Pacific Gas & Electric [Import]

Product Description
Reissue of the San Francisco-based blues rock act's second album, originally released on Columbia in 1969. Contains allseven original tracks & the original cover art. 1998 Columbia release.

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Average customer rating: missing song Reissue "Get It On" ! ! Pacific, Gas & Electric Lives on!

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Album Description

Reissue of the San Francisco-based blues rock act's second album, originally released on Columbia in 1969. Contains allseven original tracks & the original cover art. 1998 Columbia release.

Customer Reviews:

missing song.......2007-04-04

why is the song Thank God for you baby missing it was on the original album in 1969--I bought this cd for that one song and now im very disappointed that its not on there-4-3-07-tues eve. and it showed a 15 track selection but it did say it contained all 7 of the original songs but listed 15 songs on the cd--whats up with this i was decieved--was it Columbia's fault or what.

Reissue "Get It On" ! !.......2002-06-12

I totally agree with Kent. This CD is OK, but come one, where is "Wade In The Water"?????

This band played Fillmore West many times, and I was lucky to catch them.

It's the mark of a band to have people clamoring for an old LP.

It's the record company that didn't help them in the first place that we have to appeal to now?

Pacific, Gas & Electric Lives on!.......2000-10-28

This solid rock band fronted by the talented Charlie Allen were passed over and forgotten in the plethora of rock groups in the late 60's/early 70's. With former Canned Heat drummer Frank Cook and guitarist Glenn Schwartz, they worked the club scene and played solid rock. Although this is a great album, their first album, Get It On, needs to be re-issued as it contains their by far best work. Best song, Are You Ready, with background vocals by the Blueberries. At this price, you can't pass up this record.

Average customer rating: Better than I remember....

PG&E Pacific Gas & Electric Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Live 'n' Kicking at Lexington Pacific Gas & Electric Last Flight Human Condition Revisited/I Used to Be Mad! (But Now I'm Half Crazy) Sweeping Up the Spotlight: Jefferson Airplane Live at the Fillmore East 1969 ASIN: B000MGBSA8 Release Date: 2007-03-13

Tracks:

1. Rock and Roller's Lament
2. Recall
3. One More River to Cross
4. Death Row #172
5. Short Dogs and Englishmen
6. See the Monkey Run
7. Time Has Come (To Make Your Peace)
8. Thank God for You Baby
9. When the Sun Shines

Album Description

Pacific Gas & Electric was a blues/rock group out of California who had a number of charting albums in the late 1960's-early 1970's. The group was headed up by vocalist Charlie Allen. Originally hitting the charts in 1971, PG&E is making its worldwide CD debut.

Customer Reviews:

Better than I remember...........2007-04-14

This is a great recording, a nice mix of soul, r&b, and some fun rockers.
Sound quality is good, nice and punchy, better than the live disc released
along with this. Both are highly recommended, good songs and good playin.

Average customer rating: Bloozey Fun in1970 Don't overanalyze it....

Live 'n' Kicking at Lexington Pacific Gas & Electric Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: PG&E At the Kabuki Theatre Last Flight Sweeping Up the Spotlight: Jefferson Airplane Live at the Fillmore East 1969 Live At XM Satellite Radio/ The Deluxe Edition ASIN: B000MGBSBC Release Date: 2007-03-13

Tracks:

1. Old Slop in "A" [#]
2. Are You Ready? [#]
3. Next Time You See Me [#]
4. Elvira [#]
5. 32-20 Blues [#]
6. One More River to Cross [#]
7. Motor City Is Burning [#]
8. Jelly Jelly [#]

Album Description

Pacific Gas & Electric was a blues/rock group out of California who had a number of charting albums in the late 1960's-early 1970's. The group was headed up by vocalist Charlie Allen. Wounded Bird proudly presents this previously unreleased live album from Charlie Allen and friends, originally scheduled for release by Columbia in 1970 but never saw the light of day - until now! The rumors of the existence of this album have been a topic of conversation by their fans for decades. The rumors can now be put to rest.

