Assemblage – Album 1971 | 60's-70's ROCK

Only album from Detroit (Michigan). The group was formed under the first name "Stuart Avery Assemblage" and traditionally for those years began with perepevok current hits from the repertoire of "Rolling Stones", "The Who", "Small Faces", etc. One year later, "Stuart Avery Assemblage" became one of the most popular groups of the city, deservedly won a reputation as the most "hands-free" group of Detroit. Since 1968 they have regularly performed in the best halls of Detroit - Easttown Theatre and Grande Ballroom, which opened concerts celebrities such as "Grateful Dead", "Procol Harum", "Bubble Puppy", "Blues Magoos", "Ten Years After" , "Blood, Sweat & Tears", "Spooky Tooth", "MC5", "Spirit", "Fever Tree", etc. And Jimmy Page later recalled repeatedly heat joint concerts with "Assemblage". By 1970, the group almost completely changed, but in music there was a "progressive" tone. Musicians began to experiment with European classics, performing at concerts excerpts from Prokofiev ("Peter and the Wolf") and Strauss ("Also Spach Zarathustra"). When recording his only drive, they tried to quote passages from "Also Spach Zarathustra" in the composition "Love Saves All", which was culled leadership of the company as "devoid of commercial potential." And if in the beginning of his career "Assemblage" stylistic benchmark for them were groups like "Rolling Stones" and "The Who", then later changed their musical course toward "Traffic" and "Procol Harum". In 1971, after a long ordeal "Assemblage" failed to sign, finally, a contract with a local firm "Westbound Records", the most successful clients that were "Ohio Players", "Teegarden", "Van Winkle" and "Funkadelic". Published in the same year, an album with the unpretentious title "Album", among other things contained material handling and the famous song "Satisfaction" from "Rolling Stones", which hit the top 10 local charts and was the most successful record of "Assemblage". Curiously, they have managed to perform this song without her legendary guitar riff, which is why it took some totally unexpected, "psychedelic" angle. According to legend, the idea of such arrangements they offered one of the sponsors of the songs - guitarist Keith Richards, with whom the young musicians met when obbivat thresholds various record companies in search of a contract. Musically, the first and last album "Assemblage" presented sufficient original psychedelic / funk rock with "psychedelic" guitar, constantly indulges in some clever and intricate improvisation typical '60s sound body, emotional vocals and an abundance of diverse percussion. All in all - quite hard, dense and dynamic entry, fully falls under the definition of so-called "Detroit sound." Unfortunately, released in 1971 album "Assemblage" frankly too late - in those years, this music has gone out of fashion, replaced by a more progressive genres, though for the hippie era it sounded, perhaps unnecessarily strict and "dirty." Moreover, the firm "Westbound" absolutely not involved in promotion of the disc, which of course, is bound to affect its low levels of sales, and ultimately led to the disintegration of the group in the same 1971. Stuart Avery later sang in the short-lived group "Edgar Winter's White Trash", which was led by a famous keyboardist Edgar Winter, but then left the music business and engaged in more prosaic things. Keyboardist Robin Robins more than ten years of playing in the group "Silver Bullet Band", and then set up his own recording studio "Birdland Music Productions", which among other recorded "Bee Gees" and Ronnie Wood. Drummer John Orlich devoted his life to making stained glass, although leisure engaged in designing drum kits. Paul Kingery and Wally Stahl after the collapse of "Assemblage" organized a short-lived group "Stretch Thomas", which the rest of the steel drummer George Spanos and bassist Bobby Neil Haralson, who played later in the "Rockets". Subsequently, Paul Kingery played with musicians such as Bob Seger, Rick Springfield and Tiffany, and then for many years became a member of the legendary American band "Three Dog Night".