Last Puff (Dig) [Extra tracks, Import]

Spooky Tooth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 23, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B0009SQ6X8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,125 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Am the Walrus

2. The Wrong Time

3. Something to Say

4. Nobody There at All

5. Down River

6. Son of Your Father

7. The Last Puff

8. Son of Your Father [Mono Single Version][*]

9. I've Got Enough Heartache [Mono Single Version][*]

10. I Am the Walrus [Mono Single Version][*]

11. Hangman Hang My Shell on a Tree [Mono Single Version][*]

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Did it have to be the Last Puff?, October 1, 2001

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Clyde D. Hoops "thingols" (Back where I started from in Oceanside California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Puff (Audio CD)

The 'Last Puff' is the greatest musical accomplihment "Spooky Tooth" has made in thier on again/off again career starting in 1968.
I am hard pressed to think of a better song, to play very loud, than Spooky Tooth's take on the "Beatles" classic, 'I am the Walrus'. The sheer volume that Luther Grosvenors guitar is played and recorded on this, the lead track of the album is inspiring.
'Nobody there at all' is one of the best examples of Spooky Tooths tradition of offering thier special flair of interpretating. I would have said that "Elton Johns 'Son of your father'" is but I'm more partial to Eltons version.
The Gary Wright penned tune 'The Wrong Time' suffers only in that the "Dream Weaver" had not sung on the song, having left the band earlier in the year(1970).
The saddest day in this bands career was when splintered once again after the release of 'The Last Puff' and Luther Grosvenor left the band for greater stardom in 'Mott the Hoople'. Some would argue that that was OK since within the next year or 18 months Gary Wright would have come back to the band. But, even though the band would recapture the interplay vocals of Gary and Mike Harrison, the band had also irreparably lost the instrumental interplay of melody and rhythm from Luther and Greg Ridley/bass which was just as important as the vocalization.
One area that seems to miss alot of reviewers response is the musical ability of the band, which didn't just happen to come to them in time to record 'Spooky Two'. Which is the other main reason to give this effort a listen. The recently demised "Grease Band" alumni of Henry McCulloch/guitar, Allen Spenner/bass, and the now deeply missed Chris Stainton/bass/piano/organ/guitar, who was so instrumental in the early rise of Joe Cocker in '68/69.
The 'Grease Band' addition for this album gives the overall sound of the Spooky Tooth band the muscle it had lost due to internal collapse following the release of the earlier 1970 album "Ceremony".
One only wonders what could have been, unfortunately the band had taken its Last Puff and ran out of gas. All later renditions of the the band were really just vehicles for some alterior motive and lacked the original quintets ability to create and interpret on a level of early "Traffic" if not better.
If you are going to buy only one album/CD of 'Spooky Tooth' the this is the one.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great find, June 21, 2008

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Paul S. Carver "Paul Carver" (New Hope PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Puff (Dig) (Audio CD)

I found this LP album recently. Not knowing about the group, I took a chance. Boy am I impressed! Unexplicably, its become one of my favorite albums. Its got a loose, shambling quality that is endearing. I love the slow "heavy" groove of all the tracks. They somehow managed to "outweird" Joe Cocker on their cover of the Cocker tune. I especially like "Nobody There At All"; it has such great songwriting and soulful playing I surprised myself by getting a little verklempt. Buy this album for an example of an overlooked heavy late-60s rock 'n roll classic.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Seminal Work, April 17, 2000

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Patrick Druhan (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Last Puff (Audio CD)

This is one of the great blues/rock albums. I want to echo a previous reviewer that three of the original members remained but, most importantly, Gary Wright had left. Chris Stainton, who guided Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishman tour, fills in. Alan Spenner on bass eventually would turn up on Roxy Music's Avalon album. This album combines an emotional wail with searing guitar passages that send shivers up my spine. If any album deserves a "Gold" remastering treatment this is it. In terms of its genre it ranks with Beggars Banquet and The Byrds Untitled.