Customer Reviews:

Bloozey Fun in1970.......2007-04-17

Well I had my reservations since there had been a major shake-up in their line up.A new drummer, bass, guitar and no horns????? Ken Utterback replacing Glenn Schwartz on lead?
An unfounded concern, as Ken more than holds his own, filling those really Big Shoes, he's a soulful player with more than a few licks highly reminiscent of one John Dawson Winter III sans the slide.
Now to the real critical part:
Everyone knows that a proper sound check is crucial especially if you plan on recording & releasing a show.
Well...apparently someone forgot to tell the parties involved because it takes until the 3rd song to get their levels right. This is a shame, as this band was legendary for it's live performances.
Track 1: aptly named Old Slop in "A" (11:20 min.) has a wonderful groove marred by a criminally crappy mix ( someone should have been fired for it). And unfortunately this poor quality carries over into their "big" hit track 2: "Are You Ready?" Charlie's vocals are still way out front, fortunately there is only 6:25 of this to endure.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love live recordings, even marginal ones by recording standards.
The problem here is by the third track someone must have slapped the sound board tech and woke him up. The mix improves dramatically.
Too bad it didn't happen sooner. 'Cause this is a really fine band that ( in this reviewers eyes and ears) fell victim of an indifferent or untalented sound crew.
The rest of this release sparkles, but I almost didn't make it past the first couple of tracks.I imagine the execs at CBS didn't make it past 'em either. Maybe that's why these terrific tracks(well tracks 3 thru 8 anyway) have sat on a shelf for 37 years.
All that said, this is still a real historic gem that tho tarnished is a valuable addition to anyone's collection who lived & loved the live sounds of the late 60's and early 70's.

Don't overanalyze it...........2007-04-12

The liner notes indicate this live date took place while touring after "Are You Ready" was released, but with a revised line-up. No "guitar
glen", who was replaced by a very good Ken Utterback, but it is still a worthwhile purchase. It is a crude, undoctored disc, but very enjoyable, over an hour of great guitar blues-rock. It is a bit over-indulgent at times, but who wasn't at the time(8-'70). Well worth the time and expense!

Average customer rating: Why is "When A Man Loves A Woman" missing from "Ready"? Glenn Schwartz Rocks! Just a few corrections... All Good but we need "Get It On" !! Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon!

Are You Ready/Pacific Gas & Electric Pacific Gas & Electric Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Rhinoceros Pacific Gas & Electric Crabby Appleton Open Frijid Pink ASIN: B00000093Y Release Date: 1997-07-01

Tracks:

1. Are You Ready?
2. Hawg For You
3. Staggolee
4. The Blackberry
5. Love, Love, Love, Love, Love
6. Mother, Why Do You Cry?
7. Elvira
8. Screamin'
9. Bluesbuster
10. Death Row #172
11. Miss Lucy
12. My Women
13. She's Long And She's Tall
14. PG & E Suite: (A) The Young Rabbits/(B) Constitutional Strand/(C) Fat Tom/(D) Boy Wonder
15. Redneck

Customer Reviews:

Why is "When A Man Loves A Woman" missing from "Ready"?.......2006-05-13

I had the LP ARE YOU READY? and the last track was "When A Man Loves A Woman" but it doesn't appear on the CD -- anyone know why?

Glenn Schwartz Rocks!.......2005-02-25

Hear "Guitar Glenn" aka "Boy Wonder" rip out some classic blues licks! One of the greatest ever to play the guitar. Very soulful blues on this comp. A true living legend. Glenn still rocks the house every thursday at Hooples (Cleveland Ohio - West Bank of the Flats - Columbus Street) with brother Gene. Check it out, Cleveland's best kept secret!

Just a few corrections..........2005-01-24

Having been friends with some of the surviving members of this band for many years now, I'd like to add and correct a couple of things posted here.

The Bassist for the 1st 3 albums was Brent Block, not Black...
Guitarist Tom Marshall was also on the 1st 3 albums, and is a founding member.

So, the lineup for the 1st 3 albums would be
Tom Marshall - Guitar
Glenn Schwartz - Guitar
Brent Block - Bass
Frank Cook - Drums
Charlie Allen - Vocals

The 1971 lineup for the PG&E album would be Allen, guitarist Ken Utterback, bassist Frank Petricca, Ron Woods on drums, Jerry Aiello on keyboards, trumpet player Stanly Abernathy, sax players Alfred Galagos and Virgil Gonsalves, and percussionist Joe LaLa.

The 1973 release, "... Starring Charlie Allen" was done with Allen and a host of studio musicians.

There is more film history besides "Junie Moon".

