(2018) Greenslade - Spyglass Guest [Expanded Edition]
Review:
…newly re-mastered and expanded 2 CD edition.
Originally issued in August 1974, Spyglass Guest was the band’s most successful album and featured such classic compositions as ‘Joie de Vivre’, ‘Spirit of the Dance’, ‘Melancholic Race’ and the band’s interpretation of the Jack Bruce / Pete Brown composition ‘Theme for an Imaginary Western’. The album was also notable for the appearance of guitarist Clem Clempson (formerly a member of Colosseum) on ‘Little Red Fry Up’ & ‘Siam See Saw’.
Considered by many to be a band at their finest on stage, this expanded edition of Spyglass Guest includes a bonus CD of previously unreleased recordings made for BBC Radio One’s In Concert programme and Sounds of the Seventies in November 1974, offering a glimpseof the excellence of the band in a live environment and released for the very first time. British prog-rock underdogs Greenslade reached their peak with their third album, Spyglass Guest. While the dueling keyboards of Dave Greenslade and Dave Lawson still lead the charge, it’s the first Greenslade album to feature guitar (Dave “Clem” Clempson of Humble Pie), and it’s probably the band’s most visceral effort. Their trademark balance between arty, fleet-fingered keyboard antics and grittier, more light-hearted tunes is refined here to the point of perfection, making this a lost prog classic.
Tracklist:
Disc 1
01 Spirit of the Dance
02 Little Red Fry-Up
03 Rainbow
04 Siam Seesaw
05 Joie De Vivre
06 Red Light
07 Melancholic Race
08 Theme For An Imaginary Western
Disc 2
01 Joie de Vivre (BBC Radio One In Concert)
02 Bedside Manners Are Extra (BBC Radio One In Concert)
03 Sundance (BBC Radio One In Concert)
04 Red Light (BBC Radio One In Concert)
05 Spirit of the Dance (BBC Radio One In Concert)
06 Melange (BBC Radio Sounds of the 70s session)
07 Melancholic Race (BBC Radio Sounds of the 70s session)
08 Red Light (BBC Radio Sounds of the 70s session)
Summary:
Country: UK
Genre: prog-rock
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 789-956 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
