Speech (album)

Speech
Studio album by Steamhammer
Released Early 1972
Recorded Winter 1971
Genre Progressive rock
Label Brain Metronome (German release only)
Producer Steamhammer, Keith Relf
Steamhammer chronology
Mountains
(1970)		 Speech
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Speech was the fourth (and final) album of the British blues-rock band Steamhammer.

In 1971, bassist Steve Davy left the band, and Louis Cennamo was recruited as his replacement - then vocalist Kieran White also left the band after a summer tour. Guitarist Martin Pugh, drummer Mick Bradley and Cennamo (with guest vocalist Garth Watt-Roy, of Fuzzy Duck) then went in the studio to record "Speech", which was released in 1972. It consisted of three lengthy (and mostly instrumental) songs in a heavier progressive-rock vein, that was somewhat different from their initial blues and folk/jazz-influenced albums.[2]

Bradley died from leukemia shortly before the album's mixing was completed (the album is dedicated to him on the inside album cover), and the band dissolved the following year; making Speech their final album.[3]

After Steamhammer wound down, Pugh and Cennamo joined up with former Yardbirds vocalist Keith Relf (who had provided production assistance on "Speech", as well as contributing background vocals[4]) and drummer Bobby Caldwell, formerly of Johnny Winter's band and Captain Beyond, to form Armageddon.[5]

Track listing

Side 1:

  1. "Penumbra" (22:42) (Pugh, Cennamo, Bradley, Romilly)
    1. "Entrance"
    2. "Battlements"
    3. "Passage to Remorse"
    4. "Sightless Substance"
    5. "Mortal Thought"

Side 2:

  1. "Telegram (Nature's Mischief)" (12:00) (Pugh, Cennamo, Bradley, Williams)
  2. "For Against" (10:58) (Pugh, Cennamo, Bradley)

Personnel

Band members
Session musicians

Product details

Also:

References

  1. ↑ Hundey, Jason. "Speech - Steamhammer | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
  2. ↑ http://www.last.fm/group/Classic+Rock/forum/14969/_/619517
  3. ↑ http://mnbvcxzl.tripod.com/index2.html
  4. ↑ http://www.keithrelf.com/index1.html
  5. ↑ http://www.nlightsweb.com/lib/reviews/cennamo.htm

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