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 Dick Heath wrote:

 Alucard wrote:

[ Drag on! 
Birth Control, Cream,Quartermass, Man,Groundhogs (One of my favourite tracks is "Black Diamond", has anyone seen it recently on CD?BTW Tony Mc Phee is the Groundhog guitarist)Atomic Rooster, Steamhammer

Got to speak to Tony McPhee in the bar of Leicester's DeMontford Hall last summer (he was part of a blues package tour with Alvin Lee and Edgar Winter) - shocked to find after 35 years that he was shorter than me!!! Buy him a pint after a gig and he'll talk to anybody! And he signed my Gutbucket 2 album sleeve, the LP sampler which introduced me to the Groundhogs and a lot of interesting blues - not coming from Blue Horizon! 
If we are going the rock blues way with this thread  - check out the previously mentioned Stray Dog (who surprised me by acknowledging ZZ Top in the 1973 liner notes to their first album), and the greatly neglected Duster Bennett. The late Duster Bennett was the third Brit signing to Blue Horizon records (after Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack), and wrote a number tunes for and with Peter Green. The excellent album of outtakes etc., Jumpin' At Shadows , (apparently discovered in tapes stored in the loft of the house owned by Duster's wife), issued by the British label Indigo in the mid 90's, is a must to blues rock fans. Includes a demo of Jumpin' At Shadows (superior to both Fleetwood Mac and Gary Moore's versions, IMHO), some live recordings of Bennett as a onemanband (showing great rapport with the audience), some superb blues harp on Gotta To Be With My Baby Tonight, and a couple of tracks backed by the former Krimson rhythm section of Wallace and Burrell, make this a greatly neglected gem. I regret never making the effort to go see Bennett live, and he tragically was killed while driving his car back south from a Manchester gig in 1976. A pity too that Blues Horizon/Sony have not reissued his albums on CD (there are a couple of atypical singles included on a double CD compilation of Blues Horizon's roster of signings - but then Focus are missing!).

Collegium Musicum was not a Czech, but a Slovak band . Fermata was Slovak too, but in most progrock sites is listed as Czech. With Slovak band from this era i mean band with Slovak musicians, because the state was Czechoslovakia. Modry Efekt is typical Czechoslovakian band with both Czech and Slovak musicians.