"Focus Plays Focus" (1970) and "In And Out Of Focus" (1971 Reissue) by FOCUS (Japan-Only SHM-CD Reissue On Victor with Mini LP Repro Artwork with 2001 Red Bus Remaster) - A Review by Mark Barry...

This Review Along With More Than 480 Others Is Available In My

SOUNDS GOOD E-Book on all Amazon sites

CLASSIC 1970s ROCK On CD - Exception Remasters  

Just Click Below To Purchase for £3.95

Thousands and thousands of E-Pages

All Details and In-Depth Reviews From Discs Themselves

(No Cut and Paste Crap) 

"...House Of The King..."

Mid 1970 and Dutch Prog-Rockers FOCUS saw their debut album "Focus Plays Focus" released in their native Netherlands on Imperial Records 5C 054-24192 with a seven-track line-up as follows...

Side 1:

1. Focus

2. Why Dream

3. Happy Nightmare

4. Anonymous

Side 2:

1. Black Beauty

2. Sugar Island

3. Focus

They had also released "House Of The King" as a stand-alone 7" single in many European countries in 1970 (Belgium, Spain etc) on Imperial Records too (a non-album A-side at that time). But when it came to re-launching the album in both the UK and the USA in early 1971 - Polydor decided to call it "In And Out Of Focus" - gave it a different gatefold sleeve (the dotted blue one) and added on "House Of The King" as Track 8 in a rejiggered playing order. That eight-track version ran as follows:

Side 1:

1. Focus (Vocal)

2. Black Beauty

3. Sugar Island

4. Anonymous

5. House Of The King

Side 2:

1. Happy Nightmare (Mescaline) [Side 2]

2. Why Dream

3. Focus - Instrumental

This now rare and deleted Japanese SHM-CD reissue from 2009 (using the Red Bus 2001 Remaster) concentrates on that 2nd version - January 1971 in the UK on Polydor 2344 003 and Sire SAS 7404 in the USA. As if to compound the confusion - Britain also had a 'picture of the band' single sleeve sometime in 1971 with the Polydor 2344 003 catalogue number and the USA also had a Sire SAS 7404 with more different artwork.

This Japanese-only 25 February 2009 reissue of "In And Out Of Focus" by FOCUS on Victor VICP-70049 (Barcode 4988002565375) is a SHM-CD (Super High Materials) with a silver Obi housed on the spine of its Mini LP Repro Artwork - the US hard card gatefold. It even repro's the black inner 'Focus' bag that came with original vinyl LPs (total playing time 36:01 minutes). SHM-CDs don’t require a special CD player – they’ll play on all machines. They were developed as a better form of CD and are almost entirely exclusive to Japanese releases – especially reissues – where the new format’s retrieval rates are higher and therefore offer the best sound. Red Bus did the Remaster in 2001 and that's been used for this reissue – and man does it sound good. Nice balance - power when it's needed - a tasty job done...

FOCUS consisted of:

THISJ VAN LEER – Vocals, Keyboards and Flute

JAN AKKERMAN – Guitars

MARTIJN (Martin) DRESDEN - Bass

HANS CLEUVER – Drums

Proceedings kick into gear with "Focus (Vocal)" which runs to 2:44 minutes – opening the album in a mellow Prog mood. It’s a gentle song where the foreign language vocals and keyboard/guitar licks feel almost like a mini hymn. "Black Beauty" introduces their Barclay James Harvest kind of Pop-Rock and I can't say that it's my fave-rave on here. The three-minute hangover from the 60ts bop of "Sugar Island" feels the same - like the band is looking for a hit when they should have been going with their Inner Prog instinct to wig out (nice guitar though from Akkerman and that Tull-like Thijs Van Leer flute solo reminds you of moments from "Stand Up" and "Benefit").

But then things improve immeasurably when the band goes all madrigal at the beginning of the superb "Anonymous" – a near seven-minute instrumental that suddenly feels like 'Focus'. "Anonymous" is a lengthy Prog concoction that's complicated yet still melodic and genuinely impressive after all these decades. The 1970 instrumental "House Of The King" is a winner - a genius 45 that was bound to get the group noticed - even if it does feel just a tad like a Jethro Tull copy in style and composition. But like "Anonymous" - "House Of The King" has that distinctive 'Focus' feel and sound (love that guitar and piano break too).

