cranks!
"I Want To Be Your Lover" sounds like a second-rate (and white) Otis Redding imitator singing lead for Big Brother & The Holding Company.
The album closes out with the slow boozy blues number, "Boozin' Blues" featuring some good old fashioned Motor City shredding on lead guitar courtesy of Gary Ray Thompson-- another unsung guitar hero!
RATING: 4.5 Gotta hit another city, get drunk, before I get home out of 5
Tiki T. and I picked this little treasure up at a flea market over the summer. We got home, poured ourselves some drinks and dropped the needle down only to be emotionally devastated when we realized the copy of the record we just bought was warped and littered with skips!
ARGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Now its winter and we're freezing our asses off! Luckily, we found another, more pristine copy on Ebay and we just couldn't say no!
So crank up the distortion to 10, kids, the order of the Universe has been restored!
Frijid Pink's debut album is an unsung psych-blues rock classic! This band was so well received in their hometown of Detroit that they shared bills with such legendary acts as The Stooges, The MC5 and The Amboy Dukes; they even had a British band of young upstarts going by the name of Led Zeppelin opening for them at Detroit's Grande Ballroom. Motor City madness!
The opener "God Gave Me You", a bluesy ballad, features some passionate growling vocals by lead singer Kelly Green which builds up to a blistering guitar solo. The songs, "Crying Shame" and "Drivin' Blues" both sound very Cream influenced. (Tiki T. hears a lot of "Tales of Brave Ulysses" on the former!) "I'm On My Way" is a fun boogie-blues number which includes vocal shout-outs to blues-rock contemporaries like Canned Heat & Savoy Brown (who were also Parrot Records labelmates.)
The album's high point is the band's cover of "House of the Rising Sun". It cranks!
"I Want To Be Your Lover" sounds like a second-rate (and white) Otis Redding imitator singing lead for Big Brother & The Holding Company.
The album closes out with the slow boozy blues number, "Boozin' Blues" featuring some good old fashioned Motor City shredding on lead guitar courtesy of Gary Ray Thompson-- another unsung guitar hero!
RATING: 4.5 Gotta hit another city, get drunk, before I get home out of 5
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