HEAR THE ANTHOLOGY ON MIXCLOUD — Chapter #21 on Mixcloud: https://tinyurl.com/Anthchapter21 We’re just finalizing the booklet and working on the promotion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Boston Rock & Roll Anthology Chapter #21

This is the first of our thirty compilation albums where every artist on the disc and their music have been promoted by my media company.  It is a free service for musicians who give me the honor of representing their music to radio, print and online publications as well as critics and DJs spanning the globe.   It is truly “double exposure” as the songs that we have been working find themselves on a fixed medium, inside a booklet, with the advance knowledge that this music has already been played on multiple terrestrial and online radio stations.

Yes, many of these artists have been on the rock and roll highways with me for two, three or four decades.  As publicist for Club Bohemia @ the Cantab the weekly postings keep me apprised of who is out there in the trenches working to entertain. It’s been twenty-three years since Boston Rock & Roll Anthology Vol #20 so my one regret as that I didn’t keep this up on an annual basis.  Let’s plan to do that now!
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Greg Walsh’s New Ghosts feature the drummer from Pop Gun and Huck 2.   Huck 2 worked with me in the 1990s and Pop Gun appeared with my band at the C Note when we played the past eight or so years for Michael Weddle’s Rat Reunions.

Phil DaRosa met me out in Springfield when Jimmy Miller’s daughter, Deena, performed with Maxine Nightingale at the Big “E” – it was many years ago and Phil’s “Faraday” is remarkable, inspired and quite different from the music that he performs live.

Kitoto Sunshine Love is the daughter of our good friend Bobby Hebb (his birthday July 26, just yesterday.)  Bobby released a disco song about his roots, “Proud Soul Heritage,” and Kitoto performs it with a blues/Gospel feel, yours truly producing. On drums is the amazing Steve Holley from Elton John/McCartney – Wings/Ian Hunter-Mott the Hoople, Thomas Hebb – Bobby’s nephew, and the wonderful choir!

Kitoto’s second track, “Love You,” features Peter Calo (Carly Simon’s music director) who is actually performing “Love You” in his live sets; the late David Maxwell on piano in what might have been one of his final sessions and I only wish Bobby could hear his daughter singing these amazing songs in such a touching way.

Heidi Jo Hines and Nicola Barchiesi are Karma Car.  Heidi is the daughter of the late Jo Jo Laine and Wings’ guitarist Denny Laine. Their two songs are unique and expressive with Beatles’ flavors the frosting on the cake.  Which is why I put “Downtime” by the Complaints next to “As It Is,” listen to the Beatles influences on Dean Petrella – though the song is still distinctive and original.

Michele Gear Cole wrote “Guardian Angel” for her dad and it has hooks galore and her amazing vocal.  Michele worked with Jimmy Miller in the 1980s and has the distinction of bringing both Marvin Hagler and Miller onstage during a packed and stunning show at the Paradise Theater.  Billy and Michele have that show on tape!  And got Jimmy to sing “Gimme Shelter” with them at Syncro Sound, the Cars studio on Newbury St.

Around that time Jimmy brought me to a Keith Richards session in New York.   Keith said “Joe, you have to meet Rob Fraboni.”
Working for Rob it was my honor to promote Alvin Lee featuring George Harrison and Jon Lord of Deep Purple for the CD ZOOM featuring “Real Life Blues.”  Rob has remastered the Bob Marley collection, has a Grammy with Keith for a Hank Williams tribute, and engineered Goats Head Soup with Jimmy Miller while co-producing Bridges to Babylon.

Rob spent enormous hours mastering this album over the past four days.  It shows!   I love every track. From 3d, who debuted on Boston RR Anthology #8 back in the 1980s to Fire in the Field and Empty County Band who met me at Club Bohemia, these artists are very special to me, and their music is  – at some points – overwhelmingly beautiful.

