Michael's brother Mark (born 28 March 1963) joined the band in 1978, followed by Kipp's brother Pat (born 9 November 1951) in 1980.
Kipp and Pat are two of eleven siblings, and are younger brothers of the Lennon Sisters. Michael and Mark are two of thirteen siblings.
In hun vaderland zijn ze totaal onbekend, maar de in Benelux loopt men met de band weg.
De Amerikaanse close harmony groep Venice, uit het gelijknamige dorpje in Californië, brak hier eind jaren negentig door na een geslaagde Twee Meter Sessie bij Jan Douwe Kroeske.
In een intieme setting komt de meerstemmige muziek van de zongebruinde broertjes Lennon (Pat, Kipp, Michael en Mark) dan ook het best tot zijn recht. Venice baseert zich op de akoestische westcoastmuziek van de jaren zeventig van The Eagles, Jackson Browne en vooral Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Dat schaamteloze teruggrijpen op oude muziek wordt in Amerika als een minpunt gezien maar in Nederland zijn we wat minder streng in de leer. De eerste single Everybody's Opium is, in de week dat deze cd verschijnt, weer in hoge rotatie te horen op Radio 2.
Ook de veertien andere liedjes op het derde album Pacific Standard Time vallen op door muzikaal vakmanschap en vlekkeloze samenzang. Conclusie: voor originaliteit een zes min maar voor kwaliteit een dikke acht.
Dit is van de meest afwisselende Venice cd imo. Indiase invloeden op Everybody's Opium in de vorm van een sitar in het begin van het nummer. Zuid-amerikaanse geluiden op Right Where We Left Off, het Eagles- achtige Back To The Well en het vrolijke Pebble In A Pond.
Twee nummers wil ik nog even speciaal noemen Two Places In One Time en All Or Nothing At All. Beide tekstueel en melodieus zo ontzettend mooi.
Track listing
1. I'll Keep My Fingers Crossed - 4:24
2. Cotton Candy - 4:13
3. Alive Again - 3:37
4. Everybody's Opium - 4:14
5. Back To The Well - 6:15
6. You And Me Doing Nothing - 4:22
7. When Your Ship Comes In - 4:22
8. Right Where We Left Off - 4:15
9. Two Places At One Time - 3:46
10. Blue Ocean Park Waltz - 3:53
11. Don't Worry Worry - 4:03
12. All Or Nothing At All - 3:23
13. Fifteen Presents - 4:38
14. Pebble In A Pond (Karma's Rewarded) - 3:01
15. Happiness Is The Best Revenge - 3:41
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Flow Records (3)
- Copyright © – Flow Records (3)
- Recorded At – Lennon Music Studios
- Recorded At – Michael's Livingroom
- Recorded At – Woodland Ranch Studios
- Mastered At – Precision Mastering
- Mixed At – Lennon Music Studios
- Glass Mastered At – Sony DADC – A0100571373-0101
Credits
- Acoustic Guitar – Pat Lennon (tracks: 10)
- Arranged By [Horn] – Michael Lennon (tracks: 15)
- Art Direction, Artwork – Dustin Stanton
- Banjo – Michael Lennon (tracks: 3, 14)
- Baritone Vocals – Michael Lennon (tracks: 11)
- Bass – Mark Harris (2) (tracks: 7), Michael Lennon (tracks: 1 to 6, 8, 11, 13, 15)
- Bass [Fretless] – Mark Harris (2) (tracks: 5, 10)
- Bass [Upright] – Mark Harris (2) (tracks: 14)
- Congas – Rich Mangicaro (tracks: 1)
- Drum Programming – Mark Harris (2) (tracks: 7)
- Drums – Matt Laug (tracks: 1 to 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15)
- Engineer [Additional], Mixed By – Rob Jacobs
- Fiddle – Charles Bisharat (tracks: 14)
- Guitar – Michael Lennon (tracks: 1 to 9, 11 to 15)
- Harmonica – Michael Lennon (tracks: 3)
- Horns – Roy Weigand (tracks: 15)
- Keyboards – Chris Horvath (tracks: 5), Michael Lennon (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6 to 8, 11 to 13, 15)
- Keyboards [Additional & Solo] – Chris Horvath (tracks: 2, 7)
- Keyboards [Additional] – Chris Horvath (tracks: 9), Nick Bult (tracks: 8, 13)
- Lead Vocals – Kipp Lennon (tracks: 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 14, 15), Mark Lennon (tracks: 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13), Michael Lennon (tracks: 3, 12), Pat Lennon (tracks: 10)
- Management – Martijn Swier
- Mandolin – Michael Lennon (tracks: 5, 6)
- Mastered By – Ron Boustead
- Percussion – Dann Gillen (tracks: 5, 8), Kipp Lennon (tracks: 6), Michael Lennon (tracks: 6, 8, 15), Rich Mangicaro (tracks: 7, 10)
- Photography By [Additional], Art Direction – Venice
- Photography By [Cover] – Rob Shanahan
- Piano – Michael Lennon (tracks: 2, 10), Nick Bult (tracks: 6, 14)
- Producer, Engineer, Mixed By, Guitar – Michael Lennon
- Resonator Guitar [Dobro Solo] – Michael Lennon (tracks: 12)
- Sitar – Michael Lennon (tracks: 4)
- Slide Guitar – Michael Lennon (tracks: 15), Pat Lennon (tracks: 15)
- Slide Guitar [Solo] – Michael Lennon (tracks: 11)
- Spoons, Body Percussion [Hambone] – Dann Gillen (tracks: 14)
- Trumpet [Solo] – Roy Weigand (tracks: 13)
- Violin – Charles Bisharat (tracks: 5)
Notes
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Genre: Folk
Styles: Pop/Rock
Duration: 1:02:07
Label - Flow Records
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