Streettalk Battleground of Fun (Vinyl, WEA Records, 1980) ***
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6
Active compensatory factors: I first heard Streettalk on Radio Hauraki in the mid seventies. Barry Jenkins, a.k.a. Dr Rock, played a recording of Hammond Gamble and the boys playing a wonderful live in Albert Park version of Crossroads. A new guitar hero had arrived.
American whiz kids Chris Hillman (yes - that Chris Hillman) and then Kim Fowley knew quality when they heard it. They got involved - Chris did the first single - Leaving The Country, Kim produced the first album, and then finally a sympatico Nu Zilder, Bruce Lynch, gave the boys a more honest sound on the second album - Battleground Of Fun.
Unfortunately, early on, that wonderful raw guitar sound of Hammonds never quite made it to vinyl as producers produced and knocked the edges off the band. Having said that I still love Battleground Of Fun especially.
Leaving The Country (not the single, but a re-recorded version on BoF) still rips into things in a patented Streettalk way with guitars to the fore.
Where do they all belong? Hammond Gamble albums have already been discussed here.
Genre: NZ Music, pop, rock, blues
Places I remember: Marbecks Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Leaving the Country (BoF)
Gear costume: Feminine Minds (BoF)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Leaving the Country (BoF)
Gear costume: Feminine Minds (BoF)
Active compensatory factors: I first heard Streettalk on Radio Hauraki in the mid seventies. Barry Jenkins, a.k.a. Dr Rock, played a recording of Hammond Gamble and the boys playing a wonderful live in Albert Park version of Crossroads. A new guitar hero had arrived.
American whiz kids Chris Hillman (yes - that Chris Hillman) and then Kim Fowley knew quality when they heard it. They got involved - Chris did the first single - Leaving The Country, Kim produced the first album, and then finally a sympatico Nu Zilder, Bruce Lynch, gave the boys a more honest sound on the second album - Battleground Of Fun.
Unfortunately, early on, that wonderful raw guitar sound of Hammonds never quite made it to vinyl as producers produced and knocked the edges off the band. Having said that I still love Battleground Of Fun especially.
Leaving The Country (not the single, but a re-recorded version on BoF) still rips into things in a patented Streettalk way with guitars to the fore.
Where do they all belong? Hammond Gamble albums have already been discussed here.
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