As a rule of thumb, most of those vertigo albums that didn't sell in the early '70s now go for silly money on eBay. The reason they didn't sell is that most of them were crap. Jade Warrior were a cut above. True, they couldn't make up their minds whether they wanted to be Cream or Jethro Tull, so th...
As a rule of thumb, most of those vertigo albums that didn’t sell in the early ’70s now go for silly money on eBay. The reason they didn’t sell is that most of them were crap. Jade Warrior were a cut above. True, they couldn’t make up their minds whether they wanted to be Cream or Jethro Tull, so they settled for a drum-free combination of both. The swirling flutes and abrasive guitars bring a certain restless beauty to “Dragonfly Day”, “Psychiatric Sergeant” and “Sundial Song”, although the carefully crafted textures are often let down by mediocre lyrics