Granicus

Acquiring their name from your river where Alexander the fantastic accomplished his first important victory on the Persians, Cleveland Ohio’s Granicus possess far exceeded their ridiculously short lifespan as an operating band to get enduring and ever-growing prefer among serious collectors of obscure ‘70’s hard rock and roll. Formed in the beginning of the 10 years by vocalist Woody Leffel (also acoustic guitars), business lead and tempo guitarists Wayne Anderson and Al Pinelli, respectively, bassist Dale Bedford and drummer Joe Battaglia, Granicus honed their initial materials in Cleveland region clubs before putting your signature on to RCA Information in 1973. Boasting a remarkably mature caliber of songwriting, their eponymous debut recording from the same 12 months provided a spirited synthesis of past due-‘60’s hard rock and roll affects — Cream, Jimi Hendrix Encounter, Blue Cheer, etc. — and early-‘70’s giants-in-the-making like Deep Crimson and Led Zeppelin — particularly if it found Leffel’s high-pitched, Robert Plant-like assault. But also for all its obvious merits, the LP fulfilled with small to no industrial success upon launch, and, after becoming fallen by RCA, Granicus’s dwindling profession prospects eventually added with their break-up sometime later on. For almost all their natural talent, none from the music group users resurfaced in additional groups — conserve for drummer Battaglia who was simply briefly connected with a fresh York-based music group called Pandora a couple of years afterwards.