| Notes
from the Beat Goes On web site: 1967 (‘Winds Of Change’) and 1968
(‘The Twain Shall Meet’) LPs, originally released on the MGM record label. First
time available as a 2 on 1 CD. Band included Danny McCulloch (bass), Barry Jenkins
(drums), Vic Briggs (guitar/piano) and John Weider (guitar/mandolin). Produced by Tom
Wilson, and engineered by Ami Hadani and Ed Kraimer. Eric Burdon’s life has been a
musical journey matched by few others in rock music history. He has gone from the driving
force of the grittiest British Invasion band to pioneering the San Francisco psychedelic
rock scene, to fronting the funk band WAR, to coming full circle and reuniting his
original band, The Animals, for a series of projects and a world-wide tour, to forming a
new group of “Animals” and releasing a series of live CDs and a recent DVD
concert. Burdon’s lengthy recording career began in Newcastle, where he first covered
songs by his idols, who were greats such as John Lee Hooker and Ray Charles. He and The
Animals quickly gained notoriety as England’s best R&B band, and were the feature
of Radio Caroline’s first broadcast to the US. They went on to appear with such
luminaries as Sonny Boy Williamson, Jerry Lee Lewis and Gene Vincent, and took the music
world by storm with their electrified version of the folk number ‘House Of the Rising
Sun’. They followed this up with other classics such as ‘Don’t Let Me Be
Misunderstood’ and ‘We Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ . |
