Artist: The Master's Apprentices
Title: Complete Recordings 1965-1968
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: Ascension Records
Genre: Garage Rock, Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Quality: Flac (image, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:03:34
Total Size: 295 Mb (scans)
Tracklist:
01. Undecided
02. Poor Boy
03. But One Day
04. Dancing Girl
05. She's My Girl
06. Hot Gully Wind
07. Theme For A Social Climber
08. Buried And Dead
09. Johnny B Goode
10. Don't Fight It
11. Four Years Of Five
12. I Feel Fine
13. My Girl
14. Brigette
15. I Feel Fine (alternate version)
16. Dear Dad
17. Inside Looking Out
18. War Or Hands Of Time
19. Elevator Driver
20. Tired Of Just Wandering
21. Living In A Child's Dream
22. Bye Bye Johnny
23. Black Girl (In The Pines)
Mick Bower - guitar (1965-1967)
Jim Keays - vocals, harmonica, guitar (1965-1972, 1987-1991, 1994-1995; 1997, 2001-2002; died 2014)
Rick Morrison - guitar (1965-1967)
Brian Vaughton - drums (1965-1967)
Gavin Webb - bass (1965-1968)
Steve Hopgood - drums (1967-1968)
Tony Sommers - guitar (1967-1968)
Rick Harrison - guitar (1967)
Peter Tilbrook - guitar, bass (1967-1968)
Colin Burgess - drums (1968-1972, 1987-1991, 2001-2002)
Doug Ford - guitar (1968-1972 1987-1991, 1997, 2001-2002)
Glenn Wheatley - guitar, bass (1968-1972, 1987-1988, 2002)
Denny Burgess - bass (1972)
Roger Faynes - guitar, keyboards (1988-1991)
Wayne Mathews - bass (1988-1991)
Tony Day - drums , backing vocals(1997)
Peter Farnan - keyboards, guitar (1997)
John Favaro - bass, backing vocals (1997)
Rob Hornbuckle - bass, backing vocals (1997-2005)
Tim Wheatley - bass (2001-2002)
One could easily make the case for designating the Masters Apprentices as the best Australian rock band of the '60s. Featuring singer Jim Keays and songwriter/rhythm guitarist Mick Bower, the band's earliest recordings combined the gritty R&B/rock of Brits like the Pretty Things with the minor-key melodies of the Yardbirds. The compelling "Wars or Hands of Time" and the dreamy psychedelia of "Living in a Child's Dream" were undiscovered classics, although the latter was a Top Ten hit in Australia. Bower left the group after suffering a nervous breakdown in late 1967, and the Masters grew steadily less interesting, moving from flower pop and hard rock to progressive and acoustic sounds. Plagued by instability (undergoing eight personnel changes between 1966 and 1968), the group moved to England in the early '70s, achieving some cult success with progressive rock albums before breaking up in 1972.
