Wednesday, October 11, 2006

SURF CITY HERE COME THE SHARKS

Crack The Sky was poised to be America's next big band in 1975. Their debut Lifesong LP "Crack The Sky" was declared Album Of The Year by Rolling Stone and FM radio stations across the country were playing cuts off the record. Live, this band from the Ohio River Valley could stand toe to toe with anyone! A second album "Animal Notes" followed in '76 and the hype increased. In advance of the 1976 tour, Lifesong released the "authorized bootleg" "Live at WBAB" to radio stations and arranged many live broadcasts as they made their way across the country. Although guilty of a suspicious audience loop, this collectors item of live Crack The Sky is a great document of just how good a band they were. As true with many bands, they did not not achieve the success they deserved and after a third album "Safety In Numbers" without their focal point and writer John Palumbo, both fans and critics found the "next big band". A cult of Crack The Sky devotees remain, I among them.
"Live On WBAB" is a 128KBS 43.51MB WMA RAR File.
Crack The Sky is still playing and releasing music, check out their website, buy their CD's and see them if they hit your local concert hall.
Enjoy,
RFW

1 comment:

NUMBerger said...

excellent band with a new/old CD out now with JP doing the vocals for SiN...and they just did their annual show in Ball-mur this month...catch them before the world knows