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Sold Date:
December 20, 2014
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December 20, 2014
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TEAR GAS-same-LP-reissue of 1971-super progressive Rock-lim.edit.-colored viny-progressive vinyl
The Glasgow-based prog/heavy/rockers Tear Gas (originally known as
Mustard) released their second album in 1971 establishing themselves on
the underground scene.
Wullie Monro and Eddie Campbell left the band. Wullie joined Berserk
Crocodiles (see Dream Police) and Ted McKenna from the freshly collapsed
Dream Police replaced him. Eddie Campbell quit for whatever reason -
perhaps just tired of touring - and was not instantly replaced. 'Tear
Gas' released on the Regal Zonaphone label by this revised line up
though Campbell appears on the 'live in the studio' medley of 'All Shook
Up & Jailhouse Rock'.
An un-credited Ronnie Leahy provides the keyboards elsewhere on the
album. Leahy played with Glen, McKenna and Cleminson again in the early
'90s under the name of the 'Sensational Party Boys' - promoters mistook
the name for a group of male strippers! ' Saw them in London in the
Charing Cross Road Marquee (now a Weatherspoons) - a right good night..
Tear Gas' has an odd front cover pic. Is it meant to signify anything?
If so it was lost on us. All tracks are 'hard 'n heavy rock' . Again not
terribly memorable apart from 'Love Story', a highlight of the stage
act, whose arrangement was visited again by SAHB on the 'Penthouse
Tapes'. One is left with the feeling that the band was a couple of years
behind the times in their material and the union with Alex Harvey was
the shot in the arm of originality they needed. 'Tear Gas' was reissued
on CD by Renaissance, a US label, in the mid '90s as RCD1005.
After the comercial failure of the 'Tear Gas' LP, Ted McKenna's cousin,
Hugh McKenna, was drafted in on keyboards and backing vocals but Davie
Batchelor soon left to go into production - he produced the SAHB stuff
- they all sound pretty good - but was famously dropped by Noel
Gallagher during the making of Oasis' first album.
A rumour persisted for a while that he had to quit Tear Gas because he
was going deaf! Hugh took over the lead vocals and this is the line-up
that returned to Glasgow to join up with Alex Harvey after an
unsuccessful stint in London . The rest of that story is well-documented
history.
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