Peaces of mind (Jack Bruce) (LP 796 - 797)

Jack Bruce  Out Of The Storm (CD, Polydor Records, 1974) **** 

Jack Bruce  Somethin Els (CD, Silva Screen Records, 1993) ***

Genre: Blues rock

Places I remember: Fopp (Covent Garden)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Peaces Of Mind (Out Of The Storm)

Gear costume: Waiting On A Word; Ships In The Night (Somethin Els)

Active compensatory factors: Amazingly, this album came out after the hard rocking West Bruce and Laing power trio finished up (I love their three albums). Even more amazingly given the drug use that continued into this album (JB was a heroin addict during this time), it's a brilliant album.

This is another album of Pete Brown/Jack Bruce songs and like the early solo albums it's the songs that are the stars here. Plus, his singing is a real highlight - that slight falsetto style he has just makes these songs float in space. Oh, and the bass sounds are out of this world as well.

Jump forward to his 10th solo album - Somethin Els and Jack gets Eric Clapton on board (as well as a slew of other guitarists it should be said). It's a mellower set of songs and sounds, but no less inventive and enticing. I could do without the synths though (Criminality is the worst, haha, offender).

Where do they all belong? A few more albums to come from Jack Bruce - the greatest rock bass player of all time!