Cosmic Dreams at Play - Stoned Circus radio show - Free
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"Stop Little Lady". All tracks were this time composed by Frenzel. This must have been one of<br />
the best selling Ohr albums!<br />
Ohr also released Believe In The Pill in 1972, a sampler fe<strong>at</strong>uring six tracks from their first two<br />
albums and three rarer tracks, previously only available on Ohr singles: "Hope" (1970 A-side OS<br />
57.003), "Wh<strong>at</strong>'s Your Name" (1972 A-side OS 57.007) and "Believe In The Pill" (1972 B-side<br />
OS 57.007). The cover <strong>show</strong>ed a foetus lying in a dustbin, again causing much controversy!<br />
The steady sales resulted in a contract with the major company CBS. Hoodoo Man was released<br />
in January 1973 and contained 6 tracks th<strong>at</strong> refined their sound even more. This was a brilliant<br />
album with very confident guitar and organ riffs and interplay. Noske's voice had improved (he<br />
was one of the best German male vocalists) and he also drummed better than ever. The key tracks<br />
this time were the classic 10 minute "Gamma Ray" (a live favourite), "Buy!" (7:10) and "Get<br />
Down To Your F<strong>at</strong>e" (7:56). The cover art wasn't as outrageous as the usual Birth Control<br />
standard: just a drawing of a very big, f<strong>at</strong> woman repressing a little wind-up man!<br />
At this time the band had the ambition to break through intern<strong>at</strong>ionally. They therefore felt a reorganis<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of the band was necessary. Founder member Koschmidder left before a long<br />
German tour and was replaced by Peter Foller. The quintet of Noske, Frenzel, Steffens, Held and<br />
Foller recorded Rebirth (1974), failed to keep pace with the ambition. Steffens left again to form<br />
his own hard rock trio. The other four undertook another German tour th<strong>at</strong> resulted in a double<br />
live album, comprising five tracks in all with much instrumental work. This was appealing for<br />
the convinced fans, but not for the masses. On the rover the group was pictured sitting in car<br />
armed with machine guns, shooting <strong>at</strong> a baby carriage. Plastic People (1975) was a concept<br />
album <strong>at</strong>tempting to cre<strong>at</strong>e a more varied sound beyond the standard heavy progressive formula.<br />
The guests Jochen von Grumbkow (cello), Christoph Noppeney (viola) and Friedemann Leinert<br />
(flute), all from Holderlin, appeared on the track "My Mind". Plastic People was their best album<br />
since Hoodoo Man. Regrettably the group were not able to develop this style in any proper way.<br />
Backdoor Possibilities (1976) was a partly failed <strong>at</strong>tempt to include more jazz and classical<br />
elements into their hard rock. Birth Control were now recording for Brain, since CBS had lost<br />
faith in them.<br />
In 1983 founder member Bruno Frenzel died after a long illness.<br />
BLACKBIRDS<br />
Personnel:<br />
• WERNER BREINIG g<br />
• HEINZ KOOP b<br />
• HUBERT KOOP kb<br />
• HELMUT VIGNEROM d<br />
ALBUM:<br />
• "No Destin<strong>at</strong>ion" (Saga FID 2113) (UK) 1968<br />
Personnel:<br />
• WERNER BREINIG g, flt, vln<br />
• PETER BELY kb, v<br />
• WOLFGANG BODE b, v
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