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Blind Faith is hailed as THE "supergroup" of the era. The performances on this record are excellent and the tunes are certainly above average, especially "Can't Find My Way Home" and "The Presence of The Lord". Naturally, one is want to compare this record to anything released by Cream, Traffic or Family. Unfortunately, this record is not greater than the combined value of the aforementioned, but rather an adequate compromise. The players are first-rate, but the LP simply doesn't live-up to the hype that has surrounded it since its release. The band itself fell apart under that weight. Still, this record has more to offer on the basis of the participants than many records by obscure artists. I guess it's all relative to notoriety.
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I recently lost about 400 CDs, 200 LPs, and countless cassettes and MP3s in a recent fire in my home. This was one of the very first CDs I just had to have to start my collection over again. I originally had this LP from probably the late 70s or early 80s when it was rereleased back then as I was only 4 years old when it first came out, unlike some of you old timers. I am proud to say it is still a great cornerstone to any music collection, even for us young whipper snappers.
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Interesting reading the reviews. I wonder how many of the people who submitted reviews heard the album for the first time in 1969. You had to be there to appreciate the affect it had on you amid the tumultuous times. It is impossible to take these albums out of the times they were first heard. I admit I am biased because I heard the songs for the first time live, even though it was in Bridgeport, CT. Guess what I bought the next day, then the CD and then the MP3 for my iPod. While I'm in the middle of a workout at the gym listening to Blind Faith, my mind is in Bridgeport, CT, now that's what great music is all about and this group made a great album. Obviously, I'm not a music critic but I know what I like. Will a rap fan enjoy this CD? Probably not, but that's their loss.
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Looking back at the summer of 1969, you'd have to say that there was indeed a bumper crop of classic rock albums. Let's see there was Workingman's Dead, which transitioned the Dead from psycadellic jug band to a new acoustic blues-folk-country genera that continued on into American Beauty. We got the amazing Soft Parade by The Doors in '69. Jethro Tull put out their debut album, the only recording with orginal Blodyn Pig guitarist Mick Abrams. Procol Harum signed on with A Salty Dog, a collection of dark broodong songs evoking "Tales Of The Ancient Mariner". There was the understated brilliance of Crosby Stills & Nash. Together or without Neil Young, this was the first edition of what would become one of Rock's most enduring super groups.
That brings us to rock's most ill-fated super group....Bind Faith. For my money this was the premire event in an all too brief period of unsurpassed classic rock releases. They became for me, a perfect blend of almost all the aforementioned classics. Winwood carried along the haunting bluesy vocals he perfected with Traffic and Clapton showed the world that he didn't need to extend guitar solos beyond the three minute mark to express heart-felt passion deep down to your toes.
So why did Blind Faith collapse in less than twelve months? Clapton lends a lot of credence to the idea that "Music From Big Pink" by The Band opened his mind to a whole new "roots" sound. He wanted to get back to tight ensamble playing. It seems he wanted to capture a more understated and less in your face approach. And of course you can't argue with the man who brought us "Layla" and so many other great songs. Steve Winwood reformed Traffic, without Dave Mason and Ginger Baker went on to join the Airfore, Ginger Baker's Airforce of course.
It's cleched I know but Blind Faith really cements where I was and what I was at nineteen years old in that oh so wonderful, magical, whacky world of the summer of '69. I'll forever regret not joining my friends who hitch hiked from New York to Providence, RI to see Blind Faith in concert. If I had only known that it was to be a once in a lifetime Experience.
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I still remember driving back from the coast through Topanga in a VW at 2 a.m. with my roommate at the wheel, both of us too stoned to engage in any kind of conversation when this came on the radio. With a good deal of effort Peter who was driving remarked this was just what he needed to hear with his tenuous grip on reality. Yeah, we made it home, and yeah against all odds we always made it home in those days, some how the world was not so serious then.
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