Walrus - Walrus (Japan Remastered) (1970/2008)
BAND/ARTIST: Walrus
- Title: Walrus
- Year Of Release: 1970/2008
- Label: Deram
- Genre: Art Rock, Prog Rock
- Quality: Mp3 320 / APE (image, .cue, log)
- Total Time: 44:09
- Total Size: 115/318 Mb (scans)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1. Who Can I Trust?
2. Rags and Old Iron/Blind Man/Roadside
3. Why?
4. Turning/Woman/Turning
5. Sunshine Needs Me
6. Coloured Rain/Mother's Dead Face in Memoriam/Coloured Rain (Reprise)
7. Tomorrow Never Comes
8. Never Let My Body Touch the Ground
Line-up::
Nick Gabb: Drums
Noel Greenaway: Vocals
Roger Harrison: Drums, Tambourine, Claves, Cowbell, Soloist
Steve Hawthorn: Bass, Guitar (Bass), Guitar (12 String), Monologue
Bill Hoad: Clarinet, Flute, Arranger, Flute (Alto), Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Wind, Soloist
Barry Parfitt: Organ, Piano, Keyboards, Soloist
Don Richards: Trumpet, Arranger, Celeste, Soloist
John Scates: Guitar
Roy Voce: Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Soloist
The eponymous Walrus set was originally released in 1970, on the Decca offshoot Deram.
Walrus the band formed a year earlier in London, the brainchild of main songwriter and bassist Steve Hawthorn, who’d been inspired by the commercial growth of American rock-meets- jazz counterparts Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Debut single Who Can I Trust, featuring original drummer Roger Harrison, kicks the album off: a heavy, Atomic Rooster/Edgar Broughton-like number showcasing the raspy vocals of Noel Greenaway and the understated lead guitar work of John Scates.
Adding replacement drummer Nick Gabb and keyboardist Barry Parfitt, this was followed by a segued, three-pronged attack led by an old blues gem, Rags & Old Iron, while the equally impressive Blind Man and Roadside fit in nicely.
Check out the interplay of Don Richards (trumpet), Bill Hoad (flute) and Roy Voce (tenor sax): an awesome start.
With prog on the ascendancy and this band’s masterful reworking of Traffic’s Coloured Rain, Walrus can safely be labelled as nearlymen.
The appropriately-titled Tomorrow Never Comes ended the original LP with 60s-like panache, while the obligatory bonus CD closer, Never Let My Body Touch The Ground (a subsequent flop 45) rounded off a very ’umble, very ’eavy album (by Martin C Strong from Record Collector Magazine).
Walrus the band formed a year earlier in London, the brainchild of main songwriter and bassist Steve Hawthorn, who’d been inspired by the commercial growth of American rock-meets- jazz counterparts Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Debut single Who Can I Trust, featuring original drummer Roger Harrison, kicks the album off: a heavy, Atomic Rooster/Edgar Broughton-like number showcasing the raspy vocals of Noel Greenaway and the understated lead guitar work of John Scates.
Adding replacement drummer Nick Gabb and keyboardist Barry Parfitt, this was followed by a segued, three-pronged attack led by an old blues gem, Rags & Old Iron, while the equally impressive Blind Man and Roadside fit in nicely.
Check out the interplay of Don Richards (trumpet), Bill Hoad (flute) and Roy Voce (tenor sax): an awesome start.
With prog on the ascendancy and this band’s masterful reworking of Traffic’s Coloured Rain, Walrus can safely be labelled as nearlymen.
The appropriately-titled Tomorrow Never Comes ended the original LP with 60s-like panache, while the obligatory bonus CD closer, Never Let My Body Touch The Ground (a subsequent flop 45) rounded off a very ’umble, very ’eavy album (by Martin C Strong from Record Collector Magazine).
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