We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago…..
There is nothing quite like the sound of twin guitars playing in harmony. Especially when they re played well. The English band Wishbone Ash had a good run in the 70’s relying on that twin guitar attack from Andy Powell and Ted Turner. Added in to the bass of Martin Turner and Steve Upton’s creative drumming and you had a nice mixture of hard to peg music on numerous LP’s including 1971’s “Pilgrimage”.
In 1972 Melody Maker called Turner and Powell “the most interesting two guitar team since the days that Beck and Page graced the Yardbirds”. High praise indeed.
‘Pilgrimage” was their second LP and started out with a couple of cuts you could almost call jazz…especially the first song on the Lp called “Vas Dis” with scat singing prevailing throughout the tune.
They turned up the rock meter on the song “Jail Bait” and again to finish up the record with a long, live jam recorded in June at De Monfort Hall in Leicester.
They would hit their commercial peak the next year with Argus…but this record shows’s what a tight, four man outfit could do.
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