Lucifer's Friend -1978/1980 - Good time warrior, Dortmund Live 78 & Sneak me in

TRACKLIST :

01 - Old Man Roller
02 - I’ll Meet you in LA
03 - My Love
04 - Good Times
05 - Little Dancer
06 - Sweet Little Lady
07 - Gamblin’ Man
08 - Warriors

TRACKLIST :

01 - Intro
02 - Moonshine Rider
03 - Sweet Little Lady
04 - Burning Ship
05 - Fugitive
06 - Warriors
07 - Good Times
08 - Ride the Sky
09 - Rock'n Roll Singer
10 - Natural Born Mover

TRACKLIST :

01 - Goodbye Girls
02 - Sneak Me In
03 - Foxy Lady
04 - Love Hymn (with problem)
05 - Stardancer
06 - Indian Summer
07 - Don't You Know What I Like
08 - Cosmic Crusader

In one post, all three the Lucifer's Friend albums without John Lawton (who at times was in Uriah Heep, naturally). At his place, the ex Colosseum II singer, mister Mike Starr. The second album is a mp3 version of a DVD of this rare live exhibition of this Band that was tipically a studio band...

The 1978/1980 LUCIFER'S FRIEND :

• Peter Hesslein - Guitars & Vocals
• Herbert Bornholdt - Drums & Percussion
• Adrian Askew - Keyboards & Vocals
• Dieter Horns - Bass & Vocals
• Mike Starr (photo) - Lead Vocals
• Peter Hecht - Keyboards

LINK Good time warrior

LINK Dortmund live 78

LINK Sneak me in

Lucifer's Friends - 1981 - Mean machine

This is the 1981 album of Lucifer's Friends with the return of John Lawton as lead singer.

After this alnum the band disbanded, even if this is a good hard rock album with some touch of heavy metal (Mean machine/Cool hand killer). Others very good songs are, in my opinion, Hey driver, Born to the city and Bye bye Sadie.

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Lucifer's friend- 1973- I'm Just a Rock'N'Roll Singer

Tracklist:

01- Groovin stone

02- Closed curtains

03- Born on the run

04- Blind freedom

05- Rock'n'roll singer

06- Lonely city days

07- Mary's breakdown

08- Song for Louie

Line-up:

Peter Hecht- Keyboards

Dieter Horns- Bass, backing vocals

Peter Hesslein- Guitar, backing vocals

Joachim Reitenbach- Drums

Herbert Bornhold- Percussion

John Lawton- Lead vocals

LINK

Lucifer's Friend II- 1996- Sumogrip

Last album by Lucifer's Friend, it contains new songs and old classic of LF but also a good version of UH's "Free me" (one another).

In America, as you can see in the second cover, this album issued without bonus tracks or old songs and was credited to "John Lawton featuring Lucifer's Friend".

In my personal opinion this is a good album, the voice of Mr. Lawton is good as ever and the music too (even if in some songs personally i don't like those electronic keyboards... but this is a personal opinion). Good hard rock songs but also some pop songs and some good ballads,

for an album very "full" of songs (17!)

Line up:

• 
  
  John Lawton- Vocals


• 
  
  Peter Hesslein- Guitar, backing vocals


• 
  
  Andreas Dicke- Bass


• 
  
  Jogi Wichmann- Keyboards


• 
  
  Curt Cress and Ugo Dahmer- Drums

LINK

Lucifer's Friend- 1972- Where the groupies killed the blues

TRACKLIST:

01- Hobo

02- Rose on the vine

03- Mother

04- Where the groupies killed the blues
05- Prince of darkness

06- Summerdream

07- Burning ships

Line up:

Peter Hesslein- Guitar, vocals, percussion

Peter Hecht- Piano, Keyboards

John Lawton- Lead vocals

Dieter Horns- Bass

Joachim Rietenbach- Drums

Second effort by original Lucifer's Friend. Even if, from first track, you think to listen to the same good old LF's hard rock (Hobo- Prince of darkness). In reality, on this album, Lucifer's Friend pushes their sound more in progressive rock direction than in their first "Lucifer's friend" (Rose on the vine, Mother and the fantastic Summerdream, with many change of times and contrasts). So guitar riffs and organ are present, but also one piano, that in some songs is prominent on other struments.

I love this classic album, for me one of the better in the LF career

LINK

P.S.. i know that the LF's discography is present in many blogs, but i think that, for the presence of mister John Lawton, their albums must be here too.

