If you have not heard of Screaming Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, you are certainly missing out on some serious rock history. A must have!
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Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends is the debut album of English rock singer Screaming Lord Sutch. It was recorded in September 1969 at Mystic Studios in Hollywood and released on Atlantic Records on May 25, 1970. The album featured an all-star line-up with contributions from Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page (who also produced the album) and John Bonham, guitarist Jeff Beck, session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, and Jimi Hendrix Experience bass-player Noel Redding. Rick Brown and Carlo Little were previously with The Savages. Many of the musicians who sessioned for Sutch on this album had grave misgivings upon its release. They were under the assumption these were demo quality recordings. As a result the artists disowned the project and the album did poorly saleswise. It also seriously damaged Sutch's reputation with the musicians involved.
During the 1960s, Screaming Lord Sutch was known for his horror-themed stage show, as well as for usually dressing as Jack the Ripper, pre-dating the shock rock antics of Alice Cooper by several years. Accompanied by his band, The Savages, he often started the show by coming out of a big black coffin. Other stage props included knives and daggers, skulls, and "bodies". Sutch also booked 'themed' concert tours, such as 'Sutch and the Roman Empire', where Sutch and the band members would be dressed up as Roman soldiers.
Despite his self-confessed lack of any vocal talent, he released many horror themed singles during the early- to mid-'60s, the most popular and well known of which is "Jack the Ripper", which has been covered both live and on record by many garage rock bands over the years, including the White Stripes, The Black Lips and The Horrors for their debut album, Strange House.
British rock and roll musician and maverick political party leader who influenced a generation of shock-rock musicians and enlivened British politics for more than 35 years as the eccentric and colourful leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party; although Sutch (who officially took the forename Lord in 1977) ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in every election from 1963, many of his policies later gained widespread acceptance, including lowering the voting age to 18, establishing local and commercial radio, and issuing passports to pets.
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If you have not heard of Screaming Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, you are certainly missing out on some serious rock history. A must have!
Listen to all tracks!
Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends is the debut album of English rock singer Screaming Lord Sutch. It was recorded in September 1969 at Mystic Studios in Hollywood and released on Atlantic Records on May 25, 1970. The album featured an all-star line-up with contributions from Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page (who also produced the album) and John Bonham, guitarist Jeff Beck, session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, and Jimi Hendrix Experience bass-player Noel Redding. Rick Brown and Carlo Little were previously with The Savages. Many of the musicians who sessioned for Sutch on this album had grave misgivings upon its release. They were under the assumption these were demo quality recordings. As a result the artists disowned the project and the album did poorly saleswise. It also seriously damaged Sutch's reputation with the musicians involved.
During the 1960s, Screaming Lord Sutch was known for his horror-themed stage show, as well as for usually dressing as Jack the Ripper, pre-dating the shock rock antics of Alice Cooper by several years. Accompanied by his band, The Savages, he often started the show by coming out of a big black coffin. Other stage props included knives and daggers, skulls, and "bodies". Sutch also booked 'themed' concert tours, such as 'Sutch and the Roman Empire', where Sutch and the band members would be dressed up as Roman soldiers.
Despite his self-confessed lack of any vocal talent, he released many horror themed singles during the early- to mid-'60s, the most popular and well known of which is "Jack the Ripper", which has been covered both live and on record by many garage rock bands over the years, including the White Stripes, The Black Lips and The Horrors for their debut album, Strange House.
British rock and roll musician and maverick political party leader who influenced a generation of shock-rock musicians and enlivened British politics for more than 35 years as the eccentric and colourful leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party; although Sutch (who officially took the forename Lord in 1977) ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in every election from 1963, many of his policies later gained widespread acceptance, including lowering the voting age to 18, establishing local and commercial radio, and issuing passports to pets.
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