Genre: Prog rock
Places I remember: Electric City Music (hi Dean)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles/ Gear costume: Heartbreaker
Active compensatory factors: I had often wondered about this album. The cover had always intrigued me whenever I saw it in sale bins. So, I took a punt when I saw it in Dean's music shop in Napier.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles/ Gear costume: Heartbreaker
Active compensatory factors: I had often wondered about this album. The cover had always intrigued me whenever I saw it in sale bins. So, I took a punt when I saw it in Dean's music shop in Napier.
On paper it all sounds okay - The Intergalactic Touring Band was not an actual band but rather a science fiction concept album released in 1977.
The ensemble album featured many performers from progressive rock and other genres, including Meatloaf, Ben E. King, Annie Haslam, Rod Argent, David Bedford, Clarence Clemons, Arthur Brown, Dave Cousins, Rick Parfitt, Francis Rossi and others. The songs are loosely held together by an epic theme of multi-generational space travel and human space colonisation. Jeesh.
It could have been good in an Alan Parson's Project kind of way. Sadly, it's not.
The problem being the songs are just not strong enough, the musicians don't have a great presence, and the guest vocals are all a bit meh. No one shines. So, it all passes by without leaving a lasting impression.
Where do they all belong? A case of coulda shoulda woulda.
Where do they all belong? A case of coulda shoulda woulda.
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