One of the rock/jazz fusion groups contracted by US Columbia in the late sixties. The labels biggest commercial names in the genre were Chicago and Blood Sweat & Tears and it seems the market wasn't large enough for yet another band with the same agenda. Their two first albums didn´t sell a lot and while recording the third, Columbia simply broke up the group by stealing violinist and front-man Jerry Goodman for Mahavishnu Orchestra (first choice Jean-Luc Ponty had been refused work-permit in US). In retrospective this is a good debute. It doesn't have the sudden impact that makes you jump up and down, but given time it grows. Goodmans violin makes it special and some of his excessive playing has an almost psychedelic taint. Best track is cover of The Kinks "Tired Of Waiting", and the inclusion of that on the big selling sampler "Fill Your Head With Rock" opened some European ears and gave them a brief following - FYHWR also used the back cover pic from this as front and on ad posters. First issued on US Columbia (CS 9911). Earliest UK release with stiff laminated Upton Print cover, rec no. above logo on back and front, and thick unflexible vinyl with SBPG matrix.
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