Kris Needs\u2019 fabulously fact-stuffed Roots Of US Prog feature (RC <\/i>474) also served to remind how salient CBS\u2019s pioneering budget sampler concept was in breaking acts like Flock, Big Brother & The Holding Company, The Byrds and Blood, Sweat & Tears in the UK.<\/p>\n
Other labels were onto this idea like a rash, but CBS held sway from 1968 with four releases brimming with the jazz\/psych\/folk\/rock exotica redolent of most British music heads\u2019 number one destination (even if 1970\u2019s Fill Your Head With Rock <\/i>moved to establish the label in the UK by including local signings such as Trees, Argent and Steamhammer).<\/p>\n
I bought into West Coast genre-jumpers Spirit on the strength of these releases; still got the LPs. Incidentally, \u201cI gotta tell you something that\u2019ll go right to your head\u201d, or more precisely that of follicly-challenged drummer Ed Cassidy and not \u2018Ferguson\u2019 as Kris stated, clearly muddling Cass\u2019s name with that of singer Jay Ferguson.<\/p>\n
By way of reparation, Kris is to update RC<\/i>\u2019s current \u201cstate of the nation\u201d on this wayward talent of a band. It must have been penned half of your esteemed organ\u2019s lifetime ago. I thank you and probably need to get out more. Dr Sardonicus, by email <\/b><\/p>\n
Doh. Kris knew that, I knew that, you knew that. Why didn\u2019t we spot it sooner? Apologies for printing such fresh garbage in the magazine. <\/i>IM <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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