Your favourite Westbound/Eastbound album ?

Strider79it

Hail Caesar ! - C. Frazier

m_dejean

Unfortunately, Crazy Legs is the only Eastbound title I own

funky16corners

  ^^^^ This

mannybolone

I'd cosign on the Donald Austin though for the most part, Eastbound titles (on LP at least) don't really excite me much. A lot of them sound like Prestige Records, just 3-4x the price.

Strider79it

Eastbound was more on the jazz side...

another good Westbound joint is outlook by Gary Chandler

ariel_calmer

Eastbound was more on the jazz side...

another good Westbound joint is outlook by Gary Chandler

That's eastbound too.

Strider79it

Eastbound was more on the jazz side...

another good Westbound joint is outlook by Gary Chandler

That's eastbound too.

thursdayalley

though crazy legs, hail caesar and funkadelic are all quality choices

spelunk

OHIO PLAYERS.

pickwick33

I'd cosign on the Donald Austin though for the most part, Eastbound titles (on LP at least) don't really excite me much. A lot of them sound like Prestige Records, just 3-4x the price.

...and that album by Albert Washington (Ohio soul-blues legend) is surprisingly dull. Too bad, because he has earlier singles on Jewel (the Louisiana Jewel, not the Ohio Jewel) and Fraternity that are way better.

pickwick33

- Keep On Truckin' by Frut (band from Detroit that did really inept versions of "Be-Bop-A-Lula" and "Bristol Stomp"...if the Flamin' Groovies couldn't play their instruments well, they'd sound like Frut)

- the Counts' album

- all of Funkadelic's albums (duh)

- ...and I can't believe ya'll are so hung up on the funk that no one mentioned the straight soul of the Detroit Emeralds or Denise LaSalle...

JacobWizzle

um Ohio Players "Pleasure", "Pain" and "Exctasy"

Jonny_Paycheck

um Ohio Players "Pleasure", "Pain" and "Exctasy"

You know?

Cats talking about Donald Austin and shit.


Funkadelic's the only thing messing with the Players.

Jonny_Paycheck

And the best Eastbound titles are Nineteenth Hole and Pleasure Web.

Cosmo

MOtherfuckers need to get off that old BULLSHIT.

The only reason why I'm not saying Maggot Brain is because I want to be difficult today.

pickwick33

um Ohio Players "Pleasure", "Pain" and "Exctasy"

You know?

Cats talking about Donald Austin and shit.


Funkadelic, the Detroit Emeralds and Denise LaSalle are the only thing messing with the Players.

Jonny_Paycheck

MARCH TO THE WITCH'S CASTLE

Strider79it

Jonny_Paycheck

Dude you have Joe Beck in your avatar and appreciate Joe Farrell. I do not want to get on your level.

Soulhawk

MARCH TO THE WITCH'S CASTLE

Father, bless the soldier who has returned home from the war
He has fought with all his might
Yet he knew not for what or who he was fighting for
Death waited in the shadows as he crawled by night for his country
His enemies was many, including the habit he still cannot break
Father, we pray that we might understand what has happened to his mind
And help us understand his reaction
To the changes that has taken place here at home
And father, smile upon us, with your grace, for we will need you more than ever
Help him understand, that when his loved one remarried
They were truly under the impression that he was dead
And never would return
Oh lord, we pray

And father, why must wars be fought?
Someone said this war ended with "Peace with honor"
But can there truly be?
Is there such a thing?
Thousands of boys gave their life, and for what?
Do anybody know?

Oh lord, give us the strength to understand ourselves
For we are mysterious animals, man
And as the boys march home to the witch's castle
They will all need your help
I can hear them calling, calling out for you, father
For there is no one else that can help
Smile upon us, oh lord
For we are very weak
Very weak
Very weak
Very weak
Very weak

Tonearm_Robbery

Hail Caesar ! - C. Frazier

75 for me.

