{"id":28037,"date":"2020-10-18T22:47:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T20:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=28037"},"modified":"2020-10-18T22:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T20:47:03","slug":"sweathog-sweathog-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2020\/10\/sweathog-sweathog-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweathog | Sweathog (1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28038\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sweathog-200x200.jpg?resize=200%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sweathog.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sweathog.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sweathog.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>&#8216;Sweathog is the name of the most exciting new group to emerge from sunny California&#8217;, zo wil de promotiemachine van Columbia ons in 1971 doen geloven. Columbia is dan naarstig op zoek naar het vervolg op de San Francisco-sound (Moby Grape, Big Brother &amp; The Holding Company, Santana) en denkt in Sweathog ware troonpretendenten te hebben gevonden. Sweathog bestaat uit Lenny Lee Goldsmith (zang, toetsen), Bob Jones (gitaar, zang), Dave Johnson (bas, zang) en Frosty (drums, ex-Lee Michaels); tezamen een zeer getalenteerde band, die ook als <!--more-->zodanig wordt gelanceerd met hun zelfgetitelde debuut-lp, gestoken in een blote billen-hoes. Aldus zit een internationale doorbraak er niet in, want de hoes wordt in menig land geboycot.<\/p>\n<p>De muziek is echter prachtig en refereert naar de Britse classic rock van Humble Pie en Spooky Tooth; gedreven rock met veel gevoel voor soul, een country-twist en gevat in een southern-stijl. <em>Sweathog <\/em>is dan ook in een fraaie productie van de onbekende Daniel Moore \u2013 zelf overigens de maker van een schitterende singer-songwritersplaat \u2013 een classic rock-album dat geen klassieker geworden is. Niettemin: &#8216;<em>Nonbeliever&#8217;<\/em>, &#8216;<em>Still On The Road<\/em>&#8216; en &#8216;<em>Runneth Over<\/em>&#8216; zijn opzwepende rocksongs; &#8216;<em>Burned<\/em>&#8216; en &#8216;<em>You Just Took The Ride<\/em>&#8216; ware prijsnummers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sweathog <\/em>is geen succes, opvolger <em>Hallelujah<\/em> doet het, begeleid door de gelijknamige single iets beter, maar voorkomt niet dat Sweathog zich al in 1973 opheft. Saillant detail: Lenny Lee Goldsmiths zoon Tyler is zo&#8217;n 40 jaar later bandleider van de Californische countryrockband Dawes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nonbeliever \/ All I Ever Do \/ Still On The Road \/ Burned \/ Things Yet To Come \/ Runneth Over \/ You Just Took The Ride \/ Lock Up My Body \/ Layed Back By The River<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Sweathog is the name of the most exciting new group to emerge from sunny California&#8217;, zo wil de promotiemachine van Columbia ons in 1971 doen geloven. Columbia is dan naarstig op zoek naar het vervolg op de San Francisco-sound (Moby Grape, Big Brother &amp; The Holding Company, Santana) en denkt in Sweathog ware troonpretendenten te [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vergeten-klassieker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28041,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28037\/revisions\/28041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}