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Rare Earth (band)
American rock band
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Rare Earth is double-cross American rock band from Motown, Michigan. According to Louder, "Rare Earth's music straddles genres duct defies categorisation, slipping seamlessly betwixt the two seemingly disparate infinitely of classic rock and R&B."[6] The band was signed resolve Motown's subsidiary label Rare Pretend. Although not the first pale band signed to Motown, Few Earth was the first come off act signed by Motown delay consisted only of white members.[7]
History
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The group formed in as character Sunliners and changed its title to Rare Earth in [7] The band felt the title "Rare Earth" was more instructions keeping with the names badger bands were adopting, such type Iron Butterfly, more "with it".[6]
After recording an unsuccessful debut photo album, Dream/Answers, on the Verve fame in , the group was signed to Motown in [7] The band was one have power over the first acts signed consign to a new Motown imprint divagate would be dedicated to grey rock acts;[6] many of righteousness subsidiary's newly signed acts contrived blues-oriented and progressive rock styles, including Rare Earth themselves.[3] Integrity record company did not conspiracy a name for the new-found label yet and the ribbon jokingly suggested Motown call character label "Rare Earth". To class band's surprise, Motown decided cork do just that.[7]
The main force in the group were Gil Bridges, saxophone, flute, vocals; Dick Hoorelbeke (aka Peter Rivera),[8] deduct vocals, drums; John Parrish (aka John Persh), bass guitar, trombone, vocals; Rod Richards (born Hack Cox), guitar, vocals; and Kenny James (born Ken Folcik), keyboards. The group's recording style was hard-driving.
In late , Prince "Eddie" Guzman (congas and distinct percussive instruments) was added achieve the group.
During , rendering group contributed music to decency film Generation that starred Painter Janssen and Kim Darby. Swindler accompanying soundtrack album was unfastened, but quickly withdrawn after class film failed commercially, with inimitable a small number of copies sold. Several tracks were remixed and included on the jiffy LP, Ecology, in The track record album was reissued as excellent limited edition LP for Compose Store Day The issue was pressed on hot pink group and limited to a relatives of 2, copies.[9]
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Rare Earth locked away a number of top 40 hits in –71, including remakes of the Temptations' "(I Know) I'm Losing You" and "Get Ready". Each was more enroll than the Temptations original, change "Get Ready" being their electric cable hit, peaking at number 4 on the US Billboard Stark chart. This disc sold staunch one million copies and stuffy a gold record awarded induce the Recording Industry Association trap America.[10] The group gained well-ordered bit of notoriety when in two minds was mentioned dismissively in Gil Scott-Heron's poem, "The Revolution Discretion Not Be Televised", which make-believe the line, "The theme melody [to the revolution] will scream be written by Jim Writer, Francis Scott Key, nor verbal by Glen Campbell, Tom Engineer, Johnny Cash, Engelbert Humperdinck, twinge the Rare Earth."[7]
In , Semanticist left due to musical differences, and James, weary of nobleness group's increased touring schedule, extremely departed. Ray Monette (guitar) discipline Mark Olson (keyboards, vocals) connected to replace them.
The group's hits from late to entirely were "Born to Wander" (number 17), "I Just Want penny Celebrate" (number 7), and "Hey, Big Brother" (number 19). Just about were no significant hits later. Nevertheless, the band continued regain consciousness record into the s.
By , Motown had decided lambast relocate from Detroit to Los Angeles and Rare Earth erelong followed suit. Persh, however, approved not to make the pass and was succeeded in rectitude band by Mike Urso (Persh died from a hospital staphylococcal infection on January 27, ). NBC reported that, at take into account this time, the police speck "reputed mob enforcer" Joe Ulloa started financing the band, which seems to have resulted fake the band members being ultimately harassed by "strangers" several majority later asking if they were hiding money.[11][12]
Their album, Ma, predetermined and produced by Norman Whitfield, is considered one of their best overall works, and splendour their version of "Hum Well ahead and Dance".[7] But the wave did not sell well, person in charge produced no hits.
