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A particularly interesting CD with a very homemade feel to it entitled "Art Wood's Quiet Melon Two"

A rare prototype for "Art Wood's Quiet Melon Moneydue" produced by Ronnie Wood's Rockyarch Ltd in 1998 Disc is recorded on a Mitsui Gold Archival CD 74 min. with an inkjet printed paper label. Front and back covers are printed on Kodak Inkjet photo paper. Front cover is almost identical with the 1995 Single CD except for the added word "two".

Back cover features five poorly placed and stretched photos of Art, Ron, Mick, etc. and the tracklist which is almost identical with the one on "Moneydue" compilation released same year under Rockyarch license.

When I say almost identical tracklist I mean because of some typos - "Diamond Joe" is written "Diamons Joe" and "Am I Blue" is "I am blue".

Tracklist:

1. Knee deep in nephews

2. My resistance is low

3. Driftin'

4. Lady Moon

5. Soup in a basket

6. Meet me in the bottom

7. Hard time blues

8. Turn it around

9. Gee baby

10. Never judge a man

11. Diamons Joe

12. Engine 4444

13. I am blue – Ted Wood

Art Wood's Quiet Melon Band Members: Vocals- Rod Stewart

Guitar/vocals- Art Wood

Bass- Ronnie Lane/Kim Gardner

Drums- Kenney Jones

Guitar- Ronnie Wood

Keyboards- Ian McLagan

Arthur "Art" Wood (July 7, 1937 – November 3, 2006) was a British blues, pop and rock singer, who led The Artwoods in the 1960s and subsequently became a graphic artist. He was the brother of Ronnie Wood of The Birds, The Jeff Beck Group, Faces and The Rolling Stones.

By 1962, Art Wood was one of several singers regularly featured with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, which also included Charlie Watts and Cyril Davies. However, as that group firmed up its line-up with Long John Baldry as the main lead singer, Wood formed his own group, which he now called The Artwoods. The group included organist Jon Lord (who would go on to join Deep Purple) and drummer Keef Hartley.

The Artwoods failed to make a major commercial breakthrough, and split up in 1967.

In May of 1969 Wood formed the short-lived group Quiet Melon, with his brother Ronnie Wood, Rod Stewart, Kim Gardner and the remaining members of the Small Faces: Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and Ian McLagan (without Steve Marriott, as he had left Small Faces in early in the year.

Art Wood and his brother Ted had an important influence on the career of Ronnie Wood, the youngest Wood brother, who was also in a mod group, the Birds, and went on to join the Creation, the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces, and has been a Rolling Stones guitarist since 1975.

Faces evolved from a short-lived group called Quiet Melon which Art Wood formed in May of 1969. "Ron and the members of the Small Faces were between jobs at the time and completely skint," he recalled.

"I had some studio time so we rounded up Rod Stewart, Kenny Jones, Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane and Kim Gardner and recorded the songs "Engine 4444" and "Diamond Joe". We played a few Quiet Melon gigs afterwards. But then Rod and Ronnie blew me off, the little bastards, and went on to become hugely famous as the Faces. Oh well."

Quiet Melon recorded four songs (we have found 2 of them): "Diamond Joe", "Engine 4444", "Right Around The Thumb" and "Two Steps To Mother".

​The tapes were delivered to Fontana Records, who said the tracks weren't good enough and cancelled Art's contract. The group then got a promoter called Rufus Manning to try and get them a deal but nobody wanted to know. The group played quite a few gigs but the project soon folded and Art semi-retired from the music business to become a Graphic Designer.

At some point, Ronnie Lane was replaced by Kim Gardner who had been in the Birds and the Creation with Ronnie Wood. Gardner went on to another band and the remaining members - Ronnie Wood, Rod Stewart,  Kenney Jones ,Ian McLagan then reunited with Ronnie Lane and carried on to become the rock supergroup Faces.

Wood joined his other brother Ted in setting up a graphic design business and continued to perform on a semi-professional basis with the Downliners Sect, the Carlo Little All-Stars, and reunited versions of the Artwoods, with occasional guest appearances by his brother Ronnie.

Arthur "Art" Wood passed away in London November 3, 2006, age 69.
  • Condition: Very Good
  • Artist: Art Wood's Quiet Melon
  • Type: Album
  • Format: CD
  • Record Label: Rockyarch
  • Release Year: 1998
  • Language: English
  • Release Title: Art Wood's Quiet Melon Two
  • Genre: Pop, Rock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Edition: First Edition, Limited Edition, Promo, Rarities Edition

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