Label: Sanctuary Records (UK), CMEDD593
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock
Country: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Time: 68:52, 61:49
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 464, 400 Mb
The
Nazz was an American psych-rock band from Philadelphia that released
the 1968–69 albums Nazz and Nazz Nazz on SGC. Frontman Todd Rundgren
launched a prolific solo career and later fronted Utopia. Drummer Thom
Mooney resurfaced in the hard-rock super-trio Paris.
Members: Robert
“Stewkey” Antoni (piano, organ, lead vocals), Thom Mooney (drums), Todd
Rundgren (guitar, piano, vocals, 1967-69), Carson Van Osten (bass,
1967-69), Craig Bolyn (guitar, 1969-70), Greg Sempler (bass, 1969-70),
Rick Nielsen (guitar, keyboards, 1970-71), Craig Myers (guitar,
1970-71), Tom Petersson (bass, 1970-71)
The Nazz formed in
Philadelphia in 1967 when guitarist–singer Todd Rundgren and bassist
Carson Van Osten teamed with singer–keyboardist Robert “Stewkey” Antoni
and drummer Thom Mooney. Rundgren and Osten hailed from Woody’s Truck
Stop, an emerging blues-rock act that later (without the pair) cut an
album on Mercury. They named their new band after the 1966 Yardbirds
song “The Nazz Are Blue.”
(Around this same time, a band from Phoenix
called The Spiders moved to LA and renamed itself The Nazz for the 1967
single “Lay Down and Die, Goodbye” on small-press Very Record. When
they learned of Rundgren’s band, they changed their name to Alice
Cooper.)
On June 18, 1967, The Nazz opened for The Doors at the
Philly Town Hall. The Nazz became the flagship act on Screen
Gems-Columbia (SGC), a label set up between Screen Gems (the TV division
of Columbia Pictures) and Atlantic Records. They recorded their first
album in April 1968 at I.D. Sound Studios in Hollywood. Their first
single, “Open My Eyes” (b/w “Hello It’s Me”) appeared that July on SGC.
(jazzrocksoul.com/artists/nazz/)
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