Rock Archeologia

Pacific Gas & Electric • Get It On • 1968

Band: Pacific Gas & Electric 
Album: Get It OnThe digital re-masters embodied
in this compilation are
Ⓟ & © 2008 Ace Records Ltd.
Made in the UK
Year: 1968 / 2008 
Genre: Rock, R&B, Blues, Soul 
Quality: 320 Kbp/s 
Covers: JPG 300 dpi, Full Scan 
Total Time: 01:18:52

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The first CD release of this acclaimed Bay Area blues-rock band's 1968 debut album issued on Kent Record's short-lived Bright Orange subsidiary, plus unissued tracks and alternate takes from the same sessions.

 
The debut album of the five-member Pacific Gas & Electric reveals a nimble little blues band with a great shouter for a lead singer. Far less lumbering than the band became on their better-known major-label recordings, the Modern release of Get It On begins with the kind of maximum R&B bang that few American rock groups beyond the MC5 or Young Rascals would have been able to muster: a six-minute version of "Wade in the Water" that careens through its six long minutes with power and just enough balance between control and chaos. (The track was billed as being recorded "live," but it was actually a studio creation with overdubs.) Lead singer Charlie Allen was a charismatic force up front, and lead guitarist Glenn Schwartz, a transplant from Cleveland and the James Gang, matched Allen's charisma with his solos. If they have a weakness on Get It On, it's the rhythm section, which despite including Frank Wilson of Canned Heat, can't always keep up with Allen or Schwartz, and sounds pretty stiff in comparison.

   ♪ Треклист:

1. Wade In The Water (Pover 1701) - 6:11
2. Cry, Cry, Cry - 5:26
3. The Motor City Is Burning - 6:48
4. The Hunter - 3:23
5. Long Handled Shovel - 3:35
6. Jelly, Jelly - 6:40
7. Stormy Times - 2:45
8. Live Love (Pover 1701) - 3:24
 • Bonus Tracks: Previously unissued (2008)
9. My Sweet Baby (take 6) - 2:47
10. Dirty Mistreater (take 2) - 2:59
11. Wade In The Water (Undubbed version) - 4:52
12. Cry, Cry, Cry (take 2) - 6:21
13. Stormy Times (take 9) - 2:44
14. Long Handled Shovel (take 8) - 3:52
15. Jelly Jelly (take 1) - 7:28
16. The Hunter (take 1) - 5:04
17. Blues Chant (take 2) - 3:34

  

Mastered by Duncan Cowell; 
audio restoration by Rob Shread at Sound Mastering Ltd.

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