Country high (Ticket) (LP 4681 - 4682)

Ticket  Awake (CD, Aztec music, 1971, 2010 reissue) ****  

Ticket  Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (CD, Famous Down Under Records, 1972, ) ****  

Genre: Rock, NZ music

Places I remember: Electric City Music

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Country High (Awake)

Gear costume: Gypsy Rover (Let Sleeping Dogs Lie)

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: Ticket was a NZ rock band that loved bands like Traffic and The Jimi Hendrix Experience (a big influence on Eddie Hansen, guitar hero of Ticket).

These two albums are brilliant examples of NZ bands being influenced by rock gods and then channeling their influences into a uniquely NZ hybrid.

Apart from Hansen, the band included future Hello Sailor drummer Ricky Ball, and Paul Woolright on bass, and the distinctive vocals belonged to Trevor Tombleson.

Throughout both albums, Eddie plays some inspired guitar and Woolright has a great jazzy bass sound going. Country High was the big hit and is typical of their Hendrixian subject matter and spacey acid drenched music. Very much of its time! 

Where do they all belong? Eddie went on to join up with Harvey Mann in Living Force for more of the same. I don't have their album because copies change hands for silly money.