Monday, January 6, 2014

Rare Earth - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert 1974 & 1975 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Rare Earth
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1974 & 1975
TV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
No Cover Art
MP3 320kbps
96 MB
running time 41:58

01 Don Kirshner Intro
02 Keeping Me Out Of The Storm
03 Boogie With Me Children
04 (I Know) I'm Losing You
05 (I Know) I'm Losing You (reprise)
06 Get Ready

tracks 1-5 aired 1975
track 6 aired 1974

1974
Gil Bridges sax, flute, vocals
Jerry La Croix lead vocals, sax, harmonica
Reggie McBride bass, vocals
Paul Warren guitar, vocals
Edward Guzman congas, percusion
Bartholomew "Frosty" Eugene Smith-Frost drums
Gabriel Katona keyboards, vocals
Ray Monette guitar

1975
Chet McCracken drums

A fine set of performances from Rare Earth. This is after lead vocalist, drummer Peter Rivera had left the group. Rare Earth brought in Jerry La Croix formerly of Edgar Winter's White Trash, and Blood Sweat & Tears to sing. "Frosty" Eugene Smith-Frost replaced Rivera on drums in 1974. Chet McCracken replaced Frosty in 1975, but would leave by 1976 to join The Doobie Brothers.

Rare Earth was the first act signed to Motown's rock label, although not the first white act signed to Motown, that honor goes to The Rustix. They were however the first all white Motown act to have hits. Motown named their rock imprint Rare Earth Records. This surprised the band since they had only suggested it as a joke. Rare Earth was the opening act for the first California Jam. Rare Earth's cover of The Temptations "Get Ready" was their biggest hit landing at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, The Temptations version only hit No. 29. Their cover of "(I Know) I'm Losing You" landed at No. 7, The Temps version hit No. 8.

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  1. Bud_e_luv_bombDecember 19, 2020 at 2:38 AM

    No clue why I didn't see this until today. I've been visiting your site for at least 8 months. Rare Earth is the shit. I met Peter Rivera in Elk Grove Village in 2014. He signed a few things for me, his book, his CD and a CD by the Classic Rock All-Stars and took pics with my daughter.

    I am in search of their "Tight And Hot" album, only released in Canada. It's like looking for El Dorado, or Atlantis.

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    1. JDDecember 20, 2020 at 2:48 AM

      Never met any of the guys in Rare Earth. When my band Psychosis recorded our first set of demos it was in this little studio over a instrument store. Rare Earth was recording there too, we had to work around their drum set the first day. We were working at night they had the days. They were starting to work on the album that would become Different World. This was in like 1989 or so. The engineer played us some of the demos Rare Earth had recorded as examples of his work. He told us he never had worked on a Metal album before but was real eager to. He gave us a good deal too, thankfully. It didn't turn out very good, kind of muddy. We remixed it twice before starting re-recording it at Grand Funk's Swamp Studios. Much better, haven't heard Different World. I do have Tight And Hot in MP3 format, if you'd like it I'll zip it and send it to you...

      Let Me Know.
      JustDave

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    2. Bud_e_luv_bombDecember 20, 2020 at 5:13 PM

      You have Tight & Hot? Hell yes I'd like it. Email in my profile. Dude, you've made my day, week, month, year. I've been looking for that for years.

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    3. JDDecember 21, 2020 at 11:14 PM

      Yeah it's an MP3 320kbps encoding I downloaded. I'll zip it up and email you a link.

      JD

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    4. JDDecember 21, 2020 at 11:30 PM

      Hey Bud_e_luv_bomb the Email bounced back as disabled.

      JD

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