Recommended only if you run over a cheap copy. August 1, 2008, Daz Dillinger offered the new owners of Death Row Records to record videos for Dogg Food; he also plans to repackage and release unreleased material. For me easy 4 stars, worth every tune. The rest are all originals. It was made up of only four tracks including the side-long ''Live and Return'' as well as an interesting cover version of Spitit's ''Nature Way''.
Investigate them for their very individual style, which really sounds like nothing else coming out of Canada at the time. The album opens with ''People'' in a very promising Classic Prog start, featuring a style split between complex Prog and organ-based Hard Prog with fiery guitar work, excellent organ runs and some beautiful symphonic-inclined flutes towards the end. A growling guitar solo is followed by a Focus-like flute instrumental interplay with a hammering keyboard line. Load Up featuring Tanya Herron. I Live Every Day Like I Could Die That Day. The following year they signed with Canadian label Daffodil and released their first self-titeld album. Their first album as The Hunt still showed prog leanings thanks to Cockburn and Harrison's songwriting as well as the ever present flute and thick keyboard sound topping Gagnon's Geddy Lee-like's wailing,eliciting vage comparisons with Rush.
Constant live gigging and dedication eventually got the band a bit of recognotion,so they entered the studio to start working on the follow up album in October 1975. A great band, possessed of some great experimental chops. The album was made up of eight tracks including a decent cover version of Spooky Tooth's ''Two Time Love'' and a not-so-good funky version of the Beatles' ''Taxman''. Itz All About That Money. Posted Tuesday, December 9, 2014 Review 1322058 Semi-prog Canadian act formed in 1973 by two brothers, multi-instrumentalist Jacques Harrison and drummer Robert Harrison later to perform with Offenbach , both coming from the Quebec area. The recording sessions lasted a good four months under tha aegis of label owner Frank W.
He eventually quit them and resumed his career as a blues guitarist. There's an occasional Jethro Tull reminder when the flute pops up. Mediocre album in general, where ''People'' shines through by far. Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Review 303810. In a very short effort of just over 30 minutes, the cover of the classic Spririt track ''Nature's way'' from the album ''Twelve Dreams Of Dr.
This Iz Not Over Till We Say So. Dillinger is best known for his membership of the hip hop duo Tha Dogg Pound, alongside Kurupt, as well as his work with Death Row. Who's Knocc'n At My Door. Davies who acted as producer aided by John Woloschuk Klaatu ,Steve Vaughn and noted Rush producer Terry Brown,the same team who would complete Klaatu's debut album in 1976. This doesn't sound like a hole-in-the-wall album recorded by an unknown band; on the contrary, the music is very competent and personal, with an evident refinement that makes me very, very surprised that their work isn't more well known.
There's some nice low key Mellotron on this song. On the album are two cover versions of Spooky Tooth - Two time love and from Beatles - Tax man, both quite ok in this context but not so excellent like their 6 original pieces who grace this release. During this time a short-lived feud sparked between Daz and Snoop, regarding the latter's words against Suge Knight and the former's status at the label and disses inherent in the album, which Snoop Dogg later dropped out of respect for his cousin. With three tracks clocking in at over eight minutes and another at six,the band had ample freedom to explore and show off their talents as both composers and musicians with many instrumental parts featuring keyboards organ,mellotron,Moog and guitar interplay,as well as an healthy dose of folky flute playing and jazzy sax parts. A groupmate , by dissing artists on Eazy's Ruthless Records. Sardonicus'' can only be regarded as lack of inspiration.
Sardonicus' by Spirit is excellent. It was made up of only four tracks including the side-long ''Live and Return'' as well as an interesting cover version of Spitit's ''Nature Way''. Dillinger actually maintain a very unique-yet-accessible sound, an erstwhile combination of jazz and rock that is very easy on the ears while remaining very challenging. Retaliation, Revenge, and Get Back. They were basically a hard rock band but with a few extra ambitions.
During his tenure heading the label's sound, Daz contributed production to the Gridlock'd soundtrack, 's Necessary Roughness, and Nate Dogg's G-Funk Classics, Vol. Ain't That Somethin featuring Crystal and P. Yet another contrast in the differences between two cultural, lingual and political environments at that time in Canada. They were re-named The Hunt by manager Cliff Hunt and showed the band moving in a meaner and heavier rock direction. I was really irritated that this band is so unknown, specially their second offer from 1975 named Don't lie to the band who is a fantastic and complicated little treasure in prog circles. Beginning with Dogg Food, which Daz produced, Dre no longer produced whole Death Row albums; in his latter days as in-house producer, he worked only with 2Pac, producing three tracks California Love, which was originally supposed to appear on the Aftermath compilation album, California Love Remix, and Can't C Me for the rapper's definitive album All Eyez on Me. Drummer Robert Harrison got homesick and returned to Quebec where he joined highly local popular hard rock legend Offenbach.
I'll confess that I'm a little shocked to be the first reviewer of this excellent Canadian export. Posted Sunday, December 11, 2011 Review 586372 Okay. All the rest were originals and an obvious improvement over the first album. Bitch Bitch Bitch Make Me Rich featuring Too Short. The Ultimate Come Up feat. There's also some lovely atmospheric mellotron on Coming Home, reminding me why I love that instrument so much. In 1977 the band had some personnel changes and went under the name of 'The Hunt' and released their self-titled debut.