Warp
Warp | |
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General information | |
Genre (s) | Hard rock , heavy metal , progressive rock |
founding | 1968, 20 ?? |
resolution | Mid 70s |
Website | www.warpig.ca |
Current occupation | |
Rick Donmoyer | |
Terry Brett | |
Vocals, electric guitar, keyboard
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Dana Snitch |
Terry Hook |
Warpig (German war pig or dogs of war ) is a Canadian progressive and hard rock band.
history
Warpig was founded in Woodstock in late 1968 . In 1970 the band released their only album Warpig .
Producer Robert Thomson became aware of the band in 1969. So it came to the signing of a record deal with Fonthill Records and soon after Warpig recorded their first album in 1969/70 in a studio in Toronto.
London Records bought Warpig out of the contract with Fonthill Records. The album was remastered , redesigned, and re-released in 1973. With the new recordings of the songs Rock Star and Flaggit as single, they made it into the top 100 of the charts in the same year.
They later toured as the opening act with British and American bands such as B. Deep Purple , Manfred Mann , Savoy Brown , Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Joe Walsh .
Wrong decisions by management as well as disagreements between the band and management with regard to the musical direction to be taken led to the fact that the recordings for a second album were discontinued.
This also caused disagreement within the band and in the mid-1970s, Warpig gradually broke up, despite all attempts to continue with new band members.
Now, more than 30 years later, Warpig got together again in their line-up formation and the completion of their unfinished second album with previously unreleased early recordings and some new compositions is continuing.
Discography
- 1970: Warpig ( Fonthill Records )
- 1973: Warpig ( London Records ; re-release)
- 1973: Rock Star / Flaggit ( London Records ; single)