Hydra 1974 Hydra

Genre: Southern Rock
Rate: 178 kbps VBR / 44100
Time: 00:46:17
Size: 61,62 MB




Hydra is an American Southern rock band founded in the late 1960s by Spencer Kirkpatrick (guitar), Wayne Bruce (vocals/guitar), and Steve Pace (drums). Pace and Kirkpatrick first played together in 1968 in the band Strange Brew. Wayne Bruce was playing with the band Nickelodian and accepted the offer to join Pace and Kirkpatrick in the short lived Noah Mayflower. These three remained together in the band Osmosis until 1969 when, after enlisting a succession of bassists, Hydra finally emerged with the inclusion of Trip Burgess in 1970, and later Orville Davis in 1971. Their reputation as a solid live act in Atlanta, Georgia area began to spread and the band expanded their territory. They began supporting major internationally known acts in concert. They have been referred to as the first heavy southern rock band.

The band signed a recording contract with Capricorn Records in 1973 and released a self-titled album Hydra in 1974. In 1975 Land of Money followed. The producer Dan Turbeville used a horn-section (without the bands knowledge) on the first album and musicians like Chuck Leavell (Allman Brothers band, The Rolling Stones, and Eric Clapton) (piano/keyboards) and Randall Bramblett, who later founded his own Randall Bramblett Band, on the second.

In 1977, as a three-piece band (with Wayne Bruce now on bass), Hydra released Rock The World. Some reviewers, including Edgar Brimer, their road manager, consider this to be their best record. By the end of 1977 the band broke up and reformed only occasionally thereafter, except for a series of shows in 1997, first with Jimmy Cobb and later with Tommy Vickery on bass, replacing Davis, who had been erroneously reported as deceased.



Tracklist:

01 - Glitter Queen 04:07

02 - Keep You Around 05:09

03 - It's So Hard 04:46

04 - Going Down 03:07

05 - Feel A Pain 06:24

06 - Good Time Man 03:22

07 - Let Me Down Easy 04:21

08 - Warp 16 04:22

09 - If You Care To Survive 02:54

10 - Miriam 07:45





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