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What a good outfit they were with Trower's guitar playing and Jimmy Dewar's voice - (as good as Paul Rogers'?) and some cracking great tunes. An underrated outfit if ever there was one.

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What a good outfit they were with Trower's guitar playing and Jimmy Dewar's voice - (as good as Paul Rogers'?) and some cracking great tunes. An underrated outfit if ever there was one.

I wonder if they had had a more interesting name for the band they would have been better appreciated?



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A great album Dewar has indeed a splendid voice

Not sure about the different band name. I assume they were hoping to draw in fans re: the Procol Harum connection. Not sure whether that worked






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What a good outfit they were with Trower's guitar playing and Jimmy Dewar's voice - (as good as Paul Rogers'?) and some cracking great tunes. An underrated outfit if ever there was one.

I wonder if they had had a more interesting name for the band they would have been better appreciated?



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A great album Dewar has indeed a splendid voice

Not sure about the different band name. I assume they were hoping to draw in fans re: the Procol Harum connection. Not sure whether that worked

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I can see the connection with the personnel in the band but were they really hoping to persuade people to buy the album with that awful cover? All the effort into making the album and then some moron thinks this cover was a good idea? Potentially, a great outfit demeaned by really poor artwork.

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As with most of their albums, heavy, complex, and staying just the right side of dirty vocals.

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I can see the connection with the personnel in the band but were they really hoping to persuade people to buy the album with that awful cover? All the effort into making the album and then some moron thinks this cover was a good idea? Potentially, a great outfit demeaned by really poor artwork.

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Somebody somewhere thought the BLT pun would sell copies....






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Willow Child - Paradise and Nadir

Been stupid busy recently so have tended to go to shuffle play rather than play whole albums but this is one that I saw a recommendation for recently and played it a couple of times last week. Rather good, more psych rock than prog but enough progginess to include here. Can’t find out much about them online unusually....

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Thoughts Factory - Elements

German band’s 2nd album - another one I saw a recommendation for and enjoyed recently. Prog metal with melody.

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Haven't played this in years, remember not being very impressed with it when I first bought it, JA/JS seemed to lose their way by this stage in their career.

Strangely having not heard it for years and hearing it afresh now it sounds fairly reasonable, quite like it in fact. Interesting how you can take a record out of its time and play it with fresh ears and it can sound better than you remember - could be a new thread title in there I guess, might just start one. In its day it sounded rather dull compared to what else was around, a little bland.

Perhaps a little contentious but I never thought Grace Slick had a good voice, think it's quite weak in fact.


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As for the Starship album it is adequate. I like Slick's vocals but I wouldn't say she had a great voice.






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Jean-Luc Ponty -- Violin
Daryl Stuermer -- Guitar
Tom Fowler -- Bass
Allan Zavod -- Keyboards
Steve Smith -- Drums

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Pretty good album from Joe and his mates, not really much of a fan of JC but this is worthy of a listen.





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Slightly more palatable than the last one but still far too heavy for me. Very proggy with bewildering time changes but noisy chugging guitars and intrusive heavy drums going at a million miles an hour.

Shame, they had a lot of promise early on, but have gone in the wrong direction (for me).

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Still 23 years old!

Sounded a heck of a lot like Neil Young on the title track.