Friday, May 16, 2008

Sir Lord Baltimore-Kingdom Come / Sir Lord Baltimore




Info by Wiki:

Sir Lord Baltimore are a pioneering American heavy metal band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 1968 by lead vocalist/drummer John Garner, guitarist Louis Dambra, and bass player Gary Justin.
Having first met in high school, Garner, Dambra, and bassist Gary Justin started rehearsing together in 1968.At the time of their formation, Dambra (as Louis Caine) was also playing for a group called The Koala, who released an eponymous LP in 1969. Additionally, Justin has cited Cream's Jack Bruce as an influence on his early career choice.
After a relatively short time, the new band auditioned for Mike Appel, who was then working as a talent scout and would later launch and manage the career of Bruce Springsteen. Appel agreed to mentor them, reportedly gave them the name Sir Lord Baltimore, and would later co-write and co-produce their debut album.
That album, Kingdom Come, was recorded at Vantone Studios in West Orange, New Jersey, with Jim Cretecos serving as Appel's co-producer. Additional mixing was done at New York, New York's Jimi Hendrix Electric Lady Studios by legendary engineer Eddie Kramer, better known for his work with Jimi Hendrix, KISS, and many others. According to Appel, British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd had the opportunity to hear Sir Lord Baltimore during these sessions, and were reportedly impressed.
Sir Lord Baltimore (1971)Released on Mercury Records in 1970, Kingdom Come featured very fast-paced rock 'n' roll with high levels of distortion in the guitar and, in some cases, the bass, and extensive multi-tracking to further enhance the guitar sound.Though this style of rock 'n' roll would become popular in later years, it was considerably different from the majority of that era's contemporary rock music.
On February 19-20, 1971, Sir Lord Baltimore played consecutive nights at New York's Fillmore East as the opening act on a bill that included The J. Geils Band and Black Sabbath, as part of the latter's Paranoid tour. (Sir Lord Baltimore played additional dates on this tour, as well.A photo of the band used in the Fillmore East's programs was later used as the cover of their 2006 reunion album, Sir Lord Baltimore III Raw.
In May 1971, Mike Saunders (of later Angry Samoans fame) wrote a favorable review of Kingdom Come for Creem magazine. Of historical note was Saunders' assertion that "...Sir Lord Baltimore seems to have down pat most all the best heavy metal tricks in the book." To date, this appears to have been the first printed use of the term "heavy metal" to reference a musical genre.
Issued the same year, and again on Mercury, Sir Lord Baltimore marked a change in direction, with Kingdom Come's frenetic pace giving way to slower-tempoed songs more reminiscent of music produced by the band's hard rock peers. Sir Lord Baltimore expanded to a four-piece for this album, with Louis Dambra's brother, Joey Dambra, joining as a second guitarist.Furthermore, Sir Lord Baltimore contains the band's only officially released live recording, "Where Are We Going.
Their career started to fade after Sir Lord Baltimore's release, and Mercury dropped them shortly thereafter. The band publicly blamed drugs on its initial downfall, with low record sales and non-payment of royalties also being cited.However, the band did start work in the mid-1970s for an unreleased third album originally scheduled for 1976, and music written for that project was eventually used on Sir Lord Baltimore III Raw.

About the album:

Kingdom Come/Sir Lord Baltimore is the first compilation album by American heavy metal band Sir Lord Baltimore, released on Polygram in 1994 and on Red Fox in 2003. It contains Sir Lord Baltimore's first two studio albums, 1970's Kingdom Come and 1971's Sir Lord Baltimore. However, it uses a different track listing than the source material, transposing the original records' A- and B-sides.
This compilation featured the same cover image used on Kingdom Come, only with that album's title removed.

Sir Lord Baltimore-Two Albums. Kingdom Come / Sir Lord Baltimore
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1 Kingdom Come
2 I Got A Woman
3 Hell Hound
4 Helium Head
5 Ain't Got Hung On You
6 Master Heartache
7 Hard Rain Fallin'
8 Lady Of Fire
9 Lake Isle Of Innersfree
10 Pumped Up
11 Chicago Lives
12 Loe And Behold
13 Woman Tamer
14 Caesar LXXI
15 Man From Manhattan
16 Where Are We Going

pt1:rapidshare.com/files/115429120/srl-pt1.zip.html
pt2:www.zshare.net/download/12135730389a395f/
ps: echoesof-the-past.blogspot.com

1 comment:

f stones said...

They were as good as the bands of that time for sure. With the right break they would have been huge. They were ahead of others with the heavy Metal sound. Love listening to there music