Pete Best Band - Haymans Green
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Free Music Review: WOW!
Hit: 5 Stars
Way to go Pete! Every song is top quality. Wouldn't it be nice if Paul and Ringo would do something with Pete. I'm seeing Paul as the front man and Pete and Ringo doing the doubble drums in back with a lot of back-up artists. Doing some of all their songs. Okay, well, maybe just my dream.Free Music Review: WOW!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I, too, saw Pete Best in concert this fall at the State Theatre in Lincoln, NE. I was completely blown away. This man has talent! We bought Haymans Green and had a nice chat with Pete after the show. This CD is rock and roll in it's rawest, purest form! Highly recommended!!Free Music Review: Home run
Hit: 5 Stars
Gives you the feel of 1965 without being out of place with todays music. Great harmonies telling fun little stories.Free Music Review: silver hammer
Hit: 5 Stars
this is a well conceived album very badfinger/ beatleesqe I hope they make more I will buy them VERY GOOD ALBUM!!!!Free Music Review: Best returns with a winner
Hit: 4 Stars
As far as I know, this cd represents the first all-new original studio recordings Pete Best has been involved with since the long-ago Pete Best Combo days. No matter how good, bad or indifferent his music has been, now or then, it's always overshadowed by his former associations. His Combo recordings seemed bent on putting a definite distance from his past, and of course that was a futile endeavor. The best of those tracks were as ignored as the worst, and when they were noticed they were criticized sharply or laughed at, never judged on their own merits. There really was no course for Best to take except bowing out. Few observers really seemed to notice, either, which was tragedy number 2.
Forward four decades later. Best has been on the road, plying his trade once again, with considerably more success than before. But the all-important respect was not forthcoming as his admittedly fine new band weren't venturing forward, seemingly stuck in 1961 forever, doing covers (and not even one song from the Combo) and entertaining on a decidedly nostalgic basis. Out of the blue, Best and his band write and record a studio album, and "Hayman's Green" appears with little promotion but much curiosity. Many perhaps expected a cd consisting of 'Twist And Shout'-type rewrites; many likely expected an album of little relevance.
Wrong.
This is a fine album, friends. And it really doesn't sound like anyone else, although comparisons to such power-pop bands as the Raspberries, Klaatu and Badfinger can be made and certainly will be by some. The real news here is, the Pete Best Band have a style and sound pretty much of their own. He's too smart now to attempt to completely escape his past, so he embraces it in some ways, but doesn't let it dominate. He had a hand in writing these tracks; but he doesn't sing nor does he make any serious impression on the drums (which he plays with his brother at any rate). Establishing his own distinct personality on this album is not what it's about. And if there probably aren't more than a couple songs that will end up on many homemade compilation cdr's, there are no throwaways. The Pete Best Band in 2008 is a damned fine outfit, pulling no punches, making no apologies, having a great time playing excellent music and never pretending to be something more than they are. Thats what this album is about. And it's nice to report that it is an unqualified success; unlike the Combo era, it doesn't take a fan of Best to 'get it'.
Pete Best in 2008? Well, why the hell not?