The Mark Four / The Creation (2) – The Mark Four / The Creation

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Label: Eva (8) – 12005, Eva (8) – EVA 12005
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release, Mono
Country: France
Released: 1983

Genre: Rock
Style: Beat, Rhythm & Blues, Mod

01 The Creation (2)– Biff Bang Pow
02 The Mark Four– Rock Around The Clock
03 The Mark Four– Try It Baby
04 The Mark Four– Hurt Me If You Will
05 The Mark Four– Work All Day (Sleep All Night)
06 The Mark Five– Tango
07 The Creation (2)– Nightmares
08 The Creation (2)– Like A Rolling Stone
09 The Mark Four– Slow Down
10 The Mark Four– Crazy Country Hop
11 The Mark Four– I'm Leaving
12 The Mark Four– Going Down Fast
13 The Mark Five– Baby What's Wrong5
14 The Creation (2)– Sylvette


   Printed By – Carto Print
   Distributed By – FGL

Housed in a fully laminated jacket with pinched spine.
Tracks A6 and B6 are taken from a 45 by the completely unrelated Scottish band The Mark Five.
All runout details are hand etched.

[Rear jacket:]
France Distribution F.G.L. 15, rue de 'Amiral Roussin, 75015 Paris.
[Carto Print logo] Made in France

   Rights Society: SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL
   Price Code: EV 102
   Matrix / Runout (Runout side A): EVA 12005 A
   Matrix / Runout (Runout side B): EVA 12005 B

The Creation are an English rock band, formed in 1966. Their best-known songs are "Making Time", which was one of the first rock songs to feature a guitar played with a bow, and "Painter Man", which made the top 40 on the UK Singles Chart in late 1966,[1] and reached No. 8 on the German chart in April 1967. It was covered by Boney M in 1979, and reached the No. 10 position on the UK chart.[2] "Making Time" was used in the film Rushmore, and as the theme song from season 2 onwards of The Great Pottery Throw Down.[3]

Creation biographer Sean Egan defined their style as "a unique hybrid of pop, rock, psychedelia and the avant garde."[4]
Career
Pre-history: The Mark Four (1963–1966)

Most of the members of what would eventually become Creation were initially members of The Mark Four, a British beat group based in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.[5] By late 1963 The Mark Four was a quintet consisting of Kenny Pickett (vocals), Eddie Phillips (guitars), Mick "Spud" Thompson (rhythm guitars), John Dalton (bass), and Jack Jones (drums).[5] This lineup played regularly in the UK and in Germany before issuing two non-charting singles for Philips’ Mercury Records, "Rock Around The Clock" and "Try It Baby" in 1964.

Dalton then left the band. He later joined The Kinks as a replacement for Pete Quaife before being replaced by new bassist Tony Cooke. Around the same time, Thompson left the band and was not replaced. This Mark Four lineup issued two further non-charting singles: "Hurt Me If You Will" (Decca, August 1965) and "Work All Day (Sleep All Night)" (Fontana, February 1966).

In April 1966, the group signed a management deal with Tony Stratton Smith. He promptly suggested replacing Cooke with new bassist Bob Garner (previously of the Tony Sheridan Band),[5] and a name change. The band took him up on both suggestions: it was Pickett who came up with the name The Creation, based on a reference he found in a book of Russian poetry.[citation needed]
Initial success (1966)

The band's style, produced by Shel Talmy, was, at this point, loud art pop, similar to early records by The Who.[5] Their first single, "Making Time", was a Pickett/Phillips original featuring Phillips playing his electric guitar with a violin bow. (He was reputedly the first guitarist to use this technique.) Released in June 1966 on Talmy's own label, Planet (distributed in the UK by Philips and in the US by Jay-Gee), it reached No. 49 on the UK chart.[1] Almost immediately thereafter, The Creation suffered another lineup change when Jack Jones was fired and replaced by new drummer Dave Preston. However, the band was unsatisfied with Preston's live work,[citation needed] and in less than three weeks Jones was asked back and rejoined the group.

Their next single, October 1966's "Painter Man", became their biggest hit, reaching No. 36 UK[1] and the top 10 in Germany. The Creation took their pop art experimentation slightly further when, during live performances of "Painter Man," Pickett would spray-paint a canvas during their concerts before a member of the road crew would set fire to the artwork on stage.[6]
The Bob Garner era (1967)

"Painter Man" was the last single issued by the original lineup, and their last single to chart in the UK.[1] In early 1967, the band brought in Kim Gardner as their new bassist, and former bassist Bob Garner moved into the lead vocal slot in February 1967, leaving Kenny Pickett out of the group,[5] at least for the time being.

This lineup issued its first single in June 1967 ("If I Stay Too Long" b/w "Nightmares"). Unsuccessful in the UK, the song did well in Germany, as did a German-only follow-up single ("Tom Tom"). Their commercial momentum in Germany was strong enough for a Creation album called We Are Paintermen to be issued in mid 1967 for the German and continental European market, compiled from previously issued singles and several newly recorded songs. By this time, the band's sound had developed into a more typically mid-1960s psychedelic rock sound, which has been retroactively described as freakbeat.[citation needed]

Also during late 1966 and 1967, four Creation singles were issued in the United States, without commercial success: "Making Time" b/w "Try And Stop Me" and "Painter Man" b/w "Biff Bang Pow" on US Planet (distributed by Jay-Gee/Jubilee), and "If I Stay Too Long" b/w "Nightmares" and "How Does It Feel To Feel" b/w "Life Is Just Beginning" on US Decca. The band remained popular in Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

The single "Life Is Just Beginning" was released in the UK towards the end of 1967, but almost immediately afterwards guitarist Eddie Phillps announced his departure. He was replaced for several European tour dates by guitarist Tony Ollard, but within a matter of weeks, vocalist Bob Garner also quit the group and by February 1968, The Creation had officially ceased to exist.[5]
Pickett returns, band breaks up (1968)

However, demand was still strong in continental Europe for Creation records and live shows, and almost immediately after the band had disbanded drummer Jack Jones formed a new Creation lineup, bringing back Kenny Pickett as singer. Kim Gardner returned as bass player (after a stint in Santa Barbara Machine Head) and brought in his old bandmate from The Birds, Ronnie Wood on guitar.[5]

This lineup debuted with the single "Midway Down", released in the UK and Germany in April 1968. However this Creation lineup splintered almost immediately, and by June, the band was no more.[5] Two posthumous follow-up singles—"Bony Moronie" and "For All That I Am"—were German-only releases, appearing later in 1968.

Despite their early demise and lack of hits, The Creation posthumously became highly influential, acknowledged as an inspiration by Paul Weller, Ride, Pete Townshend, The Sex Pistols and others. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin imitated Phillips’ use of the violin bow, while Alan McGee named his massively successful record label Creation after them, and his band Biff Bang Pow! was named after the Creation song "Biff, Bang, Pow". Egan asserted, “only the Velvet Underground spring to mind as a band who profoundly affected fellow artists while remaining a secret from the wider public.” [4]
Post-Creation careers..and now it's time to testimonial….the MC5!!!