The Rising Storm – Calm Before... Label: Remnant – BBA-3571 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1967 Style: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock
In the early to mid-'60s, thousands of teenage rock & roll bands bashing away in garages, rec rooms, and basements across America sought to document their music on self-released recordings, and the Rising Storm were no different, even if instead of a garage, they practiced in a dormitory at Phillips Academy, an upscale prep school in Andover, MA. The six members of the Rising Storm were all Phillips students, and in 1967, with the guys facing graduation, they went into a local recording studio for a few days and recorded an album, eager to preserve their music for their friends and classmates.
The Rising Storm were not the usual band of teenagers with bad attitudes covering "Louie, Louie"; roughly half of the songs on Calm Before... are originals, and they're surprisingly subtle and ambitious stuff, moody folk-rock that often suggests the subtle influence of the psychedelic revolution that was looming on the musical horizon. If the Rising Storm weren't exactly virtuosos, they were a tight and energetic band with enough musical smarts to make the most of songs like "Frozen Laughter," "The Rain Falls Down," and "To L.N./Who Doesn't Know," and when they stomp down on "Big Boss Man," "Don't Look Back," or "Baby Please Don't Go," they sound mighty fine indeed.
Tracks:
Don't Look Back (0:00) To L.N./Who Doesn't Know (2:53) I'm Coming Home (6:12) A Message to Pretty (9:00) In the Midnight Hour (12:30) Frozen Laughter (16:25) She Loved Me (19:35) Mr. Wind (23:20) Big Boss Man (26:25) Bright Lit Blue Skies (29:29) The Rain Falls Down (32:02) Baby Please Don't Go (35:28)
Members: Tony Thompson Rich Weinberg Tom Scheft Charlie Rockwell Bob Cohen Todd Cohen
The Rising Storm – Calm Before...
ReplyDeleteLabel: Remnant – BBA-3571
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: US
Released: 1967
Style: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock
Notes:
Total pressed: 500 albums
https://www.discogs.com/The-Rising-Storm-Calm-Before/release/6873726
In the early to mid-'60s, thousands of teenage rock & roll bands bashing away in garages, rec rooms, and basements across America sought to document their music on self-released recordings, and the Rising Storm were no different, even if instead of a garage, they practiced in a dormitory at Phillips Academy, an upscale prep school in Andover, MA. The six members of the Rising Storm were all Phillips students, and in 1967, with the guys facing graduation, they went into a local recording studio for a few days and recorded an album, eager to preserve their music for their friends and classmates.
The Rising Storm were not the usual band of teenagers with bad attitudes covering "Louie, Louie"; roughly half of the songs on Calm Before... are originals, and they're surprisingly subtle and ambitious stuff, moody folk-rock that often suggests the subtle influence of the psychedelic revolution that was looming on the musical horizon. If the Rising Storm weren't exactly virtuosos, they were a tight and energetic band with enough musical smarts to make the most of songs like "Frozen Laughter," "The Rain Falls Down," and "To L.N./Who Doesn't Know," and when they stomp down on "Big Boss Man," "Don't Look Back," or "Baby Please Don't Go," they sound mighty fine indeed.
Tracks:
Don't Look Back (0:00)
To L.N./Who Doesn't Know (2:53)
I'm Coming Home (6:12)
A Message to Pretty (9:00)
In the Midnight Hour (12:30)
Frozen Laughter (16:25)
She Loved Me (19:35)
Mr. Wind (23:20)
Big Boss Man (26:25)
Bright Lit Blue Skies (29:29)
The Rain Falls Down (32:02)
Baby Please Don't Go (35:28)
Members:
Tony Thompson
Rich Weinberg
Tom Scheft
Charlie Rockwell
Bob Cohen
Todd Cohen