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Child in Time

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Short but excellent CD, it clocks in at about 36 minutes which was about average in the mid 70's, It has good liner notes with even a note from Ian himself, I enjoyed the differant version of the song "Child in Time" it was like a slow Blues tune but was done very well, If you enjoy good blues/rock I highly recommend this cd.

I bought this album when it first came out on 8 track and their were 2 songs that I loved-You make me feel so good by Ian Gillian and Martian Landscape by UFO,when you heard the Synthesizer and or Orgon on headphones on these 2 songs well all I can say was I was alot younger and it would give my buzz a boost.I found UFO's and the only place I found You make me feel so good was on Ian Gillian's Rarities 1975-1977 which was different but sastifying for all these years till tonite,thanks Amazon and I-Phone(iPod)ya'll brought back my childhood Thanks,and as far as my opinion goes both of these song are G R E A T songs,again my opinion only......

If anyone wondered what happened to Ian Gillan after he left Deep Purple - this classic rock album shows Gillan in fine vocal form with musical chops. To Gillan's credit, he took off in a more intelligent prog-rock direction.

There are some amazing Gillan era screams but more importantly good music. The Ian Gillan Band and subsequent incarnations would turn out to be a far more interesting proposition than Deep Purple in so many ways, but Gillan just never found the same success and eventually returned to Purple.

As for Amazon's listing above - the correct album track listing should be:

1) Lay Me Down

2) You Make Me Feel So Good

3) Shame

4) My Baby Loves Me

5) Down The Road

6) Child in Time

7) Let It Slide

Don't be misled!

Gillan is the star of the family tree of Rainbow/Sabbath/Purple/Plant,and everyone that was part of that, They all shared the same musicians at one

time or another.You can look at Gillan's long line of Original Quality Rock, But he had it right from the start on this first album, daring arrangements, exotic treatments of old classics like THE TITLE TRACK.A great band featuring John Gustafson(Hard Stuff,Roxy Music),Ray Fenwick, Mark Nauseef, etc.Ian was always making pile driving rock,sure it gets funky, a little jazzy a little purple but its all quality rock,70's music is today's alternative music, he had it right in the 80's & 90's also...