Please Yourself First. 1978 Xound (or Dobre)
Mike Warren's sole album is a fine mix of typical late 70's fusion (side 1) with a more ferocious side 2, bordering progressive rock, and which even includes some psychedelic guitar. Progressive rock laced fusion with acid guitar is one of my favorite mixes! And this has to be the only jazz rock album I've heard that uses timpani extensively. Overall a mixture of Pierre Moerlin's Gong, Colosseum II, Randy Roos, and Frank Zappa. I'm sure the latter was a major influence and one hopes Frank's philosophical outlook is the inspiration behind the title of the album. Otherwise, a rather unfortunate choice of words...
Priority: 2
12/6/11 (new entry); 7/1/18
2 comments:
CD reissue
http://www.tower.com/please-yourself-first-mike-warren-survival-kit-cd/wapi/119296328
Hi Gianni,
Tell me more about this reissue. I went to the MaxCat website and they don't have it listed. They appear to be a music catalog owner, not a label. I have a feeling this release is an on-demand CD-R (we see these on Amazon too), similar to Osamu Kitajima's "Benzaiten" and a few others. We don't consider those properly reissued CDs, even though they may be legal.
Thanks for the note and let me know if you have any more data on this!
- Tom
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