Bump (CD)

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• Release Date: January 25, 2000
• Label: Gear Fab
• UPC: 645270014229
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106199192
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Bump was formed in Detroit Michigan in 1969 around the talents of George Runyan (lead vocals & bass), Paul Lupien (keyboards, backing vocals), Jerry Greenberg (drums, backing vocals and Alan Goldman (guitar). During the late 60's Bump built a solid reputation for themselves on the touring circuit and opened shows for such big names as Alice Cooper, Terry Reid and many others. In 1969 the band recorded two singles and their first album for the small Pioneer label. The original pressing of the album released in 1970, is highly sought-after and fetch outrageous amounts on the collectors market. The music of Bump is an organ-based progressive pop sound in the British style. The songs are rich with keyboards and some fine guitar/organ interplay. While the material is quite pop orientated in places, the ten-minute closing "Lifeline, Decisions, You Can't Even Think," does have its moments and would please any progressive rock fan. Bump recorded a second album but it was never released. This is the first official reissue of the Bump album and it features all of the nine songs found on the original pressing together with the both sides of one of the Pioneer singles. This version of the album has been legally licensed from Pioneer records and for the first time the songs have been taken directly from the master tapes with royalties from the sales paid to band members. The CD booklet contains a brief history of the band written by band member Paul Lupien and while the sound is a bit faded in places (no doubt due to the age of the tapes) this is another fine piece of American music lovingly resurrected by Gear Fab. ~ Keith Pettipas

Not one of the more interesting period artifacts from the Detroit rock scene of the late '60s and early '70s, Bump took after neither the thrilling proto-punkish heavy rock of state mates the MC5 and the Stooges nor the raucous blue-eyed rock & soul of the Rationals and Mitch Ryder, and there are no hints of a Motown influence. Too bad on all counts, because, instead, the band opts for a psychedelicized brand of minor-key pop/rock with progressive flourishes that wants to be eerie but just as often comes off flat and uninspired. For the most part, the songs are just not there. There are a few things on this CD reissue of Bump's only album that could be construed as quaint reminders of a bygone era, even if they ultimately only act as reminders of how much better the best first- and second- (even third-) tier bands from that period were. Nevertheless, the brief snippet "Holly Thorndike" is so adorably twee and prissy it could have come off an early Bee Gees record (but only if it were better produced, performed, and recorded), and who knows how songs such as "Daydream Song" and "Spider's Eyes" may have come off in a smoke- and incense-choked room or through the filter of a swirling acid haze. Bump tries hard to be atmospheric, to work the same ominous side of the pop spectrum as the Doors and Procol Harum, and in that respect the album means well, but it's also derivative and completely cheesy faux psych-pop -- not the real thing at all, even though it pastes on the fuzz guitar and echo and every other sordid effect it can find. More often than not, the paper-thin organ riffs sound more roller-rink than ballroom, and the melodies more merry-go-round than psychedelic, and after only a few songs, George Runyan's expressiveless voice -- and hence the album that it carries -- just turns hopelessly grating. ~ Stanton Swihart

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