BRINSLEY SCHWARZ Silver Pistol LP UNITED ARTISTS 1972 US orig UAS-5566 NICK LOWE
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BRINSLEY SCHWARZ
BOB ANDREWS, BRINSLEY SCHWARZ, NICK LOWE
IAN GOMM, BILL RANKIN
Pub rock, the English roots rock movement of the early '70s, would never have earned
a cult following if it wasn't for Brinsley Schwarz. Initially, Brinsley Schwarz was a rambling,
neo-psychedelic folk-rock band that borrowed heavily from Crosby, Stills & Nash
and the Grateful Dead. Following a disastrous publicity stunt to promote its debut album,
the band went into seclusion outside of London and developed a laid-back,
rootsy sound inspired by Eggs Over Easy, an American band that had been playing
a mixture of originals and covers in English pubs. Following their conversion to pub rock,
the Brinsleys ditched their pretensions of stardom and became a down to earth,
self-effacing rock & roll band. Between 1971 and 1974, Brinsley Schwarz toured
England innumerable times, playing pubs across the country. Along the way,
they established a circuit for similar bands like Dr. Feelgood and Ducks Deluxe to follow
"SILVER PISTOL"
Produced by Brinsley Schwarz and Dave Robinson
1972 LP UNITED ARTISTS RECORDS STEREO UAS-5566
PRINTED IN U.S.A. ORIGINAL PRESSING
PARTIALLY IN SHRINK SINGLE SLEEVE
HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER
Barcode and Other Identifiers
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LABEL: UA - TAN/BROWNISH LABEL - DARK BROWN TEXT
Catalog on cover: UAS-5566
Catalog on labels: UAS-5566
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): UAS 5566-A-2 1T
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): UAS 5566-B- 1 1T
On labels: rim text reads "United Artists Records, Inc., Los Angeles, California....Made in U.S.A."
Produced by Brinsley Schwarz & Dave Robinson
On Back Sleeve: Recorded on 8 track at home August '71.....
© MCMLXXII and Manufactured by United Artists....Los Angeles, California 90028 Printed in U.S.A.
tracklisting
Side A: DRY LAND - MERRY GO ROUND - ONE MORE DAY
NIGHTINGALE - SILVER PISTOL - THE LAST TIME I WAS FOOLED
Side B: UNKNOWN NUMBER - RANGE WAR - EGYPT
NIKI HOKEY - JU JU MAN - ROCKIN' CHAIR
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Silver Pistol isn't the definitive pub rock album, but it is the first great record to surface from the scene.
Like much of the first wave of pub rock, Silver Pistol is quiet, laid-backm and low-key -- with its warm,
rustic sound and a gentleness that infuses even the rockers, this is the closest to the Band
that the Brinsleys got. There are some major differences, most of them coming from Nick Lowe.
That's not to denigrate new guitarist/songwriter Ian Gomm, since his four numbers (particularly
"Dry Land" and "Range War") reveal a fine songwriter with a keen sense of melody and a knack
for synthesizing country, rock, and folk into something distinctive, but Lowe really hits his stride with this record.
This is in to some degree due to the influence of Jim Ford, a renegade American roots-rocker
who Brinsley Schwarz backed on an unreleased and subsequently lost 1971 album.
The group covers two of his songs, "Niki Hoeke Speedway" and "Ju Ju Man," on Silver Pistol,
and these numbers reveal the appealingly off-kilter sense of humor and pop hooks that
would form the foundation of Lowe's style. Those sensibilities are just beginning to creep
into his songwriting on Silver Pistol, on the Beatles-meets-Band "Unknown Number,"
the lovely "Nightingale," the wonderful pop tune "The Last Time I Was Fooled,"
and the epic "Silver Pistol." His other two songs are sturdy country-rock numbers a notch below
Gomm's best on the record, but still very good, and it all adds up to an endearing low-key
roots rock album that doesn't just find Brinsley Schwarz coming into their own,
it stands as one of the most appealing records of its kind...(AllMusic)
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