Doin' It!!!!, by The Equatics

Doin' It!!!!

by The Equatics

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Lost dark soul/funk masterpiece from Hampton, Virginia high school champions of Pepsi’s “New Sounds Of 1972” challenge. The stories of great high school funk bands are, thanks to an abundance of reissues, commonplace. The tales of great high school soul-bands are still rare. Enter the Equatics and this brooding masterpiece.

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1.	What They Doin'? 03:26	buy track
2.	Walk On By 03:57	buy track
3.	Merry Go Round 02:43	buy track
4.	Santana (Part I) 03:01	buy track
5.	The Touch Of You 03:36	buy track
6.	Santana (Part II) 02:59	buy track
7.	Ain't No Sunshine 03:33	buy track
8.	Cisco Fare 03:53	buy track

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The stories of great high school funk bands, once the realm of the deepest-pocketed record collecting obsessives, are, thanks to an abundance of reissues, commonplace. Columbus, Ohio’s Fabulous Originals’ “It Ain’t Fair, But It’s Fun” is one of Deep Funk’s standing classics; newly discovered recordings have further entrenched the band’s stellar reputation. The Detroit Sex Machines’ four sides, recorded under their father’s watchful eye as the then-teenage Dudley brothers attended Detroit’s Southeastern High School are of JBs quality. And the late Conrad O. Johnson’s inimitable Kashmere Stage Band, the subject of the Texas Thundersoul anthology on this label, offered, in this fan’s opinion, some of the best ensemble funk music recorded by any band, professional or otherwise, then or now.

The tales of great high school soul-bands are still rare. A ballad or two on the random Douglass High School Stage Band album or Timeless Legend’s mesmerizing entry on Columbus’s 1972 1st Annual Inner City Talent Expo notwithstanding, high school bands rarely struck into the realm of “grown folks” music. Enter The Equatics and their brooding masterpiece Doin’ It!!!!

If this is categorized as a “funk” album – and it was for the last ten years, by those few lucky enough to own an original copy – it holds its own. The band’s stage-band styled “Cisco-Fare” and “Santana” instrumentals are competent exercises in uptempo funk. But it was as a soul band - one as inspired by the melancholic musings of Bill Withers as the psychedelic-pop of the self-proclaimed “Black Moses,” Issac Hayes – that the Equatics shone. These young souls offered world-weary, beat-heavy ballads that stand on par with any of the great independent organizations of the early 1970s. That a group of teenagers could offer such an angst-ridden plea as that of Leo Davis’s “Merry Go Round” not only transcends the limitations that came from the band’s average age (seventeen, at the time of the album’s recording), but also the barriers the stood in front of this group of small-city hopefuls.

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released December 16, 2009

Original session produced by Benjamin Crawford and Frank Johnson.
Recorded at Alpha Audio, Richmond, VA. Circa 1972.
Originally issued as RI 3580 (A/B) 1972.
This reissue produced, annotated and researched by: Egon
Additional coordination by Jeff Dynamite and Leon Michels, with thanks to Phillipe Lehman.
Liner notes by: Egon.
Restoration and remastering by Paul Gold.
Art Direction by Trevor Karma Gendron.

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