Arthur Brown

[John McIntyre]

Michael Blackman wrote:

> Cheers.  I'll try to find some material from Arthur Brown to have a listen.

Do exercise caution.  There's the first Crazy World of Arthur Brown album with
"Fire" and organ by Vincent Crane and drums by Carl Palmer who went on to form
Atomic Rooster before Palmer got his big break with ELP.  Years later an album
appeared that claimed to be the second album by Crazy World.  I'm blanking on
the title because it was pretty bad.  It sounded as if Arthur hadn't finished
writing the songs and was just sorta going through the vocals while the band
tried to jam along.

Arthur then formed a band called Kingdom Come that put out three great albums.
The third album, Journey, actually got released in the US and was probably the
first rock album to use a drum machine rather than a drummer.  With Arthur's
permission, the keyboard player continued to use the name Kingdom Come and
recorded an album, but I don't know if that album ever saw official release.
Years later a Led Zeppelin like band used the name Kingdom Come for a few
albums, so be careful which one you're getting.

I've been very disappointed in the solo albums I've heard post-Kingdom Come.

But the first Crazy World and the three Kingdom Come albums are great.

John McIntyre
Physics - Astronomy Domine Dept
Michigan State University
mcintyre at pa.msu.edu