The song was produced by john hill and featured the back up band the blackberries.
Pacific gas and electric are you ready album.
A final album using the name pacific gas electric starring charlie allen was recorded by allen with studio musicians and released on the dunhill label in 1973.
Are you ready is a song written by charlie allen and john hill and performed by pacific gas electric.
First pressings of this album are on columbia s red 360 sound label.
14 on the billboard hot 100 and no.
The single was ranked no.
Pacific gas electric s second and third albums 1969 s pacific gas electric and 1970 s are you ready were their two most popular lps and are reissued together as a two cd package with historical liner notes in english on this german release on most of pacific gas electric they play soul rock with some dash and verve though the songwriting isn t up to the level of musicianship or.
93 on billboard s year end hot 100.
49 on the r b chart in 1970.
Former drummer charlie allen is frontman vocalist.
Are you ready 1970 the band was formed in los angeles in 1967 by guitarist tom marshall bassist brent block second guitarist glenn schwartz prev.
Anchored by pacific gas electric s sole hit are you ready the album of the same name actually their third lp treads a thin line between eclecticism and confusion and is actually weaker on the whole than its predecessor 1969 s pacific gas electric certainly the ominous yet inspirational gospel funk psychedelia of are you ready was the strongest track and to this day the only.
In fact this was their only charting hit.
Are you ready.
2 3 you have to sympathize with a band whose tragic history includes the theft of their name a name greater than tongue groove or nova local by a power monopoly.
Their lone top 20 record a gospelish are you ready is title track of the group s third lp cs 1017.
The song was featured on their 1970 album are you ready.
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Are you ready is definitely the best remembered song by the short lived blues rock band pacific gas electric from their third album for which it is the title track.
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