Pacific Gas & Electric - Get It On

Year: 1968/2008
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:52
Size: 182,4 MB
Styles: Electric blues, blues-rock
Scans: Full

1. Wade In The Water (6:13)
2. Cry, Cry, Cry (5:27)
3. The Motor City Is Burning (6:49)
4. The Hunter (3:25)
5. Long Handled Shovel (3:37)
6. Jelly, Jelly (6:42)
7. Stormy Times (2:47)
8. Live Love (3:27)
9. My Sweet Baby (Take 6) (Bonus) (2:49)
10. Dirty Mistreater (Take 2) (Bonus) (3:02)
11. Wade In The Water (Undubbed Version) (Bonus) (4:54)
12. Cry, Cry, Cry (Take 2) (Bonus) (6:33)
13. Stormy Times (Take 9) (Bonus) (2:53)
14. Long Handled Shovel (Take 8) (Bonus) (3:53)
15. Jelly, Jelly (Take 1) (Bonus) (7:31)
16. The Hunter (Take 1) (Bonus) (5:07)
17. Blues Chant (Take 2) (Bonus) (3:36)

The debut album of the five-member Pacific Gas & Electric reveals a nimble little blues band with a great shouter for a lead singer. Far less lumbering than the band became on their better-known major-label recordings, the Modern release of Get It On begins with the kind of maximum R&B bang that few American rock groups beyond the MC5 or Young Rascals would have been able to master: a six-minute version of "Wade in the Water" that careens through its six long minutes with power and just enough balance between control and chaos. (The track was billed as being recorded "live", but it was actually a studio creation with overdubs.)

Lead singer Charlie Allen was a charismatic force up front, and lead guitarist Glenn Schwartz, a transplant from Cleveland and the James Gang, matched Allen's charisma with his solos. If they have a weakness on Get It On, it's the rhythm section, which despite including Frank Cook of Canned Heat, can't always keep up with Allen or Schwartz, and sounds pretty stiff in comparison. /John Bush, AllMusic

Personnel: Charlie Allen (vocals), Glenn Schwartz (lead guitar), Tom Marshall (rhythm guitar), Brent Block (bass, fuzz-bass), Frank Cook (drums).

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Pacific Gas & Electric - Are You Ready

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:43
Size: 79.5 MB
Styles: R&B, Psychedelic Soul, Blues
Year: 1970/1997
Art: Front

[5:21] 1. Are You Ready
[4:41] 2. Hawg For You
[3:48] 3. Staggolee
[5:28] 4. The Blackberry
[3:50] 5. Love, Love, Love, Love, Love
[5:05] 6. Mother, Why Do You Cry
[1:58] 7. Elvira
[4:27] 8. Screamin'

PG&E's Are You Ready, anchored by their sole hit, "Are You Ready?," treads a thin line between eclecticism and confusion, and is actually weaker on the whole than its predecessor. Certainly the ominous yet inspirational gospel-funk-psychedelia of "Are You Ready?" was the strongest track, and to this day the only one that most casual rock fans remember. Yet other cuts on the album indicated they couldn't decide whether to be a heavy blues-rock group ("Hawg for You"), a more soul-dipped version of the Band ("Staggolee"), a swampy soul-rock outfit (a cover of the Isley Brothers' "The Blackberry"), or, least convincingly, cry-in-your-beer honky tonk balladeers ("Mother, Why Don't You Cry?"). This wouldn't have been such a handicap if the material wasn't as mediocre as it was, and any song titled "Love, Love, Love, Love, Love" is a warning that lyrical imagination wasn't in abundance on the day it was composed. They do play the James Brown-psychedelic rock fusion card with some gusto on "Elvira," and Charlie Allen's vocals are pretty soulful. ~Richie Unterberger

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Pacific Gas & Electric - Get It On...

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:41
Size: 86.3 MB
Styles: Psychedelic garage blues
Year: 1970/2014
Art: Front

[6:06] 1. Wade In The Water
[5:19] 2. Cry, Cry, Cry
[6:43] 3. The Motor City Is Burning
[3:20] 4. The Hunter
[3:31] 5. Long Handled Shovel
[6:34] 6. Jelly, Jelly
[2:43] 7. Stormy Times
[3:22] 8. Live Love

The debut album of the five-member Pacific Gas & Electric reveals a nimble little blues band with a great shouter for a lead singer. Far less lumbering than the band became on their better-known major-label recordings, the Modern release of Get It On begins with the kind of maximum R&B bang that few American rock groups beyond the MC5 or Young Rascals would have been able to muster: a six-minute version of "Wade in the Water" that careens through its six long minutes with power and just enough balance between control and chaos. (The track was billed as being recorded "live," but it was actually a studio creation with overdubs.) Lead singer Charlie Allen was a charismatic force up front, and lead guitarist Glenn Schwartz, a transplant from Cleveland and the James Gang, matched Allen's charisma with his solos. If they have a weakness on Get It On, it's the rhythm section, which despite including Frank Wilson of Canned Heat, can't always keep up with Allen or Schwartz, and sounds pretty stiff in comparison. ~John Bush

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