Jiva Jiva (Vinyl, Dark Horse Records, 1975) **
Genre: Dark Horse Records/ pop-rock
Places I remember: Real Groovy Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles/ Gear costume: It pretty much all sounds the same. Something's Goin On Inside LA was the single and lead track on their sole album so let's go with that.
Active compensatory factors: I'm sure they look back at that cover and cringe. Four American guys with their shirts off saying, "please take us seriously".
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles/ Gear costume: It pretty much all sounds the same. Something's Goin On Inside LA was the single and lead track on their sole album so let's go with that.
Active compensatory factors: I'm sure they look back at that cover and cringe. Four American guys with their shirts off saying, "please take us seriously".
The music I've summed up before when writing about Dark Horse label product. I was a tad harsh then, but listening to it again made me think of a descriptor I've heard used in my English teacher role while marking essays - competent stodge.
It's reasonably well played and competently sung but there is nothing out of the ordinary happening here. Lord knows what George heard from this first American band to get a Dark Horse spot that made him think - I've got to put that out!
Where do they all belong? Alongside the other Dark Horse albums that are, on the whole, not a patch on the Apple Records roster.
Where do they all belong? Alongside the other Dark Horse albums that are, on the whole, not a patch on the Apple Records roster.
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