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Under appreciated band: Family |
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Under appreciated band: Family
Anyone here a fan of this very underrated band?
I love that they are so eclectically hard to pin down - sometimes proggy, sometimes psyche, sometimes heavier. Great lead vocalist in Roger Chapman too with that vocal vibrato. Share the love
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I don't know a great deal of their music, tbh, but I loved their singles in the early seventies. We had " In My Own Time" in our record collection.
I heard them a couple of weeks ago, funnily enough, on a local rock station. It was a track I'd never heard before but I instantly knew who it was. That unique quivery voice took me right back. |
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Yes, very under appreciated indeed.
I first heard them when the single Burlesque was released which I think was around 1972. On the strength of that I bought the album Bandstand. It cost the princely sum of £2.10. I still have it too! Great band. I vaguely remember someone describing Chappo's voice as like "a sheep being thrown off a cliff".
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Prefered Burlesque to In My Own Time , but never really got into them .
Around the same time & more to my taste and also underrated were Medicine Head Slip & Slide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yx-weRRYsw |
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Family were quite well known by the early 70s and appeared a few times on TOTP as well as having some success with their albums, mainly here but also in the US. I remember John Peel plugged them a lot. I liked their 2nd album the best - Family Entertainment after which original bassist Rik Grech left to form Blind Faith with Eric Clapton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilsY-MaR1GY |
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