Artist: BAND OF JOY [ROBERT PLANT]
Album: 24K REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1970/ 2005
Media type: CD

The Band of Joy are best known as the outfit that gave Robert Plant and John Bonham their leg-up on the stairway to Zeppelin. While that unrecorded line-up relied on its live reputation to become a Midlands legend, a revised Band of Joy finally made it to the studio in the late 1970s, having re-grouped to play benefit gigs for the families of a local band involved in a fatal motorway crash.

The eponymous album which followed was reissued in the Summer of 2005 by Cherry Red (Band Of Joy - CDMRED 281) The band were Paul Lockey on vocals, Kevyn Gammond on guitar, Mike Chetwood on keyboards, John Pasternak on bass and Francesco Nizza on drums. This second album was recorded for Polydor but was never released by them. There was also the problem that Robert Plant saw the band's name as his and told the record company that they shouldn't use it. ‘24K’ eventually emerged through the independent Thunderbolt label after the group had split in 1979. Keyboard player Chetwood went on to join T’Pau and Kevyn Gammond and Robert Plant linked up again in the late 1990s in ‘fun’ band Priory of Bryon. When Robert Plant's ‘Best Of’ album ‘Sixty Six To Timbuktu’ emerged in 2003 there were two of the original Band of Joy demos on it.

TRACKLIST:

01 Submarine City
02 Ain't Down Yet
03 Plastic Bag
04 84-84
05 Capricorn Animal
06 When You Look
07 Lifeline
08 Machinery
09 Take It Easy (But Take It)
10 New Heaven
11 Leaving The Twentieth Century
12 Getting It Steady
13 What Did You Expect

LINE-UP:

1967-68 lineup:
Robert Plant — lead vocals
Kevyn Gammond — guitar, vocals
Chris Brown — organ
Paul Lockey — bass guitar, guitar, vocals
John Bonham — drums

1968 last lineup:
Robert Plant - lead vocals
John Bonham - drums
John Hill - bass guitar
Mick Strode - lead guitar

Roadies:
Noddy Holder (SLADE)
Ross Crutchley
Steven Latham (aka Big Bruce)
Ben Randle