3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, April 24, 2010
This review is from: Watcha Gonna Do? (Audio CD)
Christoper was Gary Lucas' first band, and this is their 1969 album
Basically this is blues, and not bad: one long jam that opens Watcha Gonna Do that has some great guitar work, and other tracks in a slightly psychedelic 12-bar style--lots of fuzz guitar, typical of 1969 acid rock. The problem is, there were a million bands doing this type of music in '69, and there are few elements that make this music stand out.
Except for on "The Great Clock," a non-12 bar but bluesy track about the inevitable-not taxes--that has inventive echo percussion to simulate a clock's ticking.
Lucas went on to far more progressive work, first in a later version of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, and in the 1990s, producing the late Jeff Buckley.
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