Vinyl Album - Michael Nesmith And The First National Band - Loose Salute - RCA Victor

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band
Title:	Loose Salute
Label:	RCA Victor
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	LSP-4415
Date:	Nov 1970
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	15 Own, 2 Want
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band	Silver Moon	Michael Nesmith	9.3 Rate
A2	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band	I Fall To Pieces	Cochran, Howard	10.0 Rate
A3	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band	Thanx For The Ride	Michael Nesmith	Rate
A4	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band	Dedicated Friend	Michael Nesmith	Rate
A5	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band	Conversations	Michael Nesmith	Rate
B1	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band	Tengo Amor	Michael Nesmith	10.0 Rate
B2	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band	Listen To The Band	Michael Nesmith	10.0 Rate
B3	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band	Bye, Bye, Bye	Michael Nesmith	Rate
B4	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band	Lady Of The Valley	Michael Nesmith	Rate
B5	Michael Nesmith And The First National Band	Hello Lady	Michael Nesmith	Rate

Notes

Produced by Michael Nesmith.
All arrangements by The First National Band.

Michael Nesmith vocals, rhythm guitar
OJ "Red" Rhodes pedal steel guitar
John London bass
John Ware drums
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Glen D. Hardin piano

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Comments and Reviews


rocket666 26th Apr 2020		Comes with lovely full colour generic inner sleeve.



edlongus SUBS 6th Jul 2019		Probably old, OLD news by now, but the Quadraphonic 8-Track tape release of "Loose Salute" contains a unique full-length mix of "Silver Moon", with a longer instrumental break and a cold ending.



Phantom Gtowner 22nd Dec 2018		Review Released just four months after Magnetic South, this record was a huge improvement in many ways. The difference is that this was produced in L.A. and by Nesmith himself which seems a good move on both counts. The material is generally better and it seems tighter and slightly less "country" than the previous LP. "Silver Moon" was a minor hit but the song musically is not nearly as strong as "Joanne". He experiments for the first time with Spanish rhythms on "Tengo Amore" a true masterpiece, "Thanx For The Ride" is another stand out track to go with his cover of Patsy Cline's "I Fall To Pieces" which he almost makes his own. Nesmith's voice on the surface is not great but he can do very ambitious things with it in falsetto and this makes his singing very interesting to me. The First National Band, with the exact same lineup as "Magnetic South", sound tighter on this record and everything just seems to fall into place. Red Rhodes steel playing is very evident throughout and though it is very much Nesmith’s band, the focus is always on Rhodes. He is definitely the main player. Two songs on this LP were recorded previously with The Monkees, “Listen To The Band” and “Conversations”. The Monkees’ version of the former was better than the one here but it’s far from terrible. Maybe I’m just more used to the earlier rendition. The latter song “Conversations” closes out side one and was also recorded by The Monkees as “Carlisle Wheeling” but not released until, I think, the 1990’s. This track is one that all Nesmith fans will like with its atmosphere and wordy emotion. The other thing about his version of country rock is, and maybe I shouldn’t say this but, it didn’t have the fake hippie trappings that some other acts of this genre got bogged down with. Hell, Mike didn’t even have very long hair on the back cover photo. In short this LP was a step up and ranks with his finest work. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



TheDroid 9th Feb 2017		Added front cover, back cover and label pressed at RCA, Hollywood CA.

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