Side 2 offers us the druggy 'Mescaline' song as our Thijs sings of a sweet life and big pearls in the jaunty "Happy Nightmare". It's an awkwardly upbeat tune for a miserable subject matter with a cleverly placed Mellotron counter-melody to the guitars. Speaking of which - again you notice the sheer virtuosity of Jan Akkerman's axe playing in "Happy Nightmare" – so soulful even in those jazzy passages. It finishes with the nine-minute 'Instrumental' version of "Focus" - another firm fan fave - and with good reason as it feels like the accomplished brilliance of "Moving Waves" and "Focus III" to come.

Their rejiggered debut isn't a masterpiece by any stretch of anyone's imagination - but there's more than enough on here to make it a worthwhile first stop - even for a novice. And with that legendary Japanese presentation quality and added oomph to the Audio - "In And Out Of Focus" is recommended...

-->

"Rides Again" by JAMES GANG [featuring JOE WALSH] (2009 Japan-Only Geffen/Universal SHM CD Repro Reissue) - A Review by Mark Barry...

This Review Along With 100s Of Others Is Available in my

SOUNDS GOOD E-Book on all Amazon sites

CLASSIC 1970s ROCK On CD - Exception Remasters  

Just Click Below To Purchase for £3.95

Thousands of E-Pages - All Details and In-Depth Reviews From Discs 
(No Cut and Paste Crap)

"…Ashes, The Rain And I…"

Dull as dishwater cover artwork or not - I've loved this frigging album for over 40 years now - and this gorgeous Japanese reissue has only brought that passion to a boil yet again. I wouldn't mind if it was anything new (it isn't). It's simply the remaster done by TED JENSEN in the States in 2000 slapped onto a new format and buffed up with repro artwork and an audiophile price tag - but I can't help myself. This dinky looking SHM-CD sits on my bulging shelf at home (I'm glad something's bulging in this house) along with the other Joe Walsh solo albums that followed his departure from THE JAMES GANG (also on SHM-CD). And I love them all to bits. I've always thought The James Gang were a bit special and I wouldn't be alone in this. Here are the bomber Medleys, Asshton Park Women and the Funk that numbers 49...

Released 22 April 2009 in Japan-Only on a SHM-CD in 5” Mini LP Repro Artwork -"Rides Again" by JAMES GANG on Geffen/Universal UICY-94059 (Barcode 4988005555083) breaks down as follows (35:13 minutes):

1. Funk No. 49

2. Asshtonpark

3. Woman

4. The Bomber (a) Closet Queen (b) Bolero (c) Cast Your Fate To The Wind

5. Tend My Garden [Side 2]

6. Garden Gate

7. There I Go Again

8. Thanks

9. Ashes, The Rain And I

Tracks 1 to 9 are the album "Rides Again" - released July 1970 in the USA on ABC Records S-711 and October 1970 in the UK on Probe Records SPBA 6253. Both countries sported a gatefold sleeve - this 5" repro artwork facsimiles the first pressing of the American vinyl LP with the colour painting of the band on the inner gatefold (and the "Bolero" credit in "The Bomber"). There's a 20-page booklet that has lyrics, some text in Japanese and little else. This is pretty much par for the course for these Japanese releases.

JAMES GANG was:

JOE WALSH - Guitars, Keyboards and Lead Vocals

DALE "BUGSLEY" PETERS - Bass and 6-String Guitar on "Ashes, Rain And I"

JIM FOX - Drums and Percussion

All tracks on the album are written by Joe Walsh except "Funk No. 49" which is a co-write between Walsh, Fox and Peters, "Closet Queen" within "The Bomber" is also a band co-write - while the final track "Ashes, The Rain And I" is a Joe Walsh/Dale Peters composition.

The SHM-CD format (Super High Materials) does not require a specific machine to play them on - they're simply a better form of disc created by JVC in 2008 to improve on the original CD format (unchanged since it was first put out 30 years ago). The general idea is that the sound on the SHM-CD is more defined and to my ears they do seem to extract more nuances from the transfer.

