Musick that Needed W- P: Purple Image

 

In the midst of the musical revolution of 1968, a 24-year old named Warren Adams from the 105th Superior area of Cleveland, OH put together an eight-piece band by the name of Purple Image. While most African-American bands in the Cleveland area played R&B & soul, Purple Image played mind-bending psychedelic funk rock similar to the post-Hendrix black rock of their Detroit counterparts Death & Black Merda. 

 

Purple Image recorded "Marching to a Different Drummer", which they released on Map City records. With the help of a popular Cleveland DJ the song became a number one hit. On the strength of that single, the band recorded their only album, the self-titled Purple Image. The album is an energetic blend of acid rock, fusion, frantic Coltrane-ish sax...a blistering amalgam of rock, soul, & funk. 

 

Purple Image - Purple Image, Map City MAP3015, 1970.
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Side One -
Living in the Ghetto
Why
Lady
We Got to Pull Together

Side Two -
What You Do to Me
Marching to a Different Drummer

This P's for U,
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