\t\t\t\tThe Blues Magoos had done a lot to light up the Big Apple with their neon suits, but the group that matured the east coast sound was the underrated Magic Ship. They started out as the New Primitives comprising of Edward \u2018Tommy\u2019 Nikosey (guitar and vocals), Anthony \u2018Guss\u2019 Riozzi (bass and Hammond B three), Patrick Garrigan (vocalist), Robert Buckman (drummer), and Philip Polimeni (acoustic and Gibson electric guitar). Their debut gig was at St. Anselm\u2019s Dance Hall in September 1965. Magic Ship composed their first original, the hallucinatory \u201cOn the Edge\u201d which earned them $65.00. Most of their early repertoire comprised of soul cover versions but thanks to the newly employed bass player Gus Riozzi , the group was introduced to the Yardbirds, Cream, and Them.<\/p>\n
Their new management team gave them the name Magic Ship and also a magnificent ballad called \u201cNight Time Music\u201d which the notorious Tokens produced as their first official single, selected on WMCA Radio as \u2018Pick Hit of the Week\u2019. The groups follow-up single \u201cHummin\u201d proceeded which received rave reviews from radio stations and TV studios. Although the sixties energy had saturated their repertoire their finest songs could water the darkest alleys of New York city such as the easy grooving \u201cWednesday Morning Dew\u201d, the high energy \u201cLife\u2019s Lonely Road\u201d and soulful \u201cWhere Are We Going?\u201d When it came to cover versions these guys were dead centre with superior versions of Andy Gibb\u2019s \u201cTo Love Somebody\u201d and an outstanding rendition of Neil Young\u2019s \u201cDown By The River\u201d. The Magic Ship version of \u201cTo Love Somebody\u201d with squelching wah wah improved radically compared to the Bee Gees original. The lead guitar solos on \u201cSioux City Blues\u201d with its cross section of rhythms and bass drive are vehemently transported with an urgency and thrust as if knowing that the flowerpower revolution was about to fade.<\/p>\n
Magic Ship thanks to Milt Schnapf could well have been New York\u2019s finest moment that sadly disbanded due to a fire destroying their musical equipment in January 22, 1971.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Blues Magoos had done a lot to light up the Big Apple with their neon suits, but the group that matured the east coast sound was the underrated Magic Ship. They started out as the New Primitives comprising of Edward \u2018Tommy\u2019 Nikosey (guitar and vocals), Anthony \u2018Guss\u2019 Riozzi (bass and Hammond B three), Patrick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}