MOGUL THRASH

The guitar and vocals of one James Litherland made this album a love at first listen for yours truly. James started this band after being thrown out of COLOSSEUM. MOGUL THRASH were a six piece band with three horn players and that's really what tempers my enthusiasm about this one is the Horn Rock style here but man the rest is gravy, so good! On bass is none other than John Wetton who would go on to play with FAMILY after this one album endeavour by MOGUL THRASH. No keyboards! Okay there's some piano to open "St. Peter" by none other then Brian Auger who was producing this album. What! Two of the horn players who happened to be Scottish would join the AVERAGE WHITE BAND after this.

Favourite two tracks are the two that get the album started beginning with "Something Sad" and the COLOSSEUM track "Elegy". Having said that the last four tracks are almost as good making this in my opinion very close to being a 4.5 star release if not for the blasting horns. How about that closer? Lone soprano sax comes out of the silence before it all kicks into a heavy sound a minute in. Vocals after 1 1/2 minutes as the sax stops. Horns come and go in this raw sounding piece with not so great lyrics. The most ambitious track might be the over 12 minute "Going North, Going West". Lots of tempo and mood changes this one has it all.

Highly recommended especially if you like COLOSSEUM.