Week of September 4, 2005
Personnel:
Laurie Allen – Drums
Bruce Barthol – Bass
Phil Greenberg Vocals, Guitar
George Khan – Sax
Gary Peterson - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion
Album:
Formerly Fat Harry (Harvest SHSP 4016) 1971
(issued on Capitol in the US)
CD: Muskrat, RATCD-4222, 2003 (Japan)
A rather dull good-time country-rock band notable for including former
Battered Ornaments' saxophonist George Khan and former Country Joe And
The Fish bassist Bruce Barthol. The album was eminently forgettable and the
band were soon forgotten too. They split up soon after its release.
Taken from The Tapestry of Delights - The
Comprehensive Guide to British Music of the Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and
Progressive Eras 1963-1976, Vernon Joynson ISBN 1 899855 04 1
Alongside fellow Americans Eggs Over Easy, this Anglo-American band,
having recorded their sole album on the British soil, have been named as the
first-ever exponent of “pub rock”, a genre that was still three years away from
bursting onto the London scene via the likes of
Brinsley Schwarz,
Dr. Feelgood,
Brewers Droop, Kursaal Flyers, Ducks Deluxe, Chilli Willi &
The Red Hot Peppers,
Kokomo, etc. Stylistically, they weren’t a million miles away from
Daddy Longlegs, yet
another US band that was operating in the UK around that same time frame (they
recorded four albums before calling it a day and moving back to the States).
Alex Gitlin
September 2005