Wounded Bird Records
1970
Valley Of The Moon
About This Album
Drummer Michael Tegza is the only original from two years prior when the band was H.P. Lovecraft on Phillips Records. For this 1970 Reprise release they are dubbed Lovecraft and have abandoned the psychedelic Jefferson Airplane sound for a progressive Crosby, Stills and Nash meets Uriah Heep. In 1975 drummer Tegza reformed the band again and separated the two words, their Love Craft album, We Love You Whoever You Are took things into an almost Santana goes soul direction. The lineup here of Tegza, Jim Donlinger, Michael Been and Marty Grebb are more than competent, maintaining the strong vocal presence of the original band, but the direction is too studied and not as much fun as the previous incarnation. "We Can All Have It Together" sounds like Seatrain's "13 Questions" meets Lighthouse's "One Fine Morning." "Brother I Wonder" delves right into that Crosby, Stills & Nash territory, while "Love Has Come" IS "Carry On" by Graham Nash and company. Michael Tegza's drums are big, and perhaps a bit out of place for what was a psychedelic band. Even on this he tends to overplay, the rolling thunder of the percussion interfering with the acoustics on "The Dawn," which is an otherwise interesting piece.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8)

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