Original produced by BILL SZYMCZYK - the album's sound was supposed to be loud and in your face (as per the liner notes) - and it is on monsters like the stunning "Funk No. 49" and "The Bomber". But I've always found it to be so sweetly delicate too on softer tracks like "There I Go Again" (Pedal Steel played by RUSTY YOUNG of POCO) and the gorgeous "Tend My Garden". Speaking of "The Bomber" - fans will know that after initial pressings of the album the 3-part song was reduced down to 2-parts on subsequent pressings - losing the centre "Bolero" piece. So "The Bomber" went from 7:05 minutes to roughly 5:40 minutes. As this disc apes the American 2000 remaster - what you get is pressing No. 1 with the full 7:05 minute version. It's a shame someone didn't take the time to add on the 2-part edit as a bonus track - but if you want that version it's on the 1998 Repertoire 2CD set "The Best Of" on Repertoire REP 4671-WR (Barcode 4009910467121). Back to the three-part version we have - Walsh cleverly mixes in Ravel's classical "Bolero" and Vincent Guaraldi's jazz piece "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" into his own rock song so you get a seven-minute guitar pyrotechnics fest that ends Side One of the LP.

Side 2 is perfect to me - the near six-minute "Tend My Garden" segues into the two-minute bluesy acoustic ditty that is "Garden Gate" - gorgeous playing and it sounds wonderful on this CD. "Thanks" is lovely too but the album's undeniable second masterpiece is the finisher "Ashes, The Rain And I" - an acoustic song laden with fabulous string arrangements by JACK NITZSCHE. It sends me every time I hear and I've ended many's a 70's FEST CD compilation with it.

OK - you could argue that it's simpler to buy the 2000 CD for less than a fiver and be done with it - and if you want the cheaper option (still with great sound) - then that's the way to go. But as a fan - if I think I can get a few more nanoseconds of sonic greatness out of this sucker - then I'm gonna be the financial sucker and buy that dinky Japanese repro with its new-fangled format thingy. I have both versions - but I must confess that I play the SHM every time because of that extra detail and warmth.

The James Gang would enlist ace guitarists Dominic Troiano and Tommy Bolin for their next lot of LPs and start another chapter. But this - "Yer Album" and "Thirds" (all with Walsh) have always tickled my funny bone. Fantastic stuff and worth the few extra quid...

This review is part of my SOUNDS GOOD Music Book Series. One of those titles is CLASSIC 1970s ROCK - an E-Book with over 250 entries and 2100 e-Pages - purchase on Amazon and search any artist or song (click the link below). Huge amounts of info taken directly from the discs (no cut and paste crap). 

"Completely Well" by B.B. KING (December 2012 Japanese SHM-CD Remaster in 5" Gatefold Gard Repro Sleeve with Obi and Booklet) - A Review by Mark Barry...

"...Think About You All The Time..."

There's so much B.B. King product out there - it's hard at times to isolate the real goodies. "Completely Well" was his 5th album on the American Bluesway label since he'd moved to them in 1967 with "Blues Is King". Released December 1969 in the USA (June 1970 in the UK) - it’s represented here on one of those natty Japanese SHM-CD reissues in gorgeous 5" card repro artwork. A fab mixture of Blues with Funk and even Boogie (his band was mainly white Rock guys) – "Completely Well" is a great B.B. King album – and on this format – elevated up the Audio ranks even further. Here are "The Thrill Is Gone" details...

Released 19 December 2012 - "Completely Well" by B.B. KING is a Japanese SHM-CD Reissue on Geffen/Universal UICY-94841 (Barcode 4988005743954) and comes in 5” Gatefold Hard Card American Repro Artwork (52:44 minutes)

1. So Excited

2. No Good

3. You’re Losin' Me

4. What Happened

5. Confessin' The Blues

6. Key To My Kingdom [Side 2]

7. Cryin' Won’t Help You Now

8. You're Mean

9. The Thrill Is Gone

Tracks 1 to 9 are the album "Completely Well" – released December 1969 in the USA on Bluesway BLS-6037 and June 1970 in the UK on Stateside SSL 10299 (both Stereo only).

The album was produced by BILL SZYMCZYK of Eagles and Joe Walsh fame and the band consisted of B.B. King on Lead Vocals and Lead Guitar, Hugh McCracken on Rhythm Guitar, Paul Harris on Piano, Electric Piano and Organ, Gerald ‘Fingers’ Jemmott on Bass and Herbie Lovelle on Drums.

