BANQUET

Banquet by Lucifer's Friend is a diamond in the rough. I first heard "Thus Spoke Oberon" on the radio and went out to buy the album. Wow. It blew me away in 1975. I played it for my tennis teammates, and they dug it while playing whiffle ball on the lawn. "Spanish Galleon" with all its intricacies of orchestra and guitar work really is unique. And then the singing by John Lawton fits right in to the complex music. I'm no music critic, but I know this music is fresh as the day it was born. I have to get the CD, my record is warn out. Enough said.

Jeff Mangelsdorf