THE SENTINEL

Having seen this line-up live back in the early eighties in The Odeon, Birmingham. I can truly say that the stage show overshadowed the album by miles, but that pales into insignificance when compared with their contemporaries of the time. I don't think the album deserves the bad press it received at the time or since, they were trying to break into the Americam market at the time and the more commercial feel to the music was as a result of that, and the fact that Euan Lowson's departure soon after bears testament to this. While I admire Alan Reed's commitment and influence to the band I feel that they lost thei way considerably and Mr Lowson was very sadly missed. I did read somewhere that he went to work with Robert John Godfrey and The Enid but I have yet to see the fruition of that work.