Ball Power - AVSCD017

	When we started the Aztec Music label, we made a list of the albums that we hoped to reissue and this absolute classic was certainly one our top choices! Ball Power was a defining moment in the history of Aussie music and one of the greatest guitar-driven hard rock albums of the 1970s. By the time Lobby Loyde formed the Coloured Balls in March 1972, he was already a 12-year veteran of the local music scene. Working his way through R&B legends The Purple Hearts, psychedelic heroes The Wild Cherries and onto the bluesy Aztecs, Loyde had well and truly established his reputation as Australia ’s pre-eminent guitar master. By the beginning of 1973, the band’s standing was such that they put in an astonishing performance at the second annual Sunbury Festival. Loyde’s legendary 16-minute, freeform showpiece ‘GOD’, a searing cosmic heavy metal epic that surely stands as one of the greatest performances ever recorded by an Australian band of the era is included here as one of the 7 bonus tracks. After releasing 2 singles on the Havoc label, the Coloured Balls Signed to EMI. With help from producer Ian D. Miller and highly experienced engineer John Sayers the band knocked out Ball Power in a couple of weeks.		Coloured Balls Ball Power AVSCD017 Barcode: 9336043001171 SRP: $24.95 Release Date: August 28, 2006	Tracklisting: 1. Flash 2. Mama Don’t You Get Me Wrong 3. Won’t You Make Up Your Mind 4. Something New 5. B.P.R 6. Human Being 7. Whole Lotta Shakin’ 8. Hey! What’s Your Name 9. That’s What Mama Said Bonus Tracks: Singles, 1972-1973 10. Liberate Rock - Single A-side 11. Slowest Guitar on Earth - Single B-side 12. Mr. Mean Mouth - Single A-side 13. Love Me Girl - Single B-side 14. Mess of the Blues - Single A-side 15. Devil’s Disciple - Single B-side Live at Sunbury, 1973 16. GOD

When we started the Aztec Music label, we made a list of the albums that we hoped to reissue and this absolute classic was certainly one our top choices! Ball Power was a defining moment in the history of Aussie music and one of the greatest guitar-driven hard rock albums of the 1970s.

By the time Lobby Loyde formed the Coloured Balls in March 1972, he was already a 12-year veteran of the local music scene. Working his way through R&B legends The Purple Hearts, psychedelic heroes The Wild Cherries and onto the bluesy Aztecs, Loyde had well and truly established his reputation as Australia ’s pre-eminent guitar master. By the beginning of 1973, the band’s standing was such that they put in an astonishing performance at the second annual Sunbury Festival. Loyde’s legendary 16-minute, freeform showpiece ‘GOD’, a searing cosmic heavy metal epic that surely stands as one of the greatest performances ever recorded by an Australian band of the era is included here as one of the 7 bonus tracks.

After releasing 2 singles on the Havoc label, the Coloured Balls Signed to EMI. With help from producer Ian D. Miller and highly experienced engineer John Sayers the band knocked out Ball Power in a couple of weeks.

Coloured Balls
Ball Power

AVSCD017
Barcode: 9336043001171
SRP: $24.95
Release Date: August 28, 2006

Tracklisting:

1. Flash
2. Mama Don’t You Get Me Wrong
3. Won’t You Make Up Your Mind
4. Something New
5. B.P.R
6. Human Being
7. Whole Lotta Shakin’
8. Hey! What’s Your Name
9. That’s What Mama Said

Bonus Tracks:

Singles, 1972-1973
10. Liberate Rock - Single A-side
11. Slowest Guitar on Earth - Single B-side
12. Mr. Mean Mouth - Single A-side
13. Love Me Girl - Single B-side
14. Mess of the Blues - Single A-side
15. Devil’s Disciple - Single B-side

Live at Sunbury, 1973
16. GOD

	MP3 Samples:	Flash	Human Being	GOD

	One of the great progressive hard rock LPs of the era, Ball Power really had a lot going for it: great songs, inspirational playing, attitude to burn and an experimental edge that would have frightened the hell out of any lesser band. The overall excellence of Ball Power makes for quality listening all the way through. The songs range from the crunching, melodic hard rock of ‘Flash’ and ‘Hey! What’s Your Name’ to the simple, raw rock’n’roll of ‘Mama Don’t Get Me Wrong’ and ‘Won’t You Make Up Your Mind’ (a proto-typical punk ball-tearer at a breathtakingly brief one minute and 32 seconds) and a raucous cover of the Jerry Lee Lewis standard ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’’. In between there are the sleazy blues of ‘Something New’ and ‘B.P.R.’ plus progressive, guitar-heavy monsters like ‘Human Being’ and ‘That’s What Mama Said’. Ball Power is presented in a 6 panel digi-pak with a 24 page booklet filled with rare photos & liner notes by Ian McFarlane. It has been digitally remastered with 7 bonus tracks – including the 16+ minute live version of GOD.		more Lobby...