Growers Of Mushroom is a jewel among the Hard Rock plates of the early 1970s and an original LP brought a revenue of over £ 2000 in an Internet auction house a. The more you can be happy about this, 2005 by Repertoire Records (which as usual lovingly) published CD version.
Revised Sound Technically, in digipack and with detail betextetem and bebildertem booklet liner notes by Chris Welch deliver again a lot of interesting information (lot, can accommodate more than one in the scope of this article).
The precursor of Leaf Hound called Black Cat Bones and present were Messrs Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke who joined after a short time Free and a well-known career lay down. After Black Cat Bones had released their first album, Peter French joined as a singer and to the foundation of Leaf Hound was laid.
On guitar was a no less well-known man, Rod Price. But who left the band then relatively quickly in order to make itself a name as a Foghat Slide guitarist. As a substitute French took his cousin Mick Halls in the band.
The album Growers Of Mushroom was recorded in the following instrumentation:
Peter French - singing
Mick Halls - Guitar
Derek Brooks - Guitar
Stuart Brooks - Bass
Keith George Young - drums
Who knows what the guys back then cultivated for mushrooms. Come out in any case a class Hard Rock album, with influences from blues and psychedelic rock. A certain Led Zeppelin impact is not entirely be dismissed out of hand. Maybe a circumstance which caused the Decca people hesitate to bring the board in a timely manner after their admission out.
Shortly after completion of the plate and the Brooks Brothers Leaf Hound left again and with Ron Thomas on bass, the band as a quartet went on tour through Europe. According to Peter French they played in Germany the ass off and expected every day that the Company would publish her album finally.
When this hope had not been fulfilled and the band had to be able to promote their tour without her album finished frustrated to Leaf Hound disbanded. French joined Atomic Rooster, with whom he recorded their biggest success In Hearing of Atomic Rooster. Subsequently, he was a few years a member of the band Cactus.
After several fruitless attempts, and solo projects with musicians from the Gillan Band and Thin Lizzy, who did not come through a planning stage, Peter French withdrew from the music business and was a decorator and carpenter. It was the first new release of Leaf Hounds album brought him from the early 1990s again slowly with the music in contact.
Since 2004 Leaf Hound exist again and on this issue of Growers Of Mushroom is a time of new track, Too Many Times Rock'n'Roll, which is on the album Unleshed, which was published finally in 2007.
Conclusion of this unusual band's history:
Given the fact that this board has become a collector's item on vinyl an expensive rarity, you should grab here safely to the CD, if one stands on classic hard rock with British traits. And when you hear that one Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother this band to its influences, then you have a listener modern rock music a sound clue what you can expect here.
