Epic, wailing proto metal of extreme importance. This is the first record by the obscure and highly ungoogle-able British 3 piece known as Gun. In addition to being the origin of the classic hit, Race With the Devil (later covered by Judas Priest and Girlschool), this was the first album cover done by Roger Dean (who went on to do all that awesome Yes, Uriah Heep, Atomic Rooster, Budgie, ect ect). That said, this record is obviously special for a number of reasons. None more important than the fact that just about every song on here is a pure fucking golden nugget of post-psych proto-metal. If you already have it, cool. If you don't, I would recommend it highly.
Here’s Girlschool doing Race With the Devil
Forgive the goofball camera work of whoever put this up on youtube and give this track a spin. The Sad Saga of The Boy and the Bee. It’s one of my favorites. Other songs of note, all of them. You will enjoy this record.
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My new favorite album cover of All Time...
this band later became "three man army" and had cool music with some of the dumbest lyrics they could think of
I agree with Steven. I want to LIVE in that album cover. And Roger Dean, who knew???
Music is remarkable as well, I dig their heavy use of strings and horns. Takes the whole sound into some sort of bad trip/cocktail party kind of vibe...
this definitely looks like my sort of jam
This record is killer....can't sleep.....whatever. For some reason the album cover reminds me of Agnostic Front's-Cause for Alarm and Crumbsucker's-Life of dreams....what was that artists name???? Sean Taggart? Maybe he was influenced by this 60's artist. I don't know,sleep deprived.
I've heard about Gun before, maybe from the Judas Priest version, am not quite sure, but what a great cover... A bit scary if under the influence of psychotropic substances but quite cool.
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