| 1. Run Run Run |
| 2. Shake That Fat |
| 3. Babylon |
| 4. I Make Love |
| 5. Barstow Blue Eyes |
| 6. 99 Days |
| 7. Academy Award |
| 8. Take It Easy |
| 9. Flying Home |
Editorial Reviews
Their 1972 debut album is as good as any rock n roll album released that year in our humble opinion. Includes the hit "Run Run Run," "Shake That Fat," "Babylon," "I Make Love," "Barstow Blue Eyes," "99 Days," "Academy Award," "Take It Easy," and "Flying Home." A Collectors Choice Music exclusive!
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Jo Jo Gunne
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Jo Jo Gunne
Jo Jo Gunne Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00008A8I5 Release Date: 2003-07-08 |
Tracks:
- Run Run Run
- Shake That Fat
- Babylon
- I Make Love
- Barstow Blue Eyes
- 99 Days
- Academy Award
- Take It Easy
- Flying Home
Product Description
1. Run Run Run
2. Shake That Fat
3. Babylon
4. I Make Love
5. Barstow Blue Eyes
6. 99 Days
7. Academy Award
8. Take It Easy
9. Flying Home
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
Great cd.......2007-06-21
if not for us eccentric music fans it would be totally forgotten.......2006-08-08
I would like to see a modern band do a cover so as to resurrect this quality band. How about Metalica doing Run, run run?
Protypical Early '70s Rock.......2006-06-02
In short, this record is rock solid. And it is THE place to start if you are looking into Jo Jo Gunne (this assumes that you've done the essential pre-requisite research into Spirit). It wasn't about greatness, it was about kicking out jams on Friday night, just as "RJ'ledog3'" said in his review.
In the early '70s, music had turned a corner. The Beatles were gone and there was no direction home. Altamont, Kent State, and the death of the New Left portended a darker future. The impact of bands like Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath and The Stooges were peeling the layers of 60s idealism and basic, no-frills rock and roll bands rushed into the vacuum. Jo Jo Gunne was one of those bands. Still, Jay Ferguson was a convincing singer and songwriter and the tunes on this first album are almost universally strong, if never great. None of their subsequent albums would be so consistent (though the technical quality might be a touch better as der Kommissar suggests) despite the occasional gem. It was all over for Jo Jo Gunne in a couple of years. Jay Ferguson would finally attain radio success in a solo career in the late '70s before spontaneously combusting.
In the end, Jo Jo Gunne is not great rock & roll. But it is worthy. Any serious student of early 70s rock should definitely have this disc in their archive.
Great Guns For Jo Jo Gunne.......2005-09-14
Head banging music from the early 70's..........2005-08-25
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Bite Down Hard
Jo Jo Gunne Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00008A8I4 Release Date: 2003-07-08 |
Tracks:
- Ready Freddy
- Roll over Me
- 60 Minutes to Go
- Rock Around the Symbol
- Broken Down Man
- Special Situations
- Take Me Down Easy
- Wait a Lifetime
- Rhoda
Product Description
1. Ready Freddy
2. Roll Over Me
3. 60 Minutes To Go
4. Rock Around The Symbol
5. Broken Down Man
6. Special Situations
7. Take Me Down Easy
8. Wait A Lifetime
9. Rhoda
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
As good today as it was when I was a teenage pothead.......2007-03-12
Take Me Down Easy.......2006-06-05
My favorite Jo Jo Gunne album .......2005-10-07
Their Best!!.......2004-09-16
California Rock.......2004-01-10
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Jumpin' the Gunne
Jo Jo Gunne Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00020P85K Release Date: 2004-09-07 |
Tracks:
- I Wanna Love You
- To The Island
- Red Meat
- Getaway
- Before You Get Your Breakfast
- At The Spa
- Monkey Music
- Couldn't Love You Better
- High School Drool
- Neon City
- Turn The Boy Loose
Product Description
1. I Wanna Love You
2. To The Island
3. Red Meat
4. Getaway
5. Before You Get Your Breakfast
6. At The Spa
7. Monkey Music
8. Couldn't Love You Better
9. High School Drool
10. Neon City
11. Turn The Boy Loose
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
Fine Melodic Rock.......2005-08-31
Real Biker Rock to Candy StreetCar Rock.......2005-05-02
Awesome CD from a sometimes forgotten band.......2004-12-05
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So...Where's the Show?
Jo Jo Gunne Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00020P85U Release Date: 2004-09-07 |
Tracks:
- Where Is The Show?
