STEEL-STEEL-

Released in 1971 this American outfit really shook the heavens with their straight foward Hard/blues/prog rock.

Their only album release contains several gems of protometal stuff and with the albums great production this is a timeless rock´n´roll album. Cream of the crop is bassplayer Roland Robinsson with his contribution on 6-string bass and vocals. Guitars and keyboards are in this with top notch performance and Carl Sims brings great vocals to the production. Single track “Never on a Monday” breaths future stardom for the band but to bad the band dissolved after its release.

It´s difficult to choose standout tracks because the whole album is a very strong affair. All of the musicians are among the best I´ve Heard and not to my surprise they proceed to play with the best. The album got some Mountain flavor to it and are as hard as Steel  in a positive way. Not noisy but with a soul singer with a hard/blues/prog band. Glorious!!!

Whatabout the drummer, Jerry Norris?? Well just check out the gatefold Picture and you will notice a bigass drumkit with double bassdrums and the biggest tomtoms in NYC. And what a drummer!! Funky, hard driving, striking like an athlete on the Olympics. No Pardon, just absolutely great performence. Thanks to the other musicians his playing just reaches the sky. Marvelous… 🙂

If you see this album..BUY IT!! There´s no excuse to avoid it, because this is rock´n´roll history at its best.

VINYLRATING/GRADE

8-EXCELLENT-HEAD ON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES COLLISION WITH A FREIGHT TRAIN