A Pound of Flesh

A Pound of Flesh

Track Listings

1. Queen of the Night

2. Katy

3. South Side Queen

4. Badside

5. Born of the Wind

6. Heed the Call

7. If the Right Don't Get You the Left One Will

8. All My Life

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
During the mid to late '60's, bands had weird names. Such was the case for a couple of Twin cities bands - The Grasshoppers and The Bananas. The Grasshoppers had a good 5-year run and broke up in 1968. Jiggs Lee decided to try his hand at a draft deferment in college. In 1969, The Bananas were trying to re-align the "image thing" by making some changes. Jim Offerman and Joe Soucheray (who, today, is a Highly Paid Broadcast Professional, Author, and Columnist) were replaced by Jiggs Lee on vocals and ex-Crow drummer Mike Mlazgar. With Dave Elmeer on bass, Lloyd Forsberg on guitar and Al Dworsky on keyboards, the Bananas continued to fill existing contracts with the intention of making a change. What to name the band? Lloyd said "Cain". Nobody had any objections, so then it began.

Numerous teen club dates and school dances later, Cain began to stretch its base out. College shows where audiences were more politically active (after all - it WAS the early '70's) started to garner a "heavier" reputation for the band.

Cain always seemed to have a devil of a time keeping drummers and keyboard players. By the time the band broke into the Chicago scene, Mike Mlazgar had been replaced by Tom Osfar. Cain learned about the long hours of a working Rush Street band - 6 hours per night and 7 on Saturday for two weeks straight.

During that period, Al Dworsky left to live on a Kibbutz in Israel (ok……………) and was replaced by Fane Opperman for a short time. Jerry Magee filled those duties next. AfterJerry's stint, the keyboard position was filled by Chas Carlson. Chas authored "Katy", and it wasn't long before other members of Cain began to pen some original material.

Cain would leave Minneapolis-St. Paul every 4-6 weeks in order to spend long nights at The Rush Up, The Corporation, Beginnings, and the Night Gallery (9 PM - 5 AM) in Illinois and The Stone Toad and Humpin' Hannah's in Milwaukee. Those led to dates at Merlin's in Carbondale, IL. and other outstate venues.

Along the way, Cain worked club dates with similarly hopeful bands like Cheap Trick, Styx, and Kansas.

2:30 in the morning would often turn into jams with whoever might be in the crowd that night. Fleetwood Mac, Iron Butterfly, Spencer Davis, Todd Rundgren, Mott the Hoople and others would haunt the clubs after shows looking for an open stage to jump.

Tom Osfar left to join Tufano & Giamarese in Chicago. "Ozzie" was replaced by Kevin DeRemer from the Everett James Band. After all the changes, Dave, Lloyd, Kevin and Jiggs decided to do this thing as a 4-piece.

Finally, the core that went into the studio was in place.

Cain's first album - "A Pound of Flesh" originally was intended to have a very ethereal theme with a reference to Wm Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice". The resulting cover was the idea of ASI Records' marketing department run amok.

Tours to support the LP took Cain to Texas, Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky besides the usual stints throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.

Cain's second ASI album "Stinger" was written during road trips and infrequent rests from touring. It fulfilled the 2-album contract with ASI and Cain's management was free to pursue other label opportunities.

Cain began the work on a third LP in 1978. It was only half completed before, weary of unfulfilled promises and faced with the diluted market as a result of "Disco", Dave and Jiggs left to "air out". Lloyd & Kevin continued to play as Cain for an additional year until that, too, folded.

Today, Dave is an Anesthesiologist in Minneapolis, Jiggs works as a commercial sound system designer in the Twin Cities, Lloyd is "somewhere in North Carolina", and Kevin is married to Melissa Manchester and living in Los Angeles.

Product Description
First-ever reissue of hard rock monster and 1975 debut Lp from Minnesota's CAIN! A hard rock fan's dream with Lloyd Forsberg's "ahead of their time" guitar licks and Jiggs Lee's raucous vocals. Features a full digital re-mastering along with liner notes, lyrics and photos!

