TOP TOPHAM ASCENSION HEIGHTS
Label: Blue Horizon
Released:1969
Format: Flac
At the age of 15, Surrey-born Anthony 'Top' Topham stepped onto stage in May 1963 at the Eel Pie Island Club in Twickenham with his new blues-wailing band - The Yardbirds. A few months later he was replaced with Eric Clapton and after that a certain Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page also joined that volatile crew. When you consider what a staggering influence Cream, Beck and Led Zeppelin have had on everything in rock then and now - it's a damn shame that Top Topham got musically lost in the mix somehow and has never been given the catalyst credit he so deserves
Tracklist:
1. Sawbuk
2. Mini-Minor-Mo
3. Hop House
4. Ridin’ The Blinds
5. Hot Ginger
6. Funks Elegy
7. Ascension Heights
8. Tuxedo Junction
9. Globetrottin’
10. Spider Drag
11. Mean Old Pullman
12. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Personnel:
Top Topham, lead guitar
John Marshall, drums
Colin Allen, drums on “Ridin’ The blinds”
Herbie Flowers, Eddie Tripp, Brian Odges, bass guitar
Rick Hayward, rhythm guitar /Pete Wingfield, Steve Gray, piano, organ
Duster Bennett, Harmonica / Top Topham, Mike Vernon, percussion
Greg Bowen, Nigel Carter, Terry Noonan, Butch Hudson, trumpets
Jack Thirlwell, Chris Pyne, Danny Elwood, trombones
Steve Gregory, Alan Skidmore, Don Honeywell, Danny Moss, Tony Coe, saxes
Lesley, Sue, Annette “Bones”, vocal group
unknown strings
Produced by: Mike Vernon Recorded at CBS Studios, New Bond Street, London, late 1969
Recording engineer: Mike Ross-Trevor