- I'm Your Shoe
- Single Man
- She Said All Right
- S & M Blvd.
- Falling Angel
- Big, Busted Bombshell From Bermuda
- Into My Life
- Around The World
Album Description
In contrast to 'Jumpin' the Gunne', the band took its time making its last album, breaking in a new producer (John Stronach), a new guitarist (John Staehely) to replace Matt Andes, and crafting a more layered, reflective and mature sound. A fine and fond farewell from one of the best bands of the early '70s! Includes 'Where Is the Show?; I'm Your Shoe; Single Man; She Said All Right; S & M Blvd.; Falling Angel; Big, Busted Bombshell from Bermuda; Into My Life', and 'Around the World'.Customer Reviews:
THE LAST GUNNE RIDES AGAIN.......2006-10-09
worth . . . how could he know it's the greatest attraction on Earth?"
--- Opening lyrics, SO...WHERE IS THE SHOW?
This is the key to the Soul of a Rocker....in this case, a man named Jay Ferguson, captain of the ship-of-savants known as Jo Jo Gunne. One of the 1970s' greatest musical enigmas, Jo Jo Gunne fell --- or, more accurately "jumped ship" --- out of Spirit, America's greatest, most creative musical aggregate to date.
Pioneers of jazz-rock fusion years before Miles Davis' BITCHES BREW, Spirit's hard-luck story should be the backbone of a "VH-1: Behind The Music" segment that mirrors the travails described in Al Kooper's biobook, "Backstage Passes And Backstabbing Bastards" to which most Pop acts are privvy.
The sins bordered on criminal, in the case of Spirit...a band that should have been hailed within the pantheon of Rock popularity above any of their contemporaties, including their LA neighbors, The Doors. Spirit was just too good, in that sense.
And their commercial success came, literally, moments after their two "blonde bombshells" group members (songwriter/front man Ferguson and bassist/anchor Mark Andes) departed for a single-focused, more definable, seemingly more lucrative career point, forming Jo Jo Gunne in late 1971. (Spirit's 4th album, TWELVE DREAMS OF DR SARDONICUS, did not climb the charts with sufficient dispatch for the immensely talented duo. Tragically, it was the last missed-it-by-that-much for a band that, e.g., declined the opportunity to open for their long-time friend Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. But, of course, who knew???)
Completely eschewing their esoteric roots, the Gunne's 1972 breakout, self-titled debut album still ranks among the greatest straight-ahead Rock albums of all time.
Twisting away 180 degrees from the over-produced wetness of SARDONICUS, JO JO GUNNE jumped feet first into the uncharted Mojave Desert of bare-bones, Southern-California rock-and-roll. (Fellow Asylum Records artists The Eagles, whose premiere album flew off the shelves in 1972, explored that same desert from the Country side.)
Stepping out from the dark genius that was Spirit, the Gunne melded Ferguson's previously unheard, barrel-house piano style and trademark sinewy, smokey-dark melody lines with his strange-and-wonderful lyrical paintings, all-the-while nailed to the floor by Andes' unmistakable bottoms. (Note: EVERY bass player should learn the importance of and the elements of Andes' unmistakable style, not only in cementing a band's overall sound through its disciplined lows, but also in its addition of counterpoint, color and movement to even the simplest moments.)
Later that same discography, WHERE'S THE SHOW if not floated, at least drifted their sound into a direction that could have saved the remainder of the decade from Disco. As it stands, this was the band's swan song. More's the pity.
The title opener, as always, was the dependable, Fergusonian killer single. More subtle, yet much more anthemic than most of the band's previous material and pre-sages Jay's later bent, especially the immense single, "Shakedown Cruise," from his REAL LIFE AIN'T THAT WAY solo LP.
Having seen the band on its final tour that largely pushed this, their farewell set, I was thoroughly impressed by the live execution of WHERE'S THE SHOW?'s beefy, expressive rock lines. The great and pleasant surprise was guitarist John Staehle's work: hot and fluid solos that were dramatically different in technique and technology from founding guitarist Matt Andes' strokes, Staehle redeemed himself from the abyss that was Spirit's extremely forgettable follow-up to TWELVE DREAMS OF DR SARDONICUS, called simply FEEDBACK. (In his, and his bassist brother Al's defense, they never had a chance. Especially since they had neither any appreciable songwriting talent nor Jazz chops.)