My dear friend Pamela Ruby Russell came out to the Middle East June 1, 2019 and met Andy Pratt (who was amazing with Mach Bell on drums and Larry Newman on bass.)   Andy introduced Pamela to Mario Gil who worked with Pamela on “Space And Time.” It and “Walk Thru Fire” (from her Highway of Dreams album) bring a texture to the album that complements the other artists. Peter Calo co-produced Highway of Dreams.

Dalia Davis has been making a splash on Lowbudget Records with her Dylan tribute to “My Back Pages” and her very creative “Beatles Bridges,” which is a mix of bridges of Beatles songs. [Have you noticed yet our affinity for the Stones and the Fab Four?] I asked Dalia for the folk track, “Eleven and a Half,” as it rounds the album out nicely, though her “Power of One” is starting to get attention at online radio.

Tom Mich’s “Table Scraps” is uniquely different and creative – I adore it – and not because he was guitar tech for Terry Kath, the late guitarist of the band Chicago, or the fact that he was my roommate at the dawn of the 1980s.   Matt O’Connor’s “Ballad of a Rock Star” is a take-off, he tells me, on an unpublished song of mine, “Are You a Rock Star Yet?”  Like Mich, Matty O lived with me too, and that we’re all still speaking speaks volumes, does it not?  Love the “Sympathy for the Devil” vocals in Rock Star!

Legendary Kenne Highland of The Gizmos is also a long-time guitarist with yours truly.  He’s also in Mad Painter, a Club Bohemia band for sure, but it was Kenne who introduced me to Alex Gitlin.   They have Mott the Hoople influences and since our album has Steve Holley from Mott the Hoople AND Wings, well, you can see we are writing like our heroes AND appearing on CDs with them.

Joe Black has been working with me since the 1980s, like many on this disc.  “Blackenstein” (instrumental) may be the ultimate of many Joe Black songs, and features Artie Knyff of L-88, the band I got to book into the Worcester Centrum with Blue Oyster Cult all those years ago.

When our good friend Little Joe Cook was checking out Scott Couper at the Cantab he didn’t know that Scott and his brother Jay worked with me for years.  They also backed up Denny Laine on tour.  Well, recently I couldn’t find a master tape of mine from 1979 that was missing from the Varulven inventory.  Lo and behold Jay and Scott shipped me 8 or 9 DVDs with about EIGHT HOURS of Count music…live shows and many, many unreleased tunes.  It had the 1979 track, don’t know how they got ahold of it but they did! And thank the good Lord, the missing tape is retrieved.   “I Thought About You” here on this album is a track from my soon-to-be released Secret Things album that Jay produced and Scott arranged.  They are brilliant. And when Little Joe left the Cantab the brothers became the house band for quite some time.

This is a very special album, and to be with all my friends on this disc is an ultimate party on plastic!

Special thanks to Kenny Selcer for post production and assembling.  His resume’ is amazing doing sound for Magic Dick, Aztec Two Step, Eric Andersen and performing in a duo with Steve Gilligan of Fox Pass and The Stompers. We are all one big family and if you listen to this album two or three times you’ll understand why the Boston music community is one of the greatest in the world. The previous anthologies are fetching nice prices on eBay…you have the privilege of hearing the future right now.

Onward

Joe Viglione
Producer, Creator The Boston Rock & Roll Anthology Series

P.O. Box 2392, Woburn, MA 01888   tel 617 899 5926

Demodeal @ yahoo.com

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THE HISTORY OF BOSTON ROCK AND ROLL ON FIXED MEDIA

The Boston Rock & Roll Anthology Series started in 1983 with the first Anthology rolling off the truck and Producer Jimmy Miller marveling at a compilation of area music.  “What a great idea” Jimmy said as I cracked open the first box and showed him  Volume 1 before anyone else in the world!

In 1979 we started off with The Boston Bootleg and 1981 The Boston Bootleg 2 which featured the beautiful legs of my graphic artist, Billie Perry. Chapter #20 arrived in 1997 with four volumes of the Demo That Got The Deal (TM) radio show continuing the legacy, Chapter 4 in 2014.

