Ozone Quartet ~ USA ~ Raleigh, North Carolina

Fresh Blood (1997)

Raleigh, North Carolina's Ozone Quartet, on their debut Fresh Blood, provide us with a rough 'n ready instrumental violin driven prog rock / fusion album, as if Jean-Luc Ponty played lead for Boud Deun. Not the best production you'll ever encounter, but it probably adds the right amount of grit needed to make it work. This one is easy to get into for fans predisposed to the genre.

Ownership: 1997 Flat Five (CD). Acquired in 1997.

1997; 6/19/16 (review)

6/19/16 (new entry)

3PM ~ USA ~ Raleigh, North Carolina

Better Late Than Never (1981)

3PM reminds me quite a bit of another band I recently wrote about: The Fents. 3PM also starts out with some slap bass, and slick funky fusion. But it doesn't take long for the guitars to distort, and the rhythms to get jagged. There are some pretty wicked progressive rock compositions embedded throughout. Just when you think this is going to be a monster, they revert back to some cruise ship styled loungers. It was 1981 after all. Overall a very fine record that fusion fans won't want to miss.

3PM were based in Raleigh, North Carolina. After breaking up, the rhythm section formed the basis of the Steve Morse Band. However, drummer Doug Morgan left prior to their first recording.

Ownership: 1981 Ostinato (LP)

No reissues exist as I update this post (2/21/25)

4/29/12 (review / new entry)