A documentary of this band playing at a drug rehab center in Lexington, Kentucky was made by noted author and filmmaker Lawrence Schiller. It's called "The Lexington Experience". It was shown publicly only a couple of times when a disagreement over music royalties shelved it. The only known copies are with the surviving members in the film (except for Frank Cook, who could not be located, and by this time had become the band's manager... replaced on drums by Ron Woods), Lawrence Schiller himself (who graciously supplied copies to the band members) and myself.

An accompaning album was recorded (but not released) called "Live and Kicking at Lexington". I've been in year-long negotiations with Sony Music for copies of the tapes for the band members to hear.

As far as reviewing their music, I'm biased. All I can say is listen and judge for yourselves.

All Good but we need "Get It On" !!.......2004-02-23

There is nothing bad to say about PG&E but here we go again with this reissue thing. It seems as though some record companies will only put out the radio play music and not what the fans like most from these bands. Get It On was and still is the best Pacific Gas & Electric album, seems as though the small Orange label owners should try to pull thier heads out of thier a-- and put the master tape on disc. But this review is about these two albums right? Buy this Cd, it kicks and this band was one of the best at that time, Charlie was a great vocalist and God rest his soul..

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon!.......2002-07-19

Call it nostalgia if you'd like, but when I saw this CD it brought me back to that psychedelic era of bra burning, draft card burning, raw rock and roll and free love and, good or bad, I just had to purchase it.

Pacific Gas and Electric was initially known as Bluesberry Jam and, at that time, included drummer Fito De La Parra. In 1968, De La Parra left the Bluesberry and joined Canned Heat. Canned Heat's drummer, Frank Cook left Canned Heat and joined what would soon be known as Pacific Gas and Electric. (De La Para obviously fared better in the trade.) About the same time Cook and De La Para swapped places, guitar extraordinaire Glenn Schwartz left the James Gang and his home town in Ohio to come to California. Schwartz was so good that the rock and roll world predicted the end of the James Gang. Interestingly, Schwartz was soon replaced in the James Gang by none other than Joe Walsh and the band continued on.

With the addition of Schwartz, PG&E was complete. The full band now consisted of Charlie Allen--vocals, Frank Cook-drums, Brent Black-bass and Glenn Schwartz-guitar and it was off to the recording studio. The bands first release, Get It On, immediately spurred controversy when it's album cover featured sexual innuendos in the form of a train and a bullet aimed at a pretty girl, the cover was censored and the album was re-released and performed dismally.

Over the next two years, 1969 and 1970 respectively, the band changed labels moving from the little known Bright Orange label to Columbia Records and released the self-titled "Pacific Gas and Electric" and "Are You Ready", which have been put together on this CD. The self-titled debut on Columbia Records was essentially hitless but, nonetheless, sold enough records to convince Columbia that a third album was in order. "Are You Ready" soon followed and it's title track, with backup vocals by the gospel tinged "Blackberries" became a hit. But trouble continued to plague the band when Canadian officials banned the band from Canada due to an admission by one of the members that he took drugs (What a shock!). Glenn Schwartz, shortly there after, announced at a concert that he had found God and he soon departed the band moving back to Ohio to join other Christian musicians to form "The All Saved Freak Band". Schwartz was replaced in the band by guitarist Ken Utterback and, despite the release of a pretty good fourth CD "PG&E", the band began to fade away.

There is a lot of history here, and the truth of the matter is that the band was not half bad. Schwartz was an excellent guitarist whose riffs sound as good today as when they first rang from his guitar 30 years ago and Charlie Allen's soulful and powerful vocals were ahead of the times. One last bit of trivia, the band was so good that they played on the soundtrack to Otto Preminger's movie "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon".

Average customer rating:

Are You Ready/Pacific Gas & Electric Pacific Gas & Electric Manufacturer: Yellow ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000PC0TUY Release Date: 2007-08-13

Tracks:

1. Are You Ready?
2. Hawg for You
3. Staggolee
4. Blackberry
5. Love, Love, Love, Love, Love
6. Mother, Why Do You Cry?
7. Elvira
8. Screamin'
9. Bluesbuster
10. Death Row #172
11. Miss Lucy
12. My Women
13. She's Long and She's Tall
14. PG&E Suite: The Young Rabbits/Constitutional Strand/Fat Tom/Boy Wonder
15. Redneck

Album Details

Remastered and Packaged in a Digipak with Original Artwork and Updated Liner Notes. Their Self Titled Album was Originally Released in 1969 and was their First Album for Columbia. "Are You Ready" Followed as their Second Album for Columbia and the Title Track was their Top 20 Hit.

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