Have you ever wondered (The Graeme Edge Band) (LP 4317 - 4318)

The Graeme Edge Band featuring Adrian Gurvitz  kick Off Your Muddy Boots (Vinyl, Threshold Records, 1975) ***  

The Graeme Edge Band featuring Adrian Gurvitz  Paradise Ballroom (Vinyl, London Records, 1977) ***  

Genre: Rock

Places I remember: Music shop by Notting Hill Gate tube station.

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Have You Ever Wondered (Kick Off...)

Gear costume: My Life's Not Wasted (Kick Off...)

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

Active compensatory factors: I would not really have bought these albums without The Moody Blues' association. Their drummer, Graeme Edge, being a constant member of that band.

Maybe the covers would have drawn me in with their vagely prog rock looks, but the music is pretty standard British rock. For some reason guitarist/vocalist Adrian Gurvitz is a popular foil for drummers like Graeme and Ginger Baker.

Graeme seems happy to cede the limelight to Gurvitz on their debut and so he cruises through a variety of styles on these albums, but without anything sticking into my brain. Graeme is more to the fore on their second album - Paradise Ballroom, but the mixture of styles continues.

Where do they all belong? Both are worthwhile interludes before The Moody Blues reconvened for Octave, and The Graeme Edge Band was no more.