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Flavours

The Guess Who

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Album Review

Too many ballads, very little fire, a going-through-the-motions feel: all combined to condemn this album to instant obscurity. Despite the addition of hotshot guitarist Domenic Troiano (who had replaced Joe Walsh in the James Gang), the Guess Who just seem to have run out of gas on this release. "Dancin' Fool" was passably catchy as a single release, but for the most part, Flavours tastes bland.

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A GEM!

I'm not sure who reviewed this for ITunes but they're DEAD WRONG! to American Woman and Wheatfield Soul due to the many styles on the album, it just didn't have any BIG hits like those 2 albums. (Dancin Fool charted at #28 in late '74) Dirty & Long Gone are Rockers like No Time and American Woman, Eye is like 969 (oldest Man) and We're COming To Dinner in that its jazzy. Nobody Knows His Name and Loves Me Like A Brother (The other single, just didn't chart) are Ballads ala These Eyes. Plus Dancin' Fool and Hoe Down Time are pop/rock gems like a Proper Stranger or a When Friends Fall Out. Even the Country styled Seems Like I Can't Live With You..... had been attempted before. Many say this album was "different" but it really is not all that different. CHECK THIS ALBUM OUT!

Not bad on the way to the final roundup

I always thought "LONG GONE" was written about Randy Bachman and in the same vein, "HEY YOU" was about Burton.

ITunes WTF ? This could be the best GW record of all ?

Couldn't agree more with the other review. I dunno what the writer was smokin', but it must have made his hearing go bung. Burton said that he wanted to make a record on which no two songs sounded the same, and he succeeded in spades. What is this crap about "rockers" and "ballads" as if there were only two types of song in existence ? This is not a slab of soft, and another of hard, thanks for coming..Jeeeez. This is one of those records where there is a great deal of stylistic diversity. There are different tempos, influences, and energies present here. " Seems Like I Can't Live With You..." is a wonderful county waltz ( remember back when drummers could play more than 4/4 ? Garry nails it ) and is dedicated to Gram Parsons, who had died a year before this record was made. It's the kind of song Gram probably would have been interested in recording. But at the other extreme is "Long Gone" which is not dark, it's pitch black. Troiano ( I loved this guy's playing so much that I named my son Domenic after him. ) is almost John McLaughlin's evil twin. His manic, modal flatpicking crushes the wahwah like it was a pavement full of cockroaches. He and Burton are royally pissed off about pinhead critics who know nothing about music, and trash careers of people they don't know after cursory listens to their latest record. Just like the dope from ITunes who dumped scorn on "Flavours" without giving this record a decent listen and the lyrics a couple of going-overs. This is the nastiest, most belligerent song of the period, and the swing from Garry, the insane guitar from Troiano and Cummings cut throat vocals should give that ITunes idiot some sleepless nights. But to the rest of us, this is some incredibly edgy jazz-driven rock. The rest of the record features a different musical focus for each track. Celtic folk, pop, hard rock, country, folk. And these are not token instrument changes for the sake of "feel". They are written with a heart and soul that loves and knows the genre' well, and immerses in it with wonderful results. I love this record, and it's clear that an exhaustive amount of energy and creativity was invested in every note. The band had gotten slightly lazy and misdirected on "#10", their previous record. But two guitar players and a bassist were cashiered, everybody seems to have spent a lot of time in the gym and away from the Col. Sanders. Slim, mad, re-focused, in love, pumped; they were more than ready and every note of "Flavours" shows it. This record is meticulous, passionate and grand. The Itunes reviewer is none of them. How's that "Flavour" , pal ?

Biography

Formed: 1963 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

While the Guess Who did have several hits in America, they were superstars in their home country of Canada during the 1960s and early '70s. The band grew out of vocalist/guitarist Chad Allan (born Allan Kobel) and guitarist Randy Bachman's Winnipeg-based group Chad Allan and the Expressions, originally known as first the Silvertones and then the Reflections. The remainder of the lineup featured bassist Jim Kale, pianist Bob Ashley, and drummer Garry Peterson. The Expressions recorded a cover of Johnny...
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