I like that Fat Mattress record.
Ok Re: Strider. Yes I remember this now because I remember when Van Halen’s record came out a few years later we said we’d already heard it - or something to that effect. My friend Greg had this record (and I probably taped it off him). Pretty slick production and they had quite a bit of the 80’s hair band formula down even in ’73/‘74. Tone, major lift chorus, big dynamic shifts, Pretty good musicians really, and ahead of their time (interesting that it really sounds like a late 70s or 80s record). Worthwhile man, thanks.
This is the kind of music that my pimpled faced friends and I went crazy for when we were 13 or 14 (Like the first couple of Kiss albums). But we grow up (sadly). I listen to some of my old records (like the first couple of Kiss albums) now with a mixture of ego and embarrassment.
