Saturday, February 14, 2026

Crabfoot (The Flock) (LP 4310)

The Flock  Dinosaur Swamps (Vinyl, CBS Records, 1970) **  

Genre: Jazz rock

Places I remember: Real Groovy Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperbolesGear costume: Big Bird

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6Part 7

Active compensatory factors: Columbia had a few good jazz-rock outfits on their roster - Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago principally. The Flock didn't sustain early promise and Dinosaur Swamp is a bit of a mess.

Jerry Goodman, on violin, soon was headhunted for The Mahavishnu Orchestra and The Flock fell apart shortly after this second album.

The songs tend to become bogged down with band members seemingly unaware of what their bandmates are playing.

Where do they all belong? I have no great desire to hunt down their debut (which is supposed to be much better) and this one is likely to be culled in the coming months.

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