GREENSLADE

An underrated british symphonic prog gem. Dave Greenslade, the man from COLOSSEUM, just plays the keyboard like I wanted to hear. Supported by members of King Crimson, Colosseum and Web-Samurai, Greenslade put out the heavy rock without any guitar, but tasty organs and keys. Highly reccomended to organ-based rock fans. The album starts in a Deep Purple way, but it slowly becomes totally progressive, from slow times to hard psychedelic Hammond-Organ-washed music. Awesome epic songwriting. And what about the vocals? Heh... It is... Goddamn great! Lawson's vocals is something like Robert Plant singing some VDGG/Peter Hammil's vocal line. After listen to the whole album you will get my point about the vocals (if you hadn't heard of it before, of course). I must say that Roger Dean's artwork captures the soul of the music, and listen to a good album feautring his cover design and paintings, always makes the final touch.