Brother T and Family- 1970- Drillin' of The Rock

Another album relatd to Lucifer's Friend (In how much albums did play LF members in early seventies- Asterix, Pink Mice, Electric Food, Brother T & Family, LF of course. But singular members are invoved in some other project, all from 70 to 72). Brother T & Family includes all original members of Lucifer's Friend, except John Lawton. Their music seems to be an hard blues rock with a melodic touch.

BAND:

Peter Hesslein- Guitar, Vocals

Dieter Horns- Bass, Vocals

Peter Hecht- Keyboards

Joachin Reitenbach- Drums

Tracklist:

01- Drillin' Of The Rock 3:05
02- Lookin' For Barbara 2:40
03- Third Degree 2:59
04- Stranger 3:18
05- Stewball 2:50
06- Jim Crack Corn 3:55
07- Walking Down Paradise Street 2:50
08- Saga Of The Fly 4:10
09- Oh Love 2:25
10- Brother T 3:05

LINK

Electric Food- 1970-1971- "Same" and "Flash"

Another fondamental Lucifer's Friends related Band, Electric Food made those two albums in 1970 and 71. As in the Pink Mice albums, Peter Hesslein, Peter Hecht and Dieter Horns of Lucifer's Friend are involved in this couple of rock albums, compiled in one cd with 19 originals (all compositions of Peter Hesslein) and 5 covers of Led Zep, Free, Beatles and others.

This is a very enjoiable couple of albums, a must for all Lucifer's Friend-Uriah Heep lovers.

This is a two albums on a cd edition, and this is the tracklist:

-ELECTRIC FOOD-
01- Whole lotta love (Page-Plant-Bonham-Jones) 3:24
02- The reason why (Hesslein-Monro) 3:18
03- Hey down (Hesslein-Monro) 4:30
04- Tavern (Hesslein-Monro) 4:03
05- Going to see my mother (Hesslein-Monro) 1:59
06- House of the rising sun (Trad. Hesslein) 3:54
07- Let's work togheter (Harrison) 2:41
08- Sule skerry (Hesslein-Monro) 4:40
09- Nosferatu (Hesslein-Monro) 4:52
10- Twelve months and a day (Hesslein-Monro) 2:38
11- Icerose (Hesslein-Monro) 2:53
12- I'll try (Hesslein-Monro) 3:13

-FLASH-
13- All right now (Fraser-Rodgers) 3:46
14-Sam's walk (Hesslein) 2:03
15- Love me (Hesslein) 3:31
16- People (Hesslein) 2:56
17- Working on the railroad (Hesslein) 3:25
18- Randall (Hesslein) 3:12
19- Love like a man (Lee) 3:27
20- Sam's talk (Hesslein) 1:39
21- I can see somebody (Hesslein) 5:51
22- Andy's breakdown (Hesslein) 2:25
23- Give me love (Hesslein) 2:12
24- Plantation (Hesslein) 2:58



Essential informations about Lucifer's friend and related bands are inside the cover of cd, with the family tree of LF and all their members (Here a larger image)

LINK PART 1

LINK PART 2

The Pink Mice- 1971-72- "In Action" and "In Synthesizer sound"

Pink Mice are a Lucifer's Friend collateral project (in that years were numerous albums recorded by LF's musicians, some time with pseudonyms: Flash, Pink Mice, Children of Quechua, Electric Food and probably some others more).

Those two albums features Peter Hecht, Dieter Horns and Peter Hesslein of Lucifer's Friend and are a collection of pop- rock versions of classical compositions from the best authors of the world.

 New Links
here is "In Action"
and here is "In Synthesizer Sound"