In between we had the U.S. Anthology #1, the Boston Jazz Anthology and the Mass Metal album.

This will be our THIRTIETH COMPILATION of local music with many more to come. The CD comes with a booklet, the story of the anthology series and information on each track with the music in the back of the booklet. Produced and directed by Joe Viglione, Varulven Records P.O. Box 2392, Woburn MA 01888 Co-sequencing and assembling: Kenny Selcer. Mastered by Rob Fraboni.

https://www.mixcloud.com/joe-viglione/boston-rock-roll-anthology-chapter-21-on-the-joe-vig-pop-explosion-radio-show/

1 Everything But Peace – 3D        3:41
2 Space And Time – Pamela Ruby Russell        4:28
3 As It Is Karma Car        4:58
4 Downtime-The Complaints        4:36
5 Faraday – Phil daRosa         5:56
6 Proud Soul Heritage – Kitoto Sunshine Love        3:44
7 Guardian Angel – Slapback Band        4:37
8 Until The End – Empty County Band        4:09
9 Blackenstein-Joe Black        4:24
10 Table Scraps-Tom Mich Jr.        2:59
11 Counting Down to Zero (From 1) – Greg Walsh’s New Ghosts 3:19
12 The Letter – Mad Painter        2:55
13 Monster-Joe Black        4:18
14 Skeptical – Empty County Band        2:54
15 Walk Thru Fire – Pamela Ruby Russell        4:27
16 Love You – Kitoto Sunshine Love        2:45            
17 Who’s Foolin’ Who – Karman Car        3:24
18 I Thought About You-Joe Viglione        2:43
19 Eleven and a Half – Dalia Davis        2:52
20)Bossman    Fire in the Field
21)Ballad of a Rock Star – Matty O        2:23

The Suffolk Journal Review by Joe Viglione

Ok, a little history. I graduated high school in the spring of 1972. I was Features Editor of the Chronicle by that time. Tonight I found a 1971 article (17 years of age) that the school paper under my favorite teacher, Pauline Schiel, published about drugs and doing something about it. Fast forward to my Jethro Tull review in the Suffolk Journal in college in 1972…but in the meantime I did publish music stuff in the Chronicle, reviews of Bloodrock (Capitol Records, managed by Terry Knight) and some brass band that imitated Chicago that played at AHS (Arlington High School). Also got to cover the Maysles Brothers at their Boston debut of GIMME SHELTER. So here’s my first interview, teacher Mrs. Picione before I got to go to the Charles Cinema and have a “roundtable” with the Maysles Brothers.

Then and Now, from humble beginnings with Varulven Magazine at the age of 15, to the Chronicle at Arlington High School at 17, to Suffolk University newspaper at 18 and…voila, national Goldmine and Discoveries (see Jim Kale article) and international AllMusic.com

Second Chapter – Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › Second_Chapter

Second Chapter is the debut solo album by British blues rock musician Danny Kirwan, released … Allmusic critic Joe Viglione declared that Second Chapter was a feather in the cap for Kirwan as well as producer Martin Rushent. Drawing …

SECOND CHAPTER AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione  [-]

