Crawler

Michael Baryshnikov написал(а) к All в Jan 21 13:09:16 по местному времени:

Нello All!

Залит Crawler/(1977)_Crawler

Кроулер - это то, что осталось от Back Street Crawler после смерти Павлика Косова.
Группа продолжила своё существование в усеченном размере и выпустила ещё пару дисков, после чего Кролик Бандрик ушел играть клавишником в Зе Ху, а потом с Пинк Флойд и Вотерзом. но это - уже другая история...
По музыке, думаю, понятно - звучание Фри и Бэд Компани прослушивается невооружённым ухом.
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Following the death of Paul Kossoff after the recording of the second Back Street Crawler album 2nd Street the remaining members of the band recruited Geoff Whitehorn and dropped the 'Back Street' from their name becoming simply Crawler.

Dropped almost immediately by Atlantic they recorded two albums for CBS/Epic Crawler in 1977 and Snake Rattle & Roll in 1978. They achieved minor success with the single 'Stone Cold Sober' which was played regularly by FM radio but were never able to shake off the legacy of Paul Kossoff and they disbanded in the late seventies when John "Rabbit" Bundrick left to join The Who.

Terry Wilson now records and produces with his wife Teresa James. Braunagel also produces and has worked with Taj Mahal among others.
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Following the death of founding member Paul Kossoff, the remaining members of the band Back Street Crawler (John 'Rabbit' Bundrick, Tony Braunagel, Terry Wilson and Terry Wilson-Slesser) decided that it would be best to move on to both another record label and another manager. There is and was a history of problems with the band members obtaining record and publishing royalties from the original manager of Paul Kossoff.

Atlantic Records' Ahmet Ertegun had wanted to replace Paul Kossoff with Mick Taylor, who had left the Rolling Stones, however Taylor did not want to replace a musician who had died. Back Street Crawler bassist Terry Wilson had dinner with ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green in London to find out whether Peter's reclusive and unusual lifestyle had changed his mind about wanting to play or be in the music business. Green was not ready to return to the stage and therefore turned-down Crawler's offer. The band then recruited former If guitarist Geoff Whitehorn. The band was then dropped by Atlantic Records, due to Whitehorn's then relative obscurity.

The band switched management to a young American named Abe Нoch, who was working at Swan Song Records at the time with Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant. Нoch had close ties with Epic/CBS Records and obtained an offer from them. Band members then shortened the band name to Crawler.

Crawler initially toured the UK as part of a package tour which included label mates Boxer and Moon. Their debut album, Crawler, did well in the US, thanks to airplay of the track "Stone Cold Sober", on FM radio stations. The band concentrated on the American market. Working with producer Gary Lyons, they released a second album, Snake, Rattle & Roll.

An exhaustive series of live performances saw Crawler as the support band for Robin Trower, Cheap Trick, and Foreigner, and a 54-date tour across the US as support band for Kansas. At the end of a US tour in December 1978, keyboard player John 'Rabbit' Bundrick left to work with The Who. The band folded soon afterwards.

Crawler had limited commercial success but charted the single "Stone Cold Sober" which reached a peak on Billboard Нot 100 at number 65 in November 1977.

In recent years, a number of live albums, including Snakebite (2001) and Pastime Dreamer (2003), recorded during tours in 1977 and 1978, have been released from John Bundrick's private collection of recordings.

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Enjoy!
WBR, Michael Baryshnikov.

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