Breakin Rocks
Breakin Rocks
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2003-12-30
唱片数: 1
出版者: Indie
条形码: 0641444937721
专辑简介
Randy Fuller, Larry Thompson and Billy Webb are three of the hardest working rock n’ rollers on the planet. They originally came together in 1963 in a teenage band called the Fanatics in El Paso, Texas, playing alongside Randy’s brother Bobby. It was this very lineup of the Fanatics that honed their skills night after night, devastating throngs of rockers at big brother Bobby’s teen club, the Rendezvous (named after the California club famous for surf legend Dick Dale). The signature sound created by this early version of the Bobby Fuller Four came out of a combination of their own origins—Billy had arrived in Texas from Iowa, where’d he’d been playing with the legendary Black Cats, and Larry was of course the Tacoma, Washington import steeped in R&B, blues and sheer coolness. Bobby and Randy, though both hatched in the Southwest, had started playing music as young noisemakers in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their diverse formative influences combined with the sounds of true Texas heroes from Buddy Holly to Long John Hunter to create a truly unique, insanely infectious and down right driving sound.
Then, in June of 1964, at the height of their local popularity and with their home studio recording of I Fought The Law (pulled off of Randy’s copy of the Crickets record) under their collective belt, Larry and Billy left the band for any of the long forgotten reasons that teenagers part ways, with Billy and Larry moving on to form the Rooks with another El Paso music legend, Joe Ritchie.
Bobby and Randy soon recruited two members from early El Paso rock n' roll combo the Counts, their first guitar player Jim Reese (who’d been on loan to the Fanatics in the preliminary lineup) and drummer Dalton Powell, who had replaced Bobby on skins when he left to form his own band on guitar. By the end of ’64 the new edition of the Fanatics had landed in Hollywood as the Bobby Fuller Four, and the rest is history, sad and true. A year and a half later, in the summer of '66, the group’s meteoric rise came to a crashing halt when Bobby was found dead under bizarre circumstances.
So here we are now, four decades after the Fanatics pounded the boards at El Paso teen clubs, holding in our hands a new rock n’ roll collection by the very same bunch of guys that mixed that sockin’ concoction of West Texas stomp with each of their far flung inspirations. Randy Fuller’s fine voice is the lead vocal this time, and he’s still pounding away on bass- without a doubt one of the best and most creative bass players in rock n’ roll, and he’s joined again by two unstoppables from the Rendezvous— Larry Thompson and Billy Webb. What are the chances? And what’re the chances that they would be quite fantastic all over again? But here they all are, three of the Four, recorded at their home studio, calling all the shots on defiant rockers, heart stopping ballads-- some old, some new, some stormin’, some undeniably blue. It Happened In El Paso, and it’ll happen again and again, wherever these three cats decide to be at any given time, and whenever you make the right turn onto Bobby Fuller Drive. Buckle up. It’s gonna be a wild ride.
曲目
Never To Be Forgotten