Back home just now after a concert by Eric Burdon. He is 65 yo but his voice is still great. The Animals were my first rock love and, also if my taste changed over the years, I can't forget them.

 

Burdon tonight gave an excellent R&B lesson with an energy that a young could envy. I liked too the people who plaied with him.

 

Starting with "Don't let me be misunderstood" following with "Bring it on home to me", a splendid "We've gotta get out of this place", a "I put a spell on you" making shivers in one's back, and other to the end with "Sky pilot" and "Ring of fire" with we all standing up and singing till they, one after one, slowly get to the backstage and even for long after. 

 

Well, Eric, I still and probably never will forgive you for the divorce by Alan Price but I'm glad that you are still on the road, so let's say

 

 

Ciao, Sandro 

 

 

house of the riseing sun and got to get out of this place and leave it at that

jethro tull at madison square gaurdens the move in scarboroughacdc at the phenthouse stranglers at the penthouse wings at the penthouse and live in america suxi and the banshies

would love to have seen band of gypses

free at teh ilse of white

Pieman, the Animals were one of the earliest R&B band in England. Formed up in 1962 in Newcastle, their name came from the fans because the energy of their performances. There were two leaders, Eric Burdon the singer and Alan Price at the Hammond, the other three being just honest workers. On their best hit "House of the rising sun" Burdon's voice shows all his warmth with black tonalities and the hammond takes the leading in the second part in what is one of the best performance of it of every time. But the song is famous also for the guitar's arpeggio of the beginning, every guitar's student does it. Neither the band nor the record company wanted to record it because it was too long for the radio's format. The producer impose it and we can say he was really right. Unfortunately was by this song that the problems between Burdon and Price started to come to the breacking point. House of ... is a traditional (in the pure meaning of that, none knows who originally wrote it)  but Alan Price registered it as arranged by him and by that he took all the royalties as author. It seems that the others discovered that when it was already done. Alan Price came out of the Animals in 1965 (officially becouse scared by the airplanes ...), starting with a band called "Alan Price set" that did only something of good, then after Price went miserely (for what I feel) into trivial Pop. Eric Burdon firstly followed with the Animals with Dave Rowberry at keyboards on the place of Price. It was not the same, it is always impossible to try the same when a biggest part is gone. You can try to change. Burdon did it going to USA. There he did really a lot of things but this is another story.

 

They say that history can't be done by the "if" and so is for the music but it is 40 years that I wonder what Burdon and Price would have done of beautiful remaining together. When Price came out of the group both the Animals and Alan Price Set recorded at the same time "I put a spell on you". Well, listen to the two records and imagine to match Burdon's voice by Price's hammond and arrangement ... and you will have one of the best song of all the rock music!

 

Pieman, if you can find the first two albums "The Animals" and "Animal tracks" you have all to know them. After that it will be to you if to go further.

 

For the rock history Chas Chandler, Animal's bass guitarrist, had the merit to discover Jimy Hendrix in the USA and to take him to England to start his myth.

 

Ciao, Sandro

 

 

 

 

 

 

not quite right that sandro it was keith richards girlfreind who told him to go see hendrix becouse she knew chandler was looking for a new step and was planing to leave the animals

to meany egos in the band iced thats was there problem and not enough qualaty songs regually coming out