A Pound of Flesh,Cain,Monster Records,Alternative Pop/Rock,Hard Rock,Pop,Rock

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Pound of Flesh
Darrell Probst
Manufacturer: Drakeraven
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0002185A4
Release Date: 2000-01-01

Tracks:

Fill Me Up
People
Low [Remix]
Freak
Used
Belief
Crush
Low
Freak [Remix]
Go F*** Yourself

Product Description

10 track self-titled cd by Pound of Flesh, who toured with Ministry in 2003.. Tracks are: 1) fill me up 2) the people 3) low (remix) 4) freak 5) used 6) belief 7) crush 8) low 9) freak (remix) 10) go f*** yourself

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Discharge [Japan Import]
Wired
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000TQBEC8

Product Description

1993, indie, Japan. Brilliant indie debut by Japanese hair metal outfit, Wired. Very similiar to late 80s Dokken, especially in the guitar department. Superb, fluent English lead vocals. Not one weak track. Nine in total including: King of the fire, Somebody to love, Down to the wire, Just one more time, Tell me why, Ready for your night, and more.

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a band ahead of its time...
A live act that was second to none...
Emblamatic of the Seventies!
FINALLY This is unique masterpiece that Still Sounds Fresh

A Pound of Flesh
Cain
Manufacturer: Monster Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00008US5U
Release Date: 2003-03-07

Tracks:

Queen of the Night
Katy
South Side Queen
Badside
Born of the Wind
Heed the Call
If the Right Don't Get You the Left One Will
All My Life

Album Description

First-ever reissue of hard rock monster and 1975 debut Lp from Minnesota's CAIN! A hard rock fan's dream with Lloyd Forsberg's "ahead of their time" guitar licks and Jiggs Lee's raucous vocals. Features a full digital re-mastering along with liner notes, lyrics and photos!

Customer Reviews:

a band ahead of its time..........2005-02-20

every time i hear a pound of flesh,it takes me back to great times.jiggs lee was the ultimate front man and singer from hell.no one could sing like him.loyd foresbergs guitar....blow away.dave elmeers songs and bass/acoustic guitar playing...incredible.and kevin deremers drumming was tight and solid.an all around gas of a time. i may be 49 years old,but i can still rock on with the best of them.cains a pound of flesh helps me to feel 19 again......

A live act that was second to none..........2004-04-07

Cain occasionally played a little club near my home town in west central Wisconsin, so I had the privilege of seeing them perform several times in 1973-74. Their live performance of these songs was deliriously high energy from start to finish. When the album was released, it was no surprise that the studio versions were just as dynamic. This is a prime slice of early seventies hard rock that stood equally with the headliners of the time and still sounds fresh today. Its release on CD is long overdue.

Emblamatic of the Seventies!.......2003-05-28

Oh, the 70's...disco...Jimmuh Cahtah..Phil Donahue...Laverne & Shirley...need I go on? But as the current TV series will attest, it wasn't...ALL bad. No, indeed: Gas hadn't hit a dollar yet, and another...commodity was much more readily available, as Nancy's "Just Say No" gobbledygook was still a thing of the future. Lotsa guys correctly assumed "whoah, let's get it while we CAN," and behaved accordingly. And, for some reason, this album has always reflected this grim memory to me. Ominous, dark clouds on the horizon, but, doggone it...well, up until disco stuck its vile presence into everything, anyway...the ladies looked SO FINE. And, in one way or another, "A Pound Of Flesh" comments very "70's-ishly" about the status quo then. Great musicians, ALL of Cain...but still: for the all-time-number-1 comment on..."being alone" (Think: "She Bop"), dig "If The Right One Don't Get You The Left One Will." Forget "I Touch Myself," and "Imaginary Lover," this comes right out and tells it like it is.

FINALLY This is unique masterpiece that Still Sounds Fresh.......2003-05-11

THanks to Monster for Re-issueing this masterpiece. Part Queen, Part Bad-Company, Part Led-Zepplin, Part Unique, this is a must have piece of 1970s Rock. Great multipart vocal harmonies. Great unorthodox guitar playing making use of echoes, patterns, and true strat sounds, tight rythmn section. Thanks to CAIN for their years of local/regional service. I learned a lot from watching them live, and I will always remember them! Very tasteful, melodic, bluesy, but heavy without the current angst hangover...

CHeers, Chris Rigatuso, from Minneapolis to California...

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