Nazz
Nazz was an American rock band that existed from 1967 to 1970. Since 2006 the band has been performing again with a new line-up.
Band history
Nazz was founded in 1967 in Philadelphia by Todd Rundgren (guitar) and Carson Van Osten (bass) . Other band members were Thom Mooney (drums) and Robert "Stewkey" Antoni (keyboards, vocals). They had their first appearance in July 1967 as the opening act for Doors .
The band name comes from the track The Nazz Are Blue by the Yardbirds , released in 1966 on the album The Yardbirds (UK), also known as Over Under Sideways Down (D, F, US) or Roger the Engineer (after the illustration on the Cover).
In October 1968 her first album Nazz came on the market, which - like the first single Open My Eyes / Hello It's Me - remained commercially unsuccessful. Most of the plays were written by Rundgren. The music on the album was based on British models such as B. the Beatles , Kinks , The Who or Cream . Open My Eyes appeared on the 1972 sampler Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 . In a brisk re-recording, Hello It's Me became a hit for Todd Rundgren in 1972.
The second album Nazz Nazz , released in May 1969, took a new musical direction. Rundgren, author of all the tracks on the album, was heavily oriented towards the music of Laura Nyro at the time . The work planned by Rundgren as a double album (working title: Fungo Bat ) was finally put down on a long-playing record. Rundgren then left the band and started a successful solo career.
Van Osten also went their own way. With a changing line-up, the band initially continued to give concerts, but broke up in 1970. However, when Todd Rundgren achieved solo success, the record company SGC Records decided in 1971 to release the originally unreleased tracks by Fungo Bat as their own album Nazz III , which was then released a year after the band split up. Rundgren's vocals were played over on some pieces.
In 2006 “Stewkey” Antoni put together a new group that goes by the name “Nazz”.
Note: Alice Cooper's band was called "The Nazz" in 1967 before the band name was changed to "Alice Cooper" to avoid confusion.
Discography
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Albums
- 1968: Nazz
- 1969: Nazz Nazz
- 1971: Nazz III
Compilations
- 1984: Best of Nazz
- 1998: Thirteenth and Pine
- 2002: Open Our Eyes: The Anthology
Singles
- 1968: Open My Eyes / Hello It's Me
- 1969: Under The Ice / Not Wrong Long
Box sets
- 2006: Nazz Nazz / Nazz 3: The Fungo Bat Sessions