Hold Your Fire [Import]

Patto | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal
• ASIN: B0007OE1AO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,623,266 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hold Your Fire

2. You, You Point Your Finger

3. How's Your Father

4. See You at the Dance Tonight

5. Give It All Away

6. Air-Raid Shelter

7. Tell Me Where You've Been

8. Magic Door

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only SHM Paper Sleeve pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing, SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc, allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players. Universal. 2010. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy This For Patto's Voice and Ollie Halsall's Guitar, July 6, 2005

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Chris Ward (Costa Rica) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hold Your Fire (Audio CD)

"Give It All Away" may contain one of the ten best guitar solos of all time-- Ollie Halsall's manic runs up and down the frets are almost completely out of control-- almost. He careens up and down and back and forth and somehow ends up in the perfect place every time. It's a bravura performance on a perfect song. The rest of the album is excellent, but this is my favorite Patto album, and "Give It All Away" stands as their great achievement.

If you liked The Replacements' anarchic energy in the 80s, see what Patto was doing to lay down the foundations in the 70s. This is glorious stuff.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Underrated 70's Brit-rockers, May 16, 2003

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D. Hartley (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hold Your Fire (Audio CD)

The creative team of Ollie Halsall and Mike Patto mastered nearly every rock music genre within a relatively brief period of time, yet continue to be largely overlooked by rock 'n' roll historians. Following thier original incarnation as psychedelic popsters Timebox, and preceding thier prog-rock stint as Boxer, Halsall and Patto defied genre as "Patto". "Hold Your Fire" was Patto's 2nd release, and features an interesting blend of jazzy chords, bluesy singing and straight ahead rock 'n' roll frequently wrapped in epic arrangements of prog-rock length (note only 8 cuts on the album). The uninitiated may wonder after a first listen: "What's the big deal?" -but Patto's unique blend has a way of growing on you, especially when you notice the "little touches" like guitarist Ollie Halsall's Lionel Hampton-like prowess on the vibraphone. The standout song is "You You Point Your Finger" featuring a heartfelt vocal from Patto and a beautifully fluid and understated Mark Knopfler-style guitar solo by Halsall. Possibly not everyone's cup of tea, but fans of 70's rock and those who can appreciate "musician's musicians" will enjoy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, March 23, 2010

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hold Your Fire (Audio CD)

Vertigo's Patto needed to prove nothing when they released Hold Your Fire. After the jazzy debut, Patto, in 1970 they had at least artistically made their mark.

Hold Your Fire is far more rock oriented. The songs are condensed. But what really makes this album an early 1970s rock ace is Ollie Hassle's guitar work.

Hassle was quicksilver, but when rock guitar mastery meant accelerated blues, not noise flash. Hassle took those classic blues scales and could rocket quick as Jeff Beck, right side up, upside down, sideways. His approach may seem sleepy now that we have been through Van Halen and 1980s top of the neck flash, but trust me, creatively, Hassle has far more depth.

The tracks here are fantastically written, and if you are ready for a cooker after the subtleties of Patto's debut, this will slam home the goods.

Go ahead. Fire away;