69年唯一作がCDリイシュー!!
バーミンガムのバンドGRAVY TRAINを母体に結成、68年の半ばまでTONY IOMMIが在籍していたことでも知られるマイナー・サイケデリック・ロック・バンドVELVETT FOGG。元々ソウル・シンガーERNIE HANDYをフロントに構えていましたが、ロンドン生まれのハモンド・オルガン奏者FRANK WILSONをリーダー/リード・ヴォーカルに据えて発展、IOMMIがBLACK SABBATH結成のために脱退したのちに残された唯一作です。ジャズ、ブルースの要素を取り入れたプログレッシヴ・サイケ名盤。のちギタリストPAUL EASTMENTはTHE GHOSTへ参加、FRANK WILSONはWARHORSEへと繋がります。
発売・販売元 提供資料(2022/12/29)
From the weird name, as well as song titles like "Yellow Cave Woman" and "Plastic Man," you'd expect something a little more interesting than routine late-'60s British psychedelia. However, that's what you get on this rarity, from a group which gave more prominence to heavy organ riffs than the typical outfit of the era. There's no gripping vision or focus -- "Yellow Cave Woman" is a basic riff and lyric that keeps on going for several interminable minutes without variation; "Come Away Melinda" is an odd hard rock cover of the anti-war folk tune; "Owed to the Dip" is a long formless organ instrumental; and "New York Mining Disaster 1941" a strange, pointless Bee Gees cover. The album meanders so directionlessly that it is kind of weird, but in a boring way. [The 2003 CD reissue has a bonus track, "Telstar '69."] ~ Richie Unterberger
Rovi