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The Marvin & Farrar album has some good tracks but the whole thing has an air of gloom over it for some reason. I have an original vinyl copy and a SFM copy on CD.

StuartD wrote:Quote from Jim Nugent

...I did see Marvin & Farrar (with Mo Foster, Pat Carroll and a drummer whose name always escapes me) in chicken-in-the-basket cabaret in Liverpool in 1974. They certainly didn't get shouted requests for Apache or FBI (though they played both of them) and definitely didn't walk off unapplauded.

Hi Jim

The drummer was Andrew Steele, formerly of The Herd[/quote]

Hank has worked with a couple of ex-Herd members, then?

Fenderman wrote:The Marvin & Farrar album has some good tracks but the whole thing has an air of gloom over it for some reason. I have an original vinyl copy and a SFM copy on CD.

I see what you mean Roy. It makes the album a little mysterious, which I quite like. To me it has a typical '1973' sound to it, especially the electric and acoustic guitar sound, the bass guitar sound and the use of a mellotron. To these ears, parts of these sounds also appear on albums from other artists, released that year: The Shadows' "Rockin' With Curly Leads", The Who's "Quadrophenia", Led Zeppelin's "Houses Of The Holy", Paul McCartney & Wings' "Band On The Run" and Queen's "Queen".

I think So Hard to Live With is one of the all-time great album opening tracks.

Moderne wrote:I think So Hard to Live With is one of the all-time great album opening tracks.

At their first Cabaret Appearance at Wakefield Theatre Club, they opened with it.

Great song. Lots of drive!!