Steve Howe - Mothballs - Groups and Sessions 64/69 [2001]

Artist Steve Howe
Title Of Album Mothballs
Year Of Release: 1964-69/2001
Label (Catalog#) Big Eye Music [BIG 4031-2]
Country: UK
Genre Psych Rock, Prog Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+ cue,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 01:12:21
Full Size: 324mb(+3%)

AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger
Before joining Yes, Steve Howe had nearly a decade's worth of experience with other groups under his belt. This is a first-rate 25-track compilation of his '60s work, with six previously unreleased cuts, starting in 1964 with the raw R&B/beat band the Syndicats, moving to soul-mod with the In Crowd, psychedelia with Tomorrow (six of the better tracks from their sole LP are included), and progressive rock with Bodast. Howe's playing is always interesting, and the material is pretty solid, serving almost as a road map of British rock trends of the '60s. It also includes the unreleased instrumental single he cut under his own name in 1967, a rare single by Tomorrow singer Keith West, and an unreleased track by the short-lived Canto, which was renamed Bodast. Although the six tracks by Tomorrow and the three by Bodast are easily available on separate CDs devoted to those groups, the remainder are quite hard to find. As a whole, it shows him as a player nearly the equal of Jimmy Page in versatility and imagination, although Howe's work from this time is much less widely recognized.

Tracks:
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01. The Syndicats - Maybellene 2:10
02. The Syndicats - True to Me 1:57
03. The Syndicats - Howlin' for My Baby 2:52
04. The Syndicats - What to Do 2:40
05. The Syndicats - Leave My Kitten Alone 2:53
06. The Syndicats - Don't Know What to Do 3:10
07. The Syndicats - On the Horizon 2:51
08. The In Crowd - Stop Wait a Minute 2:09
09. The In Crowd - You're on Your Own 2:20
10. The In Crowd - Why Must They Criticise 2:29
11. The In Crowd - I Don't Mind 3:18
12. The In Crowd - Finger Poppin' 2:04
13. Steve Howe - So Bad 2:31
14. Steve Howe - You Never Can Stay in One Place 2:40
15. Tomorrow - Real Life Permanent Dream 3:16
16. Tomorrow - Claremont Lake 3:02
17. Tomorrow - Revolution 4:05
18. Tomorrow - Hallucinations 2:39
19. Tomorrow - Three Jolly Little Dwarfs 2:27
20. Tomorrow - My White Bicycle 3:18
21. Keith West - The Kid Was a Killer 2:30
22. Canto - Come Over Stranger 3:06
23. Bodast - Beyond Winter 2:52
24. Bodast - Nothing to Cry For 4:08
25. Bodast - Nether Street 3:01

All thanks to original releaser