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Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends - Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends & Hands Of Jack The Ripper (1972)

Track listing:
  1. Wailing Sounds (1970) 2:38
  2. īcause I Love You (1970) 2:46
  3. Flashing Lights (1970) 3:14
  4. Gutty Guitar (1970) 2:33
  5. Would You Believe (1970) 3:20
  6. Smoke And Fire (1970) 2:38
  7. Thumping Beat (1970) 3:07
  8. Union Jack Car (1970) 3:03
  9. One For You Baby (1970) 2:44
  10. L-O-N-D-O-N (1970) 2:56
  11. Brightest Lights (1970) 3:57
  12. Baby, Come Back (1970) 2:31
  13. Gotta Keep A-Rockinī (1972) 4:42
  14. Roll Over Beethoven (1972) 2:37
  15. Country Club (1972) 3:20
  16. Hands Of Jack The Ripper (1972) 9:38
  17. Good Golly Miss Molly (1972) 5:13
  18. Great Balls Of Fire (1972) 4:19
  19. Bye Bye Johnny (1972)
  20. Tutti Frutti Medley (1972)

Notes

2 on 1 remastered release from one of the first genuine rock and roll longhairs with guests Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Jeff Beck, Keith Moon, Victor Brox, Brian Keith & Ritchie Blackmore. Tracks 1-12 taken from the album Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends with tracks 13-20 taken from the album Hands Of Jack The Ripper. Includes a five minute medley, 'Tutti Frutti Medley' (Long Tall Sally, Jenny Jenny, Keep a-Knockin', Jenny Jenny, Tutti Frutti).

David "Screaming Lord" Sutch was a British rocker of the early 1960s who turned Screamin' Jay Hawkins' horror rockabilly into a frantic, decadent and silly show for teenagers. Sutch founded the Savages in 1961 (with members such as Ritchie Blackmore, the future Deep Purple guitarist). My Big Black Coffin (1961), also known as Till The Following Night, Jack the Ripper (1963), Monster In Black Tight (1963), Dracula's Daughter (1964) and She's Fallen In Love With A Monster Man (1964) created a cult following in the era of teen idols and the Beatles. Sutch was the opposite of the mainstream and enjoyed provoking the bourgeoisie.

Alas, that meant that his show was never recorded on album. His first album came out much later, Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends (1970). Despite the numerous guests (Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Nicky Hopkins), the album does not do Sutch justice. Blackmore, Keith Moon and Noel Redding played on Hands Of Jack The Ripper (1972), but, again, the music was conventional hard-rock with lots of histrionics. Sutch recorded two more albums, Alive And Well (Babylon, 1982) and Rock and Horror (Ace, 1982), having been rediscovered by the punk generation.