Sunday 16 August 2015

Jay Ferguson (1976) Hit and Run

 From Jay Ferguson's' first solo album, All Alone in the End Zone, a soft rock album with a mix of funky disco beats, Moogs, Hard Rock Rhythm section and acoustic guitars. Famously had quite a career through the 60s to the 80s, from being the lead singer of the Psychedelic giants, Spirit in the late 60s and hard rock band Jo Jo Gunne who had a hit with 'Run Run Run' in the early 70s before having a top ten solo hit with Thunder Island, a classic Yacht Rock hit from his second album.

 This song has it all from the immediate piano rock intro to 'thunder and rain' sound effects to a chugging disco verse to a Moog based bridge to it's flute solo it has a driving quality to it and is the best composition on the album and slightly hints at Thunder Island in it' s visceral, heavy production.


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