Flower Travellin' Band - Anywhere CD
SKU
CDJ-UPCY-6343
A legit Japanese reissue of the first album from 1970 by this early, heavy, proto-stoner-rock Japanese group, featuring the famous cover of them naked on their motorcycles and featuring their famous singer "Joe". This album features five long covers of heavy and hip songs of the day.
"Initially, the Flower Travellin' Band was deeply influenced by the heavy rock acts of the day such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and King Crimson (they did an early cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man that lacked the brass - for better or for worse). However, even on their first album as Flower Travellin' Band, they took their influences and mutated them, and by their second album, "Satori," they were probably among the most musically advanced and unique of the Japanese heavy rock/metal bands of their day. Musically, at their best, they were the equal and sometimes the better of many of their Western contemporaries. Anywhere has the notoriety of debuting the first known Black Sabbath cover, namely the song "Black Sabbath". The album consists of five lengthy cover songs, which are radically reimagined from the originals, with extended guitar soloing and quite different arrangements from the originals. Critically praised, particularly for the drastic reworkings of Muddy Waters' "Louisiana Blues" and the traditional "House of the Rising Sun," both of which are well-nigh unrecognizable. Once more the album cover courted controversy in Japan, featuring the four members of the band riding down the road stark naked on Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The band was signed to Atlantic Records in Japan on the basis of these songs. Interestingly, the album apparently charted briefly in Canada."-Wikipedia
- LabelUniversal Japan
- UPC4988005461315