Loading Zone [Import]

The Loading Zone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1968
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Acadia Records
• ASIN: B00005M9HB
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,903 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. No More Tears

2. Love Feels Like Fire

3. Don't Loose Control (Of Your Soul)

4. I Can't Please You

5. Shop Around

6. The Bells

7. Kalui Yuga-Loo

8. God Bless the Child

9. Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead

10. Can I Dedicate

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A long wait is over, September 6, 2001

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Kenneth J. Russo "K Russ" (Point Richmond, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
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Anyone who spent anytime at all listening to F.M. radio in the sixties will remember the slinky soul instrumental CAN I DEDICATE and Linda Tillery's gritty version of GOD BLESS THE CHILD. The rest is good to hear again, but it's pretty standard BAY AREA sixties soul/rock. For those of us with fond memories of KMPX and KSAN,the high water marks on this CD will take us on a very cool journey back to a time when chances were taken by both the players and the listeners.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, July 14, 2009

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loading Zone (Audio CD)

For some wierd reason, from 1968-72, a lot of "horn" bands sprung up in rock. Horn band really means rock with a brass section and maybe a few primative jazz moves. As quick as the trend exploded, it vanished.

The Loading Zone was an early part of this wave. This first album--they have two but the 2nd is impossible to get- is basically soul and blues, with one female lead singer and one male one. He is great, sounding like an R&B Paul Kantner, and she is almost right there, but doesn't have the mussle in her voice to make her one of the giants. (She is soooo close.) The band is tight--no showboating here.

A lot of this music is something you might hear in a discoteque scene from a movie in 1967 or 68, which is not a bad thing. As 60s organ and brass driven music goes, this is quite a filling meal. The FM jazz piece, "Can I Dedicate," is a great piece of instrumental blues, taylored for the ascent of progressive radio.

Loading Zone would be even more meaty if not for the production. I have this on both vynal and CD, and on both, the horns are EXTREMELY compressed: there is no seperation or ressonence. This is awfully strange for a unit working in a big band style. If any kind of music should breathe, it is horn blues. (Does anyone else notice this?)

Fix this, and this would be a better album. Still, it is worth having.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Summer of Love, September 6, 2010

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S. Newcom - See all my reviews
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If you missed the Summer of Love - 1968 - Golden Gate Park, the Haight, Telegraph Avenue, protests in Berkeley, People's Park, and stopping the war. The Loading Zone was there. Providing the beat, drive, and amplification. Bill Graham's go-to-band. These are the guys from Berkeley High and Oakland that helped hold those activities together. Opening for the touring groups at Winterland or the Fillmore. Playing in the park or Kezar Stadium. Setting up on Telegraph or Sproul Plaza, they were the San Francisco/Berkeley sound of that era. Musically solid and young. Many covers, a few originals. This was the atmosphere.