Group Image Grew Up All Wrong( A Mouth in the Clouds 1968)

follow me on twitter: my blog As much as collectors and critics can try to approach obscure albums on their own merits without unfairly comparing them to the giants of their era, sometimes a band s inspiration is just too blatant to ignore. So let s lay it on the line here: the Group Image s sole LP would not have existed were it not for the prior existence of the early Jefferson Airplane albums and concerts. It s not just the malefemale vocal blend, with Sheila Darla approaching her singing very much like Grace Slick did, or the very specific echoes of Jorma Kaukonen s wiggly guitar tone. There are also echoes of specific Airplane songs, sometimes in passing references to the Airplane s arrangements of The Fat Angel or Coming Back to Me, and sometimes in more obvious cops of 3, 5 of a Mile in Ten Seconds, It s No Secret, and (particularly in Hiya ) the