Sold Date: June 25, 2015
Start Date: June 15, 2015
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CLARK HUTCHINSON - RETRIBUTION
ORIGINAL 1970 US PRESSING ON DERAM (DES 18055).
ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE

CONDITION:
COVER: EX+
VINYL: NM

UK BLUESY PROG ROCK BAND...LONG TRACKS, CHECK THEM OUT BELOW....

 
 

Andrew (Andy) Clark is an English rock composer and performer who is best known for his work on keyboards and synthesizer in the 1970s, playing and recording alongside Mick Hutchinson. Clark first came to prominence as a founder member with guitarist Mick Hutchinson of the late 1960s instrumental duo (later four-piece) Clark Hutchinson, both of them having previously played in the underground band, Sam Gopal Dream. Clark Hutchinson recorded four albums between 1969 and 1971, the most successful being A=MH². In 1980 Clark appeared on the David Bowie album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).

Bandmembers:
- Stephen Amazing / bass
- Andy Clark / keyboards, vocals
- Del Coverly / percussion
- Mick Hutchinson / guitar

Tracks:
side 1
1. Free to Be Stoned (7:38)
2. After Hours (10:45)
side 2
3. In Another Way (3:31)
4. Best Suit (10:15)
5. Death, the Lover (7:18)


AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger:
Clark-Hutchinson's debut album had been devoted entirely to long, tiresome psychedelic guitar instrumentals with Indian and blues-rock influences. On their second record, although some of that approach was retained, they at least branched out to some degree, adding some vocals and somewhat more deranged blues-rock tangents. And guess what? It's still indulgent psychedelic hard rock, often annoyingly so, all but one of the five tracks falling into the seven- to ten-minute range. It's some of the most lunkheaded stoner rock you'll come across, and if that seems like a churlishly unfair label, it's one they bring onto themselves with the first cut, "Free to Be Stoned." For it's here they fly their inept freak flag high, a from-the-gutter, hysterical vocal declaring against a crude blues-rock backing, "I don't wanna be good, but I don't care if I'm bad, I don't want to feel happy, but I don't care if I feel sad...I just wanna be...STONED! STONED! STONED! STONED! For the rest of my natural life!" Just the kind of guy you want to hang out with for next half-hour, huh? The attitude-over-songwriting ethos continues to rule over most of the other tracks, including a tepid ten-minute cocktail jazz instrumental, a ten-minute standard blues-rocker featuring (like "Free to Be Stoned") some of the most disagreeably half-shouted British blues-rock vocals ever laid down, and a finale ("Death, the Lover") that comes off like a particularly bad Arthur Brown imitation in its high-pitched vocal and lyrical mania.

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