Copperhead - Copperhead (CBS 84483) (NL 19__, 1973) (Vinyl 24-96 & 16-44.1)

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Copperhead – Copperhead

Label: CBS
Catalog#: 84483
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: Netherlands
Origin: US
Released: 19__
Orig. Rel.: 1973
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock

Tracklist:

A1 Roller Derby Star
A2 Kibitzer
A3 A Litlle Hand
A4 Kamikaze

B1 Spin-Spin
B2 Pawnshop Man
B3 Wing-Dang-Doo
B4 They' Re Making A Monster


Credits:

* Artwork By [Cover Concept] – Jason Minkler
* Design – Anne Garner*
* Drums, Percussion – David Weber (5)
* Engineer – George Engfer, Glen Kolotkin, Jack Adams, Kurt Kinzel, Mike Fusaro, Pete Romano*, Phil Brown, Roy Segal
* Lead Guitar, Steel Guitar [Hawaiian Steel], Artwork By [Cover Concept], Design – John Cipollina
* Mastered By – George Horn
* Photography [Back] – Jim Marshall
* Photography [Cover] – Art Kane
* Producer – Copperhead
* Producer, Engineer [Chief] – David Brown (14)
* Vocals, Bass – Hutch Hutchinson
* Vocals, Guitar, Organ, Guitar [Bottle Neck] – Gary Philippet
* Vocals, Piano, Bass, Percussion – Jim McPherson

Notes:

Recorded at The Record Plant, Los Angeles; Wally Heiders San Francisco, The Records Plant, Sausalito; Columbia Records, San Francisco (Oct.1972 - February 1973).
Re-mixed at Columbia Records, San Francisco March. 1973.


Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/Copperhead-Copperhead/release/2223595

Biography

by William Ruhlmann

Copperhead was a band organized by guitarist John Cipollina after he left Quicksilver Messenger Service in 1970. Cipollina, who had been a member of Quicksilver since its formation and whose lead guitar playing was its signature sound, had grown increasingly dissatisfied after the return of band founder Dino Valenti from a prison term, when the group grew larger and he found he had less space to play. He had also grown increasingly interested in playing sessions, which the band discouraged. The early days of Copperhead were casual, with the group consisting of a loose aggregation of people playing gigs with Cipollina. Eventually it coalesced into a quartet consisting of Cipolliana on lead guitar; Gary Philippet on vocals, second guitar, and organ; Jim McPherson on vocals, bass, and piano; and David Weber on drums. The group was initially signed to the Just Sunshine label run by Michael Lang, one of the organizers of Woodstock. But in 1972 it was signed to a major-label record deal by Clive Davis at Columbia and recorded its debut album, Copperhead, released in the spring of 1973. Unfortunately, Davis was fired from Columbia shortly after the album's release, an action that doomed any developing band that had been signed under his aegis. The album went nowhere, and when Columbia refused to release their second album, Copperhead folded. Cipollina went on to play in many different bands before dying in 1989. allmusicguide

Review

by William Ruhlmann

Two and a half years after exiting Quicksilver Messenger Service, of which he had been the primary instrumentalist, lead guitar player John Cipollina resurfaced at the front of a new rock quartet, Copperhead. The group had come together slowly, but by the time of their debut album, they were ready for action. Second guitarist Gary Philippet contributed the more straight-ahead rockers, like leadoff track and first single "Roller Derby Star," while bass player Jim McPherson tended to write more discursive numbers, though he was capable of strong rock & roll shuffles such as the Rolling Stones-like "Wing-Dang-Doo." But both players took a back seat to Cipollina, whose distinctively high-pitched, slightly dissonant lead guitar work defined the band's sound, just as it had in Quicksilver. One should perhaps amend that to say "early Quicksilver"; Copperhead recalled the earlier band's heyday of the late '60s on their own self-titled debut and the gold-selling Happy Trails more than the early-'70s edition of the group, especially on the extended instrumental passages in songs like "Pawnshop Man" and "They're Making a Monster." By rights, then, Copperhead should have taken off to become one of the major second-generation San Francisco rock bands of the '70s, but it was not to be. In the wake of Columbia Records president Clive Davis' firing shortly after this album's release, his signings were given the company's lowest priority, and few people ever found out there was a band and an album called Copperhead.

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