THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE SALUTE YOU

Early prog tended to veer away from blues - after all, part of the point was to broaden and deepen the range of stylistic influences rock music took on, and rock had already borrowed plenty from the blues by the time the late 1960s rolled around. There were, however, exceptions - Jethro Tull were on their first couple of albums, and so too were Colosseum on this debut release, which leads off with the bluesy rave-up Walking In the Park. The blues influences snakes through the album as touches of other genres emerge here and there.

By the time you get to Beware the Ides of March, you get more classical influences, with Dave Greenslade on keyboards and Dick Heckstall-Smith on sax in particular showing that anything Procol Harum were doing at this time, Colosseum could match. On the other hand, By the Road She Walked Before ends up being fairly conventional light psych-tinged pop, and perhaps the shortcoming of the album is the sheer range of styles it tries to incorporate, not all of which are created equal and some of which taste decidedly like filler.

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