Saturday, September 7, 2024

Nowhere to go (Hammer) (LP 2693)

Hammer  Hammer (Vinyl, Elektra Records, 1979) ** 

Genre: Pop 

Places I remember: Real Groovy Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: One Day

Gear costume: Goodbye

Active compensatory factors: This was an attempt at a band setting for Jan Hammer. You know - like Bowie and Tin Machine.

This is a similar misfire away from his prog rock day job, into a tilt at a pop sound/pop band.

It's inoffensive mostly (Highway Made Of Glass veers too much towards the saccharine) but a lot of the album is an okay attempt at trying for a different audience. Unfortunately, I can't see the prog world embracing his version of Oh Pretty Woman too much.

Where do they all belong? A definite one-off.

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