Be that as it may, SO...WHERE IS THE SHOW? demonstrated a newer, fresher, much more muscular and directed sound. Also, there is a LOT less clutter and over-production than on the band's two previous outings, BITE DOWN HARD (the weakest of the Gunne's four albums) and JUMPIN' THE GUNNE, which was infused with gobs of Ferguson's inimitable sense-of-humor, largely absent from BITE.
"Where Is The Show?" drafts the sentiments of the road (a shaft that Ferguson had mined previously, on JO JO GUNNE's "99 Days" and BITE DOWN HARD's "60 Minutes To Go") with a positive flush, dodging the complaints and getting down to the benefits and motivations of the ridiculous lifestyle that is rock-and-roll. "I'm Your Shoe" is a comedic show-stopper. (No one but Ferguson, other than perhaps Walt Disney, Chuck Jones or Dr. Seuss, could breathe life into an inanimate object with such panache.)
"Single Man" describes the honest sentiments of a man of integrity, pulled away from home and hearth by the necessary vagaries of, again, the rock-and-roll lifestyle. "Do you think I could have made it as a single man?" asks Ferguson, who forgives, "so let the foolish man gamble, crazy man ramble...all I can handle is some peace of mind...I'm a homebound rover, honey, think it over. Baby, we're doin' fine."
"Big Busted Bombshell From Bermuda" is another hilarious Fergusonian travelogue. (If Jay ever does a compilation of all his works, there are lots of creatures and habitats to be visited: "Animal Zoo," "Thunder Island," "Topanga Windows," "Babylon," "To The Island," "At The Spa," and many, many more. It should be called "MISTER JAY'S GREAT ESCAPES.")
Now, so many years later, the real question is: "SO . . . where's the GUNNE?"
Fans and true believers may not have long to wait: the original (and only valid) line-up of the band, including the incomparable Mark Andes on bass, reunited in 2003 to record a new album, titled THE BIG CHAIN.
Look for it~jk
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Big Chain
Jo Jo Gunne Manufacturer: Blue Hand Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000AOENAY Release Date: 2005-09-27 |
Tracks:
- Be Careful What You Wish For
- Perfect Everything
- Babylon
- Garagedonia
- Academy Award
- Before You Get Your Breakfast
- Gravy Train
- Shake That Fat
- Cheap Shot
- Making the Sparks Fly
- 99 Days
- Flying Home
- Run Run Run
- Barstow Blue Eyes
Customer Reviews:
Great cd.......2007-06-22
Anyway this is a very good cd and the guys still sound great even after all these years. And I hope that there is another cd in the works for
Jo Jo Gunne to keep us 'Gunner' fans out here happy.
Sign me, still a 'Gunner'.
As Good As it Gets.......2007-03-07
(Irrelevant, but I will add one thing thing in response to another review: I had no trouble whatsoever telling who was who in the photos.)
Big Disappointment.......2006-11-07
* The cheap, generic studio sound that manages to be both tinny and bass-heavy at the same time.
* Basically, they remade their first (and worst) album (it was so bad, I gave my copy away right after I bought it) and added six new "originals."
* There was, however, one really great song on that album ("Take It Easy" [not the Eagles song]). Now guess what? That's the only one they left out!
* They've also remade "Before You Get Your Breakfast" (a really great tune from their third album, "Jumpin' the Gunne"). The original version is ten times better.
The new material is more of the same, i.e., everything Jo Jo Gunne detractors love to hate, with none of the charms fans like me (and I may be a minority of one here) find amusing. Yet another sad footnote to the Spirit saga.
THE ONLY FUN: In the booklet, there are side-by-side photos of the band, "then and now." I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure out who's who. These guys have aged so much over the years, I can't even tell which one is Jay Ferguson!
Ready Freddy, Rockin' Steady.......2006-09-06
Totally Gunne..........2006-04-11
As for the remakes... well... sometimes it's hard to let go of songs as I know them. That's more a matter of personal taste than any particular fault with what they did on the new versions. For better or worse, they happened to pick at least a few songs that are near and dear to my heart. For me, the successes are Babylon (certainly superior to Ferguson's solo remake), Shake That Fat, Run Run Run, and Barstow Blue Eyes. 99 Days is a tossup; both versions have their strengths. Academy Award and Flying Home, my two favorite songs from their first album if not their entire catalog, are a bit hard to swallow in their new forms. Well done on their own terms I suppose, but far enough from the originals to make me wish they'd left them alone. That's my personal preference of course. It's still a new Jo Jo Gunne album and a very nice surprise after all these years. Hats off to ya, boys! What else are ya hiding?
