Power of Zeus

One of the most obscure hard rock and roll acts of the first ’70s, Detroit’s Power of Zeus became the initial hard rock and roll group to indication and record for Motown subsidiary Rare Globe, but theirs was hardly an effective relationship. The music group that could become Power of Zeus was created in 1968 by vocalist/guitarist Joe Periano, soon after his launch from the Sea Corps even though operating at a Chrysler herb outside Detroit. A newspapers advertisement brought him as well as bassist/vocalist Expenses Jones, drummer Bob Michalski, and, through a moneymaking part gig with an area country music group, Hammond organist Dennie Webber. Sketching the majority of their motivation from English hard rock and roll and rock titans like Cream, Dark Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin, aswell as the era’s pervasive psychedelic stereotypes, the quartet — after that going from the name of Gangrene — became the unofficial home band in the Wooden Nickel golf club, where these were ultimately spotted by an area manager. Motown quickly signed the music group on the problem they look for a fresh name, therefore both parties developed Power of Zeus soon before starting focus on 1970’s The Gospel Relating to Zeus LP. Though it failed to discover an target audience upon its launch (the blame was generally laid on Motown’s inexperience with documenting and marketing weighty rock and roll), the recording has since turn into a hard-sought collector’s piece and sampling preferred among crate-digging hip-hop suppliers. Of course, non-e of this do Power of Zeus very much good at enough time, and inner squabbles over musical path and substance abuse soon split the group. Periano shifted to briefly function for Motown, created a Luther Allison recording, and spent a couple of years carrying out live with ex-Temptation David Ruffin before retiring from the street. Sadly, Webber passed away from a medication overdose in the middle-’80s and Michalski implemented him ten years later due to a brain tumor.