The first solo album from Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter Daniel David Kirwan has the future producer for Human League and Buzzcocks, Martin Rushent, utilizing those skills here, as well as engineering. The sound is crystal clear, and a feather in the cap for Rushent as well as Kirwan. It starts off with an uncharacteristic “Ram Jam City,” which has more Lindsey Buckingham sounds than one would expect, especially since the two guitarists come from two different musical worlds. “Odds and Ends” is more lighthearted, the kind of music Paul McCartney toyed with on The White Album‘s “Rocky Raccoon.” What Second Chapter immediately sets forth is the importance of Kirwan as a pop artist, and how, despite Fleetwood Mac‘s success after he left, his sounds could still have been beneficial to that supergroup. “Hot Summers Day” is a fine example of that, a beautiful song that could offset Buckingham‘s gritty ramblings. It would have made a nice counterpoint as Stevie Nicks complemented Christine McVie‘s tunes with her adventures, bringing an important change of pace to that popular band’s hits. The jacket looks like a dusty old family album-style book holding Kirwan‘s Second Chapter. And the music reflects that old-world feel in titles like “Skip a Dee Doo” and “Falling in Love with You.” Three of the best songs on this excellent outing are “Love Can Always Bring You Happiness,” “Second Chapter,” and a sleepy and beautiful number called “Silver Streams.” Kirwan‘s tune is haunting as well with its lilting “all you need is love to show you the way from here” chorus. As on a follow-up album, he tends to sound a little like the group America, the vocals with that same America tone and warmth. They very well could have covered “Silver Stream” or “Cascades,” the album’s final track. This material was crafted right in the middle of America‘s run of hits, and maybe they should have replaced Dan Peek with Dan D. Kirwan? The artist’s three solo discs cut in the ’70s make for a very pleasant and thought-provoking listening experience, and that this collection is so good only shows he kicked his departure from the big band off with a vengeance. Collapse ↑

https://www.allmusic.com/album/second-chapter-mw0000583888 SECOND CHAPTER by Danny Kirwan

Danny Kirwan Midnight in San Juan https://www.allmusic.com/album/danny-kirwan-mw0001878717

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_in_San_Juan_(Danny_Kirwan_album

AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione  [-]

On his follow-up to 1975’s Second Chapter, his first solo disc after being such an important element of Fleetwood Mac, Danny Kirwan gives fans another taste of Bare Trees with the lovely song “Castaway,” which ends the album, and the instrumental “Rolling Hills,” which could be a sequel to the sublime “Sunny Side of Heaven,” a treat both when Fleetwood Mac performed it live and when it appeared on Bare Trees. Kirwan‘s personality shines on those tracks, and this album is chock-full of quality material — there isn’t a bad track on it musically. Where followers of this artist might have a problem is that it seems to be a conscious effort to go off in the commercial direction taken by the folk band America, of all people. Both tracks which open side one and two, “I Can Tell” and “Misty River” respectively, would have perfectly fit in America‘s “Sister Golden Hair,” “Don’t Cross the River,” and “Ventura Highway” set list. This is decidedly different music from the slick pop of 1979’s Hello There Big Boy, which retained only pianist John Cook from these sessions. That episode had him sounding more like his ex-Fleetwood Mac mate Bob Welch, no surprise since Welch actually charted in 1977 with his Bare Trees track “Sentimental Lady.” “Life Machine” on this disc actually sounds like a Bob Welch track, and it is too bad the two artists didn’t join forces at this point in time. The strange one here is a reggae version of “Let It Be,” which, in its brashness, becomes a nice turning point for the disc, showing real personality. Too many artists cover the Beatles note for note while Kirwan gives the world ten new originals and a creative reworking of a classic hit by “the Fab Four.” This album was titled Danny Kirwan in North America, while the British release took its name from the other instrumental track, a synthesized journey called “Midnight in San Juan.” “Angel’s Delight” and “Windy Autumn Day” sound like Fleetwood Mac meets the band America, a very saleable commodity if you think about it, the Beatles-style ending to “Windy Autumn Day” driving the point home. Dick James Records really should have gotten more solidly behind this artist — there’s no doubt the talent for Top 40 success here was enormous. https://www.allmusic.com/album/danny-kirwan-mw0001878717

https://www.allmusic.com/album/danny-kirwan-mw0001878717

AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione  [-]

