Pearls Before Swine (Band)

Pearls Before Swine ( Abbr: PBS; German: pearls before swine ) was an American folk-rock band that is the psychedelic folk and psychedelic rock attributed. The band was founded in 1965 by Tom Rapp, who was the only permanent member of the group and in 1972 began a solo career.

History

With some school friends Tom Rapp founded in 1965 in Melbourne ( Florida), the band Pearls Before Swine. The name comes from the Gospel of Matthew:

"Give not that Which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, read They trample them under Their feet, and turn again and during you. "

"Do what is holy to the dogs give your pearls neither cast ye before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. "

1967 she released her first album One Nation Underground, which was surprisingly successful with up to 250,000 copies sold. The follow-up album Balaklava (1968 ) is widely regarded as the best of the bunch.

After the change of ESP-Disk to Reprise Records the next album These Things Too ( 1969), The Use of Ashes (1970 ), City of Gold ( 1971) and Beautiful Lies You Could Live In was (1971 ) less experimental.

In 1972, on Blue Thumb Records Tom Rapp's first solo album, Star Dancer, followed by Sunforest the following year. In 1976, Rapp from the music business, completed his studies and worked as a lawyer. In 1998, he again played live at the Terra floor festival in Providence (Rhode Iceland ) along with the band Shy Camp his son Dave. Published in 1999 as A Journal of the Plague Year, his first album in more than two and a half decades.

In the same year Birdman Records brought Constructive Melancholy, a PBS retrospective on the market. Water Music Records, published in 2003 under the title Jewels Were the Stars a CD box with the four albums of the years 1969-71, and a year later, the double CD The Wizard of Is with previously unreleased live and demo recordings of the band. ESP 2005 brought the double CD The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings with the first two PBS albums out. 2008 appeared on WildCat Recording Live Pearls with concert recordings from 1971.

Discography

Studio albums

  • One Nation Underground (1967, ESP-Disk )
  • Balaklava (1968, ESP-Disk )
  • These Things Too (1969, Reprise)
  • The Use of Ashes (1970, Reprise)
  • City of Gold (1971, Reprise) ( Thos. Rapp / Pearls Before Swine )
  • Beautiful Lies You Could Live In (1971, Reprise) (Tom Rapp / Pearls Before Swine )
  • Star Dancer (1972, Blue Thumb ) (Tom Rapp )
  • Sunforest (1973, Blue Thumb ) (Tom Rapp / Pearls Before Swine )
  • A Journal Of The Plague Year (1999, Vorontsov ) (Tom Rapp )

Live album

  • Live Pearls (recorded 1971, released in 2008, WildCat Recording)

Compilations

  • Constructive Melancholy (1999, Birdman ) ( CD compilation with songs from the Reprise albums 1969-72 )
  • Jewels Were The Stars (2003, Water) (4- CD box set of the four Reprise albums)
  • The Wizard of Is (2004, Water) (double CD with live and demo recordings )
  • The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings (2005, ESP-Disk and WildCat ) (the two ESP albums on one CD)

Singles

  • Morning Song / Drop Out! (1967, ESP-Disk )
  • I Saw The World / Images Of April (1968, ESP-Disk )
  • These Things Too / If You Do not Want To (1969, Reprise)
  • Suzanne / There Was a Man (1969, Reprise)
  • The Jeweller / Rocket Man (1970, Reprise)
  • Marshall / Why Should I Care? (1972, Blue Thumb )
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