Archive for December 22nd, 2009
Through the years there has been many Great bands, The Beatles, The Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and more but once in a while you will find a band that when you hear them and ask youself “How come I have never heard of them”? This is a story about a rock band out of Minnesota in the late 1960’s by the name of Gypsy.
A more talented group of musicians you won’t find in the bands mentioned earlier or any other band you can think of. Enrico Rosenbaum was the groups singer and guitarist who also wrote most of the songs for the group. Other members of the band included James Walsh on keyboards and vocals, James Johnson guitar and vocals, James Epstein drums, bass guitar was Donnie Larson, Preston Epps percussion, and Jimmy Haskell string arrangements.
In 1970 the band charted a single on the Billboards, “Gypsy Queen Part 1 and 2€³. To listen to this group is to love them. One song off their first album is “Tomorrow Is The Last To Be Heard” with its crisp harmonies, and an electric guitar solo that will make you take notice, and a drum solo towards the end of the song that rounds out a song that could have, and should have been a classic.