Get Loose To High and Mighty, Let Your Hair Down & Thirty Two Soul Band
By JR on 9:30 AM
Filed Under: Albina Music Trust , Funk , High And Mighty Funk band , Let Your Hair Down band
In '82, The Band Known As Lights Out Get Funky With The Best Of Them For SOLAR Records
By JR on 5:10 PM
Filed Under: 80's R and B , Albina Music Trust , Album Streams , Lights Out band
"Knee-deep in the jazz fusion sound made popular throughout the city, Lights Out soon evolved into a synthesizer-fueled funk group fronted by vocalist Andy Stokes and featuring guitarist Greg "Gee Mack" Dalton. It's this era of Lights Out that made converts of the haters and annihilated 800-capacity dancefloors. It’s this era of Lights Out that is being celebrated on this release.
Recorded in 1982 at Wave Sound Studios - a facility that housed local punk acts such as The Wipers and The Rats - the material on this LP was intended as a demo for Solar Records. As a touring trumpeter for The Whispers, Collins was to pass the reel up the chain. When Solar fumbled it, Collins and Dalton left Portland for Los Angeles signaling the end of the group." - Albina Music Trust
Let The Music Take Your Mind To A Better Place With The Blissful Funk Of Transport
By JR on 7:24 PM
Filed Under: Albina Music Trust , Album Streams , Funk , Transport band
"In the summer of 1979, a Chicago DJ started a riot that killed disco overnight. Inciting fans to blow up disco records during a nationally televised major league baseball game, the cultural impact of Disco Demolition Night was felt globally. It even made waves in Portland, Oregon.
In the months to follow, clubs in the City of Roses were out to hire anything but disco. For Transport, hot nights as a stage-ready show band would fade to memory. First went the horns, then the vocalists, until all that remained was the rhythm section. The band's days were numbered or so it seemed.
But keyboardists Jimmy and Johnny Sanders were fiercely experimental. Freed from the disco formula, the brothers' exchange over synthesizers and other keyed instruments was electric. With drummer Towner Galaher, the group bore songs in homage to the fusion music ever present in Portland. Inspired by the national success of local groups like the Jeff Lorber Fusion, Tom Grant, and Dan Siegel, the band was reborn. "
Transport is:
Jeff Bruce - Fretless Bass
Towner Galaher - Drums
Rob Manning - Guitar
Jimmy Sanders - Keys, Synthesizer
Johnny Sander - Keys
Ronnie Young - Percussion
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