from the LP Ancient Medicine, Arista Records, 1979FUCK MAN! I’m such a puffball sucker for this slick, over-produced style of easy-going ‘70s schlock rock, the sounds of strong blow & paid-for studio time; everybody take a ride on the jazzy Colombian express, now featuring Nembutals in the caboose… These were the remnants of “Summer Breeze” and “How Long” (be forewarned, both of those will likely pop up sooner or later in the Honeypot), the truest disconnect from the horrors of the preceding Viet-decade, out and out fluff. Lots of charming touches make this track stand out: melancholy piano, heavy echo and delay, handclaps, hazy (yet rockin’) guitar. The singer of Baby Grand, David Kagan, sounds like a grimy mix of Vince Neil and Michael Des Barres, delivering his words with entirely believable zeal. Not to mention, how fucking cool is the mystical vegetable man on the album cover?!
