OFF: early UFO: groovy groovy spacerock!

[Kenneth Abrahamsson]

All three albums are available on CD:
UFO - 1 Green Tree Records GTR 015
UFO - Flying, one hour space rock       Green Tree Records GTR 016
The third live album is available as bonus tracks on the above CD:S.

Bye,
Kenneth

>Way back on 10/07/97, Christian  wrote:
>>Having only heard later UFO I've always dismissed them as 3rd rate
>>--snip--<
>>I'm curious about their first 2-3 albums, I don't think they are availible
>>on CD, but this stuff is a far cry from the later (+more successful :-)
>>Michael Schenker era stuff......
>
>The first album is available on CD, I just saw it a couple of days ago.  I
>think it was in HMV in Kingston, maybe Virgin.  It's on a fairly obscure
>label.  There was a double album in Castle's "The Collection" series with a
>pretty comprehensive selection from the first two albums (and I think from
>the 3rd which was live).  The first album is a bit patchy, I used to own it
>when I was about 16, but swapped it for a Stones album.
>
>They were still pretty good when Schenker first joined them and they were
>still playing the old stuff.  I saw them at the '76 Club' in Burton on
>Trent (scene of the famous Pistols bootleg) at that time and they tore the
>roof off the place.   Mind you, it didn't compare with Motorhead a few
>years later who almost literally blew the doors off their hinges with noise
> *g*   The place was really only the back room of a chip-shop with a
>capacity of about 250 max....   I was deaf for two days.
>
>Tatty-bye,
>ChrisW
>ObPostKarateMusic: King Crimson/The Great Deceiver (DiscTwo)