Description: ERIC BURDON and The Animals ▬▬▬▬▬ Winds Of Change The Twain Shall Meet 2CD SET BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Beat Goes On Records [BGO) BGOCD562 UPC | 5017261205629 Made in England 1967, 1968, 2002 TRACK LISTING DISC 1 Winds Of Change (1967) 01. Winds of Change 02. Poem By the Sea 03. Paint It Black 04. Black Plague 05. Yes I Am Experienced 06. San Franciscan Nights 07. Man-Woman 08. Hotel Hell 09. Good Times 10 Anything 11 It's All Meat DISC 2 The Twain Shall Meet (1968) 01. Monterey 02. Just the Thought 03. Closer to the Truth 04. No Self Pity 05. Orange and Red Beams 06. Sky Pilot 07. We Love You Lil 08. All Is One Though there are several tributary branches to its cultural "family tree", the origins of Eric Burdon and the Animals are rooted in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, one of England’s chief pivots of Victorian industrial enterprise. Born down river in the suburb of Walker on 19 May 1941, Eric Victor Burdon was the son, so he insisted, of a "lower working class" family. In adolescence he slid trombone in a traditional jazz outfit before realizing his true vocation as a blues man. With a madcap obsession beyond mere enthusiasm, he ritually inked the word BLUES in his own blood across the cover of an exercise book in which lyrics of the same had been compiled. Luckily for him, he had a voice to match. By European bel canto standards, Eric was devoid of vowel purity, plummy eloquence and nicety of intonation. Instead, you heard slurred diction and strangled vehemence, frequently straining a disjointed range past its limits through a muffled public-address system. In context, the dominance of spontaneity over technical expertise was not unattractive, even gruffly charming - because such tortuous endowment conveyed such exquisite brush-strokes of enunciation that a fractional widening of vibrato during a sustained note could be as loaded as his most savage wail. Burdon’s inability to reach higher notes without cracking only compounded a passion so deeply felt that his short, rotund figure was to become one of the most charismatic to grace a British stage after he formed what became The Animals in 1962 with local veterans of diverse skiffle, trad, rock ‘n’ roll and rhythm-and-blues outfits. Two years later, The Animals were ‘discovered’ by Mickie Most, who produced their early hits. The second of these, "House Of The Rising Sun", an overhaul of a Josh White whorehouse ballad, topped charts on both sides of the Atlantic. By 1965, a New Musical Express popularity poll had the Geordie group breathing down the necks of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Then The Animals parted from Mickie Most, but chart strikes continued until the group - who replaced drummer John Steel with a southerner, Barry Jenkins from The Nashville Teens - disbanded in 1966 after "Don't Bring Me Down"fell from its UK high of Number Six. "High” is a crucial word here - as the journey to an Eric Burdon much changed from the Tyneside beat merchant of 1962 had commenced a few months earlier with a drug experience more profound than, say, some speed to wire him up for the show , and a reefer to unwind tense coils within afterwards. Lysergic acid diethymalide - LSD - had been ‘turning on’ factions within pop’s ‘in crowd’ for almost a year before it was outlawed for recreational purposes in 1966. Burdon came to know it well. Its effects varied from person to person, from trip to trip. For Eric, it had been the beginning, generally speaking, of a fantastic voyage that was to carry him further from olde-tyme blues than any consumer of "House Of The Rising Sun" could have imagined. “I want to take a piece from every book,” he pontificated, "I want to learn from everything. That is why I originally took LSD. No, that’s not right. I took it just to get stoned.” Whatever his motivations, LSD left its mark on the music Burdon was to make when, following a solo chart excursion with "Help Me Girl", he was persuaded to front a reconstructed Animals (later, the New Animals) - though his singing remained as powerful as ever. The mainstays of the line-up were Jenkins, guitarist and violinist John Weider (one of Johnny Kidd’s latter-day Pirates), guitarist Vic Briggs of The Brian Auger Trinity, and, on bass, Danny McCullough from Screaming Lord Sutch’s Savages. Zoot Money and Andy Summers (later of The Police) were to pass through the ranks too. With his new Animals fully mobilized, Burdon relocated to Hollywood. However, he’d thought aloud about the ensemble residing communally in San Francisco, then as vital a pop Mecca as Liverpool had been. Indeed, the lads were to play vinyl tribute to the flower-power city with "San Francisco Nights", an "attempt at musical