BONUS TRACK:

10. Fools Get Wise – Studio Outtake recorded June 1969 in New York with the same line-up as the album

As any collector will tell you – these Japanese Mini LP Repro Sleeves are truly gorgeous. There's an OBI strip with reissue details on it (in Japanese) around the card sleeve (the SHM-CD symbol is at the top) and it's held in a resealable plastic. When out of the plastic - you see the lovely attention to detail - even mimicking the 'gloss' texture of the Bluesway gatefold sleeve, which was also 'hard card' like LP sleeves of the time. The Inner Gatefold has Ralph J. Gleason's original liner notes with photos of BB on stage and looking cool as he lights a cigarette. The booklet is a plain white affair with the lyrics in English and the remainder in Japanese. A SHM-CD (Super High Materials) doesn't require a special CD player to play it on (compatible on all machines) - nor does it need audiophile kit to hear the benefits. It's a new form of the CD format that picks up the nuances of the transfer better (top quality make). I own about 15 of them and they're uniformly superb.

His "Live And Well" album had turned up March 1970 in the UK on Stateside SSL 10297 – only three months before the release of the studio album "Completely Well" in June 1970 on Stateside SSL10299. The British record label preceded the album with a classic single that should have garnished more chart love than it did – "The Thrill Is Gone" b/w "You're Mean (Edit)" in February 1970 on Stateside SS 2161. But it did precious little business – despite now being a tune entirely associated with B.B. King. Just before the album hit the racks in June – Stateside UK tried the jaunty Side 1 opener "So Excited" as another 45 on Stateside SS 2169 in May 1970 with "Confessin' The Blues" on the B-side – but again no takers.

You have to say that the remaster on this beauty is awesome (it doesn't say who did it). 

B.B. King has all these white Rock guys around him – and McCracken's chunky Rock guitar backs up his licks – while Paul Harris plays those cool keyboard flourishes. With great production values and his voice in top form as he growls his way through "No Good" and "You're Losin' Me" – the remaster hits you again and again – elevating the tunes to another level. The brass arrangements on the wonderfully languid "What Happened" were arranged by Bert "Super Charts" DeCoteaux and what an Audio winner it is. The sweet bass, the guitars, the drums and the piano plinking – the audio on this sucker is fabulous – all the instruments fully accounted for. It then rocks out big time with a wicked cover of Jay McShann's "Confessin' The Blues" where Hugh McCracken’s boogie guitar underlines the song with a chugging Rock sound while Paul Harris plays a big chords melodic blinder.

His cover of Maxwell Davis's "Key To My Kingdom" is good rather than being great – far better is the Funky Blues of "Cryin' Won't Help You Now" – a slinky little number with a gorgeous Bass Line (B.B. puts in some of his most convincing picking on this). But then something unexpected happens – it extends into the next track "You're Mean" which is near 10-minutes long. "You're Mean" is essentially a huge blasting extension of the funky "Cryin' Won't Help You Now" where the band comes on like Led Zeppelin letting rip on the Blues – it’s properly great stuff. B.B. shouts at the boys half way through "...that's alright..." as they improvise and boogie like Canned Heat in the company of a great Blues man. It ends on the beautiful Audio of "The Thrill Is Gone" – a bit of a minor masterpiece frankly. The Bonus Track "Fools Get Wise" turns out to be a Funky Rock tune and at 2:38 minutes – it comes in, does the business and then leaves - a great addition and worthy of the moniker 'bonus'.

These Japanese SHM-CDs are pricey for sure – some over thirty quid – some below twelve – but there's something about the sound on them – like this is how CD should have sounded in the first place when dealing with analogue recordings. I can totally understand why fans feel that their fave artists should be on this format – mastered by the perfectionist Japanese. 

Seek it out – you’ll love what you’re seeing and hearing...and thanks for all the Blues Mister King...

"Kiln House" by FLEETWOOD MAC [feat Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan] (2013 Japan-Only SHM-CD Remaster) - A Review By Mark Barry...

"...I’ll Tell You All The Things I Do..." 

There's been a version of "Kiln House" floating around on US and German CD reissue since the late Eighties (the UK CD wasn't released until February 1993). But apart from a couple of tracks on "The Chain" box set from 1992 - it's never been given the full remaster treatment it deserves - until now.

