Foghat

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风格: #硬摇滚　#重金属　#布吉摇滚　#布鲁斯摇滚
地区: 欧美

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70年代初，吉他手兼主唱"Lonesome" Dave Peverett、贝司手Tony Stevens和鼓手Roger Earl离开了布鲁斯乐队SAVOY BROWN，在召集了吉他手Rod Price后，他们组成了FOGHAT。乐队成立后的第一件事情就是离开自己的家乡英格兰而迁往美国并与当时颇有名气的制作人Albert Grossman新成立的唱片公司Bearsville Records签约，并在1972年发行了乐队的首张同名专辑Foghat。

虽然乐队的成员都是英格兰人，但这张专辑的风格却属于比较朴素的美式硬摇滚，因此在美国发行后反响不错。由于乐队有意把这张专辑作成一张Album Rock专辑，因此并没有大力宣传专辑中的单曲——翻唱Willie Dixon的I Just Want to Make Love to You，因此排行榜成绩不佳也是意料之中的事情。不过，乐队并未因此而改变自己的音乐风格，他们的第二张专辑不仅保持了首张专辑的风格，甚至连名字都和第一张专辑一样叫做Foghat（这张专辑的封面对Rock And Roll作了一个最形象的解释，这张专辑最终成为了金唱片，也确立了乐队的音乐风格与地位。

随后，乐队开始进入自己职业生涯的颠峰期，他们连续发行的六张专辑——Energized（1974）、Rock and Roll Outlaws（1974）、Fool for the City（1975）、Night Shift（1976）、Foghat Live（1977）、Stone Blue（1978）都取得了金唱片以上的成绩。其中专辑Fool For The City中的单曲Slow Ride成为了乐队在排行榜成绩最好的单曲 . 它取得了排行榜的第20名。而Foghat Live则是乐队销量最大的专辑，销量超过二百万张。

FOGHAT之所以能取得成功，一方面是因为乐队始终坚持自己朴实的硬摇滚风格，因而吸引了一批铁杆支持者，另一方面也是因为在当时重金属/硬摇滚始终处在乐坛主潮流之中。但到了78年以后，Punk和Disco风潮的到来无疑给乐队巨大的打击.以前的绝大部分乐迷一下子都消失了，乐队从此一蹶不振。

此后，尽管FOGHAT依然继续坚持自己的音乐风格，但始终没有再取得成功。首先是吉他手Rod Price在1981年离队，乐队用Erik Cartwright取代了Price的位置后于83年发行了专辑Zig-Zag Walk，不过这张专辑的成绩惨不忍睹——只在排行榜末尾晃了一下就消声灭迹了，乐队也因此心灰意懒，很快就宣告解散。

在80年代末到90年代初，乐队曾经出现在几次演唱会中，不过直到1998年才又发行了专辑Road Cases，可惜的是这张专辑销量依然不佳。2000年2月7日，乐队的创始人之一Dave Peverett因癌症去世。可能FOGHAT这支老牌硬摇滚乐队也就此走完了自己的音乐道路。

Foghat specialized in a simple, hard-rocking blues-rock, releasing a series of best-selling albums in the mid-'70s. While the group never deviated from their basic boogie, they retained a large audience until 1978, selling out concerts across America and earning several gold or platinum albums. Once punk and disco came along, the band's audience dipped dramatically.

With its straight-ahead, three-chord romps, the band's sound was American in origin, yet the members were all natives of England. Guitarist/vocalist "Lonesome" Dave Peverett, bassist Tony Stevens, and drummer Roger Earl were members of the British blues band Savoy Brown, who all left the group in the early '70s. Upon their departure, they formed Foghat with guitarist Rod Price. Foghat moved to the United States, signing a record contract with Bearsville Records, a new label run by Albert Grossman. Their first album, Foghat, was released in the summer of 1972 and it became an album rock hit; a cover of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You" even made it to the lower regions of the singles charts. For their next album, the group didn't change their formula at all — in fact, they didn't even change the title of the album. Like the first record, the second was called Foghat; it was distinguished by a picture of a rock and a roll on the front cover. Foghat's second album was their first gold record, and it established them as a popular arena rock act. Their next six albums — Energized (1974), Rock and Roll Outlaws (1974), Fool for the City (1975), Night Shift (1976), Foghat Live (1977), Stone Blue (1978) — all were best-sellers and all went at least gold. "Slow Ride," taken from Fool for the City, was their biggest single, peaking at number 20. Foghat Live was their biggest album, selling over two million copies. After 1975, the band went through a series of bass players; Price left the band in 1981 and was replaced by Erik Cartwright.

In the early '80s, Foghat's commercial fortunes declined rapidly, with their last album, 1983's Zig-Zag Walk, barely making the album charts. The group broke up shortly afterward with Peverett retiring from the road. The remaining members of the band (Roger Earl, Erik Cartwright and Craig MacGregor) continued playing together as the Kneetremblers and after some line-up changes decided to revert to the Foghat name. The band toured throughout the decade and into the early 1990's. Perhaps growing tired of early retirement, Lonesome Dave formed his own version of Foghat in 1990 and hit the road. After healing their rift, the original Foghat (Peverett,Price, Stevens and Earl) reformed in 1993 and toured for years, releasing Return of the Boogie Men in 1994 and Road Cases in 1998. The original band broke apart for good with Peverett's passing due to cancer on February 7, 2000. After some time spent mourning, the band soldiered on with a new line-up (adding Charlie Huhn on vocals) and after two years of touring released Family Joules in 2002. Foghat toured for the next few years and regularly issued documents of their live act: The Official Bootleg DVD, Volume 1 in 2004 and Foghat Live II in 2007.

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