Disclaimer: All info that does not reside in my brain is gathered from wikipedia.com (mostly because Jon can't stand it) unless otherwise noted.
Band
Gary Wright - Vocals, Keyboards
Mike Harrison - Vocals, Keyboards
Luther Grosvenor - Lead Guitar
Greg Ridley - Bass Guitar
Mike Kellie - Drums
Halloween is Tuesday, so let's get spooky. Spooky Two is your Album of the Week. Of course, the artist is Spooky Tooth, whose name is so scary that it just has to be the Album of the Week during Halloween. Who is Spooky Tooth you ask? Well, let me tell you. The band is an English rock band that started life as The V.I.P.'s, then the Vipps, then Art. The band Art folded near the end of 1967 and the principle band members joined up with American Gary Wright and became Spooky Tooth. The band name came from one of Wright's friends who attended Yale and wrote atonal poetry.
Spooky Two is the band's second album. It is widely considered the band's finest work. According to Gary Wright, several well-known musicians contributed to the album but were un-credited on the final album sleeve. Steve Winwood played piano on I've Got Enough Heartache, Joe Cocker sang backing vocals on Feelin' Bad and Dave Mason played guitar on That Was Only Yesterday.
Despite the album being the band's signature work, it saw very little in the way of chart success. Later in 1969 Greg Ridley left Spooky Tooth and joined forces with Steve Mariott and Peter Frampton in Humble Pie. Gary Wright hung around for one more album.
Weekly Tidbits:
Tracks:
1. Waitin' For The Wind
2. Feelin' Bad
3. I've Got Enough Heartaches
4. Evil Woman
5. Lost In My Dream
6. That Was Only Yesterday
7. Better By You, Better Than Me
8. Hangman Hang My Shell On A Tree
Tags:
This is really good. I mean REALLY good.
However, I wonder if Judas Priest rues the day they heard track #7. You know, one of those with the backward messages. Didn't hear any here, but I had an incredible urge to go outside and have a beer and a cigarette and it's not even 8 am!
Of course gotta mention that Mick Jones was also in this band, but after this album. Think he was only on one.
Some initial thoughts…
That drum intro with the echo is cool and the opening song just improves from there. These first two are really classic Wright penned tunes. Really strong!
I’ve Got Enough Heartaches has great gospel feel, sometimes you just gotta reset and some old school gospel rock is just what the Pastor ordered! Evil Woman keeps the religious pressure on… Jon surely needed it most but it was good for my soul too…
There is some darkness to this album, very interesting! Sad to admit this but I'm most familiar with Priest version of BBY,BTM… The original is very interesting but I didn't connect the dots to Spooky Tooth! In fact this whole thing is quite interesting, I enjoyed this … Off to fill a gap in my wish list!!
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