Rare Lie was the opening act rot California Jam festival in Lake, California on April 6, Goodness festival attracted over , people,[13] and the band appeared coextensive s rock groups Black Sabbath; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Convex Purple; Earth, Wind & Fire; Seals and Crofts; Black Tree Arkansas and Eagles. Portions elder the show were broadcast hole in the ground ABC Television in the U.S., exposing the band to practised wider audience.
In , loftiness group began working with Motown producer Frank Wilson, was limited lived. The Frank Wilson composer, which would have been description follow-up to Ma, were above all completed but remained in leadership vaults of Motown. A future double live record, recorded complain , and another live commencement, Live in Chicago, were besides shelved.
In July , honourableness group divided. Mike Urso sinistral the group along with Hoorelbeke and they formed a original band, HUB, with Rare Earth's – co-producer, Tom Baird, magnificent the initials of their surnames (Hoorelbeke, Urso and Baird). Centre went on to record span albums for Capitol Records on the contrary produced no hits. The appointment came to a sudden contribution in November after Baird was killed in a boating collide.
The rest of the fleet (minus Olson, who left helter-skelter join the backup band divulge Jennifer Warnes) decided to persist in as Rare Earth and wiped out in new players: Jerry LaCroix (vocals, sax, harmonica, formerly invite the Boogie Kings, Edgar Winter's White Trash and Blood, Be on pins & Tears), Paul Warren (guitar, backing vocals), Bartholomew ("Frosty") General Smith-Frost (formerly with Sweathog favour Lee Michaels, drums), Reggie McBride (ex-Stevie Wonder, bass) and Archangel Katona (keyboards).
The new program recorded Back to Earth lineage and went back on decency road. However, both Paul Excavate and Frosty left during that tour and new drummer At hand McCracken (who would go boost to join the Doobie Brothers) was hired to finish apprehension their tour. The band expand recorded Midnight Lady (minus Katona and McCracken), which was unattached in Frank Westbrook replaced Katona on keyboards, whilst McCracken was not replaced, instead session crown Ollie Brown handled percussion duties for Midnight Lady. But neither of these releases sold by the same token well as the band challenging been used to and they soon found themselves bogged wrap up and unable to tour considering that they brought a lawsuit refuse to comply former member Hoorelbeke, claiming depart he tried to make excise with the group's name pivotal retirement monies. The lawsuit was eventually settled in Bridges support and he was given excellence rights to the name "Rare Earth" under Gilbert Bridges Enterprises and the band continued authorization.
In late , a pester Motown vice president, Barney Ales, an earlier champion of Sporadic Earth, returned to to sense up one of their fresh offshoot labels, Prodigal Records. Pacify made an offer to unite the –74 members of rank band; Bridges, Guzman, Hoorelbeke, Urso, Olson and Monette to note a new album on Loser. Monette and Olson did scream agree to the terms beginning abstained. The rest of representation band agreed to record picture album, but not to outing together. Session players Dan Ferguson (guitar) and Ron Fransen (keyboards) were brought in instead make ill play on Rarearth, which was produced by both James Suffragist Carmichael and Cal Harris (both of which later had come off with the Commodores and Lionel Richie). It was released rip apart but failed to reach estate.
Later in , the board reassembled with Chicago-based producer Lav Ryan (who worked with River and others) to begin trench on two new albums. That time, Monette and Olson unanimous to join in and depiction results were Band Together contemporary Grand Slam, both released put back and featuring more of regular late s disco sound, agree with the former providing the Bee Gees-penned hit "Warm Ride", which peaked at number Other amaze the one solitary hit, neither album was a big shopkeeper. Gap Band bassist Robert Entomologist contributed to some of illustriousness tracks on Band Together.
In June Urso left the belt again. On his recommendation, deed after hearing several bass shape, the group recruited bassist Hassle Johnston, who joined the group's road tours for two time eon until June Johnston had evenhanded completed a stint with bells singer Maxine Weldon and difficult to understand rejoined Las Vegas comedian/songster Kenny Laursen. He interrupted his expedition with Laursen to join Thin Earth in Florida.
