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Haul For the Love of Medusa!

[Protag]

Went used cd shopping at CD Cellar in Falls Church & though the metal pickings were slim I picked up some anthologies & other stuff from back when to make me a happy hauler. Here's what I got & I'll start with the couple of metal albums I did find:

NIFELHEIM - Envoy of Lucifer
UFO - Time to Rock: Best of Singles A's & B's (2cd)
TRAPEZE - Medusa (For me the buy of the haul, I love this bluesy hard rock with Glenn Hughes on vocals, bass & piano, Dave Holland on drums & Mel Galley on guitar. Side note: For those that dig such things there's also MORE COWBELL!)
JEFF BECK - Truth (remastered & expanded)
...KEVIN AYERS - The Best of...
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - Essential (2cd)
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - The Boatman's Call
CASSANDRA WILSON - New Moon Daughter
ROBIN TROWER - Essential
...JOE JACKSON - Steppin' Out The Very Best of... (2cd)
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
(Bought not for the standard artists you would expect on such a collection but for the more obscure acts included such as The Charlatans, The Warlocks, The Vegtables, The Mystery Trend, Blackburn & Snow, The Wildflower, The Sons of Champlin & a bunch more, 4cds in a 120 page hardbound book.

GOTCHA!!!!! 

[Hellboy]

[Protag]

Medusa was Trapeze's 2nd album, I'd like to get a hold of their 1st & 3rd albums too, the s/t & You Are the Music...We're Just the Band respectively. Dave Holland must have had a thing for the cowbell back then though, there are at least 3 songs here where it's prominent.

[Hellboy]

Glenn Hughes is a great singer but I never actually heard anything from Trapeze...
When you say bluesy, is it in the same vein as old Whitesnake with Moody & Marsden?

[Protag]

I can't answer that question really since other than the vids I've never listened to Whitesnake. I have no idea who Moody & Marsden are. Other than David Coverdale I really am not familar with anyone else in that band & I stopped listening to Deep Purple when he started fronting the band.
I do like Trapeze though you should give them a listen if you get the chance.

[Hellboy]

Is Meduza the Trapeze album you would recommend to get first?

BTW, the classic lineup of Whitesnake sounds quite different than what you might have seen on MTV in the late eighties.
Think more of Deep Purple meets Zeppelin. You should give a listen to Ready an' Willing, arguably their best album. Ian Paice and Jon Lord play on it which almost makes this a Purple album.

[Protag]

Is Meduza the Trapeze album you would recommend to get first?

BTW, the classic lineup of Whitesnake sounds quite different than what you might have seen on MTV in the late eighties.
Think more of Deep Purple meets Zeppelin. You should give a listen to Ready an' Willing, arguably their best album. Ian Paice and Jon Lord play on it which almost makes this a Purple album.

That may be so but as I mentioned above David Coverdale is the reason I completely lost interest in Deep Purple. The last thing that band needed after Ian Gillian was a poor man's Robert Plant.

Of the first 3 Trapeze albums I mentioned I'd recommend Medusa or You Are the Music...We're Just the Band. From what I remember of the debut it was much poppier probably as a concession to The Moody Blues for making them the first band signed to their Threshold label.

[Hellboy]

Who can resist more cowbell???
I just went ahead and ordered Meduza from Amazon... 

[Protag]

Who can resist more cowbell???
I just went ahead and ordered Meduza from Amazon... 

First song on the album, Black Cloud, has plenty of  cowbell.