Rubicon (USA) - Rubicon (1978)

Artist : Rubicon
Country : USA
Release : Rubicon
Year : 1978
Genre : Hard Rock
File Type : mp3 192

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Rubicon was a California one-hit wonder funk rock band, whose "I'm Gonna Take Care of Everything" spent 11 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, peaking at #28.

Rubicon was formed in San Francisco by Jerry Martini, who was an original member of Sly & the Family Stone. Other members of the group included Greg Eckler (vocals, drums), Brad Gillis (guitar), Max Haskett (lead vocals, horns), Dennis Marcellino (sax, vocals), Jim Pugh (keyboards) and Jack Blades (bass). Their first album, the self-titled Rubicon, released in 1978, generated their only chart single. They released a second album in 1979, entitled America Dreams, before disbanding. Brad Gillis and Jack Blades went on to form Night Ranger, which would go on to great success in its own right.

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Rubicon (USA) - America Dreams (1979)

Artist : Rubicon
Country : USA
Release : America Dreams
Year : 1980
Genre : Hard Rock
File Type : mp3 320

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1979's "America Dreams" found Rubicon continuing their partnership with producer Richard Polodor. Musically the album wasn't a major change in direction, but this time around the sound seemed far fussier and the band sounded distinctly tired and uninspired. With the whole band contributing to song writing chores you would have expected at least a couple of successes, but it wasn't to be. Of the ten tunes, only the ballad 'Washington '73' and the mid-tempo rocker 'Eyes of Mary' made much of an impression. On the positive side, anyone who liked Jack Blades' slap bass-stylings was going to be happy with his spotlight time on this one. Whereas Blades only got a couple of spotlight moments on the first album, his bass was prominent on about half of these songs. I'm a big fan, but I'll readily admit that by the end of the album, I'd had more than my fill of slap bass. Wish I could say more about the album, but it simply wasn't very good. By the way, the sleeve and inner label track listings are all out of whack. This lays out the proper song sequence.

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