Looking backatcha.

LOVE the band - amazing vocals, clever songs, and Slamer was absolute 
air guitar heaven. I bought the "best of" and the 2-fers on CD and was 
happy with the sound, but I also still have my vinyl. I do remember some 
conversation at the time that there were needle drop CDs (and CD-Rs, 
believe it or not) being sold. Maybe I got lucky.

"5.7.0.5." was a hit, but they deserved so much more - I can't believe 
they weren't far more popular than they were. Put 10CC, Sparks and Queen 
in a blender and there you go. Saw them live twice, and they absolutely 
kicked ass - musically and vocally TIGHT. (They were opening for Hall 
and Oates, who had G.E.Smith in the band at the time - talk about great 
guitar players!)

Auditeers, if you never heard them, listen to the Amazon clips from the 
"anthology"...a good sampling of their versatility:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UADU7G/ref=pd_mp3_als_qp_pa

Better yet, hit YouTube:

For the rockers: "Cigarettes". Get the air guitar out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylJl3U8MkLY

For the pop people: I've Been Spun"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJXq09rEOco

For the proggers: "Ambition"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwJ1ZSi9tWw

Off to blast some City Boy, LOUD. Thanks Mike!

b


On 10/11/2017 12:58 PM, Cornely, Michael wrote:
> Big City Boy fan here, too - back in the day they would be discussed once in a awhile on audities (I'm looking at you, Bill Holmes).  Slamer was also in bands like Streets and Steelhouse Lane, but those never grabbed me like the uniqueness of City Boy.  I just looked him up on All Music and apparently he had a band called Slamer that put out an album in 2006.  I'll have to try and dig up that one - doesn't seem to be on Spotify (although a Japanese artist named Slamer is).
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> Subject: Re: City Boy - Same (1976) und The Galileo 7
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>> I just listen (again) to the first album by the english band City Boy. Fine
>> Artpop, Rock and Pop. Check it out here:
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> LOVE City Boy- Mike Slamer is a great guitarist...song appropriate tone and an excellent groove.
> I haven't heard the first one in a while. I have it on one of the Renaissance "two-fers."
> that came out.
> I certainly hope one day City Boy will get a box set or a re-issue using the actual master tapes,
> if they exist. I'm thinking the reissues I have were needle drops.
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