Label: Import [Generic]
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 8026575139121
ASIN: B00005ATHU
Release Date: 2002-03-12
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Artist: The Damnation of Adam Blessing
Label: Import [Generic] Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 8026575139121 ASIN: B00005ATHU Release Date: 2002-03-12 |
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CD reissue of the heavy psychedelic rock band's fourth and final album, originally released in 1973 on Avalanche. Nine tracks. Original artwork. Akarma Records release. Miniature gatefold LP sleeve.Customer Reviews:
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"They had great songs, a distinctive, powerhouse vocalist, and as a band they cooked...." - Mike Stax, editor, Ugly Things magazine
They disappeared after going out in a blaze of Glory in 1973.
In September of 2000, Damnation of Adam Blessing returned after 28-year hiatus to perform to a packed house of 3000 fans at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum in Cleveland Ohio. Who are these guys?
In the tradition of such C-town luminaries as the Raspberries, James Gang, Pere Ubu, and Nine Inch Nails, Damnation of Adam Blessing was a true Cleveland original. Actually, many fans would argue that they were head and shoulders above those local contemporaries -- not to mention plenty from outside Ohio. Their music was much in the vein of the era's hard rock, but the arrangements were far more advanced. While most heavy rock acts featured screaming or shouting vocalists, Damnation tested the waters with low-range, gospel-like harmonies and Adam Blessing's grinding yet melodic leads. Songs would quickly shift from simple rock arrangements into idiosyncratic middle-eighths -- sometimes over a pounding rhythm, sometimes enhancing a ballad. And when it came to hooks, Damnation could lure in the listener like a walleye out of Lake Erie.
While such greatness may not have been the formula for hit records outside of Cleveland, it didn't go unnoticed by the truly hip of this world. The group's cult following swelled in the years following their 1973 demise, and by 1999 the dam burst with a huge feature article by Doug Sheppard in Ugly Things magazine. In the meantime, the original four albums became collectors' items, laying the groundwork for a 3 CD Italian box set reissue on Akarma Records of the band's first three albums (May of 2000.)
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