Your favorite Rockers that employed that big sound....Wind instruments, flutes & HORNS.
HERE & NOW!!
To start, here is a Cleveland group that most don't know...
RASTUS
...including myself until RW turned me on to them. Their only claim to fame were a few poorly selling albums and playing the opening of Rock & ROll Hall.
They were one of the hotest LIVE bands around....they opened for Sly & The Family Stone for a couple weeks until Sly let them go. A band member puzzled...the audience loved their opening act. Sly said (I'm paraphrasing), "Sorry man...You're supposed to warm up the audience, but you're too damn HOT. They don't want US after you!!" They made headliners sound tepid by comparison.
The late Andy Kulberg should also be included. A great piece of jazz/rock from the Blues Project (although Al Kooper had quit the band by the time this was filmed.)
I remember growing up listening to FLUTE THING...very nice!
One of my favorite FAVORITE FAVORITE ALL TIME BANDS EVER....A JOHN MAYLL FAVE TOO...HE WROTE THE LINER NOTES ON THEIR FIRST ALBUM! Of course they had their BRILLIANT electric violinist to go with all those horns!!
pretty unknown Mercury recording artists from my home state....they were from Cedar Rapids Iowa (30 miles from me) but their music spanned the country. Iowan Steve Miller (RIP) jammed on his Hammond with the likes of Muddy Waters and Otis Span.
They are thought of as a California band where they moved to "make it" if they could....just a really different sound......these guys really are something to check out!!!
Linn County formed around 1967 in Linn County, Iowa, USA as the Linn County Blues Band. In 1968, the band signed with Mercury Records, moved to San Francisco, California, and changed its name to Linn County. They released their first album Proud Flesh Soothseer in 1968 and toured, performing with bands and people such as: Albert King, Led Zeppelin, Sly & the Family Stone, Eric Burdon & the Animals and Ten Years After. They never became too well known. The band broke up after Clark Pierson left with Janis Joplin.
Linn County released three albums from 1968 to 1970. Over the course of their existence, they had six band members.-wiki
BRAINCHILD - Healing Of The Lunatic Owl - LP (A&M AMLS 979)
Brainchild is a septet that recorded their sole album Healing Of The Lunatic Owl in western London in 1970 on the A&M label. The album contains sizzling brass rock, which must rank among the best of the genre (early Chicago and If), but also with the much more obscure and even more brilliant Warm Dust and Galliard. Brainchild's line-up was basically your standard prog quartet, plus a three-man wind instrument section, including flute, sax, trumpet and trombone.
Not much is known of the member's previous and future musical endeavours. Apparently Brainchild's album has yet to see a Cd reissue...
