SAM APPLE PIE - SECOND HELPING 1970 BRIT BLUES ROCK PREV UNISS 2ND ALBUM SLD LP
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Oct 11, 2024 Sold Date
Oct 6, 2024 Start Date
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SAM APPLE PIE – Second Helping. Sommor Records SOMM-083. Spanish release. SEALED NEW VINYL RECORD ALBUM. This comes in a clear outer mylar sleeve with resealable flap and hype sticker, as shipped by the label; ships as received. Originally recorded in 1970 as either demos for or their proposed second album and has remained unreleased. This debut release issued in 2022. Remastered and restored from the only known acetate. Includes digital download card. MEMBERS:  Sam “Tomcat” Sampson (lead vocals), Bob “Dog” Rennie (bass), Andy “Snakehips” Johnson (guitar), Mike “Tinkerbell” Smith (guitar) and Mick Stuart (drums).

 

TRACKS, no titles, except for two, are known:

 

SIDE A:

 

01)    (5:09)

02)    (6:47)

03)    (0:57)

04)    My Baby’s Sweet (5:31)

 

SIDE B:

 

05)    (5:47)

06)    (6:47)

07)    Do The Toilet (3:55)

08)    (4:21)

 

DESCRIPTION:  Sam Apple Pie was a UK band with a Heavy Blues Rock sound whose period of activity was from the late 1960s into the mid-70s. After an excellent self-titled debut album released in 1969 for Decca (on Sire Records in the US), they recorded these 8 tracks but never released them. Only one acetate copy survived, recently rediscovered and finally released. The lineup that recorded this work includes Sam Sampson, Bob Renny, Andy Johnson, Mick Smith and Mick Stuart. The band continues the same musical mix as on their debut album, a blend of psychedelia on a bed of blues rock with a live in the studio sound on some tracks and proto-prog embellishments. The guitar(s) takes center stage for the solos, while in the melodies the distorted and gritty riffs intertwine, creating that scratchy, heavy sound proper to the era. The bass lines are massive and give body to the songs, along with solid and elaborate drumming rhythmic sections enriched by tempo changes. The vocal parts are dynamic and expressive, giving, when needed, that extra touch of energy proper to heavy blues rock bands. On a few of the tracks Sampson’s vocals recall that of Foghat’s Dave Peverett, as does their music draw from the same influences. Like Fleetwood Mac of 1970, some of the music here stretches out beyond the blues rock formula of their self-titled debut album. Their official sophomore release, East 17, issued in 1973 adds a more commercial sheen (as in more pedestrian) to their brand of blues-rock. At this point, lovers of bands like Elias Hulk or Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac will find in these 8 tracks the hallmarks of the style that characterized the late 1960s and very early 1970s British blues rock movement. Worthy of your further investigation.


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