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The Asylum Recordings ["Jo Jo Gunne" + "Bite Down Hard"]
Manufacturer: Rhino Handmade ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000G39FS4 |
Product Description
21 tracks; 3 unreleased. Limited edition of 2500. Rhino Handmade. One of the first to go out of print on the label. Very limited.
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Asylum Recordings: Jumpin' the Gunne + So...Where's the Show?
Jo Jo Gunne ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0001MBKL0 Release Date: 2004-11-02 |
Tracks:
- I Wanna Love You
- To the Island
- Red Meat
- Getaway
- Before You Get Your Breakfast
- At the Spa
- Monkey Music
- Couldn't Love You Better
- High School Drool
- Neon City
- Turn the Boy Loose
- Where Is the Show?
- I'm Your Shoe
- Single Man
- She Said Allright
- S&M Blvd.
- Falling Angel
- Big, Busted Bombshell From Bermuda
- Into My Life
- Around the World
- Goody Goody Two Shoes [Backing Track]
- Screaming Mimi
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All Rock Now - 70 Rock Hits From the 70's ( 4 Cd Various Artists )
Status Quo , Slade , Sweet , The Knack , Ram Jam , Dr. Feelgood , Bachman Turner Overdrive , Jo Jo Gunne , UFO , and Redbone Manufacturer: INSIGHT MUSIC ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000NU4LXE |
Product Description
1.ROCKIN ALL OVER THE WORLD- 2.MAMA WEER ALL CRAZEE NOW- 3.ACTION 4.MY SHARONA- 5.BLACK BETTY 6.MILK & ALCOHOL 7.YOU AINT SEEN NOTHIN YET-8.RUN RUN RUN 9.DOCTOR DOCTOR-10.WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS 11.LETS WORK TOGETHER-12.DEVILS ANSWER-13.PARANOID 14.SINCE YOUVE BEEN GONE 15.ALL RIGHT NOW- 16.CANT GET ENOUGH 17.STAY WITH ME 18.DANCE WITH THE DEVIL-COZY POWELL 1.MAGGIE MAY-ROD STEWART 2. LOLA -KINKS 3.ITS A HEARTACHE-BONNIE TYLER 4.IN A BROKEN DREAM-PYTHON LEE JACKSON(FEAT) ROD STEWART 5.BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN-MARIANNE FAITHFUL 6.FOOL(IF YOU THINK ITS OVER)-CHRIS REA 7.HOW LONG-ACE 8.STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU-STEALERS WHEEL 9.GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME-GERRY RAFFERTY 10.GIVING IT ALL AWAY-ROGER DALTREY 11.LONELY BOY-ANDREW GOLD 12.BEST FRIENDS GIRL-CARS 13.FREE ELECTRIC BAND-ALBERT HAMMOND 14.ROLL AWAY THE STONE-MOTT THE HOOPLE 15.HIGH FLY-JOHN MILES 16.NORTHERN LIGHTS-RENAISSANCE 17.WONDEROUS STORIES-YES 1.RESURRECTION SHUFFLE-ASHTON GARDNER & DYKE 2.TIGER FEEL-MUD 3.ALL BECAUSE OF YOU-GEORDIE 4.DEVIL GATE DRIVE-SUZI QUATRO 5.I HEAR YOU KNOCKING-DAVE EDMUNDS 6.THIS TOWN AINT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US-SPARKS 7.PINBALL WIZARD-ELTON JOHN 8.ROCKARIA-ELO 9.5705-CITY BOY 10.I WANT YOU TO WANT ME-CHEAP TRICK 11.ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY-IAN HUNTER 12.SHES SO MODERN-BOOMTOWN RATS 13.ETON RIFLES-THE JAM 14.20TH CENTURY BOY-T.REX 15.HES GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN-JOHN KONGOS 16.INDIAN RESERVATION-DON FARDON 17.IN ZAIRE-JOHNNY WAKELIN 18.GROOVIN WITH MR. BLOE-MR. BLOE 1.PART OF THE UNION-STRAWBS 2.SYMPATHY-RARE BIRD 3.WHISKEY IN THE JAR-THIN LIZZY 4.WITCHES PROMISE-JETHRO TULL 5.BACK STREET LUV-CURVED AIR 6.SPIRIT IN THE SKY-NORMAN GREENBAUM 7.SULTANA-TITANIC 8.HORSE WITH NO NAME-AMERICA 9.WHEN IM DEAD & GONE-MCGUINNESS FLINT 10.ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT-MUNGO JERRY 11.DONT STOP-FLEETWOOD MAC 12.LISTEN TO THE MUSIC-DOOBIE BROS.13.HOLD THE LINE-TOTO 14.FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME-FOREIGNER 15.MORE THAN A FEELING-BOSTON 16.GOD GAVE ROCK N ROLL TO YOU-ARGENT 17.BAT OUT OF HELL-
