Roy Wood, Rick Price, and Bev Bevan knock you senseless whilst Carl Wayne's vocals are devastatingly brutal, arguably delivering the best performance of his career. So I decided, after 34 years, just to see how my now 'older and more educated ears' hear this 12' slab of vinyl that was once on my turntable night and day.here we go.įrom the opening guitar riff I realized that 'Hello Susie' is substantially different than the Amen Corner's hit of the same name 'can this be the same song? I ask myself'.you betcha! 12 string it is. Well I found out that usually if 'he' liked a record I usually thought it sucked and so on.you know the drill. When 'SHAZAM' was released in early 1970 I read a review from a 'reputable' rock critic saying: 'this is an artier version of the overly self-conscious mode I call stupid-rock, simultaneously gargantuan and prissy, like dinosaurs galumphing through the tulips.' And those were his kind words.
Proof of the long term effects of MSG on the human body. 24 Psychedelic Time Capsule Review: The Move 'Shazam' Saturday, May 24, 2014
