Blue Mountain Eagle: Blue Mountain Eagle 1970

 

Blue Mountain Eagle was a short-lived American psychedelic/acid rock group that evolved out of New Buffalo Springfield in August 1969 and recorded a lone album for Atlantic/Atco Records,

which they were personally signed to by label founder Ahmet Ertegun. You'd half expect this supergroup's self-titled debut album -- recorded at Wally Heider's recording studios in L.A. with producer Bill Halverson (Crosby, Stills & Nash, Freddie King) -- to have made a bigger splash. Unfortunately, after landing in record store bins in the spring of 1970, Blue Mountain Eagle failed to generate much interest among the audience it was intended for. 
                          

The album really doesn't have a bad track and fans of bands like Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers -- not to mention to occasional heavy-handed vibe of bands like Steppenwolf --

are encouraged to seek out a copy. Each member of the group gets his own turn on lead vocals. Rhythm guitarist/vocalist David Price (born September 23, 1944, in Ballinger, Texas) and drummer/vocalist Don Poncher (born July 29, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois) were original members of The New Buffalo Springfield, formed in September 1968 by Dewey Martin, the drummer in the original Buffalo Springfield.
                       

David Price had previously played with Austin, Texas group, The Chelsea in the mid-1960s and (briefly), L.A-based Armadillo in mid-1968. Price was also Davy Jones's stand-in in The Monkees TV show thanks to his connections with his old friend Mike Nesmith. Don Poncher, who'd worked with Tex

Williams when he was 16 years old, had also played with Brothers Keepers in the San Fernando Valley in the mid-1960s. The new version of the legendary group, which also included lead guitarist Gary Rowles, bass player Bob Apperson and horn player Jim Price, played extensively between November 1968 and February 1969 before imploding when Stephen Stills and Neil Young took legal action to prevent Martin from using the "Buffalo Springfield" name. The leadoff track, Joey Newman's "Love Is Here," kicks off with a nice fuzz guitar and soaring vocals, with Newman and Bob Jones trading blistering country-rock licks. 
                       

"Yellow's Dream" sounds like something you'd expect to hear from Three Dog Night. Shortly after the

release of this album, in May 1970, bassist Randy Fuller left the group to join Dewey Martin. The rest of the band continued recording -- there are rumors of enough material for a second album -- but broke up soon thereafter, and their surviving statement as a band quickly vanished without further notice. In 2007, Blue Mountain Eagle was reissued on CD.
                              

IT'S PSYCHEDELIC BABY MAGAZINE (INTERVIEW)

                  

Blue Mountain Eagle – Blue Mountain Eagle
Label: Fallout – FOCD2080
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 2007
Country: UK
Released: 1970
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic

TRACKS

                           

01. Love Is Here   4:25
Written-By, Vocals – Newman
02. Yellows' Dream   2:42
Written-By, Vocals – Newman
03. Feel Like A Bandit   3:03
Written-By, Vocals – Price
04. Troubles   3:07
Written-By – Carol Meyer/Written-By, Vocals – BJ
05. Loveless Lives   3:32
Written-By – BJ, Newman/Written-By, Vocals – Poncher
06. No Regrets   4:08
Written-By – Price
/Written-By, Vocals – Poncher
07. Winding Your String   2:55
Written-By, Vocals – Newman
08. Sweet Mama   4:18
Written-By, Vocals – Fuller
09. Promise Of Love   3:00
Written-By, Vocals – Newman
10. Trivial Sum   3:08
Vocals – BJ
Written-By – Bowen, Furlong

BONUS TRACKS        

    
11. Marianne (Stereo)
Written-By – Stills
12. Marianne (Mono)
Written-By – Stills

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Joey Newman - lead guitar, keyboards, vocals
Bob "BJ" Jones - lead guitar, vocals
David Price - rhythm guitar, vocals
Randy Fuller - bass, guitar, vocals
Don Poncher - drums, vocals
David L. Johnson - bass, vocals 

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