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...Dynamo" is the other Ballard rave-up. The shouted vocal owes a bit to Steve Miller's pioneer work in the field of white blues singing. Argent's piano playing here is strictly honky tonk: in total concept, the song faintly echoes some of Fleetwood Mac's later efforts. Ballard takes his only solo on this tune, and shows himself to be an adequate guitarist, even if he does sound like a cautious Jimmy Page...
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...slide downhill with the release of Cahoots. Jethro Tull became self-indulgent with Aqualung. If anyone had ever questioned the death of the San Francisco sound, Grace Slick et-al. confirmed their suspicions with Bark, and a spate of pseudo-solo albums. With the release of Future Games, Fleetwood Mac proved conclusively that it will never make it without Peter Green. And Peter Green with the release of his solo album proved conclusively that he'll never make it without Fleetwood Mac. Ram and Wings helped Paul McCartney put his foot further into his musical mouth...
Several major collaborations of this sort were released last year. My favorite is Blue Memphis Suite (Warner Brothers), which features the incomparable singer-pianist Memphis Slim, backed by guitarist Peter Green (Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac), organist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Duster Bennett on harmonica, Chris Spedding, Pete Winfield, and others. The performance of everyone, especially producer Philippe Rault, is absolutely flawless; the juxtaposition of early Forties blues structure with ultramodern instrumentation and arrangement completely transcends the concept of mere revival. It is a tour de force of textural and harmonic complexity within the blues idiom. On side...