Tracks Side 1:

1. Exit Please (3:50)

2. Kickin' In Blind Doors (3:35)

3. Fly - O High - O (4:54)

4. Pocket Lover (4:56)

5. Born And Still Alive (4:44)

Tracks Side 2:

1. Wicked Old Ricky (4:21)

2. Are We Getting Old (6:27)

3. The Man Who Lives Next Door (11:26)

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( ) The album was finally recorded in Heist Op Den Berg at the Tamara King Studio’s, a studio they were rebuilding at that period; so it happened quite a few times that the workers had to stop for a few minutes to keep it silence for the recording.
The studio was owned by Luc Derdin who had a record company called Monopole. Former bass player Dré van Miert started working as an engineer in this studio and it was he who produced the album. Dré worked out a deal with Luc Derdin to release the album on a joint venture; named Eagle System; where he brought in the money for release.
By the end of 1976, just in time to be mentioned on the record-cover, they found a new bass player: Tex Vandelooverenbosch (b.1949.11.21), this time finally agreed to join Mustang. Almost three years after The Jivaro’s Tex had joined Desperated Company, a local band he changed very quickly for Canabis Sativa
This band was risen out of the ashes of symphonic rock band Poldergeist. But symfo was not his kind of music so in 1974 he changed it in favour for rock band Ginger. It was Ginger who was with Mustang on the same bill at the 1976’ Kioskival-festival in Rijkevorsel. As he always tried to play originals instead of cover-songs, Tex was really impressed about the songs Guy had written and decided to join after all.
In January 1977 a British agency showed interest in the Mustang tapes and even later they wanted Guy to come over for a test for a famous British band; an offer he finally turned down, knowing that his own music would soon be released.
After two years of hard work the album, “Born And Still Alive” was finally released on April 3th, 1977 with a special show at their favourite club: the “Eglantierke” in Wortel. First there was a projection of some old Mustang-films and after that, they played the album in a 45 minute set.
Although it contained eight great songs of pure hard-rock, absolute highlight was the almost 12 minutes long “The Man Who Lives Next Door” with heavy/soft dynamics (with Guy playing the flute and Staf even accordion!) an epic in “Child In Time-style”.
Although the music still stands to this day, a lot of people who used to see the band on stage for so many years, were a bit disappointed that the real Mustang “live” power was not captured on this recording.

The sleeve was done by Willy Geets and showed the birth and life of the mustang to analogy from the bluesy title-song where Guy wrote down the lyrics to describe the life of the band. All songs were written by Guy Mertens (who surprised a lot of people with his strong lyrics), only “Kickin’ In Blind Doors”; the albums most heavy tune, was written by Jef Sas with lyrics from Guy. Jef about this: “It happened more and more that I had some ideas and riffs for songs, but I felt myself inhibited as I was only the second guitar player in the band”. One of the recorded songs; the great boogie rocker “Visions Of Virgin Gnome Copper”(with an organ solo!) was left off, despite that this was another fine example what a great storyteller Guy was in his lyrics. The album was made -as a thanks to the fans- to sell without profit and therefore all 500 copies were soon sold out. Guy explained: “As we play here for about twelve years, we were lucky to have very supportive fans and that’s why we thought it was time to do something for them; but at the same time this lp is also a document for us so that we can look back on it all later”. ( )  (belgianmetalhistory.be)

Staf De Peuter - Lead Guitar ,Acoustic Guitar, Harmonium
Gust Meerts - Drums
Jef Sas - Guitars, Second Lead, Organ, Back Up Vocals
Guy Mertens - Bass, Flute, Lead Vocals, Back Up Vocals
Theo "Tax" Van De Looverenbosch - Bass (Joined The Band After This Recording)

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