GRAHAM BOND Solid Bond - Original UK 2-LP - Cream Colosseum Jazz-Rock Prog

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GRAHAM BOND

Solid Bond

Original UK 2-LP (autocoupled) released on Warner Bros Records in 1970.
Gatefold sleeve.

WS 3001A-2  *T   STEREO   /   WS 3001D-1  *T   STEREO
WS 3001B-2  *T   STEREO   /   WS 3001C-2  *T   STEREO

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This double LP is an good assortment of '60s material that Bond did not put out during that decade. Nine of the 12 tracks date from 1966, with Bond accompanied by Dick Heckstall-Smith on sax and Jon Hiseman on drums (Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker had by this time left to join Cream). Most of those nine songs are not on the two proper albums he issued in the '60s (The Sound of '65 and There's a Bond Between Us), and though a few did appear on those albums and non-LP singles, these recordings are different versions. While not up to the level of the best cuts waxed by the Bruce/Baker lineup, these Hiseman/Heckstall-Smith-backed numbers are still solid jazzy R&B with that aura of faint menace unique to Bond's mid-'60s work. His singing is particularly effective in its drawn-out anguish on "It's Not Goodbye" and "Springtime in the City" has those uneasy descending chord progressions and creepy R&B black-mass organ that were Bond specialties. "Neighbour Neighbour" and "Walkin' in the Park" differ from the versions he did with Bond and Baker on the first two Graham Bond Organization LPs, and they're different enough to merit hearing.

The three remaining songs were done in 1963 with Bruce, Baker, Heckstall-Smith, and John McLaughlin, and are long, straight jazz pieces that are much different in nature. Historically they're interesting, particularly in their documentation of the period in which McLaughlin (who solos well, though his free jazz style was a long way off in coming) was in the band. However, Bond's outfit became much more distinguished as an R&B group than they were as a jazz one, making the 1963 material more of a curiosity than a highlight of his discography.

Tracks Are :-

Record One - Sides 1 & 4

Green Onions
Springtime In The City
Can't Stand It 

The Grass Is Greener
Doxy

Record Two - Sides 2 & 3

Only Sixteen
Last Night
Long Legged Baby
Walkin' In The Park

It's Not Goodbye
Neighbour, Neighbour
Ho Ho Country Kicking Blues

Released on 'Warner Bros Records' in 1970

Catalogue No. WS 3001

Discs are in VG+ condition (some light surface wear)

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (light  shelfwear / some writing inside gatefold - see pictures)

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