PATX

Hail Caesar ! - C. Frazier

Man I wish I could have held on to this for longer than a week. Vacation money related

Jonny_Paycheck

MARCH TO THE WITCH'S CASTLE

Father, bless the soldier who has returned home from the war
He has fought with all his might
Yet he knew not for what or who he was fighting for
Death waited in the shadows as he crawled by night for his country
His enemies was many, including the habit he still cannot break
Father, we pray that we might understand what has happened to his mind
And help us understand his reaction
To the changes that has taken place here at home
And father, smile upon us, with your grace, for we will need you more than ever
Help him understand, that when his loved one remarried
They were truly under the impression that he was dead
And never would return
Oh lord, we pray

And father, why must wars be fought?
Someone said this war ended with "Peace with honor"
But can there truly be?
Is there such a thing?
Thousands of boys gave their life, and for what?
Do anybody know?

Oh lord, give us the strength to understand ourselves
For we are mysterious animals, man
And as the boys march home to the witch's castle
They will all need your help
I can hear them calling, calling out for you, father
For there is no one else that can help
Smile upon us, oh lord
For we are very weak
Very weak
Very weak
Very weak
Very weak

I was driving through Ohio on a bleak day and this song really got to me.

Cosmo

Seriously, fuck all that dumb shit man.

Cosmo

Seriously, fuck all that dumb shit man.

GODDAMN I JUST NEEDED TO SAY THAT AGAIN. Get off that old bullshit.

The_Hook_Up

Im gonna be difficult and list a 45 as my fave Westbound:
Funkadelic "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You"(Instrumental)....a skull fucker of Psychedelic funk..OG rendered almost unrecognizeable by by a shit ton of Echoplex and Fuzz...

Jonny_Paycheck

um Ohio Players "Pleasure", "Pain" and "Exctasy"

You know?

Cats talking about Donald Austin and shit.


Funkadelic, the Detroit Emeralds and Denise LaSalle are the only thing messing with the Players.

I can kind of respect that, but no.

I like the Emeralds LPs, but they're not Frickin' with the Players.

Besides - you're kind of unqualified to even speak on it considering you do not own their Westbound LPs, right?

pickwick33

um Ohio Players "Pleasure", "Pain" and "Exctasy"

You know?

Cats talking about Donald Austin and shit.


Funkadelic, the Detroit Emeralds and Denise LaSalle are the only thing messing with the Players.

I can kind of respect that, but no.

I like the Emeralds LPs, but they're not Frickin' with the Players.

Well, they're a lot more important than Teegarden & Van Winkle, wouldn't you think?

Besides - you're kind of unqualified to even speak on it considering you do not own their Westbound LPs, right?

Wrong. I've got the (mighty uneven) Pleasure album, as well as the singles of "Pain," "Funky Worm" and "Ecstasy." What I have of the Westbound years is spotty, but they were on the money when they were good, so I'm not hating.

But really, I was just alarmed that somebody could start a Westbound thread and talk about all these tepid, half-dead jazz-funk-fusion records yet overlook Denise LaSalle and the Detroit Emeralds, so I kinda inserted their names to get my point across. Sorry! (((grin)))

pickwick33

This isn't an album, but it is on Westbound - the next time ya'll compile an AM Gold mix, hunt down a 45 of Teegarden & Van Winkle's forgotten 1970 Jesus-rock masterpiece, "God, Love & Rock & Roll." That horn line SLAYS me...

mannybolone

Pickwick, in all fairness, it was a Westbound AND Eastbound thread. I don't think it makes much sense to group the two together despite whatever corporate ties they may have shared but in any case, I was only commenting on Eastbound titles (since their catalog is so much smaller and more easily talked about).

Speaking of which: co-sign on the Pleasure Web 45. 19th Whole = Bill Mason = Hail Frazier. Bunch of one-hitters that tend to be over-priced to boot.

Also co-sign on the general weakness of that Albert Washington album.

Back to Westbound, two of my favorite 45s:

Superlatives: I Don't Know Why
New Holidays: Maybe So, Maybe No (though this was originally on Soul Hawk)

Jonny_Paycheck

I've had Gene Chandler, Donald Austin, Bill Mason, 19th Whole, among others on the label and the 19th Whole shits on the others. I have never had Cesar Frazier so I can't call it but I wouldn't call 19th Whole a 1-tracker.