MP3 Gary Tanin/Anthology I (1967-1971) - ROCK: 60´s Rock

Melancholy Folk with gentle Piano backing. Ballad, Optimistic, Raw, Wistful, Sentimental

13 MP3 Songs
ROCK: 60's Rock, POP: Beatles-pop



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The stuff songs are made of...

The early '70's was a period of strategic withdrawal for many rock musicians. Some were disillusioned by the changing direction of the music, others by collisions with reality.

Tanin's withdrawal meant he went to the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and began to perfect his songwriting. His first album, "Love Changes All," was recorded (released) in 1972.

A collection of piano tunes, "Love Changes All" was produced by Tanin with the help of no other musicians. That solo quality and, perhaps, the bleak black-and-white cover photo, created an undercurrent of tension in Tanin's quietly hopeful songs.

"I decided that if I couldn't find musicians I could work with," he told me, "I'd do it alone. At first I was going to send the tape around as a demo, but found out that at the time it was no more expensive to press records than it was to reproduce tapes."

Tanin played in some bar bands but "wasn't up to going on the road." The recording studio was magic to him, not Thursday night gigs in Green Bay.

Dave Luhrssen
The Milwaukee Journal
May 07, 1982