journalism”, explained Eric. It clambered into Top Tens throughout the globe in autumn 1967, just as the flowers were beginning to wilt. That June, the band had performed at the Monterey Pop Music Festival a few miles down the coast on a bill that also included the disparate likes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Ravi Shankar and South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Naturally, Burdon’s boys wrote a song about it. "Wherever the freak flag flew”, smiled Eric, “We were there to make our statement." Before the year was out, "Monterey" was a lesser US hit than “San Francisco Nights", but a hit all the same - though it was to be issued in Britain as a mere B-side (to "Anything') a full year after the event. Next up was 1968’s epic "Sky Pilot" - slang for a regimental chaplain - which peaked at Number 14 in the States, whilst scarcely troubling the UK Top Forty. Like "Monterey", it focussed on a denominator more common to young Americans, namely Vietnam, in a year when kaftans had been mothballed as their former wearers followed the crowd to genuinely violent anti-war demonstrations. It wasn’t as resonant an anthem as, for example, The Kinks’ "Every Mother's Son" - which protesters sang en masse outside the White House during the Vietnam moratorium - but at least Eric and his Animals were active after an arm-wavingly detached, pop-starrish fashion in verbal support of pacifism. "Sky Pilot", "Anything", "Monterey", "San Francisco Nights" and the UK- only A-side, "Good Times” were all spin-offs from two long-players, Winds Of Change and The Twain Shall Meet. Among further highlights from each were "Yes I Am Experienced" - a paeon to Hendrix, albeit delivered by Burdon in a Bob Dylan-esque whinge; "Winds Of Change" itself - a virtual monologue; and a lengthy revamp of the Stones’ 1966 Number One, Taint It Black". Elsewhere too were ventures into emotional, sexual and spiritual territories, and assessments in song of political, social and other undercurrents germane to the climax of the Swinging Sixties. Yet while the recording of the albums represented "a great creative period for me”, Burdon’s disenchantment with the hippie counterculture following the Sharon Tate bloodbath was amongst factors that led to his disbandment of the New Animals by 1970 - when he scored a US million- seller, “Spill The Wine", with War. A particularly gripping episode in Eric’s career since concerned a brief incarceration in a German gaol at the height of the Baader-Meinhof terrorism, following his frank comments on the subject during a radio interview. According to his 2002 autobiography, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, Burdon retains few fond memories too of a reassembly of the original Animals for a 1983 world tour. Little of Burdon’s output without the others was played during this expedition. Nevertheless, when an Animals - containing only John Steel from the “House 01 The Rising Sun" edition - trekked round Britain with others of 1960s vintage after the century turned, "San Francisco Nights” was to be slipped in as both a salaam to a seldom-seen Eric and as a worthy evocation of psychedelic times past - with which Winds Of Changeai The Twain Shall Meet shall be forever associated. ~ Alan Clayson, 2002 SHIPPING TO USA ONLY Buyer Pays Shipping $3.99 1st CD $3.99... each additional $1.50 CDs will only be combined with other CDs or DVDs To qualify for the combined discount, all items must be purchased together, paid for with 1 payment, and shipped all together in 1 shipment. Please use the add to cart feature, once you have ordered all your desired items, proceed to checkout to complete your order with the combined total.
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Artist: Eric Burdon, The Animals, Eric Burdon and The Animals
CD Grading: Mint (M)
Record Label: Beat Goes On Records (BGO)
Release Title: Winds Of Change / The Twain Shall Meet
Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard
Case Condition: Mint (M)
MPN: 5017261205629
Inlay Condition: Mint (M)
Catalog Number: BGOCD562
Edition: Remastered, Digitally Remastered
Type: Album
Format: CD
Producer: Tom Wilson
Language: English
Release Year: 1967, 1968, 2002
Era: 1960s
Instrument: Bass Guitar, Drums, Electric Guitar, Guitar, Piano, Violin, Voice, Vibes
Style: British Blues, Classic Rock, Garage Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Rock, Album Rock, Rock 'n' Roll, Rock/Pop, Regional Blues, R&B, Soul, Blues-Rock, Blues Rock
Features: Compilation, Import, Remastered, 2-CD Set
Run Time: 01:27:47
Genre: Blues, Pop, Psychedelic, R&B & Soul, Rock, Rock 'n' Roll, Classic Rock, Album Rock, Rock/Pop, Hard Rock, British Rock, British Blues
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
