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Fantastic double CD anthology of this legendary 60's Pensylvania psych/garage/rock outfit featuring future Edgar Winter band member Dan Hartman. 49 tracks including all the original singles, outtakes and oodles of previously unreleased material plus a quicktime movie! Garage freaks and psychedelic heads need this album. The Hendrixy "Fever Games" track and trippy "High Towers" tracks are a must!!!

Some people know 'em as the spawning ground for Dan Hartman of Edgar Winter "Free Ride"/"I Can Dream About You" fame. Other people know 'em for their four excellent singles. But until you've heard Arf! Arf! Records' new double-CD High Towers compilation retrospective, you haven't gotten the full perspective on the Legends.

From '64 to '73, the Legends were as synonymous with Central Pennsylvania as a Hershey Bar with almonds, and every bit as tasty. They got the audiences dancing with their mix of pop, rock and soul in the mid-'60s, freaked 'em out with heavy psychedelia in the late '60s, then rocked 'em back outta their shells with even harder rock in the early '70s. All phases are documented on High Towers, which traces the rise of the Legends from their garage band roots playing teen hops and fire halls into seasoned rockers blowing the doors off larger venues.

Featuring their four locally released singles and a promotional-only flexi from 1970, the first CD documents the Legends from 1967 to 1973, their most renowned era. But the listening pleasure doesn't end with rare 45 sides like the stompin' freakbeat cover of "Baby Get Your Head Screwed On" from '67 and the quirky wah-wah piano of "High Towers" from '69. CD number one is rounded out by a bevy of previously unreleased material, including seven more power-trio psych-outs from 1969, three pounding hard rockers from 1973 that should have the stoner rock crowd in air-guitar heaven, and even a CD-ROM of a video made by band ally Jerry King Musser in 1972 to promote "Rock and Roll Woman," a regional smash (later licensed to Epic Records) that almost got the Legends on American Bandstand.

And then there's the second CD, which throws a life preserver to those '60s fanatics who abandon ship when the captain's into psychedelia or hard rock. Fear not, garage fiends, as CD number two completes the Legends' voyage with 26 previously unissued cuts from 1965 and 1966, including a few band originals and teen-fueled renditions of "Shakin' All Over," "You Really Got Me" "I Need You," "Don't Bring Me Down" and even the Shadows of Knight's fuzz ripper, "I'm Gonna Make You Mine." Perhaps the coolest garage vault find of all, however, is a pair of cuts by the Donshires (featuring future Legend Joe Caloiero) from 1965, "Sad and Blue" and "Tripeline," which would be lighting up eBay if the songs had ever been pressed on a single.

The musical experience is only enhanced by a 24-page booklet lined with pictures, memorabilia and a detailed band history (including interviews with six former members) by Doug Sheppard of Discoveries/Ugly Things. Whether you're into garage, psych, hard rock or even Dan Hartman himself, High Towers is guaranteed to scale the rock and roll heights for you.

DISK ONE: THE BALDWIN SESSIONS (1967-'73)

01.High Towers (1969)
02.Fever Games (1969)
03.Jefferson Strongbox (1969)
04.Gone April Gone (1969)
05.Yes, Someone Called Me (1969)
06.Circle Rise (1969)
07.Marianne Summer (1969)
08.Somebody Else (1969)
09.Deception (1969)
10.Sometimes I Can't Help It (1970)
11.Rock And Roll Woman (1972)
12.Problems (1972)
13.Full Moon (1973)
14.Great Day (1973)
15.Sole Rider (1973)
16.Baby Get Your Head Screwed On (1967)
17.Why (1967)
18.Keep On Running (1968)
19.Cheating (1968)
20.Jefferson Strongbox (1970) [alternate version]
21.Concert Radio Spot (1972)

DISK TWO: PROGRESS FIRE HALL SESSION (1965)

01.Set Me Free
02.The Last Time
03.The Bells Of Rhymney
04.All I Really Want To Do
05.She Left Me
06.You Were On My Mind
07.Laugh At Me

Shakin' All Over DON WOOLRIDGE SESSION (1966)

08.I Need You
09.I'm Gonna Make You Mine
10.Shapes Of Things
11.I'll Always Love You
12.Devil With The Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly
13.Why
14.Norwegian Wood
15.If I Needed Someone
16.You Really Got Me
17.Summer In The City
18.My Little One
19.I'm A Believer
20.Don't Bring Me Down
21.A Winter's Day
22.Mr Dieingly Sad
23.Keep On Running
24.Louie Louie

Legends Jam THE DONSHIRES (1965)

25.Sad And Blue
26.Tripeline