17 years ago I wrote the following for Gnosis:"The Swiss quartet Spot obviously spent a lot of their free time digesting the first three Led Zeppelin albums before embarking on their one and only recording. A band could do a lot worse than imitating Zeppelin, and truth be told, there are a surprising few in Continental Europe who actually did. For every five Deep Purple and ELP copycats, you’ll get one who try for Page and crew. Vocalist Pavlo Pendaki does his best Robert Plant with plenty of those swooping “yea-yea-yea” and “my’a-my’a-my’as”. Naturally, lead guitarist John Woolloff is the featured instrumentalist, and does a good job of managing the “aggressive electric blues” that is expected. He also adds more wah wah pedal than usual to the proceedings, which adds points for this writer. There’s also a few acoustic numbers interlaced, which also point to the Zep heritage. Overall, there is just enough originality throughout to make Spot worth seeking out – and they give quite a spirited performance, which is essential for these type of hard electric blues albums to work."
Yep - I got that one right. Except I appreciated it more on last night's +1 listen. A great example of European hard rock from 1971. Inexplicably I still had this filed with my progressive rock collection, but it's not even close. First time for me to hear this album since that review (and acquisition). This title is worth more spins.
Ownership: CD: 1997 Black Rills / Ohrwaschl. Tri-fold digipak with no historical notes. Features two bonus tracks including a rave up of the Khachaturian classic 'Sabre Dance', similar to Love Sculpture. Originals are quite expensive. I'm fine with the CD in this case (incidentally, this is the only version for the media format).
10/12/06 (Gnosis); 11/19/23 (new entry)
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