Tracks : 1 Another Country (7.37) 2 Pigs Foots (4.39) 3 Season Of The Witch (8.22) 4 A Place Of Heartbreak (3.00) 5 Where Is My Mind (3.00) 6 Piece Of My Heart (2.50) 7 Dharma For One (4.02) 8 Peace Of Mind (2.19) 9 Born To Be Wild (4.20)
Band Members : -Jim Gannon - Guitar -Jess "Zoot" Taylor - Organ -Kip Trevor - Vocalist -Clive Jones - Saxophone -Bob Bond - Bass guitar -Clive Box - Drums & percussion -Kay Garret - Vocalis
Starting
out as a typical U.K. club soul band, and then turning toward
psychedelia and prog rock in the latter half of the '60s, it wasn't
until Pesky Gee! changed their name in 1970 to Black Widow,
transformed, and released the satanic Sacrifice that they reached the
public eye. If not singular in any particular way, the prog-edged Pesky
Gee! album, released on Pye in 1969, has enough cool Hammond organ
flourishes and late psych-intoned vocals (male and female) to cause
interest. Much is aimless, relies too much on the blues-rock boom, or
is downright bad ("Born to Be Wild"), but when they got the mix right
they were superb, as on their original psych/soul/prog numbers: on "A
Place of Heartbreak" there is a superb male/female vocal, a soulful
beat, and some haunting changes; while "Where Is My Mind" (both songs
were released as a 45) has a driving rhythm, a unique use of horns, and
sees the beginning of the band's fascination with sinister subject
matter and horror vocalization. The covers get a bit much, although the
Julie Driscoll-intoned reading of Donovan's "Season of the Witch" has
some fine moments. Not a solid affair but representative of the change
in the British music scene of the late '60s. ~Jon 'Mojo' Mills, All
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