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| | A Long Time Comin' | | | Music Artist : | | The Electric Flag | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sbme Special Mkts. | | Release Date : | | 2008-02-01 | | Store Price : | | $6.99 | | Artistopia's Price: $6.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Killing Floor
2. Groovin' Is Easy
3. Over-Lovin' You
4. She Should Have Just
5. Wine
6. Texas
7. Sittin' in Circles
8. You Don't Realize
9. Another Country
10. Easy Rider
11. Sunny [*]
12. Mystery [*]
13. Look into My Eyes [#][*]
14. Going Down Slow [#][*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Electric Flag CD: A Long Time Comin'
Submitted on: 2009-09-20 |
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| This CD brings back the sixties! The quality of sound is good and is a reminder of how talented many of the bands were in the 60s. Anyone who listened to Electric Flag in the late sixties will truly enjoy this audio ride down memory lane. |
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One great band
Submitted on: 2009-06-28 |
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| I had this record on vinyl some years ago. Nice to have it again as it has a lot of great music on it. |
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 GREAT BUT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTERQ
Submitted on: 2009-04-26 |
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Ok, I usually don't review stuff this well known, but I just had to comment on this album. I have always loved it, and it has always bothered the absolute hell out of me.
The songs themselves are no problem: Groovin' is easy, Sonny, Another Country, all the writting and arranging the album is great, and of course, you have Mike Bloomfield, and what better secret weapon could a band ask for,
The problem with Long Time Commin is that it got caught right in between the post-Sargent Pepper phase, when even Lawance Welk thought he could be psychadelic, and the back-to-basics wave that developed in rock late in 1968, with Music for Big Pink and John Wesley Harding. You have a lot of really good R&B numbers on here that have way to much eccho, way too many effects that just don't need to be there, and this very strange flanged sound that just doesn't fit this type of music. Another Country is a great jazz piece that segues into bassa nova, but do you really need the sound montage in between? (I know, i know, it was 1968)
People at this point were re-learning to record rock, as the techniology was getting a lot better every few months, but this is the kind of music you could have recorded on a 4 track tube board in mono and it would have sounded great. In fact, they probably should have.
Long Time Commin is in a lot of ways a victim of its time and technology. Listen to some of Nick Gravities solo albums and you'll realize how much better this could have been. Having said that, the band is great and the writting itself is too, and this is also a great album as an historical artifact, so it is definately, strangely, essential. |
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Bloomfield's Big Band Effort
Submitted on: 2009-04-06 |
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A great choice for someone just getting into the genius of Mike Bloomfield
and a must have for the collector. He had recently left the Paul Butterfield Blues Band where he recorded what has to be some of his best work. He took his Chicago Blues sound to the extreme with over ten people contributing, including Buddy Miles on Drums and Richie Havens and a great horn section. This disc includes two "hits"...Killing Floor & Groovin' Is Easy which actually got air play in 68'. A very nice cover of "Sunny" and a smokin' jam "Another Country". Michael called The Electric Flag an American Music Band. 14 great tracks with lots of diversity (4 of those bonus tracks). CBS did a good Digital remix. This work stands on it's own merit today as it did then.
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Awesome Recording
Submitted on: 2008-10-24 |
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| One of my favorite LPs from the late 1960s - early 70s. Best album cover ever. |
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