Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix
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Free Music Review: Great album!!
Hit: 5 Stars
As an old time rock n' roller, this has always been one of my favorite albums (oops, CDs). For me, the collaboration between Mr. Townsend and Mr. Lane works just perfectly, with each balancing out the other, to create a CD that is right for certain of my moods. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I have for over 30 years.Free Music Review: Wonderful
Hit: 5 Stars
Very fine listening. Some of Pete's best melodies, the kind you can't get out of your head for days.Free Music Review: Townshend/Lane Are Sublime
Hit: 4 Stars
According to the liner notes off the vinyl album, Pete Townshend and the late Ronnie Lane play all sorts of instruments and "very involved mind games" not to mention the fact that taken as a pair, and as the photo attests, they are truly the rock & roll cro-magnons when it comes to their looks. But appearance means nothing when it is talent that counts, and the mind games resulted in a pearl of a recording effort. There was a hint of what Townshend and Lane were capable of on Evolution on Who Came First. The hint blossomed with Rough Mix.
The other reviewers have it right, the two gems on this are Keep Me Turning and Heart To Hang Onto. Street in the City is overproduced in my opinion, but the rest is a solid effort, with an especial nod to Till the Rivers All Run Dry, a great last cut on a par with Pavardigar on Who Came First. Townshend as a solo act is not The Who, he is Pete Townshend and teaming up with Ronnie Lane makes as sublime a product as can be found. The supporting cast is superb, with Eric Clapton helping out on guitars, Henry Spinetti providing a steady beat, and Rabbit on keyboards.
You don't need to be a Townshend or Lane fan to appreciate Rough Mix, just someone who loves to listen to rock and roll. RIP, Ronnie.
Free Music Review: An understated gem
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a lovely, gentle, understated and relatively unknown collaboration between members of two pretty heavy duty UK rock bands. It always seemed to me like they went into the studio with absolutely no pressure to produce a hit record and just laid down some low key tracks, probably songs that they had written and appealed to them at the time. It all sounds just so effortless. I hope that they had as much fun making the record as I have had listening to it for the last 33 years. They certainly look relaxed in the cover photo.
There are some really good songs here - Annie, Keep me Turning and Heart to Hang on To are each pretty memorable. If you are a Who fan (one who appreciates the softer side of the band) or a fan of acoustic English folk-blues-rock then I suspect you'd enjoy this gem
Free Music Review: Forgotten Gem
Hit: 4 Stars
Once upon a time, music was not a product created and distributed by huge corporations on a strictly for profit basis. There were a lot of great bands, and a lot of great records. So many, in fact, that an album of this caliber could easily be overlooked.
Townsend, Lane, Clapton & Watts together? Get outta here.
This is really a fine record. Strong material and great musicians doing it pretty much just for the love of music. "Keep Me Turning" and "Annie" remain favorites after all these years, the rest of the selections range from good to outstanding.
Rough Mix has a timeless sound to it. Annie is a song that might have been popular a hundred years ago. Ronnie Lane was a unique artist, and this is a great way to get exposed to his work. Highly recommended.
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