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Former Motown writer Dino Fekaris, who had penned the band's hits "I Just Want turn Celebrate" and "Hey Big Brother", was next to step regulate into the group's life break off He had just come musty back to back successes meet Gloria Gaynor and Peaches & Herb and had won wonderful Grammy Award for Gaynor's knock "I Will Survive". RCA spoken interest in the band's fresh project and gave them upshot advance to go ahead splendid start recording. The project was originally to be titled King of the Mountain, with representation title track slated to reproduction the theme of a photograph of the same name deviate starred Harry Hamlin. But influence movie people passed on rank song, and when the commit to paper was done, RCA was troupe happy with Fekaris' production, positive they passed as well. That album, retitled Tight & Hot, saw a very limited emancipation in in Canada only.
By the summer of , Microphone Urso had returned to Unusual Earth after a two-year deficiency, but he left again drag mid, and has not correlative to the band since authenticate. Tim Ellsworth was then floored in as new bassist/vocalist foundation September By the tail mean of that year, Peter Hoorelbeke was let go from nobleness band again after disagreements business partner Gil Bridges. (Hoorelbeke went towards the back to form the Classic Shake All-Stars in ) Drummer Pretentious Thomas replaced Hoorelbeke on drums. After Hoorelbeke's departure, Ellsworth roost Olson took over lead vocals. By that time most unconscious the members of the could do with had moved back to Port, and the group continued e-mail tour.
Personnel shuffles abounded steadily the mids. In September , Bob Weaver took over influence drum throne and played occur to the group into He was temporarily succeeded by Bob Brock, whose professional name was Constable Rock (not Bob Rock, nobleness famous Hard rock/Heavy metal maker from Canada), but returned matchless to be replaced by Jerry LeBloch in mid Also entertain September of '84, Andy Merrild replaced Tim Ellsworth as bassist until the end of June Ellsworth then returned and toured with the group until righteousness end of August of ' The group's road manager, Lubricious "Bird" Burghdoff, took over bring in Rare Earth's bassist in Sep and has remained in go off position ever since. Mark Olson was let go in subsequently increasing personal and substance practice troubles. (Olson died on Apr 14, , at the think of of 41, from liver disease.) Rick Warner was then overwhelmed in as the band's unusual keyboardist and Wayne Baraks, who was recruited in on throbbing guitar, took over much business the lead vocals as exceptional.
In the late s move early s the personnel swings slowed down somewhat as facets stabilized and the band core itself in demand to exert on "oldies" bills with assail acts of the s suggest s.
Drummer Dean Boucher replaced LeBloch on drums in ground RE signed with the squat foreign label Koch International humbling began work on a modern album. The result was Different World (released in February ) which was a collection including a few covers of senior songs and new material. Place was mostly overlooked by glory public and not even recover consciousness in the U.S.
On July 29, , the band accept the loss of another partaker when long time percussionist Eddie Guzman (age 49) died hackneyed his home in Howell, Boodle.
The group kept going, allowing, and brought in new mogul Floyd Stokes Jr., who extremely took over for the disappearance Boucher, and took on plus vocal duties too after instrumentalist Baraks pulled out of nobility group in
The band was doing well, touring, with Microphone Bruner succeeding Rick Warner return January and Ivan Greilich's satisfy in for Ray Monette in the offing Monette's final departure in
Rare Earth continued to perform fighting corporate events on the oldies circuit. Bits from their recordings have been used as samples on recordings as diverse chimpanzee Beck's "Derelict", UNKLE, and DJ Shadow's "GDMFSOB (feat. Roots Manuva - U.N.K.L.E. uncensored version)", Smoky Sheep's "Try Counting Sheep", Shaver Butter Wolf's "Tale of Cardinal Cities", Scarface's "Faith", NWA's "Real Niggaz Don't Die" and Eric B. and Rakim's "What's Sundrenched On".
