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NEAR THE BEGINNING

Vanilla Fudge

 

Proto-Prog

3.29 | 69 ratings

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4 stars Vanilla fudge is once more in the likes of so many island based groups, playing on a lacking focus and reflecting scattered songs which embodies a heavy bodied flavoring if you will as their title more than suggests.

The album by Atco was unprofessionally recorded and taints this album. The album begins with the basics and progressives continually throughout the album as the drumming sequencing does stand out as upstanding progressive but can be considered not much different to any of the servant lineaged drummers found in groove albums in the same era that also recorded to the same quality as mentioned about this group. This parallel has to be observed since the group members are from island area yet once more using servant lineaged light.

The progressive sounds they did decide to record were casted in the future, and this the correct distancing to how an island based lineage has to reference their sound or else it is a conjured mess, yet the light is referenced from the servant not this group. Many groups decades later decided to venture into the same drumming sequences this group had performed--and all these groups in the progressive distance will not rate past 2 stars unless remastered in recordings to reflect the true embodiment in space of playing to recorded sound for progressive listening.

As a group this band can be viewed as not very progressive since they had a commercial success that was aired on the Ed Sullivan show. Once more showing support for the island influence rather than the mainland reference. It is a performance based show that is the focus of the band as it turns out with attempted commercialization but has progressive sounds that did not record entirely well albeit if they did decide to remaster the original recordings the true sound space could become a time staple progressive requisite into progressive music from that era as it would show they care how progressive their sounds were truly meant to be.

thewickedfall | 4/5 |

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