Family - Classic Airwaves CDEP (special)
SKU
11-AMP 3350
In the early 1970's, Belgian TV ran a series of 30 minute programs of then- current rock bands, recorded live without an audience in professional lighting and staging. Someone has finally found the original tapes and licensed the masters! This is the audio of the long out of print DVD release "Masters From the Vault". This is a fantastic five song set from one of their greatest periods, circa "Anyway", with Roger Chapman, Rob Townsend, Charlie Whitney, John Weider, and Poli Palmer playing "Dim", "Part of the Load", "Good News - Bad News", "No Mule's Fool" & "The Weaver's Answer". How to explain Family 40 years later? Take a idiosyncratic vocalist, who, like Peter Hammill or Don Van Vliet you either grow to love or hate (Roger Chapman) combine his talents with a standard guitar-led rock format, but add a multi-instrumentalist who plays vibes/piano/flute, a bassist who plays violin, and have a fine guitarist. Stir this wild and creative mix of hard rock and progressive and folk and shake it all up with a lot of thought and experimentation, while still keeping it 'song format' based with almost all of the songs being well under 5 minutes, and you have this great band! Highly recommended.