Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - The Last Rebel 1971 [2002]

Artist: Ashton, Gardner & Dyke
Title Of Album: The Last Rebel
Year Of Release: 1971/2002
Label (Catalog#) : Purple [PUR 309]
Country: UK
Genre: Soundtrack, Prog Rock
Quality: FLAC (image + cue, log,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 01:18:37
Total Size: 467mb(+3%)

AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger
In 1970, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke somehow ended up supplying the soundtrack music to an obscure Western starring football star Joe Namath. Also important to the soundtrack's composition and performance was Deep Purple's Jon Lord, who co-wrote the score with Tony Ashton and shared keyboard parts with Ashton as well. Like many soundtracks, it's a jumble of pieces that might have served adequately as background music to specific scenes, but doesn't sustain much interest for a record listener. The musicians tap into a wide variety of styles and moods, mostly instrumental with occasional vocals, from good-time laid-back bar band boogie and dramatic pseudo-spaghetti Western orchestrations to atonal keyboard patterns, tedious hard rock-funk, and Latin cocktail jazz with bizarre scatting. The individual tracks, though, are neither too good on their own, or too similar to each other, failing to create an inviting mood.

Tracklist
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01 The Last Rebel 2'58
02 Surrender (unedited) 3'04
03 Up The Hill 2'52
04 Hanging 3'32
05 Stage Coach Ride (unedited) 3'50
06 Me And A Friend Of Mine (Instrumental) 1'22
07 Mood Xylophone (unreleased) 2'35
08 Oh Matilda (unedited) 3'19
09 The Pool Game (unedited) 5'41
10 Hollis' Getaway (unedited) 3'22
11 Mother & Daughter 1'18
12 The Meal 1'03
13 String Quartet (unreleased) 0'39
14 Ku Klux Klan (unreleased) 1'36
15 Pit & The Knife Fight 3'01
16 You, Me And A Friend Of Mine 3'39
17 Death Whore 1'24
18 Graves To The Graveyard 3'39
19 I'm Dying For You 2'22
Alternate Versions / Unreleased Tracks:
20 You, Me And Friend Of Mine (alt instrumental version) 1'23
21 Larry's Theme (not used in film) 1'10
22 Pool Game (not used in film) 3'30
23 The Last Rebel (alt unedited take) 3'22
Outtakes / Studio Chat:
24 Hollis' Getaway (outtake) 2'58
25 Pianola Shot (unreleased) 1'25
26 I'm Dying For You (outtakes) 2'45
27 Hanging (outtake) 2'45
28 The Meal (studio chat) 1'25
29 Up The Hill (outtakes) 5'24

Personnel:
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Bass – Kim Gardner
Coordinator – Nigel Young
Drums – Roy Dyke
Keyboards – Jon Lord
Keyboards, Vocals – Tony Ashton
Orchestra – Royal Liverpool Symphony Orchestra

All thanks to original releaser