SALISBURY

I discovered Salisbury at the bottom of my brother's milk crate (the older larger crates!), while home convalescing at home with Whooping Cough! I was 14, very bored, took one look at the album cover, and thought the band name was simply ridiculous!

Anyone other than myself would simply keep going through the hundreds of albums...after all, there was Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and The Who right in the same milk crate! Well, as history would have it, I pulled the album out, mesmerized by the length of grooves shown for the title track! That did it for me! And so I ended up playing the album until my needle was sculpting the grooves 1/4" wide from overplaying!

As the saying goes, "cleanliness is next to godliness". If so, then this album comes in third! Simply put...unmatched songwriting melodies and creativity, arranging, production, and performance! "Look At Yourself" was equal for its own reasons...and then like Kung Fu's master, the pebble was snatched from the hands of a short-lived brilliant band.

The Mk. II band went on to several pieces of beauty that will no doubt be written about for a millenium...but this one stands on its own, and will stand the test of time...or until the English Channel runs dry of water...whichever one happens first! Long live Salisbury...and yes I love "Simon The Bullet Freak", even though it reduced the title track by approx. 3 minutes on side two!!!