DILLINGER

Dill's first album is a bit half-baked, as it's made of almost an EP worth of enjoyable album and some really embarrasing stuff. The A-side's first two tracks are interesting heavy-rock-prog (one with a jazzy overtone), but it is followed by an embarrassingly bad cover-version od Spirit's Nature's Way. Indeed the band uses the Vanilla Fudge treatment of slowing down the tempo of a great tune, but they totally miss the target as the result almost insults the original. And that's about it for the a-side, clocking around the quarter hour.

The flipside is made of a side-long track that seems to hesitate between studio and live, and if the first 12 minutes are fine, there is a boooooooring drum solo that totally ruins the tracks, though it resumes with a final 90 seconds band effort.

Please note that their next (dumbly titled) album, Dillinger will do much better with a steaming-hot pure progressive rock album, though they will repeat their blunder of massacring the Beatles' Taxman with the same Fudge treatment, though I never enjoyed that track nearly as much as Spirit's anthem. Please start with their second album, then you feel like it, this one will offer a half-album of good heavy prog.