Bliss Band - Dinner With Raoul (1978) [Vinyl]
Wednesday, 20. December 2006, 04:15:29
1. Rio
2. Over The Hill
3. Slipaway
4. Don't Do Me Any Favours
5. On The Highway
6. Right Place, Right Time
7. Stay A Little Longer
8. Here Goes
9. Whatever Happened
10. Take It If You Need It
I cannot find hardly any information on these guys. Back at the record store we use to ask folks if they liked Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers (Michael McDonald era). We'd play this for them and they were always amazed that this wasn't being played on the radio!
So - If you like Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers and Michael McDonald (not the 40 Year Old Virgin version of him!), then you'll like this - a lot!!
Comments please??
Encoded at 320K from original vinyl promo album. Includes artwork and track listing.
B L I S S B A N D
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PRODUCER: JEFF "SKUNK" BAXTER
Featuring:
FROM STEELY DAN, DOOBIE BROTHERS:
MICHAEL McDONALD, JEFF BAXTER,
KEITH KNUDSEN (The late Doobie Brothers drummer)
FROM THE CRUSADERS:
VICTOR FELDMAN (THE CRUSADERS)
FROM TOWER OF POWER:
STEPHEN KUPKA, EMILIO CASTILLO, GREG ADAMS,
MICHAEL GILLETTE, LEONARD PICKETT
The vocalist & keyboard player Paul Bliss leaded this west coast music group that in late 70´s released two albums. Their debut album "Dinner With Raoul" was released in 1978 and was quickly followed up by the album "Neon Smiles" in 1979. The band did only release two albums. In 1997 Paul Bliss released his solo album "Edge Of Coincidence".
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Paul Bliss both recorded and toured with David Essex. He made stage appearances with him from 1977 to 1983 and he appears on the Stagestruck album.
Paul was born in Birmingham, 2 years before 'little brother' Martin, and went into the music industry in the early Seventies, fronting a band called The Bliss Band. The band released 2 albums on CBS America, Dinner with Raoul in 1978 and Neon Smiles in 1979. Lead guitar with the band was Phil Palmer another ex-member of The David Essex Band.
As well as playing and recording Paul is also a songwriter and he has had songs recorded by Olivia Newton John, The Hollies, Sheena Easton, Justin Hayward and Celine Dion to name but a few. In 1997 Paul released an album of his own material called The Edge of Coincidence. For the past few years Paul has been touring with The Moody Blues as their keyboard player and he is well known by their fans.
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azzul # 22. December 2006, 06:36
neroon001 # 24. June 2007, 21:04
Music From Big-D # 20. July 2007, 03:07
Thanks!
walknthabass # 20. July 2007, 16:19
Thanks again! See my reply about Forever More!
JD # 29. November 2009, 09:26
I can now see/hear why many of my friends did not understand me putting this album on at high volume, so often.
I still thrill to certain riff passages, mostly Palmer's, but the one I needed most to hear, here, was the sax build in "Here Goes". Not sure which Tower'o'Power reed that was, but he finally comes off the top of that "rising whistle" with a sweeeeeeet riff, made sweeter by convergence of the other instruments.
Also a background vocalist "features" with a distinctive clarity and style at 3min45s of "Right Place, Right Time"
Bliss and all these guys are top-notch.
Phil Palmer shortly later played with a Zappa-produced album by violin virtuoso L.Shankar "Touch Me There". I picked that LP off the shelf for the beautiful cover photo, and kept reading 'coz it was produced by FZ, but only bought it 'coz Phil Palmer was credited on guitar. I did not recognise L.Shankar as being from Shakti w/John McLaughlin, a forever favourite, since their "Natural Elements".
Lead-in to side2 on the L.Shankar** album, "Darlene" still stands out as a tour-de-force of musicianship, sure to astonish the savvy, and best to astound the astute.
** http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/related/Touch_Me_There.html
walknthabass # 2. December 2009, 03:44
Originally posted by w3mFan:
Thanks my friend - That would have been me!