Arguably this is in fact the last WCPAEB album, produced by Bob Markley and Michael Lloyd. All the tracks are composed by the above personel. Musically, it's not as good as the WCPAEB but contains some good tracks: Next Plane To the Sun, Sweet Lady Eleven and Magic Cat. Quite surprisingly, there are also several bubblegum influenced tracks (Zoom, Zoom, Zoom being the worst).
01 - Where's My Daddy 2:14 02 - Where Money Rules Everything 1:58 03 - Hup Two! Hup Two! 1:48 04 - My Dog Back Home 3:20 05 - Give Me Your LoveThing 3:49 06 - Outside,Inside 2:28 07 - Everyone's Innocent Daughter 2:31 08 - Free as a Bird 2:03 09 - Not One Bummer 1:24 10 - Have You Met My Pet Pig 2:04 11 - Coming of Age in L.A. 2:56 12 - Two People 2:17
01 - Eighteen Is Over The Hill 2:43 02 - In The Country 2:03 03 - Ritual 1 2:10 04 - Our Drummer Always Plays In The Nude 2:46 05 - As The World Rises And Falls 4:53 06 - Until The Poorest Of People Have Money To Spend 2:18 07 - Watch Yourself 5:21 08 - A Child´s Guide To Good And Evil 2:29 09 - Ritual 2 2:05 10 - A Child Of A Few Hours Is Burning To Death 2:41 11 - As Kind As Summer 1:11 12 - Anniversary Of World War III 1:37
wikipedia: Volume 2 (Breaking Through) is a psychedelic rock album by the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. It is actually the group's third album, it was released in 1967 on Reprise (R 6270 mono, RS 6270 stereo). At the time of recording, Michael Lloyd was not present so the group was reduced to Bob Markley, the Harris brothers, and uncredited contributions of Ron Morgan. On the back of original LP release appears 'Breaking Through' and the declaration: "Every song in this album has been written, arranged, sung and played by the group. No one censored us. We got to say everything we wanted to say, in the way we wanted to say it".
On the single release and album track titled "Smell of Incense" composed by Markley and Morgan, Shaun Harris injects a slowed down pulsating bass melody similar to The Beatles "Day Tripper". It makes the song both familiar and fresh at the same time. The track "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Comes" actually copies direct quotes from an address by Franklin Roosevelt on August 16, 1936 at Chautauqua, New York.
As their name suggests this band attempted to push back the frontiers of musical experience. They wrote and arranged all their compositions enjoying considerable recording freedom. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (WCPAEB) were the first L.A outfit to have a light show and were one of the biggest bands in town in the early days (in fact, the Mothers Of Invention once opened for them). Ironically, despite their reputation as psychedelic enfant terribles, none of the members used drugs (just like another purveyor of freaky music, Frank Zappa).
The Harris brothers and Michael Lloyd first met in 1964 when they were all students at the Hollywood Professional School - the school attended by most of the kids working in show-business. The three certainly had pedigree. Shaun and Danny were the sons of one of the U.S's best-known classical composers, Roy Harris, and Michael was a musical prodigy who had been working professionally for some time as a member of the New Dimensions. They first worked together as The Laughing Wind, and as such recorded a 45 for Tower Records, entitled: - Good To Be Around/Don't Take Very Much To See Tomorrow. In order for them to start performing they needed a drummer, and for a short while Danny Belsky, an old friend and former band member with Michael filled in on their first recordings. Thereafter, John Ware played live with the band and legendary drummers Hal Blaine and Jimmy Gordon played in the studio. Their final member Bob Markley was introduced to them by Kim Fowley at a party he was throwing for The Yardbirds first U.S. tour at Markley's house. Markley was a wealthy attorney originally from Oklahoma who badly wanted to be in a band so he could get lots of girls (true!). Although a lot older than the other three (he was about 30, they were 16 or 17), he made a deal with them that he'd provide them with equipment if he could be in the band. As he didn't sing or play an instrument, he held a tambourine and stood in front of a dead mike. Markley's role in the band remains unclear. Because of his background in law, the other three left him with more and more business control, preferring to concentrate on the music. It's probable as a result that most of the production and composing credits attributed to him are spurious. Contrary to what most articles of the band allege, Michael Lloyd never left the band and continued making the albums with the Harris brothers right up to the demise of the band.
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Welcome is both the name of the first album and the band for this trio of Swiss musicians. They recorded only this and one other album before disbanding in 1981, largely undiscovered.
As for what they sound like, take Fragile-era Yes, kick out Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman and replace them with Keith Emerson ... well, maybe Jurgen Fritz of Triumvirat ... on distorted Hammond and synthesizers, give Jon Anderson a cold and a German accent. Now, kick out Eddie Offord too and replace him with an inexperienced studio man and you have a good idea of what the Welcome sounds like.
But that's a bit negative-sounding. Yes, they owe a whole lot of their sound to Yes, but the compositions are good, and the Hammond playing is quite complex and enjoyable. The Andersonesque vocal harmonies are sometimes a little off, but I blame this more on the care taken during the recording process (or lack thereof), and not the band themselves. This is a good band, and a reasonable recording. If you like Yes and Triumvirat and can forgive some less-than spectacular recording quality, then you will probably enjoy this. I did. -- Fred Trafton
01 - Set The Controls 8:11 02 - Money 8:32 03 - If 4:03 04 - Welcome To The Machine 8:09 05 - Have A Cigar 7:03 06 - Wish You Were Here 6:18 07 - Pigs On The Wing pt.1 1:37 08 - In The Flesh 4:36 09 - Nobody Home 4:48 10 - Hey You 4:57 11 - The Gunner's Dream 7:21 12 - 4.30 AM Apparently The W 3:18 13 - 4.33 AM Running Shoes (u 4:42 14 - 4.37 AM Arabs With Knive 3:05 15 - 4.39 AM For The First Ti 3:18 16 - 4.41 AM Sexual Revolutio 5:34 17 - 4.47 AM The Remains Of O 3:53 18 - 4.50 AM Go Fishing 7:12 19 - 4.56 AM For The First Ti 1:51 20 - 4.58 AM Dunroamin Duncar 2:50 21 - 5.01 AM The Pros And Con 6:11 22 - 5.06 AM Every Strangers 5:02 24 - Brain Damage-Eclipse 5:51
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