LP SICK ROSE FACES FUZZ GARAGE PUNK ORIGINAL RARE

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Grupo: SICK ROSE

Nacionalidad: ITALY

Título del disco: FACES

Formato: LP
Sello: ELECTRIC EYE

Año: 198 / Edición: ITALY . ORIGINAL . VERY RARE

Referencia: EELP007

Italy had never heard anything like The Sick Rose. Even during the first anarchic wave of European garage-punk in the mid-1960s, nothing so raw, aggressive or plain nasty had ever surfaced.
The northern industrial town of Torino was the unlikely nest for these mop-topped vipers, and in 1984 they began to spread their fuzz-and-Farfisa throughout the continent, and beyond.

The Sick Rose were arguably the first European garage band to have the impact globally in the same manner as The Chesterfield Kings. Their expertly realized fuzz'n'Farfisa attack embraced U.S. '66 punk, and spit it out with a distinctly Italian flavour.
They contributed killer cuts to the Italian Eighties Colours and U.S. Battle Of The Garages compilations, then followed up with their own 7" EP in 1986.
The sound was raw and direct, and much more aggressive and snarled than ever
expected from a European outfit, and the response was predictably enthusiastic in their native country.

This mastering of the American garage sound was
culminated with the Faces LP. Though recorded in the most basic fashion. this collection of a dozen tracks is a heavy-weight contender for most consistently meaty garage record ever.
There's a bit of melodic garage-pop in "Everybody Wants To Know" and "I'm Not Trying To Hurt You", while the remainder of the LP blasts into orbit fueled by super-fuzzed guitars and Luca Re's snotty, yet engaging vocals.
Though he sings in English, a thick Italian accent flavours all of his vocal work giving the band the European flavour that helped to set them apart from the pack. This LP would prove to be the band's high-mark, and a monument to their love of the garage genre.

It's easy to see why, since the vital ingredients of classic garage-rock are all present and accounted for throughout Faces: deeply resonant and snotty vocals courtesy of the dynamic and intense frontman Luca Re, shimmering and playful organ from Rinaldo Doro, and fuzzed, demented guitar tones from Maurizio Campisi and Diego Mese. We shouldn't forget Dante Garimanno and Maurizio Rubinetti - they supply the all-important primitive, pulsing, skin pounding drum beat.
Though these elements had all been smashed together for years before in other
bands, no one quite got the mixture right like The Sick Rose.
With these Italians, equal doses of sweat, style, passion and guts all mixed into their instantly identifiable sound.

A deft touch of classic pop sensibility and musical prowess also helped this quintet rise far above their fellow cavemen - soon after the release of Faces they were quickly hailed as one of the premiere garage bands from any country, in any era.

Their sophomore LP Shaking Street was a fairly pedestrian hard-rock LP, without much of the verve or attraction of their earlier efforts. It was a shame, but The Sick Rose followed the path to more commercially acceptable and bland material.

Band leader Luca Re had not turned his back on the garage sound, however.
He joined the pure '66 sounding 99th Floor to carry on in The Sick Rose's early footsteps - while remaining until at least 1995 as the only original member of The Sick Rose.
They did release two more packages of 45s though, that contained outtakes and purely garage material that didn't fit with their new direction.

While the band probably sees these disc as footnotes to their development, they are really the last gasps of garage greatness from these Italian giants.
The Double Shot EP is really two separate 45s in one sleeve; a beautiful package highlighted by two Maurizio Campisi originals and a cover of the Golden Dawn's "My Time To Leave". The Covers EP features renditions of four '60s classics, all done in the best Sick Rose tradition.

The fan-club issued Hot Roses cassette also contained rare and unrealesead tracks from their pure '66 garage period, including covers of The Doors "Take It As It Comes" and The Shadows Of Knight's "Dark Side". This would effectively be the last glimpse of The Sick Rose as the Italian garage kings.
Their place in the garage world is firmly entrenched, however, and will certainly gain in the stature with the passing of time.

Future Italian garage bands will be measured by the standards set by Sick Rose.
The line-up's would shift, but Luca Re would keep The Sick Rose blooming for several more albums, and they still perform throughout Italy as of this writing.
Their style is harder leaner, and more commercial now, but Luca Re hasn't forgotten his roots; his other band 99th Floor, continues on in the garage tradition, and sounds every bit as inspired as the fuzz lords who grew strong and loud from fertile Italian soil … The Sick Rose.

By Timothy Gassen from Knights of Fuzz 1980-1995 book

COVER : VG+

RECORD : VG+

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