Lucifers Friend - Banquet

A German outfit fronted by a British singer, Lucifer's Friend first gained minor notoriety, and later major cult status, as both early practitioners of heavy metal and progressive rock. Formed in 1970 Hamburg, by former German Bonds members Peter Hesslein (guitar), Peter Hecht (keyboards), Dieter Horns (bass), and Joachim Rietenbach (drums), the group was initially dubbed Asterix and recorded an entire album's worth of material before connecting with singer John Lawton, whose then band, Stonewall, was playing a residency at the city's famed Top Ten Club. Lawton's vocals would grace Asterix's only, eponymous album later the same year, and all involved were excited enough by the results that they immediately began collaborating on more material with which to relaunch the band under the provocative new moniker of Lucifer's Friend. Released in early 1971, the Lucifer's Friend album contained organ-intensive hard rock along the same lines as contemporary proto-metal bands like Deep Purple, Atomic Rooster, and, especially, Uriah Heep, for whom, coincidentally, Lawton would wind up singing several years down the line. But, for now, Lucifer's Friend's biggest challenge was a problematic aversion to touring, as well as a compositional restlessness that saw their sophomore effort, 1972's curiously named Where the Groupies Killed the Blues, morphing drastically to acquire progressive rock tendencies reminiscent of King Crimson and, to a lesser degree, the quickly emerging Krautrock acts of the period. These compositional experiments would only intensify on 1973's I'm Just a Rock 'n' Roll Singer, which added entire brass sections in the vein of Chicago Transit Authority, and 1974's Banquet (featuring new drummer Herbert Bornhold), which soared upon even jazzier elements and symphonic arrangements delivered with help from the James Last Orchestra. Lucifer's Friend would finally reign in such extravagance on 1976's Mind Exploding LP (where Bornhold was demoted to percussionist behind new drummer Curt Cress), and they even considered increasing their touring engagements, but their only problem now was that Lawton had quit -- accepting the offer to join Uriah Heep that was mentioned earlier. Scotsman Mike Starrs (formerly singer for Colosseum II) was brought in to replace him and Lucifer's Friend proceeded to abruptly abandon their progressive past for good, embracing melodic mainstream rock on a pair of albums: 1978's Good Time Warrior and 1980's Sneak Me In (adding second keyboardist Adrian Askew). Then, John Lawton returned for a final, harder-rocking Lucifer's Friend album, 1981's Mean Machine, after which the group officially split up until 1994's one-off reunion LP, Sumo Grip. Interestingly, through all of these years and stylistic changes, it's ironic that The original self titled Lucifer's Friend album -- more so than their more abundant prog rock releases -- has enjoyed the most frequent reissues, being considered a classic document of early heavy metal. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide


Track List

1. Spanish Galleon 11:52
2. Thus Spoke Oberon 6:47
3. High Flying Lady - Goodbye 3:43
4. Sorrow 11:39
5. Dirty Old Town 4:46



Link http://www.mediafire.com/?zmnumdcdzzd

Asterix -S/T

Asterix was a direct predecessor of Lucifer's Friend , and released a self-titled album in 1970. There also was one single with a slightly different lineup, i.e. without Lawton. Which is included as bonus material on this release


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Asterix was a direct predecessor of Lucifer's Friend; released one (eponymous) album in 1970. Technically, this was the first Lucifer's Friend album,
only under a different name. Also, one single was released featuring a slightly altered line-up, without John's involvement.

Peter Hesslein began his musical career way back in 1963 with a band called the Giants. Peter Hecht and Dieter Horns were both members of a group known as
the German Bonds, from 1965 onwards. Peter Hesslein joined the Bonds in 1968 which survived until 1970. At this point the various members took up the
study of graphic design in an attempt to forge more sensible careers.

But the call of rock’n’roll was too strong and in late 1970, the ex-Bonds men, together with Joachim Reitenbach , decided to record a new album.
They needed a lead singer and eventually found John Lawton who had been with the group Stonewall.

The new band took the name Lucifer's Friend and released their first album 'Asterix' in 1970. Their first three albums were undeniably influenced by
contemporary British bands such as Uriah Heep and Deep Purple. 'Lucifer's Friend' was released on the Phillips label in January 1971 followed
by 'Where The Groupies Killed The Blues' (1972). Lucifer's Friend' was given rave reviews particularly in America where the Chicago Express compared
them to Led Zeppelin. This encouraged the five-piece to commence a heavy touring schedule, a policy which later backfired. Gradually their music had
become a shade more sophisticated and serious jazz and symphonic influences were detected by critics and fans. This was no doubt due to the increasing
importance of 'progressive rock' which seemed to appeal to college students and university audiences rather more than good old heavy metal. It was also
more interesting for musicians to play and presented them with new challenges.


Track List

01. Everybody (Bonus Single)
02. If I Could Fly (Bonus Single)
03. Look Out
04. Gone From My Life
05. Broken Home
06. Time Again
07. Jump Into My Action
08. Open Up Your Mind
09. Corner Street Girl
10. Chance In You
11. Morning At My Dawn

Link http://www.mediafire.com/?2yhw5me4mh5