Monday, July 31, 2017
Friday, July 7, 2017
Dave's Main Guitar
The Original Crystal Haze: About Our New Music
Dave Ellis, Lead Guitarist of the Original Crystal Haze Band, says about the new music coming out for the new album (on the 40th anniversary of the release of their self-titled first album):
The new stuff is just total flat-out rock n' roll, wall of sound stuff. It is straight-forward heavy rock, true to our roots...some timing changes at times...stuff to make you think...and lots of guitar solos, lots of modal stuff, like playing in Phrygian-Dominant and harmonic minor modes etc. This is the stuff to blow down the walls with, especially when you compare it to whats coming out new on the radio today. We are putting out stuff that we can EAT UP, and that hopefully everybody else will too...who is into true rock and roll. All the tunes are original compositions (as usual). All of them are brand new written this year, with the exception of Remson, which I wrote in early 1977 for the first album, but of course, it missed the first album when Bryant Minks sold the 12 string fender electric that he was loaning me for use of my VOx Jaguar organ. WHen the 12 went away, I didn't have the necessary equipment in those days to compensate for the unique sounds that I needed for Remson...but today I can just alter alot of guitar and keyboards sounds to cover for it. Overall, I think our true fans will love this new stuff, and we are just grateful to have the opportunity to still be able to make great rock n' roll in a time when so many of our contemporaries are literally dying off as we speak. I really want to be able to continue to do this for the rest of my life, and I have the utmost admiration for the Stones to just keep driving on, when everybody their age and even a little younger than them has either quit or been buried.To all our friends and fans: PEACE.
The new stuff is just total flat-out rock n' roll, wall of sound stuff. It is straight-forward heavy rock, true to our roots...some timing changes at times...stuff to make you think...and lots of guitar solos, lots of modal stuff, like playing in Phrygian-Dominant and harmonic minor modes etc. This is the stuff to blow down the walls with, especially when you compare it to whats coming out new on the radio today. We are putting out stuff that we can EAT UP, and that hopefully everybody else will too...who is into true rock and roll. All the tunes are original compositions (as usual). All of them are brand new written this year, with the exception of Remson, which I wrote in early 1977 for the first album, but of course, it missed the first album when Bryant Minks sold the 12 string fender electric that he was loaning me for use of my VOx Jaguar organ. WHen the 12 went away, I didn't have the necessary equipment in those days to compensate for the unique sounds that I needed for Remson...but today I can just alter alot of guitar and keyboards sounds to cover for it. Overall, I think our true fans will love this new stuff, and we are just grateful to have the opportunity to still be able to make great rock n' roll in a time when so many of our contemporaries are literally dying off as we speak. I really want to be able to continue to do this for the rest of my life, and I have the utmost admiration for the Stones to just keep driving on, when everybody their age and even a little younger than them has either quit or been buried.To all our friends and fans: PEACE.
| 1979 Publicity photo |
This above shot is from a series of publicity photos for the band that were shot in Galesburg Illinois in 1979 when the whole band was relocated there and working out of that town for awhile. Within a little over a year, external appearances would change greatly, as later photos will show.
The second Crystal Haze Band album is a big departure from the original sounds of the band, and mirrors the then current influences in Dave's life musically at that time. It has probably more of an affinity to Rush Hemispheres, than to anything on the first album, while the first album owes more to Zeppelin, Ted Nugent, and a host of other heavy 70's bands.
The scratch tracks for the third album (in 1996) show a definite return to the influences which define the first album, and still define the band's LIVE sound today
More new Crystal Haze Band music coming out
The Original Crystal Haze Band, featuring Dave Ellis....is preparing to put out much more BRAND NEW MUSIC this year, on the 40th anniversary of the realease of their first CRYSTALHAZEALBUM. New tunes including: Rock and Roll Queen; extended cut of Time Travel/Projection; The Storm; Just Say the Word; and the never-before-recorded Remson that was supposed to be on the first crystalhazealbum 40 years ago, and more. All songs will come out in MP3 and MP4 four formats as separate audio and video. Everything continues to be all original material written by Dave Ellis (who wrote the first album also).
Monday, June 19, 2017
Thursday, January 5, 2017
The Original Crystal Haze Band in 2017
New for us in 2017...Coming Out with NEW MUSIC
also, new vintage PR Pics of the Band at the time of the first album release in 1977
This co-ordinates with the upcoming 40th anniversary release of our first album, and planning multiple things this year to celebrate
Link to:
Album Site
also, new vintage PR Pics of the Band at the time of the first album release in 1977
This co-ordinates with the upcoming 40th anniversary release of our first album, and planning multiple things this year to celebrate
Link to:
Album Site
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