REPOST : Dragonwyck - Chapter 2 (2006 World in Sound) 1972

Biography In 1972, Dragonwyck became the Saturday night house band at The Viking. The Viking Saloon was a loud, packed, smoke filled rock club that featured live entertainment, hard liquor and a rowdy crowd six nights a week. It was THE place to get drunk,get high and listen to loud bands. Dragonwyck’s popularity at The Viking led to engagements at other Cleveland clubs (Otto’s Site, Tom Jones Backroom, The Crazy Horse, The Spectrum, The Avon and Amherst Jail Night Clubs, The Cove at Geneva on the Lake) and a series of High School and College concerts.

After 8 months of performing their new sound live, Dragonwyck set out to record a new album. As copies of the Dragonwyck II album began to circulate in early 1973, the interest of the press, audiences and agencies became much greater. As people began to realize the talents of the band,they began playing better venues and drawing larger crowds.,they performed at the Cleveland Agora (the premier venue in the area), with “Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks” and opened for the newly formed English band, “FOGHAT”.

With Dragonwycks’ unusual musical arrangements and lead singer Bill Petijohn’s stage theatrics, the bands live concerts were drawing more and more attention. By 1974,they moved to much larger clubs, added weeknight shows sponsored by Budweiser Beer at Cleveland’s House of Bud.

Concert dates supporting THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP and GOLDEN EARING added to Dragonwyck’s offers to tour nationally. However, John Hall had a promising career as a design engineer and had no desire to travel outside of the Northern Ohio area. Not wanting Dragonwyck to miss opportunities that were being presented to them, he asked to be replaced..Having found Hall’s replacement in keyboardist, Jerry Moran,whose playing was harder and more rock orientated than that of Hall’s orchestrated approach. Dragonwyck recorded a single,“Lovin’ The Boys” b/w “The Music” in 1974. Shortly after this release the band broke up. - When World In Sound Records,released in 2004 the music of Dragonwyck, Tom Brehm felt like doing it again. In 2006 he set up his 1968 original Dragonwyck guitar, a Gibson 335, and with other World In Sound musicians,the right line-up is found to return back on stage with the music written between 1968-73.

Dragonwyck personnel 2006: Tom Brehm - Guitar, Vocals; Steff Bollack - Drums; Karsten Kullinna - Bass; Josh Maccoy - Vocals; Winfried Rimbach-Sator - Keyboards. Review by adamus67

Tracklist
01.Kimberly 0:32
02.He Loves You 3:18
03.Fire Climbs 6:41
04.Relics 5:11
05.Freedom Son 3:57
06.Lady 3:47
07.Run To The Devil 3:45
08.Dead Man 4:15
09.The Music 3:14
10.Forever Only Last A Little While 4:40
11.Lovin' The Boys (Single 74) 3:14
12.The Music (Single 74) 3:07

Line-up
Tom Brehm - guitars
Bill Pettijohn - vocals
John Hall - keyboards
Mikey Gerchak - bass
Jack Boessneck - drums