THE MISSING PIECE

I really could'nt resist! 1.5 stars to this record is not fair! I mean...this is a real masterpiece! Maybe it's because it was the first record of GG I heard. Or maybe because as a musician I see things a little bit in a different way. But on this record you can hear what prog is all about: musical progress. So, we are writing year 1977 and what do yo expect from GG ? "In a glass House" or "Three friends" over and over? Why? These guys did already experiment ALL was possible in music up to 1977. TMP starts with "Two weeks in Spain": prog, and I mean PROG, at it's best. Guitar riffs, keys layers, vocals, odd tempos...everything is there!" I'm turning around" contains one of the best Hammond solos ever!!! Oh, it's because the songs are 3 minutes? You're right, they should have put 2 minutes obvious intros and 3 minutes fades at the end, to make it 7! Come on...this is the year punk music was at its peak. And that's why you get a song like "Betcha Thought We Couldn't Do It", a british style joke about the current music trend. The real masterpiece on the album are "Memories of old days" and "For nobody" : two sides of the prog evolution. Soft and hard sides of prog. To me "The missing piece" IS prog for the year 1977, and goes side by side with "Going for the One" by Yes. You don't know GG is you don't know TMP...really!