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    Posted: August 17 2016 at 12:02
Matt Sweizer from Canvas Prog Hour has featured this band a lot, and turned me on to them years ago. 

The Fents were a high energy instrumental jazz fusion band from the 80's.

Albums:
1982: First Offense
Passport Jazz
Produced by Adam Holzman
also reissued and re-mastered by Ted Hall with 3 bonus tracks (last 3 tracks listed below)
Cover Art: http://www.progulus.com/pictures/fents-first.jpg

Tracks:
Artichoke02:45
Baxter Ward03:55
Special Buns03:04
Day Hike07:39
Four's a Crowd04:10
Stuck in the Mud04:58
The Skunk03:32
Clutch Cargo04:39
Deadman's Driveway05:27
Get a Real Job06:21
Outer Space Pasta Shapes08:11


1987: The Other Side
Big Fun Records
Produced by Paul Rothchildd
Cover Art: http://www.progulus.com/pictures/fents-other.jpg

Tracks:

Where's My Producer?04:27
Back In The Saddle04:30
Sixty Ways To Skin A Yak04:42
My Body's A Temple06:17
Four Sheets To The Wind05:29
The Scenery Man05:58
Rubber Discipline Helmet04:34
I Don't Want My MTV04:14

Adam Holzman - keyboards
Ted Hall - guitar
Doug Hodges - bass
Larry Anderson - drums
Laurence Cottle - bass
Moyes Lucas - drums


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http://www.adamholzman.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckf4zVqcupg
http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/the-fents
http://www.proggnosis.com/Release_Detail.aspx?RID=6580
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Points: 5814 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2016 at 16:31
Both albums are on YouTube in full (though the 'First Offense' album is called 'The First of Fents', which - if you exclude the four-track self-titled 12" EP released prior to it in 1979 - I guess it is!!):





There was a recommendation for the 'First Offense' album in the Prog Recommendations/Featured albums section of this forum by Special Collaborator Alucard back in March 2008.

Certainly sounds like a decent shot for JR/F to me, particularly based on the earlier of the two albums...but I'm no expert on the sub genre. Embarrassed

Edit: Corrected spelling of 'Offense' (I had previously written 'Offence'...but no offence meant. Ermm Embarrassed)


Edited by yam yam - August 17 2016 at 20:27
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2016 at 17:02
^We'll check them, thanks.
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Points: 5482 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2016 at 12:23
I thought they were rejected by one of the teams I'm on some years ago, but i can't find the posts.
Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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Points: 1505 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2016 at 13:21
I'm a bit on The Fents for this one.
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Points: 86 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2016 at 15:58
First Offence ... First of Fents

I've had the album forever and that's the first time I made that pun/connection.  Duh.  Pretty clever!

It's not comprehensible to me why this band would have been rejected.  Gamalon is on here and they are a similar mileau.  There are way less proggy/more jazzy fusion bands on here.
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Points: 5814 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2016 at 21:54
Originally posted by Lamneth Lamneth wrote:


It's not comprehensible to me why this band would have been rejected.

Stranger things have been known, but I reckon they might have the wind with them this time around - that first album (and the debut EP) are really good imo...and the second album ain't bad either. The fact that they are similar to another band who are already here isn't taken into account on this site, I'm afraid - each decision is based solely on what the team members feel about the music of the particular band they are considering at that moment - and no others. 

Fingers crossed eh? Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2016 at 03:50
Added The Fents.
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Points: 8068 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2017 at 10:41
The listing for the 1979 ep lists an Eddy Marron on drums; is that the same Eddy Marron that played guitar/sitar/zaz in Dzyan and Vita Nova, among others?
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