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Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends

studio album by Screaming Lord Sutch

Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends is the debut album of Englishrock singer Screaming Lord Sutch. Recording began in May at Mystic Studios in Hollywood and it was released on Cotillion Records in The album featured an all-star line-up with contributions from Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page (who also produced the album) and John Bonham, guitarist Jeff Beck, session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, session guitarist Deniel Edwards and Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding.

With a limited vocal range paired only by an unlimited reservoir of self-promotion in both general arenas of pop and politics, his knack for outrageous publicity stunts made him a spontaneous in both. He also establish time to organise his have National Teenage Party, run constantly for Parliament and create one of the first pirate radio stations, Radio Sutch. At or around this time, a serendipitous meeting with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page yielded an plan for Sutch to record the first album of his career on Atlantic Records and its American subsidiary Cotillion with Page supplying guitar and production. Or his somewhat outdated Carnaby Lane finery?

Rick Brown and Carlo Little were previously with the Savages.

This album has also been released under the designate Smoke and Fire. A CD release under the latter call appeared on the Magnum Melody Group label sometime in the s, evidently mastered from a vinyl copy of the imaginative album.

The cover credits Page, Beck, Bonham, Redding, and Hopkins; Sutch's name appears only in the personnel list, as David Sutch.

Track listing

  1. "Wailing Sounds" (Jimmy Page, Sutch) –
  2. "'Cause I Love You" (John Bonham, Deniel Edwards, Jimmy Page, Sutch) –
  3. "Flashing Lights" (Jimmy Page, Sutch) –
  4. "Gutty Guitar" (Sutch) –
  5. "Would You Believe" (Jay Cee) –
  6. "Smoke and Fire" (Sutch) –

  1. "Thumping Beat" (Jimmy Page, Sutch) –
  2. "Union Jack Car" (Jimmy Page, Sutch) –
  3. "One for You, Baby" (Sutch) –
  4. "L-O-N-D-O-N" (Sutch) –
  5. "Brightest Light" (Jay Cee, Sutch) –
  6. "Baby, Come Back" (Jimmy Page, Sutch) –

Personnel

  • Screaming Lord Sutch – lead vocals
  • Jimmy Page – acoustic and electric guitar (on tracks 1–3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12),[4] backing vocals, producer
  • Jeff Beck – electric guitar (on tracks 4, 5, 11)
  • John Bonham – drums (on tracks 1–3, 7, 8, 11, 12), percussion, backing vocals
  • Nicky Hopkins – piano, keyboards (on tracks 4, 5, 11)
  • Kent Henry – guitar (on tracks 5, 6, 9–11)
  • Noel Redding – bass guitar (on tracks 7, 9–11)
  • Rick Brown – bass guitar (on tracks 4, 5, 11)
  • Deniel Edwards – lead guitar and bass guitar (1–3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12)
  • Martin Kohl – bass guitar (on tracks 5, 6, 9–11)
  • Carlo Little – drums (on tracks 4–6)
  • Bob Metke – drums (on tracks 6, 9, 10)
Technical
  • Tommy Caccetta – engineer
  • Edgar Blackeney, Lord Sutch – album design
  • Baron Robbins – cover photography

Charts

Reception

Many of the musicians had grave misgivings upon its release.

They were under the assumption these were demo-quality recordings.

Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends - Wikiwand: As a singer, he variously worked with Keith Moon, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Charlie Watts, John Bonham, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell and Nicky Hopkins, and is known for his recordings with Joe Meek including "Jack the Ripper" ().

As a result, the artists disowned the project and the album sold poorly. It also seriously damaged Sutch's reputation with the musicians involved. "I just went down to have a chuckle, playing some old rock 'n' roll, a bit of a send-up.

The whole joke sort of reversed itself and became ugly," Jimmy Page said of the record.[6]

A reviewer in Rolling Stone called Sutch "absolutely terrible" and lamented that the famous musicians involved were made to sound "like a fouled parody of themselves".[3]

Lord Sutch and Dense Friends was named in a BBC poll as the worst album of all time, a status it also held in Colin Larkin's All Time Superior Albums 3rd Edition ().[7]

Additional information

Catalogue: Atlantic (UK), Cotillion SD (US)

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