Ease me down (Edward Bear) (LP 2457)

Edward Bear  Edward Bear (Vinyl, Capitol Records, 1973) *** 

Genre: Canadian pop

Places I remember: Second hand shop

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Last Song

Gear costume: Edgware Station

Active compensatory factors: I love Last Song - a soft rock masterpiece. The trio of Edward Bear (terrible name) is made up of two singer songwriters (Larry Evoy and Roger Ellis) and keyboardist Paul Waldon and they make a lovely sound.

This is a better album than Close Your Eyes but still uneven. I always think of Edward Bear as a cousin to Raspberries. Roger is the Wally Bryson and Larry is Eric Carmen - both Larry and Eric have terrific voices. Except Larry didn't write the consistently great songs that Eric did for Raspberries.

Still, this one passes through on gossamer wings for the most part.

Where do they all belong? That's it for Edward Bear. Next up: Eels.

All the lights were shining (Edward Bear) (LP 257)

Edward Bear Close Your Eyes (Vinyl - Capitol, 1973) **

Genre: Canadian pop/rock 

Places I remember: Real Groovy Records 

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Close Your Eyes




Gear costume:  What You Done

Active compensatory factors: Bought on the back of the single Last Song that I got from a funny little electrical goods store in Greenlane, ultimately the album is disappointing.

My expectation was that Larry Evoy's great Close Your Eyes/ Last Song vocals would be scattered like stardust over other great songs on the album, but sadly - that's not the case. 

Generally, the songs aren't up to Close Your Eyes quality and/or Larry doesn't sing everything.  Whatever the case - it's a patchy soft pop album.

Where do they all belong? In one-hit wonderland with Last Song (on their previous album) and a near miss with Close Your Eyes - which I think is a much better song!