Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Things Found on my Local's Jukebox # 22 Eric Burdon & The Animals


Not found by me but by one of the regulars. This led me to buy the album it comes from when I spotted it at a Record Fair in Newcastle on Saturday. It's a quite remarkable document. Good Times is by far the most conventional thing on it. The rest is incredible, sealed with in its time and space hippie philosophising. Burdon's ego is clearly completely out of control but for those who like this kind of hippie kitsch it has its fascination. Most of the time he seems to want to come over as a Rock and Roll Richard Burton and not even bother to sing. Sill I like quite a bit of his stuff from this period; this, San Franciscan Nights and White Houses particularly.



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