Issued in Japan only on Warner Brothers/Reprise WPCR-14580 (Barcode: 4943674121175 - 34:32 minutes) on the 4 September 2013 - it's a SHM-CD (Super High Materials) and is in a gatefold hard-card repro sleeve of the original US issue (with Christine McVie's lovely hand-painted artwork). The album was released on Reprise Records RS 6408 in mid September 1970 in the USA and early October 1970 in the UK on Reprise Records RSLP 9004.

Very disappointing - and I suspect a major slip-up on the part of the usually scrupulous Japanese - is that it's missing the gatefold 'Penguin' mini-insert that came with original UK copies (it pictures the band in various funny poses). I have one and it's now a hugely collectable item when it comes to purchasing original vinyl of this album. The LP was re-issued in the UK in mid 1971 when Kinney Music kicked in on Reprise K 44165 but without the insert - so only original copies carried it. It's a small thing - but worth mentioning. What the Japanese have done is to produce the "Distinguished Company' inner advert bag that accompanied so many albums on Reprise and Warners at the time - advertising Mail-Order 2LPs sets called "Loss Leaders". The CD itself also reproduces the original Tan Riverboat Label design - nice attention to detail. The 12-page booklet has liner notes in Japanese and does reproduce the lyrics for the first time but nothing else. No pictures, no real details. The plastic wrap on the outside has the SHM-CD sticker on it and holds the OBI strip around the side of the repro sleeve.

SHM-CD does not need a special player - it's simply a better kind of CD formatted by Universal and JVC in Japan in 2008 (in fact they're now being superseded by Platinum SHM CD which is taking audiophiles by storm). It means that the disc picks up more nuances of the transfer and owning about 10 of them - even if the master is old or the same - the sound quality is invariably better. It's in the details - the bass, the drums, the little things you didn't hear before or were buried in the mix. There is warmth in this SHM-CD disc that is closest to that of the original vinyl.

1. This Is The Rock

2. Station Man

3. Blood On The Floor

4. Hi Ho Silver

5. Jewel Eyed Judy

6. Buddy’s Song [Side 2]

7. Earl Gray

8. One Together

9. Tell Me All The Things You Do

10. Mission Bell

From the moment it opens with the cod Rock 'n' Roll vibe of "This Is The Rock" you know you're in the presence of a remaster. The hiss level is definitely up but not to a point where it would detract - if anything the bass and drums are so much better for it. Then there's the fantastic "Station Man" (issued as a 7" single in the USA at the time) and its near six minutes in length feels like eight - but in a good way. The dueling guitars are so much more powerful now and the remaster is far better than the one that's on "The Chain" box set.

It's also at this point that you notice that there are two forces competing on the album. With Peter Green departed since "Then Play On" the year before - guitarists Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer took centre stage. Spencer was on his total retro Rock 'n' Roll tip so you get the almost bizarre Fifties feel of "Blood On The Floor" and he went as far as crediting "Buddy's Song" to Ella Holley - Buddy Holly's mother. Offsetting this is Danny Kirwan rocking like a mother and for me this is where the real Fleetwood Mac of the time is - on stunners like their jumping cover of Fats Waller's "Hi Ho Silver", the beautiful "Jewel Eyed Judy" and my all-time favourite - "Tell Me All The Things You Do" - the kind of nugget Paul Weller needs to cover pronto. I've put "Tell Me..." on so many 70's Fest compilations and every time I play it - it brings a customer to the counter (lyrics from it title this review). Kirwan's fabulous instrumental "Earl Gray" is a rival for "Albatross" for me - it turned up as an acoustic outtake called "Farewell" on the superb 3CD set  "Men Of The World - The Early Years" issued by Sanctuary in the UK in 2005. "One Together" is pleasant enough while the album finisher is an ok cover of "Mission Bell" (written by Jesse Hodges and William Michael and recorded by PJ Proby in 1965) sounding again not unlike bad Buddy Holly.

The album is a mixed bag for sure and ushered in a five-album wilderness years for the band until their Buckingham/Nicks rejuvenation in 1975 - but that hasn't stopped me from loving the rocking side of "Kiln House" to bits for 4 decades and more. It doesn't state who remastered what on either the CD or the packaging but the sound is great and for me worth the extra price these discs cost.

There was indeed something about 1970, 1971 and 1972 that seemed to produce so much greatness in Rock - and this little forgotten nugget deserves its place in that pantheon.

"Jewel Eyed Judy...please come home..." Well it has...

