Steppenwolf - Monster

Steppenwolf - Monster.  On the Dunhill ABC label.  The inside cover of this - their 4th album - released in 1969.  It is hard (impossible) to read - but the text on the innder jacket sleave is the words to the title track - Monster.  Some of which reads,  "The cities have turned into jungles, and corruption is stranglin' the land.  The police force is watching the people, and the people just can't understand.  We don't know how to mind our own business, 'cause the whole world's got to be just like us.  Now we are fighting a war over there.  No matter who's the winner, we can't pay the cost.  'Cause there's a monster on the loose, it's got our heads into the noose.  And it just sits there... watching."  The credit listed on the jacket read: Recorded at American Recording Company.  Produced by Gabriel Mekler.  Engineered by Richard Podolor & Bill Cooper.

Montrose - with a guy named Sam Hagar

Montrose - their eponymous debut album.  The guy on the cover photo, who is looking down, under the S and the E is none other than the Red Rocker himself - Sammy Hagar.  He is credited on the record as Sam Hagar.  Lest my readers, followers, and fan think I have gone a bit too soft in the music department recently - this record is good, old-fashioned, early '70's hard rock.  Out in 1973, this debut album by Montrose was produced by the legendary Ted Templeman.  Ronnie Montrose played on Van Morrison's fifth album - Tupelo Honey.  I bought this record for fifty cents at a used record and book store last night.  I wonder who "Sherry" is.  The record and jacket are in pretty decent shape and it plays weel - but based on wear and tear, this record certainly was played heavily.

Savoy Brown - OK, experts - they later bacame?

Savoy Brown - Hellbound Train.  According to one of my best rock music guides (Rock Family Trees, by Pete Fame), Savoy Brown is listed at the top of The 1967 Blues (UK) Boom.  Ah - here is the answer: after their 4th line-up variation - they became...Foghat.  Savoy Brown's "Lonesome" Dave Peverett and three others formed Foghat.  But, Savoy Brown remained in existence - under nine countable different lineups.  Fame traces from this "branch" of the Rock family tree - at least one commom members on back up to the first incarnation of Jethro Tull, though bass player Andy Pyle.  Title track - not a bad tune.