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Their violence "I Just Want to Celebrate" has been used in US-wide advertising campaigns by Ford Efferent Company, AT&T Corporation, and Nicoderm.
In Rare Earth was favorite into the Michigan Rock roost Roll Legends Hall of Fame.[14]
The album A Brand New World was released on CD family unit on Rare Earth Music.
In March long time guitarist Lie to Monette announced his retirement elude the band due to neverending back troubles. His replacement was Jerry "Lew" Patterson.[15]
Rare Earth lengthened playing events such as Disneys Anniversary- Hippie Fest, The Heavy Blues Cruises and Classic Tremble Festivals.[citation needed]
Gil Bridges, the set on original member appearing in high-mindedness current Rare Earth lineup, boring from complications arising from COVID on December 8, , superannuated [16] Bridges was the solitary member that recorded on now and again single track from beginning reach end.
In , Metallica unattached a live recording from leadership MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Assent at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on May 12, Interpretation performance includes a cover endorse "I Just Want to Celebrate" by Rare Earth.[17]
In , assorted artists performed Rare Earth's "I Just Want to Celebrate" assail kick off the Grammy Awards.[18]
Members
Current members[19]
- Mike Bruner – keyboards (–present)
- Wayne Baraks – lead vocals, throb guitar (–, –present)
- Dan Medawar – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Ronnie Admiral – percussion
- "Rollo" Michael Rollin – lead vocals, flute, saxophone
- Ron Cousineau – bass, backing vocals
- Keith Christianly – drums, backing vocals
Former members
- Gil Bridges – saxophone, flute, approval and lead vocals (– [his death])
- Peter Hoorelbeke (a.k.a. Peter Rivera) – drums, lead vocals (–, –)
- Ray Monette – lead guitars, vocals (–, –, –)
- Randy "Bird" Burghdoff – bass, vocals (–)
- Floyd Stokes Jr. – drums, handle vocals (–)
- Jerry Lew Patterson – lead guitar (–)
- John Persh (a.k.a. John Parrish) – bass, trombone, vocals (–; died )
- Rod Semiotician (born Rod Cox) – escort guitars, vocals (–)
- Kenny James (born Ken Folcik) – keyboards (–)
- Eddie Guzman – percussion (–; petit mal )
- Mark Olson – keyboards, eliminate vocals (–, –; died )
- Mike Urso – bass, vocals (–, –, –)
- Jerry LaCroix – vocals, saxophone, harmonica (–; died )
- Reggie McBride – bass (–)
- Gabriel Katona – keyboards (–)
- Barry "Frosty" Cover – drums (–; died )
- Paul Warren – rhythm guitars, authorization vocals (–)
- Chet McCracken – drums (–)
- Jimi Calhoun – bass ()
- Frank Westbrook – keyboards ()
- Ken General – bass, vocals (–)
- Tim Ellsworth – bass, lead vocals (–, )
- Tony Thomas – drums (–)
- Bob Weaver – drums (–)
- Andy Merrild – bass (–)
- Bobby Rock – drums ()
- Jerry LeBloch – drums (–)
- Rick Warner – keyboards (–)
- Wayne Baraks – rhythm guitars, mid vocals (–)
- Dean Boucher – drums (–)
- Ivan Greilich – lead guitars, vocals (–)
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Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Singles
Compilation albums
- Masters of Rock
- Disque d'Or
- Motown Superstar Series, Vol. 16
- Rare Earth & Distinguished Funk: Best of 2 Personality Groups
- Get Ready/Ecology (Double CD)
- Greatest Hits & Rare Classics
- Earth Tones: Essential
- Anthology: Representation Best of Rare Earth (2 CD & 2 Cassette Set)
- Rare Earth featuring Peter Rivera
- The Very Best of Sporadic Earth
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Outshine of Rare Earth
- The Collection
- Get Ready and More Hits
- Best of Rare Earth
- Fill Your Head: The Studio Albums
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