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Artist: Quartz Title Of Album: Quartz Year Of Release: 1977/2006 Label: Majestic Country: UK Genre: Heavy rock Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac) Rip type: tracks+.cue Quartz is an English heavy metal band from Birmingham. They came to prominence during the initial rise of the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal), but their origins can be traced back to the mid-1970s. The band had strong ties to Black Sabbath, with one of Quartz’s prominent members in the 1970s being Geoff Nicholls (who was a member and off-stage musician with Sabbath between 1979-2004). Tony Iommi was a friend of the Quartz members from their early days playing in bands, and ended up producing their first and self-titled album Quartz in 1977, bringing in friends like Brian May and Ozzy Osbourne to give the project some further star power. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s go back and start at the beginning. Quartz dates back to 1974, when they saw the light of day under the moniker Bandy Legs. Prior to the founding of Bandy Legs, Geoff Nicholls played lead guitar for the Birmingham bands The Boll Weevils, The Seed, Johnny Neal and the Starliners, and played keyboards for World of Oz. Guitarist Mick Hopkins had played in Wages of Sin, a short-lived Birmingham band that toured as a backing band for Cat Stevens in 1970. After that band’s dissolution, he followed his Canadian bandmates Ed and Brian Pilling to Canada to form the band Fludd, but left less than a year later after they were dropped from their original record label. At that point, Hopkins went back to Birmingham and co-founded Bandy Legs, later known as Quartz, with guitarist/keyboardist Geoff Nicholls, vocalist Mike “Taffy” Taylor, bassist Derek Arnold, and drummer Malcolm Cope. Bandy Legs became a very popular live band in their wider regional circuit. Their members were already well known to their audiences through their previous bands, and as they were well connected and friends with others in the business, they often supported bands like Black Sabbath and AC/DC. On a tour with AC/DC, Sabbath’s tour manager Albert Chapman agreed to take them under his wing, further positioning them for a wider breakthrough. They were signed to Jet Records in 1976, and only changed their name to Quartz in time for the release of their 1977 debut album, Quartz. Most of the band had been close friends with the guys in Sabbath since the sixties, growing up in the same area. Tony Iommi knew them well as early as the 1960s, and they had stayed connected through their recent bouts of supporting Sabbath on tour. In fact, Iommi insisted on producing their album, as he’d become a huge Quartz fan, which the guys were thrilled about. In an interview with MetalMouth in 2012, guitarist Mick Hopkins said “[Working with Iommi] was great fun, we learned a lot from him.” Geoff Nicholls, who would soon end up working longer with Iommi than just about anyone, added “Working with Tony on our first album was an eye opener as he showed us a lot of technical stuff which helped us with future things we did.” There were some surprises as well. Malcolm Cope (drums) still sounded shellshocked when he said during the 2012 interview “I couldn’t believe it when he added flute to the track Sugar Rain.” One song from these album sessions would turn out to provide some inspiration for a later Black Sabbath song. Mainline Riders had a droning, atmospheric build with a steady bass line. When Geoff Nicholls was called in to help out the band during the early sessions for Heaven & Hell in 1979, he found himself playing bass and went back to the Mainline Riders riff. It quickly built from there, turning into the framework for the Heaven And Hell song. “They already had Children of the Sea [when I arrived],” said Nicholls of those Sabbath sessions. “Geezer wasn’t there by that point so I had to play bass at first to start getting the songs worked up. The very first song we did was Heaven And Hell – not bad for a first go, eh? Tony had a riff which he put over my bass line. I had used a very similar chugging bass line in Quartz for the track Mainline Riders so I just did that. I was just messing about with this bass riff and suddenly everything started to build up from there. It was very, very simple but it really worked.” Iommi was (and is) a close friend of Queen’s Brian May, so he invited him to the Quartz sessions. He ended up making a guest appearance on the track Circles. May was keen to do his Queen-style layered guitar editing on the track, so the band left it to him and Iommi to get it done. “We left him in the studio,” Malcolm Cope told MetalMouth, “and returned a few hours later from the pub to find piles of recording tape on the studio floor.” The layered approach wasn’t as natural a fit as May first thought, and in the end he gave up, agreeing that it sounded better as Quartz was already playing it. At one point, the song also featured Ozzy Osbourne on backing vocals, but his contribution was cut from the final mix by Iommi. “As I remember,” Mick Hopkins said, “I don’t think Tony really wanted Ozzy on the track.” In any case, the song did not make it onto the final track selection. “I think Tony thought the song was a bit too commercial for the album,” Geoff Nicholls shrugged. Dropping the song wasn’t a big bone of contention within the band. Mick Hopkins said, “We had used Circles as a b-side when we were still Bandylegs, so it hadn’t occurred to us to use it on the album.” The track seemed destined to forever remain a b-side, as Quartz used it as a b-side again on the Stoking Up the Fires of Hell single. It finally got an album inclusion as a bonus track when their second album Stand Up & Fight (1980) was reissued on CD in 2004 by Majestic Rock. Tracks 1. Mainline Riders 3:32 2. Sugar Rain 4:44 3. Street Fighting Lady 4:48 4. Hustler 4:50 5. Devil's Brew 3:50 6. Smokie 1:08 7. Around And Around 5:00 8. Pleasure Seekers 3:50 9. Little Old Lady 4:34 Personnel: Mike Taylor - Vocals Mick Hopkins - Guitar Geoff Nicholls - Guitar Derek Arnold - Bass Malcolm Cope - Drums

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