Frank Marino's Mahogany Rush What's Next (Vinyl, CBS Records, 1980) ***
Genre: Rock
Places I remember: Marbecks Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: The Answer (Live)
Gear costume: Roadhouse Blues (What's Next)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: The Answer (Live)
Gear costume: Roadhouse Blues (What's Next)
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5
Active compensatory factors: I love these two albums featuring Canada's answer to Jimi Hendrix/ Jimmy Page. You've probably noticed by now, that the power trio format is something else I love.
Live sums up the band to that point (1977) with a crushing set of rock moves on original material and rock standbys like Johnny B Goode, I'm a King Bee and Purple Haze. Frank is a brilliant guitarist and the live setting really suits him. He sings well too! Hard to believe that only three guys make all this glorious noise.
What's Next sees the band expanded with Vince Marino joining his brother, Jim Ayoub (drums) and Paul Harwood (drums). It's not as brilliant as the live album but I've hung onto it through the years because of Frank's playing and the hard rock versions of songs like Roadhouse Blues.
Where do they all belong? A great forgotten rock band of the seventies! Ripe for rediscovery. What are you waiting for?
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