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Gold {Various Artists} {4 Cd's}
Status Quo , Slade , Jo Jo Gunne , Saxon , Chris Spedding , Bachman Turner Overdrive , Tom Robinson Band , Canned Heat , Rainbow , and REO Speedwagon Manufacturer: INSIGHT MUSIC ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000LY28N2 |
Product Description
DISC 1: STATUS QUO-ROCKIN ALL OVER THE WORLD, SLADE-WE'LL BRING THE HOUSE DOWN, JO JO GUNNE-RUN RUN RUN, SAXON-WHEELS OF STEEL, CHRIS SPEDDING-MOTOR BIKIN, BTO-YOU AINT SEEN NOTHIN YET, TOM ROBINSON-2-4-6-8 MOTORWAY, CANNED HEAT-LETS WORK TOGETHER, RAINBOW-I SURRENDER, REO SPEEDWAGON-TAKE IT ON THE RUN, PAT BENATAR-ALL FIRED UP, GLENN FREY-HEAT IS ON, BONNIE TYLER-HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO, MEAT LOAF-BAT OUT OF HELL, EUROPE-THE FINAL COUNDOWN DISC 2: REPUBLICA-READY TO GO, PRIMITIVES-CRASH, FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD-2 TRIBES, DEAD OR ALIVE-YOU SPIN ME AROUND, FUN BOY 3 & BANANARA-IT AINT WHAT YOU DO ITS THE WAY YOU DO IT, TEARDROP EXPLODES-REWARD, EMF-UNBELIEVALBE, SNAP-THE POWER, EDWIN STARR-WAR, ELTON JOHN-PINBALL WIZARD, ELO-DONT BRING ME DOWN, CHRIS DEBURGH-HIGH ON EMOTION, EURYTHMICS-SWEET DREAMS, DURAN DURAN-THE REFLEX, SPANDAU BALLET- GOLD DISC 3: SPENCER DAVIS-KEEP ON RUNNING, MANFRED MANN-54321, AMEN CORNER- BEND ME SHAPE ME, TROGGS-WILD THING, GUN- RACE WITH THE DEVIL, BILLY IDOL-MONY MONY, CHESNEY HAWKES-ONE & ONLY, FLEETWOOD MAC-DONT STOP, JOHN MILES-HIGH FLY, MUD- TIGER FEET, SWEET-HELLRAISER, SUZI QUATRO- 48 CRASH, MOTT THE HOOPLE-ALL THE WAY FROM MEMPHIS, TALKING HEADS-ROAD TO NO WHERE, YELLO-THE RACE DISC 4: GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS-YOULL NEVER WALK ALONE, CCS-WALKING, ARGENT-HOLD YOUR HEAD UP, SANTANA-WINNING, JOE COCKER & JENNIFER WARNES-UP WHERE WE BELONG, TEARS 4 FEARS EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD, JON & VANGELIS-I'LL FIND MY WAY HOME, CARS-DRIVE, CYNDI LAUPER-I DROVE ALL NIGHT, ROBERT PALMER-SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK, MEDICINE HEAD-SLIP & SLIDE, CHRISTOPHER CROSS-RIDE LIKE THE WIND, KATE BUSH-RUNNING UP THAT HILL, VANGELIS- CHARIOTS OF FIRE, PAVAROTTI-NESSUN DORMA
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White Noise
Jay Ferguson Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004S3KY Release Date: 2001-05-08 |
Tracks:
- White Noise
- I'm Down
- I Come Alive
- Inside Out
- Empty Sky
- Tonite (Fallin' for Ya')
- Baby Come Back
- Heat of the Night
- Million $
- She's Mine Tonight
Album Description
Reissue of the 1982 album with original tracklisting and artwork in a special collector's digipak. 10 tracks including 'White Noise' & 'I'm Down'. 2000 release.Customer Reviews:
"White Noise" Is The Very Best Kind!.......2000-10-14
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- Merciless
- Modern Times [Original recording remastered] [Import]
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