5/2/2023 0 Comments Chilliwack greatest hits rar![]() ![]() (The album was originally released with a gatefold sleeve.) A pleasant surprise and a bargain at the asking price. ![]() Listening to the album a couple more times, the set sounds like something The Shondells might have done had the ever elected to go for a tighter, AOR audience - that's meant as a compliment. Personal favorites were the band's cover of James''Dark Is the Night' (always liked that 1960s sitar sound), the rocker 'Can't Stop Myself (From Loving You)' and the mildly psychedelic 'Magic Man'. With Crabtree penning the majority of the material, the set offered up a nice blend of guitar rock ('Mountain Baby' - ignore the ponderous drum solo) and more commercial moves (check out the Tommy James and the Shondells-styled harmonies on 'Hold Back My Tears'). In spite of the dumbs*it cover, "Neon" is actually a surprisingly good heavy rock album. Their prime claim to fame seems to rest with the fact their 1970 debut album was produced by Tommy James and Bob King (the pair also handled musical arrangements and contributed one song to the set). Don't know much about this early-1970s quartet (guitarist Peter Brannigan, keyboard player Francis Crabtree, drummer Russell Leslie and bassist Fung Porter).
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