The albums in this 4 September 2013 Japanese-only FLEETWOOD MAC SHM-CD reissue series are:

1. "Kiln House" (1970) - Warner Brothers WPCR-14580

2. "Future Games" (1971) - Warner Brothers WPCR-14581

3. "Bare Trees" (1972) - Warner Brothers WPCR-14582

4. "Penguin" (1973) - Warner Brothers WPCR-14583

5. "Mystery To Me" (1974) - Warner Brothers WPCR-14584
6. "Heroes Are Hard To Find" (1974) - Warner Brothers WPCR-14585

"Humble Pie" by HUMBLE PIE [A&M Records 1970 LP with STEVE MARRIOTT & PETER FRAMPTON] (2007, 2009, 2011 Japanese SHM-CD Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...

"…Won’t You Live With Me…"

Although I personally love their first two albums to bits (“As Safe As Yesterday” and “Town And Country” from July and December 1969 on Immediate Records) – their signing to A&M Records in 1970 saw their self-titled “Humble Pie” album released in the summer of that explosive year and their ‘rawk’ sound that we all know and love properly emerge. 

Originally released on A&M Records AMLS 986 in July 1970 (A&M Records SP 4270 in the USA) – it’s had a good CD reissue on Repertoire in 2005 in a digipak for some years now. But I’d argue that the stunning 24-bit Digital Remaster in carried in Japan in 2007 (and used since) is a whole different sonic ballgame. But in 2014 - I calculate there are now no less three Japanese release dates for this SHM-CD reissue – and I’d like to sort out what’s what.

A SHM-CD doesn't require a special CD player to play it on (compatible on all) nor does it need audiophile kit to hear the benefits. It's a new form of the format that picks up the nuances of the transfer better (top quality make). I own about 15 of them and they're uniformly superb.

“Humble Pie” first appeared 14 February 2007 in Japan on Universal/A&M UICY-93219 (Barcode 4988005459732) in a gorgeous 5” Repro Mini Album Sleeve which even aped the stippled effect of the original A&M 1970 album and its gorgeous gatefold artwork. It had its Japanese worded booklet, an outer Obi strip – but most importantly it had a new 2007 24-bit remaster. As is the habit in Japan with these ‘supposed’ limited editions – they seem to get reissued every two or three years – and that happened with this version on 29 December 2011 using the same UICY-93219 catalogue number.

But there is also a 22 April 2009 Japanese SHM-CD version on Universal/A&M UICY-94066 (Barcode 4988005555151) that also uses the 2007 remaster. If you cut and paste either of the above barcodes into Amazon’s search bar – you will get the issue you want (check them because prices can fluctuate wildly – and not in a good way).

HUMBLE PIE – like those other great British bands FREE and LED ZEPPELIN – produced the most brilliant Rock albums in 1970 and 1971 with what seemed like effortless ease - and their 3^rd LP “Humble Pie” is no different. Right from the opening seconds of the eight-minute “Live With Me” – the lonesome organ and drum rolls seem in your face – and when that great guitar kicks in – along with Marriott’s distinctive wail - the power of it is fabulous. We get all acoustic dainty with the Jerry Shirley spliff-song “Only A Roach” (guitarist with the band) – returning to proper riffage with the cocky rocker “One-Eyed Trouser Snake”. Side 1 of the 8-track LP ends with the pretty Peter Frampton “Earth And Water Song”.

Side 2 opens with a great hard-rock cover of the Willie Dixon penned Muddy Waters classic “I’m Ready” and once again Marriott just sounds so damn cool – it’s sick (“smoking TNT and Dynamite…”) Back to Pedal Steel whimsy with “Theme From Skint (See You Later Liquidator)” where Steve bemoans his lack of ‘bread’. The remaster really lifts up the instruments – tambourine and acoustic guitars especially. We’re then back to one of the album’s collective songwriting highlights – the fantastic Boogie Rock of “Red Light Momma, Red Hot”. It ends on the pretty Peter Frampton ballad “Sucking On The Sweet Vine” with rich chord changes that stay with you…

So there you have it. I also bought the next SHM-CD along in the sequence – their 4^th album “Rock On” from March 1971 with genius tunes like “Shine On” and the ‘jam tart lips’ of “79^th And Sunset”.

These Japanese SHM-CD reissues can be pricey I know – but if you’re a fan – seek them out – they’re so worth it…