Hear the album here: https://youtu.be/0pwHWM8QYW4

This is not just a tremendous album by Danny Kirwan, this is an extraordinary set of recordings that makes one wonder “what if?” What if Fleetwood Mac had talents like Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Dave Walker, and Bob Welch come back to the fold for different projects? This is light pop on a mission, and it is perfectly produced by, of all people, Clifford Davis (though one should consider Kirwan’s excellent production work on The Legendary Christine Perfect Album and wonder if the manager wasn’t just putting his name on Kirwan’s creative ideas). There’s no denying that each tune here, from “End Up Crying” (which sounds like the soft rock Fleetwood Mac) to the final track, “Summer Days and Summer Nights,” is superior pop music — intricate guitar lines, a double-barrel keyboard approach by John Cook and Kevin Kitchen which is just lovely, and sterling vocals by Kirwan. The track “California” is more accessible than some of the popular versions of Fleetwood Mac, and given Bob Welch’s success with French Kiss two years before the release of Hello There Big Boy!, it is surprising this was not embraced by both Top 40 and FM radio. “Spaceman” continues the smooth ’70s pop that”California” introduced the listener to, the guitars more eerie, harking back to the Bare Trees period of Fleetwood Mac seven years earlier (which had so much of Kirwan’s identity all over it). There was life before Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, and this cohesive work is proof of that; covering Randy Edelman’s “You” is actually quite clever, the exiles of Mac having reputations more as singer/songwriters than as interpreters. This may be Danny Kirwan produced by Clifford Davis, the man who put the fake Fleetwood Mac onstage, but it is no fluke and it is no fake. Hello There Big Boy! is a great album from the singer/guitarist who, according to Mick Fleetwood’s book My Twenty Five Years in Fleetwood Mac, “went beserk…smashed his head against the wall…(and)…was fired.” Sounds like genius, and it is here on this recording for all to see — and hear. A truly great comeback that sadly got lost in the shuffle of life.   On AllMusic.com https://www.allmusic.com/album/hello-there-big-boy%21-mw0000845773

http://southernbluesrock.blogspot.com/2014/07/elephants-memory-1969-songs-from.html

“More cohesive than their RCA release in the mid-’70s, the New York underground band who worked with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and David Peel finds themselves on Metromedia, the label which had hits with Bobby Sherman, unleashing eight originals written mostly by drummer Rich Frank and lead vocalist/tenor saxman Stan Bronstein. Guitarist David Cohen contributes to a couple of tunes, with pianist Myron Yules and guitarist Greg Peratori also involved in the songwriting, but it is Frank (listed on the credits as Reek Havoc) and Bronstein who are the major forces behind this well-known-but-not-often-heard group.
Clearly it was Lennon’s participation on an early disc and not the band’s notoriety which made them almost a household name, but one hit record could have changed all that. There is no hit here, but there is some experimental rock that Frank Zappa should have snapped up for his Straight Records. A bubblegum label could only move this if they were called Crazy Elephant and had something akin to “Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’.” Rather you have the antithesis, “Mongoose,” followed by “Power” and the revolutionary “Piece Now.” The technical proficiency is traded in for angst and lots of rock & roll attitude.
“Piece Now” could very well be MC5, and the music on all three of the first tunes is dense and noteworthy. “Tricky Noses” ends side one with a flurry of bullets stopping a country-ish protest song, making the point quickly and with uneasy ease. Away from their famous friends, the seven-piece group is at least interesting here, with “She’s Just Naturally Bad” sounding like Blue Cheer when they abandoned the sonic onslaught for laid-back folk-rock. Flashes of Dylan and Lou Reed make their way onto the tune.
Pianist Myron Yules delivers the only song that Rich Frank and Bronstein aren’t associated with, “I Couldn’t Dream,” a light Paul McCartney-style throwaway number.”Damn” gets things somewhat heavy, a nice counterpoint to side one’s “Power.” This is where the band shines, solid ensemble rock with riffs and lots of not-so-quiet energy. For collectors who need anything by anyone ever associated with the Beatles, the Elephant’s Memory’s collection is not to be forgotten. “Ivan” is smooth New York rock a few years before Lou Reed would enter his Coney Island Baby phase, but definitely sounding like it could fit on that epic. Take It to the Streets is a true rock & roll artifact and holds some surprises worth rediscovering. by Joe Viglione http://therockasteria.blogspot.com/2016/09/elephants-memory-elephants-memory-1972.html

