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Artist | Silverhead
Title | Silverhead
Genre | Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 71:41
Label | Purple Records Store | 2016
Catalog | PURPLE 001 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 237 kbps Size | 128.99 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Long Legged Lisa 3:40
02. Underneath The Light 5:28
03. Ace Supreme 2:58
04. Johnny 4:27
05. In Your Eyes 6:05
06. Rolling With My Baby 3:55
07. Wounded Heart 5:26
08. Sold Me Down The River 4:24
09. Rock N Roll Band 5:55
10. Silver Boogie 0:56
11. Ace Supreme (Live) (Bonus Track) 3:13
12. Rock N Roll Band (Live) (Bonus Track) 9:36
13. Sold Me Down The River (Live) (Bonus Track) 5:08
14. Ace Supreme (7" Version) (Bonus Track) 3:44
15. Oh No No No (B-Side Of 'Ace Supreme') (Bonus Track) 3:51
16. Rolling With My Baby (7" Version) (Bonus Track) 2:55
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Just like every musical movement, the original glam rock era of the early
70s spawned both renowned artists (David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex,
Slade) and bands that never caught on despite high hopes, such as Jobriath,
the New York Dolls, and Silverhead. Comprised of Michael Des Barres
(vocals), Rod Davies (percussion, vocals, guitar), Nigel Harrison (bass),
Pete Thompson (keyboards, drums), and Stevie Forest (guitar, vocals),
Silverhead signed on with Deep Purple's short-lived label, Purple Records,
in the early 70s. The British quintet's self-titled debut was issued in
1972, with production chores handled by Deep Purple/future-Iron Maiden
studio man Martin Birch. Judging from the album cover alone (which showed a
dolled-up Des Barres, posing for the camera and wearing huge bell-bottom
trousers), Des Barres was the band's leader and main focal point from the
get-go. Armed with such T. Rex-esque song titles as "Long Legged Lisa",
"Ace Supreme," and "Silver Boogie", Silverhead should have fit in perfectly
with the genre's heavy hitters, but for reasons unknown, Silverhead's debut
failed to catch on with the masses.
Before Ratt, before Hanoi Rocks, before the New York Dolls, and before a
lot of the British bands which history recalls as archetypal glam rockers,
there was Silverhead, the first and positively the greatest metal band ever
to dress up like a bunch of weird-looking hookers. "Silverhead", this
unsightly, unseemly, and unconcerned behemoth's debut album, is strutting
teenage trash of the first order. Guitars totter precariously on absurdly
high heels, the rhythms are offering knee-tremblers in a backstreet
alleyway some place, the lyrics drape lasciviously over anybody who'll hold
them up, and the riffs will spend the night with anyone.
"Long Legged Lisa", "Rolling With My Baby", and "Sold Me Down the River"
might not be the most immortal songs ever oozed onto vinyl, but they
certainly dress the sluttiest. So early in the glam rock day, it's
impossible to say who Silverhead's most palpable influences were. Marc
Bolan, of course, gets in there, but the Sweet were still chewing bubblegum
at this time, and Slade were always more of a pop band than a poison (or
even a Poison). There is unquestionably a taste of the Stones' Beggars
Banquet in sight, which is a role model we all can identify with. And the
keyboards occasionally hit Deep Purple territory - "Underneath The Light",
stripped of vocalist Michael Des Barres gestured ejaculations, would have
sounded great on "Made In Japan".
The street epic "Johnny", meanwhile, has more in common with latter-day Bon
Jovi than an Alice Cooper epic, but even more prescient is "Wounded Heart",
a big production ballad which not only single-handedly predicts the power
ballad of latter-day renown, it could also offer singing lessons to a less
adenoidal Axl Rose. But Silverhead's true destiny lies within the
swaggering, fluttering, hip-swinging rockers which sashay down the catwalk
without a care in the world, with the piece de resistance perhaps
unsurprisingly titled "Rock N Roll Band". That's what they are, that's all
they wanna be, that's what they'll stay till the day they die. And that
pretty much sums up Silverhead. Subtle as a flying handbag.
Expanded 2016 reissue of 1972's "Silverhead" featuring rare memorabilia,
exclusive bonus tracks, and liner notes based on new interviews with
frontman Des Barres, plus founder members Nigel Harrison and Rod Rook
Davies. Produced by Martin Birch, famed for his work with Iron Maiden,
Whitesnake, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, and of course, Deep
Purple, Silverhead's debut is a mixture of hard rock, glam rock and even
elements of proto-punk. This definitive version now includes the 7" single
versions of "Ace Supreme" and "Rolling With My Baby", as well as rough and
ready live versions of "Ace Supreme", "Rock N Roll Band" and "Sold Me Down
The River", taken from Des Barres' own collection, and previously only
released in Japan.
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