\t\t\t\tEx Tim Rose & the Thorns Jake Holmes later known as the Feldmans had written entire albums for Frank Sinatra and The Four Seasons. Jake\u2019s debut The Above Ground Sound Of Jake Holmes which featured Jake on acoustic guitar, ex Feldmens Teddy Irwin on electric guitar and ex Brain Police Rick Randle on bass carried the original \u201cDazed And Confused\u201d which Jimmy Page borrowed for the Led Zeppelin debut. <\/p>\n
\nJake\u2019s first bassist Bill Takas had defected to Ten Wheel Drive but did feature at the The Village Gate in 1967 when the Yardbirds first heard Jake perform \u201cDazed And Confused\u201d.The same happened with the opening chords of Spirit\u2019s \u201cTaurus\u201d which Jimmy used for \u201cStairway To Heaven\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
A schizoid album by all accounts the introspective \u201cDid You Know\u201d harking to a Buckley \/ Love scape does hold intrinsic beauty.The polar \u201cToo Long\u201d also seemed infiltrate the future Zep repertoire while the jazzy \u201cPenny\u2019s\u201d has some beautiful spontaneous riffs by Teddy Irwin, which again nibbled through \u201cWish I Was Anywhere Else\u201d. The true above sound is Jake\u2019s epitaph \u201cSigns Of Age\u201d….. ..an immaculate revelation that everybody will one day go through. Jake\u2019s artistic actualization follow up, A Letter To Katherine December is translucently a monumental landscape that captures a surreal bluesy world somewhere between Arthur Lee and David McWilliams.The ambient \u201cChase Your Eyes\u201d or brassy \u201cThe Diner Song\u201d with sterling Gibson guitar work by Ted Irwin are simply sensational. It\u2019s Forever Changes but more difficult to get into, like I said Ted Irwin is bloody fast. With a little bit of Emmitt Rhodes Jake fuses styles with abstract chords and retains a jazzy format throughout, while Charlie Fox did all the string and horn arrangements that gave the album a dreamy, jazz quality in the level of Love\u2019s Forever Changes.\n<\/p>\n
\nIt is probably Jake\u2019s most sophisticated album with daring quests into rarely trodden areas largely thanks to ex Paupers Skip Prokop\u2019s snare drumming that would later thunder through Lighthouse. Letter To Katherine December spills into emotive perceptions and thoughts of thoughts, wherever that takes you.The albums opus \u201cLeaves Never Break\u201d reaches deep and slashes with reverb and sensitive phrasing, a masterpiece in psychedelic introspection. Anyhow back to the jazzy riffing that trots through \u201cIt\u2019s Always Someone Else\u201d in full Van Morrison mode until the contemplating \u201cSleeping Woman\u201d, so like Tim Buckley\u2019s Happy Sad. Jake eventually retired to Nashville . Skip and Ted later supported Deonda on her native American spirited Woman in The Sun with help from Paupers \/ Janis Joplin Band Brad Campbell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ex Tim Rose & the Thorns Jake Holmes later known as the Feldmans had written entire albums for Frank Sinatra and The Four Seasons. Jake\u2019s debut The Above Ground Sound Of Jake Holmes which featured Jake on acoustic guitar, ex Feldmens Teddy Irwin on electric guitar and ex Brain Police Rick Randle on bass carried […]<\/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-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","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=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}