Polydor's The Very Best of Cozy Powell is culled from his early-'80s AOR as well as difficult stone records. This wasn't the best stream of Powell's career, suffering from a singular lack of imagination, but it had its moments, all of which are collected here. Even when distilled to this concise collection, these recordings are a flake sparse as well as monotonous, but this remains the house to instruct acquainted with these records.
Cozy Powell is a cite that definitely gets recognized inwards the musicians circle, peculiarly the drummers crowd. 'The Coz' was
and even then is ane of the hottest Rock drummers around. If your drummer can't instruct the chore done...Then telephone holler upwards Cozy!
Poydor-Chronicles has only issued a 'tour de force' CD The Best Of Cozy Powell which captures Cozy & friends at sixteen of
their finest moments from Cozy's 3 Polydor albums- Over The Top '79, Tilt '81 & Octopuss '83. On this CD you'll uncovering great
killer Rock mixed with fusions of Jazz & Blues as well as playing along side 'The Coz' you'll fine unopen to of the leading musicians who
are move yesteryear of the rank. Jack Bruce, Gary Moore, Jeff Beck, with others burn downward the tunes upwards with heaven rockets flare! "The Blister,"
"Hot Rock," "Theme One" & "Killer" are untouchable. If y'all been missing Cozy's music (his original albums fetch a high $$$ in
collectors hands these days) it's fourth dimension to pick upwards this CD. Boy! He burns on them 'skins'! All the fabric has been digitally
remastered as well as volition blow your arrangement out! For to a greater extent than Cozy checkout Rainbow's The Very Best Of
Rainbow/Polydor-Chronicles.
This is the best of his solo work, non the entire career. That'd endure a 10 cd-box-set since he played with dozens of bands as well as projects. The songs hither are from his iii dissimilar solo albums, Over the top(1979)(#1-#5), Tilt(1981)(#6-#9) as well as Octopuss(1983)(#10-#16). I highly recommend this, rather than buying all three(unless you're a die-hard fan) since the vocal selections are great. The highlight is "Over the top"(#5), with a drum solo inwards the middle, completed with his globe famous Tchaikovsky's "1812 overture" drum solo.
The recording members are:
-Guitar: Gary Moore, Jeff Beck(#6,8), Dave Clempson, Mel Galley, Bernie Marsden.
-Bass: Jack Bruce, Colin Hodgkinson.
-Keyboards, piano, moog bass, synth: Don Airey, Max Middleton, John Cook, David Sancious, John Lord.
Cozy Powell is ane of my favorite drummers of all time. I loved listening to his drumming on the quondam Rainbow albums, the afterward Black Sabbath albums with Tony Martin, the 2d album yesteryear The Micheal Schenker Group, as well as Robert Plant's showtime solo album Pictures at Eleven, but I never novel he had solo albums. So I decided to purchase ane but, all the albums were either out of stock or agency to expensive. Then I came across this compilation. I idea it was perfect as well as it was.
It has tracks from his showtime iii solo albums: Over the Top(1979), Tilt(1981), as well as Octupuss(1983).
It has v tracks from Over the Top.
It has iv tracks from Tilt.
It has half-dozen tracks from Octupuss.
Any drummer or fan of Cozy Powell's legendary drumming volition adore this Cd.
Also at that spot are many famous musicians on this Cd similar Jon Lord, Jack Bruce, Don Airey, as well as Gary Moore.
This is dandy music.
Tracks Listing
1 Theme One 3:36
2 Killer 7:16
3 Sweet Poison 6:26
4 The Loner 4:52
5 Over the Top 8:38
6 Cat Moves 5:12
7 Sunset 4:32
8 Hot Rock 4:38
9 The Blister 4:24
10 Up on the Downs 3:55
11 Formula One 3:21
12 Dartmoore 5:41
13 633 Squadron 4:13
14 Octopuss 5:53
15 The Big Country 2:56
16 The Rattler 2:57
Line-up / Musicians
Cozy Powell Percussion, Drums, Gong, Producer, Tympani [Timpani], Drums (Snare), Tubular Bells, Mixing, Handbells
Don Airey Bass, Flute, Piano, Trombone, Trumpet, Arranger, French Horn, Keyboards, Oboe, Moog Synthesizer, Moog Bass
Jeff Beck Guitar
Jack Bruce Bass
John Cook Keyboards, Moog Bass
Mel Galley Guitar
Colin Hodgkinson Bass
Jon Lord Keyboards
Bernie Marsden Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm)
Max Middleton Piano, Keyboards, Moog Synthesizer, Fender Rhodes
Gary Moore Guitar
David Sancious Synthesizer, Keyboards
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