Alan - sorry I just thought that such a niche reference to Grant Smith ( he’s still around , y’know ) was a dead give away to the blue eyed soul thing that happened in Toronto in the sixties.

Of all of that the most famous was Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks ,played at Le Cog D’or ( near where the Hard Rock Cafe on Yonge Street is now ) but who later, after a stint with Dylan at Big Pink, became The Band.

We were all quite amazed at the transformation, to be honest.

Brian

The SDG was surely one of the great if underrated Brit acts of the 1960s, sadly shortlived and ultimately overshadowed by Winwood’s work with Traffic. Still, their debut retains all its freshness and energy after all these years.

And if the lyric’s theme of mad pursuit doesn’t come across in the delivery, there’s the self-assurance that, when the pursuer sounds this good, the pursuee will slow down.

Doctor Mod

Ressurrection , indeed,

Brian

One other thing, what’s the deal with the reggae here? Chris Blackwell put it together, right?, and Jackie Edwards wrote it — but was it originally a Jamaican song that’s gone R&B or was Edwards dancing in the dark?