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ROGER BUNN
Roger Bunn was hardly ever a household name in music, even at the peak of his career during the last three years of the 1960s. He somehow managed to play with lots of important people and bands, and at major gigs -- and intersected with the early career of David Bowie, as well as playing a role in the founding of such outfits as Roxy Music -- but he only ever got known especially well among musicians, rather than to the public. Bunn s real love lay with jazz, and not the trad style that was dominant in commercial circles -- he was a serious Charlie Parker devotee. But he found most of his opportunities playing rock and soul, and the Bluebottles got gigs with the likes of Manfred Mann and the Animals working in those musical surroundings, Bunn spent most of what free time he had at Ronnie Scott s jazz club. During the mid- 60s, he worked with a wide array of players, including Graham Bond, Zoot Money, and Joe Harriott, and crossed paths with Jimi Hendrix. By his own account, he also used a massive amount of recreational, often hallucinogenic drugs across the years leading up to the late 60s, which caused a memory lapse on aspects of his life that lasted well into the 1980s... AllMusic
PIECE OF MIND
Produced by Frans Peters
1971 LP OHR RECORDS STEREO OMM 56009
MADE IN GERMANY ORIGINAL PRESSING
GATEFOLD COVER
Barcode and Other Identifiers
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LABEL: OHR - WHITE LABEL w/ EAR ARTWORK - GREEN TEXT
Catalog on cover: OMM 56009
Catalog on labels: Side B only ST-OMM.56.009-A / ST-OMM-56.009-B
Matrix / Runout Side A, Etched : ST-OMM-56.009-A PF Stamped : Manufactured in Germany
Matrix / Runout Side B, Etched : ST-OMM-56.009-B PF Stamped : Manufactured in Germany
On labels: Side A only : Auf macht das
Side B only : rim text reads Urheber.......Records GMBH
Orchestra directed by Ruud Bos
Arrangements: Ruud Bos and Roger Bunn
Produced by Frans Peters
Super Stereo Sound GEMA boxed P. 1971
Rights Society / Publishing: GEMA
On Inside Left Panel: Tracklist Credits Notes
Elfte Ohr-Plattee Address........
Album design: Ger Polak
tracklisting
Side A: ROAD TO THE SUN - JAC MOOL - FANTASY IN FICTION
CRYSTAL TUNNEL - 3 WHITE HORSES - CATTATONIA - SUFFERING WHEEL
not listed on label, on cover only
Side B: GIDO THE MAGICIAN - POWIS SQUARE CHILD - OLD MAID PRUDENCE
HUMBLE CHORTLE - JASONS ENNUI - 110 EAST 107 NORTH
grading
RECORD VG but please, read above description
SLEEVE VG but please, see pictures and read above description
Piece Of Mind is a delightfully weird-ass stream-of-consciousness creation, as much influenced by James Brown as Arthur Brown, with elements of Duncan Brown as well and the presence of longtime Bunn associate Pete Brown too, mixing soul horns, acid rock, freakbeat spaciness, jazz, and folk-pop with elements of country and bluegrass showing up or, sort of like Van Dyke Parks-meets-Donovan with a side-trip to the Kinks Muswell Hillbillies sessions -- it s not always easy to make out what he s singing, but it all sounds cool and so magnificently laid-back that it seems too easy, low-wattage psychedelia with folk and jazz strains flowing through it where the soul horns aren t honking away in hindsight, it makes one think of what the Small Faces might ve done had they ever finished an LP follow-up to their final completed single, The Universal, and that s definitely a compliment for those unaware. The album got buried by record company decision-making and competition from a brace of more overtly commercial releases, but it was good enough to gather a following among musicians and British pop cultists, and was regarded one of the great missing links among late- 60s British pop/rock... AllMusic
