Fanny Live on Beat-Club '71-'72 (LP, colored Vinyl)

Live on Beat-Club '71-'72 présente les deux sets que Fanny a enregistrés pour l'émission de télévision allemande, masterisés par Mike Milchner de Sonic Vision à partir de fichiers mono haute résolution provenant des bandes vidéo originales. Outre les performances effervescentes et incroyablement denses, il est immédiatement clair que les quatre femmes étaient des puissances à part entière. Les cordes enchanteresses de la Les Paul de June Millington, les lignes de basse entraînantes et mélodiques de sa sœur Jean et sa voix à la Janis Joplin, les claviers complexes et pourtant très rock de Nickey Barclay et la batterie précise d'Alice de Buhr, ponctuée de féroces fills - ensemble, Fanny était une étonnante démonstration de talent, mais d'une manière ou d'une autre, comme le révèlent ces concerts, elles étaient plus grandes que la somme de leurs parties. C'est pourquoi la publication de ces enregistrements a longtemps été une croisade pour Alice, et pourquoi June nous dit dans les notes d'accompagnement (avec des contributions de June, Jean et Alice) que l'ingénieur chargé de transférer tout le matériel du Beat Club lui a dit que le sien était le meilleur du coffre-fort, même meilleur que celui d'Hendrix. Nous publions cet enregistrement d'archives inestimable sur un luxueux vinyle pêche et sur CD, avec une piste bonus du soundcheck pour faire bonne mesure. Indispensable pour bien comprendre le rock des années 70 !

Are you ready to hear the best live band of the early ‘70s? We at Real Gone Music have been privileged and proud to release Fanny’s four classic Reprise albums, each a tuneful testament as to why they were the first all-female band signed to a major label. But there has always been a piece missing from the Fanny fable; for while the band hooked up with big-time producers and engineers like Richard Perry, Todd Rundgren, and Geoff Emerick, their studio albums never really were able to capture the sheer excitement they could generate in concert. However, buried away in a vault thousands of miles away from their Los Angeles base there long lay a recording that could make the Fanny myth a reality, one that could provide the emphatic answer as to why these four ladies were the hottest ticket on the Sunset Strip during the early ‘70s.

Now, over 50 years later, its time—and their time—has come. Live on Beat-Club ’71-’72 presents the two sets Fanny recorded for the German TV show, mastered by Mike Milchner of Sonic Vision from hi-res mono files taken from the original videotape. Aside from the incendiary and incredibly tight performances, what immediately becomes apparent is that all four of these women were powerhouses in her own right. June Millington’s stringbending Les Paul wizardry, her sister Jean’s driving, melodic bass lines and Janis Joplin-esque vocals, Nickey Barclay’s intricate yet somehow rocking keyboard work, and Alice de Buhr’s precise, piston-like drumming punctuated by ferocious fills—put together Fanny was an overwhelming display of talent, Yet somehow, as these shows reveal, live they were greater than the sum of their parts. That’s why getting these recordings released has long been a crusade for Alice, and why June tells the story in the accompanying liner notes (which feature contributions from June, Jean, and Alice) that the engineer who was assigned to do the transfers of all the Beat-Club material told her that their material was the best in the vault, better even than Hendrix. We are releasing this invaluable archival recording on juicy peach vinyl and on CD with a bonus track of the soundcheck to boot. Essential for a full understanding of ‘70s rock!