Compilation Engineer: Kenny Selcer Mastered by Rob Fraboni

CD Conceived, written and produced (as well as Rob Fraboni biography)

by Joe Viglione

Rob Fraboni grew up in southern California in an Italian family that included some accomplished musicians. Beginning a musical career as a drummer in a local band at the age of 12, he hitchhiked to Hollywood just three years later at 15 with many home recordings under his belt. The future industry executive quietly observed recording sessions at the renowned Gold Star Studios, which involved key artists and producers of the time, including Phil Spector. He moved to New York City in 1971 and attended the Institute of Audio Research under the tutelage of educator Al Grundy. There, Fraboni fused a previous knowledge of electronics with recording and studio techniques, developing his unique engineering and production style.

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rob-fraboni-mn0000827854/biography

1)Everything But Peace – 3D  3:42                                                               3:42
https://youtu.be/L0W1oA0hhs4

2)Space and Time – Pamela Ruby Russell 4:28   =                                     8:10
You Tube: https://youtu.be/Mnq8MPUruWI

Spotify  Space and Time https://tinyurl.com/spotifyspaceandtime
Spotify Space and time link:  https://tinyurl.com/ spaceandtimespotify
YouTube Space and Time link  
https://tinyurl.com/ youtubespaceandtime

3)As It Is     Karma Car with Heidi Jo Hines     4:25                                     12:35
https://youtu.be/v60ddB_saIM

4)Downtime  The Complaints   4:37                                                              17:12
https://youtu.be/sa4Lbbhe0XI
Tiny url:https://tinyurl.com/downtimeAnth21

5)Faraday – Phil DaRosa 5:56                                                                       23:08
https://youtu.be/Q8myMpgodXA

6)Daydream  On Notice    4:20                                                                      27:28

7)Guardian Angel (Radio Edit)      4:37  radio edit version                            32:05
https://tinyurl.com/guardianangeledit

8)Until the End 4:09 – Empty County Band  (Steve Kuchinsky, ASCAP)      36:14
https://youtu.be/g-gcNYlF6L4

9)Blackenstein (Instrumental) – Joe Black 4:26                                            40:40
https://youtu.be/onIui8VH4vg

10)Table Scraps – Tom Mich Jr 3:04                                                             43:44
https://youtu.be/uaNBh6GRLZ4

11)Counting Down to Zero (from 1) – Greg Walsh’s New Ghosts 3:18         47:02
https://gregwalshsnewghosts.bandcamp.com/

12)The Letter – Mad Painter  2:56                                                                49:58
https://youtu.be/8XfW0q9aHLg

13)Monster Joe Black 4:22                                                                           54:20
https://youtu.be/Aa_Rdqp1cMo

14)Skeptical (2:55) – Empty County Band (Steve Kuchinsky, ASCAP)        57:15
https://youtu.be/mOrjE1REJFA

15)Walk Through Fire  – Pamela Ruby Russell  4:28                                   61:43
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-evmV0JT2A

Spotify Walk Thru Fire: https://tinyurl.com/spotifywalkthrufire

https://tinyurl.com/youtubewalkthrufire You Tube

16)Love You  – Kitoto Sunshine Love      2:39                                               64:22
https://youtu.be/RHCIwEzj1UU

17)Who’s Foolin’ Who? – Karma Car    5:03                                                69:25
https://youtu.be/EwgNX2EomTI

18)Dalia Davis   Eleven and a Half   2:52                                                 77:47
https://open.spotify.com/album/3V8nsi8nhlcW

19)Thought About You  Joe Viglione  with Gold Dust 2:58                        72:23
https://youtu.be/9JdVK9SW0r4    

20)Rock Star    Matty O                                               2:22
https://youtu.be/PNoNit5bc4Y

OPTIONS: Bonus Tracks NOT on CD
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The Rolling Stone   Matt O’Connor   2:32                                            74:55
https://soundcloud.com/mattoconnor/the-rolling-stone_mix_2

Kitoto Sunshine Love  Proud Soul Heritage    3:51                             81:38
https://youtu.be/emjP5mQn-Lw Bonus track not on CD