Listen to Savage Rose (rec. in Jagger´s mansion, Prod. J.Miller)
Hello friends of heavy, semi-complex & smart rock in Janis Joplin-school
Listen to Danish rock
- THE SAVAGE ROSE, veterans on the scene since 1968,
now living in LA, US (scoring a new career while in their sixties... ).
Song "Oh Happy Day" recorded Oct 2004. - Earlier on they recorded in Mick Jagger´s L.A.-mansion with JIMMY MILLER as producer... !!
...So they started out in the US in the 60´s, were based in Denmark in 70´s-80´s-90´s... And now they are back in L.A again.
"Oh Happy Day" :
[
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R e c o m m e n d e d t r a c k s
Samples (e.g.; you can listen to some of the songs from every album) :
From the latest ALBUM Are YOu Ready LIVE
[
www.savagerose.com] "Howling" (reggae tune)
[
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...Always click on "play"-symbol, if it doesnt start automatically.
Album & title track Black Angel (1995) straight to: [
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or [
www.savagerose.com] & choose song.
Album & title track Moon Child - Månebarn (1992) :
[
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Album Gadens dronning (1990),
song Solen var også din LIVE [
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Album Sangen for livet (1988)
[
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but it stop before the goin gets tough).
Sadly you cant listen to "Ryesgade"; but you can always buy the album. This is a good one!
Album Kejserens nye klaede (the Emperor´s New Clothes, 1986)
song "Endnu dofter jasminen" [
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Or Solen var også din (my own favorite, 1976),
song You´ll Know In The Morning (jeeeez!!! Recommended!!)
[
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Unfortunately isnt "De vilde blomster gror" available
Album Babylon (1972)
The Messenger Speaks (gospel)http://www.savagerose.com/ly_7_1.html
Ticket To Paradise [
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(far out, lost in Nina Simone-land, if you ask me... )
Album Dödens Triumf (1972),
song Byen vågner (The City Awakes), groooove...
R e f u g e e , 1 9 7 1 i n S t o n e s l a n d
Album REFUGEE, recorded at Jagger´s, produced by Jimmy Miller: They have not made these songs available as samples! It was recorded in 1971.
(you can buy it for 13.99$)
Cover & titles at [
www.savagerose.com].
--- Short lyrics-sample from REFUGEE (Granny´s Grave first verse)
"Well Granny's Grave
Is a small café
Home of the night man
Until break of day
Forgets his coat
And his dusty boots
Sits at the table
With a jug of booze"
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Album In The Plain (1968), song "Evenings Child "[
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The Debut-LP SAVAGE ROSE (1968), click on cover, choose e.g. "A Girl I knew"
- .......Site is in English, you can navigate for yourself. Click "Works" for the audio samples by albums.
M i c k J a g g e r ´s m a n s i o n & P r o d u c e r M i l l e r
(from an interview, at the site: "2. What was it like recording in Mick Jagger's mansion? What is he like?
Mick was on tour while we were recording there. Chris, his brother, started to play electric guitar solos in the hall every morning around 2 when we stopped recording. Absolutely unbearable. Still we made one of our strongest albums of the first years there: REFUGEE, produced by late Jimmy Miller, who did several of the early Stones albums. We have fans for whom recordings like DREAMLAND, or GRANNY'S GRAVE, still are a question of life and death.")
B o n u s
Jungle Child/Junglebarn at support album for free zone Christiania in Cop.hagen
[
www.savagerose.com] or click yourself to it from the first - main - page at the site. Recorded in 2003-04. This band has a story of more than thirty years of supporting Christiania (in 1976 they recorded "De vilde blomster gror" for the first support-album).
You can also listen to their classic song "Wild Child" (starts when entering the site) from the early 70´s.
A M o v i e
There´s a 7 minutes movie with a nutshell-story of Savage Rose.
I couldnt make it work; but once its soundtrack seemed to start.
R o l l i n g S t o n e - j o u r n a l i s t D. F r i c k e o n
t h e S a v a g e R o s e :
David Fricke:
"It was the late, great rock critic Lester Bangs who made me a lifelong fan of the Savage Rose. He did it with a review of In the Plain, that ran in the October 18, 1969 issue of Rolling Stone. On page 42, to be exact.
"This is a rather peculiar album," Bangs said before rolling out a set of juicy metaphors in praise of the singular electricity of the band's powerhouse singer Anisette: "Grace Slick at 78 RPM"; "Minnie Mouse on a belladonna jag." He also wrote about organ notes "pouring like star drifts down from vast black skies" and made flattering comparisons to old Bela Lugosi movie scores and the 1960s doo-wop exotica of Rosie and the Originals. "This group isn't coming on in a blaze of glory," Bangs signed off. "They are working very hard at the incredibly difficult process of learning to sing their own song."
I knew what he meant when I heard In the Plain. The Savage Rose were a band of rare beauty and courage formed in Denmark, singing in English but rapidly inventing their own rock & roll tongue, a new soul born of psychedelia, Beatlemania, Harlem gospel and European art song. In Anisette, the Savage Rose possessed an extraordinary instrument of confession and jubilation, a mighty R&B angel packed into a slender stick of hellfire. There was rich drama, too, in the group's exquisite keyboard interplay, the avant-garage tension of their riffs and rhythms and the dynamic songwriting of Thomas and Anders Koppel.
I still shake with awe and relish when I listen to In the Plain to the exuberant salvation song "Ride My Mountain" or the bittersweet gypsy dance "Evening's Child." I also think about what might have been. The Savage Rose seemed ripe for big things in America then. They shared the stage with Jethro
Tull and James Brown at the 1969 Newport Jazz Festival; the albums Your Daily Gift and Refugee were underground sensations here. In his 1971 Rolling Stone review of Refugee, Lester Bangs cited it, alongside Who's Next, as a reason to keep believing in the magic and life force of rock & roll.
I feel the same way about the Savage Rose music that has followed: the bluesy 1972 diamond, Babylon; the explosive title song of 1973's Wild Child; the band's powerful Danish-language reading of Thomas Koppel's ballet score, Dødens Triumf (Triumph of Death); the 1984 set of acoustic political-action songs, Vi Kæmper For at Sejre (We Struggle For Victory). And I find sweet irony in the fact that while the Savage Rose are now remembered in America mostly as an acid-rock curio, a colorful echo of Europe's hippie renaissance, Thomas and Anisette currently live in Los Angeles, where they are writing and recording some of the finest music of their lives. The Savage Rose are not prisoners of history because they never stopped making it.
Lester Bangs died in 1982. I never got to thank him for turning me on to the Savage Rose. But a few years after his death, I found a worn, apparently well-loved first edition of The Savage Rose, the band's Danish 1968 debut, in a used-record store in Greenwich Village. On the back cover, written in blue ink, was the name of the original owner: "Bangs". That album now sits on my record shelf, right next to my original 1969 copy of In the Plain. I think he would appreciate that. "
Edited 7 time(s). Last edit at 2005-04-23 23:22 by Baboon Bro.