Thursday, August 21, 2008

Herbie Armstrong
Back Against The Wall

- CD rip, 320 kbbs / Label: MMC
Released in 1983.
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Now Herbie is running a Restaurant together with his Swedish-born wife Elizabeth, in Hampshirecalled The Fountain Inn & Thai Restaurant but once Herbie was a great musician.
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Herbie's steps in music are very closely related to Van Morrison. It starts in 1964 when Herbie and Van played together in The Manhattan Showband and in Brian Rossi and the Golden Eagles. Van Morrison left to form Them, and asked Herbie to go with him, but Herbie stayed instead but they were re-united when Them stopped and Van starts making soloalbums. In the 70's and 80's Herbie plays on Van Morrison's albums. Herbie also played in Fox. They had hits in the 70's with "Only You Can", "Imagine Me, Imagine You" and "He's got Magic".
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On "Back Against The Wall" are some great musicians:
Herbie Armstrong (vocals, guitar)
Patrick O'Hearn (bass)
Pee Wee Ellis (sax)
Mark Isham (trumpet, keyboards)
Peter Van Hooke (drums)
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Tracklisting:
1 LOSING YOU - 2 HORSES OF STEAM - 3 YOU TAKE ME UP - 4 FRIDAY'S CHILD - 5 BACK AGAINST THE WALL - 6 HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS - 7 JOSIE - 8 LET IT RUN - 9 SAVE THE LAST DANCE - 10 COMING IN FROM THE RAIN
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1 comment:

joetomrud said...

I'd downloaded this album but cannot unzip it
on my Mac as I can find no way to convert .ace
files to Mp3 for iTunes.

Would it be possible to post the music again in
rar or zip formats, or could you recommend a
method of converting the existing download?
I am not terribly au fait with all this technology
(can't you tell!)

Best wishes,

Joe in Dublin.