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Detroit's Deep Heat (Jesse Richards, Michael Brown, Levell Siders, Lyall Hoggatt, Greg Patton) was designed first and foremost as a recording entity. Sick of the go-nowhere singles game, record producer C.W. "Ace" Jones endeavored to come up with a full-length by his freshly formed act. They rehearsed for the entirety of 1974 and encoded eight solid songs to magnetic tape, but Jones balked at the cost of issuing an LP, which dwarfed that of a 45. Preferring to dip toes in, Jones issued two Deep Heat standouts on a redesigned Cu-Wu label. The B-side, “She’s A Junkie (Who’s The Blame)” [sic], taps the socially conscious funk vein, its lyric based on an acquaintance of bassist Brown’s. But the A-side, a drastic reinterpretation of Steely Dan’s “Do It Again,” truly gilded the Cu-Wu rose, with each player vamping and soloing around the refrain (and tossing out the remaining lyrics altogether).
A self-contained band capable of storming any stage, Deep Heat wielded a set list of mostly original material, useless to most cabarets and clubs. Hoggatt remembers their biggest gig as an opening slot for Al Hudson at Ethel’s Cocktail Lounge in Ann Arbor, which speaks volumes about their live resume. Deep Heat’s membership cooled into day jobs, increased commitments, or further states of ennui, making it easy for the heat to dissipate completely by 1977.
A self-contained band capable of storming any stage, Deep Heat wielded a set list of mostly original material, useless to most cabarets and clubs. Hoggatt remembers their biggest gig as an opening slot for Al Hudson at Ethel’s Cocktail Lounge in Ann Arbor, which speaks volumes about their live resume. Deep Heat’s membership cooled into day jobs, increased commitments, or further states of ennui, making it easy for the heat to dissipate completely by 1977.
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