Dirk Steffens - The Seventh Step (1976) [Digipack 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks & cue & log) | 291 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 128 MB | Scans | 00:36:40
Genre: Hard Rock / Classic Rock | Country: Germany | Label: Second Battle | SB 030
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks & cue & log) | 291 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 128 MB | Scans | 00:36:40
Genre: Hard Rock / Classic Rock | Country: Germany | Label: Second Battle | SB 030
First solo album of ex-BIRTH CONTROL guitarist. Fantastic collection of both powerful and melodious songs with competent instrumentation.Dirk Steffens was for a short period (from 1973 to 1974) guitarist in Birth Control. In Autumn 1975 he began work on his first solo album The Seventh Step (1976), a powerful collection of hard rock songs, well performed by Steffens (guitar), Rainer Baumann (guitar on some tracks). Ian Cussick (bass, vocals, who'd also worked with Lucifer's Friend) and Rolf Kohler (drums, percussion, who previously worked with Achim Reichel). Steffens revealed himself as a technically competent guitarist.
Tracklist:
01. Just A Game 03:52
02. Light Is On 03:11
03. Save My Soul 03:14
04. What Do I See 04:37
05. Elysa 03:35
06. Things And Thoughts 03:33
07. Right On, Woman 04:36
08. Gettin It Out, All Out 04:56
09. Beggars Song 03:52
10. Lost Home Of 16 Blackbirds 01:21
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Dirk Steffens / The Seventh Step
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Track 1
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Track 9
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Track 10
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EAC extraction logfile from 31. August 2012, 23:40
Dirk Steffens / The Seventh Step
Used drive : HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H58N Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 102
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Arquivos de programas\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -A tukey(0.25) -A gauss(0.1875) -b 4096 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s –sector-align
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Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 3:51.65 | 0 | 17389
2 | 3:51.65 | 3:10.22 | 17390 | 31661
3 | 7:02.12 | 3:12.38 | 31662 | 46099
4 | 10:14.50 | 4:34.35 | 46100 | 66684
5 | 14:49.10 | 3:40.25 | 66685 | 83209
6 | 18:29.35 | 3:32.47 | 83210 | 99156
7 | 22:02.07 | 4:31.23 | 99157 | 119504
8 | 26:33.30 | 4:53.07 | 119505 | 141486
9 | 31:26.37 | 3:50.58 | 141487 | 158794
10 | 35:17.20 | 1:22.32 | 158795 | 164976
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Personnel
Ian Cussick — bass, vocals
Dirk Steffens — lead guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar
Rolf Kohler — drums, percussion, vocals
All thanks to Nelson