Artist: Balls
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Skinny Dipping
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Drunkfish
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Although in that respect was a good handle of talent involved in Balls, non practically of it translated into recorded production, as they issued just one quite dull tough rock single, "Fight for My Country"/"Janie Slow Down" (1971). At several times the mathematical group featured Denny Laine, Trevor Burton, Steve Gibbons, Alan White, and Jackie Lomax: all names that make at least some recognition among fans of sixties and seventies British stone. They were proof, however, on a very minor league stratum, that supergroup assemblages of talent don't always, or much, lead to superduper results.
Balls began in February 1969, when Trevor Burton left wing the Move (where he had played bass) to bring together fella Birmingham band the Uglys, taking over on guitar sort of than bass voice. Changing their name to Balls, they went to a cottage in Fordingbridge to get it together in the land, in the fashion popularized by Traffic. Original Moody Blues pb vocalist Denny Laine came in on guitar and vocals during the summer (though Steve Gibbons was seemingly the to the highest degree prominent singer). However, they regrouped as a quartette in the summer of 1970, retaining Laine and Burton and adding Lomax and future Yes drummer Alan White. Lomax left wing after a calendar week, and Gibbon rejoined. Nothing must sustain been seriously jelling, because they stony-broke up in February 1971, although ex-Spooky Tooth drummer Mike Kellie came in exactly before the split.
That's the episode reported in Pete Frame's Family Trees book, anyway. It's too been written that White in reality left at the end of 1969, with Kellie coming in substantially to begin with, and that Lomax was never actually in the band. Additionally, Laine and Burton were besides in Airforce for parts of 1970, and played as an acoustic duo during some of that year.
It's all quite an a concern to sort out considering that precisely the one single was released. "Fight for My Country," by Burton, had a bit of the Move's combination of pastoral folks and stumpy hard rock, though it wasn't a majuscule tune. Laine and White wrote "Janie Slow Down," a footer hard stone figure with a snatch of a boogie-woogie find. Melody Maker reported in 1970 that Balls had through with 12 tracks for an album, which didn't appear (and they were non gestural to a label at the clock time in any event); it's also been speculated that Ric Grech appeared on some of those cuts. Both sides of the Balls individual are on the Move corn liquor Family Tree.
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