Label: Lion Records (Germany), Lion 196
Style: Hard Rock, Hard and Heavy
Country: Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Time: 33:56
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 252 Mb
Tin
House was formed in 1969 by original members Floyd Radford - Guitar,
Mike Logan - Drums and Jeff Cole - Lead Vocal and Bass. They were one of
the first progressive rock bands to be signed to a major label out of
the Central Florida area. Their debut album entitled TIN HOUSE was
released on Epic Records in 1970. This album produced by Rick Derringer
went on to win international acclaim. At the time of Tin House's
formation, Floyd Radford 16, Mike Logan 17 and Jeff Cole 16, broke off
of their 6 piece group Marshmellow Steamshovel to form one of Florida's
best loved three piece groups. It all happened at one of their gigs
"winter's End Pop Festival" near Orlando Fl. They were second in line to
open the show and the rest is history, they blew away over 100,000
people that day and were called back on stage for three encores, so the
promoters asked them to open for Johnny Winter the next night. Well
standing in the wings was Steve Paul (Johnny's manager) he stopped Mike
Logan (the drummer) just as he was leaving the stage and gave him his
phone number. He told Mike you guys are great and if your band ever gets
up to New York please give a call, I would love to help your band out,
Mike took the number and off the stage he went. Well the festival really
shot the group from a garage band to one of the best bands in the south
almost overnight.Bookings were off the hook, they opened for almost
every big name group that came to Orlando. So it's off to the studio
they went in 1970 at Bee Jay studios Orlando. Floyd and Jeff were still
in their last year of high school and mike just graduated from winter
park high in 1969. Mike had a close friend he worked for in his spare
time, (Bruce Behrens) so he asked Bruce to manage the band and help pay
for demo tapes and new equipment. Well Bruce loved the group so he said
"ok" Now comes the good part. After the demo tapes were done their
engineer at Bee Jay sent a copy to Clive Davis at CBS records. The tapes
ended up in Larry Coen's office (president of Epic Records) and sitting
in front of him was none other than Steve Paul working on Edgar
winter's record deal.Larry said "Did Johnny play at the Winters End Pop
festival in Florida." Steve said "yes, why" Larry said " there was a
young group called Tin House that opened the show and got more standing
ovations then all the groups put together, have you heard them" He
answered " yeah, that's my new group " Larry said "I've got their demo
tape here and It's great. Well to make a long story even longer, Steve
Paul called Mike Logan that night and made a pitch to manage Tin House
and get them a record deal with CBS Epic Records.Off to New York the
boys went, but first Floyd and Jeff had to finish school or their
parents would not let them go. In the summer of 1970 Tin House moved
into a six-bedroom house right next to Johnny Winter in upstate New York
on the Hudson River. The boys were in Heaven, they had a record deal a
big house on the river all the gigs they could play and then it
hit.Edgar wanted Floyd to play in his band so Tin House would have to
tour with him instead of Johnny. This was fine until Leslie West from
the Group Mountain wanted the boys to tour with his band. It was a
California tour from one end to the other, 28 days and 20 shows. Steve
told the band "you can't do the tour with mountain, you need to do the
shows with Edgar" So Tin House stayed in the North East and finished the
dates with Edgar.The drummer (Mike Logan) soon after the tour left the
group and headed back to Winter Park Florida. That was in 1971 but Mike
called Floyd in April of 2006 and said "Floyd, we got to get the band
back together" So after six months of practice Tin House was back on
stage in Orlando after being apart for over thirty five years. It was
"THE ORLANDO REUNION CONCERT" September 16th 2006.The boys brought the
house down of at least fifteen hundred fans. After the concert Floyd and
Mike had to replace Jeff Cole who lives in New York and could not play
anymore shows. So enter David Mikeal on guitar, keyboards and lead
vocals and Jim Smith on bass and Wow what a band, Dave can sing like the
wind and play with the best like Floyd. Now add Robby Crouse on guitar
and three part harmony never sounded so good. Five piece now the group
is nothing short of awesome.
(heavymetal.fandom.com/wiki/Tin_House)
01. I Want Your Body (01:49)
02. 30 Weight Blues (02:24)
03. Be Good and Be Kind (03:44)
04. You've Gone Too Far (03:49)
05. Silver Star (04:09)
06. Personal Gain (04:31)
07. Jezebel Give Me Your Lovin (02:45)
08. Tomorrow (03:01)
09. Endamus Finallamus (03:57)
10. Lady Of The Silent Opera (03:44)
