Greetings from LA

By Tim Buckley (1972). Album #146.

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I came in to this with no idea what I was in for. What quickly became apparent was just how good the band was. All the musicians involved can play - the organ playing in “Devil’s Eyes” stands out, and there’s some great guitar later on. For me it’s too heavy on the improvisation which is great to watch live, but set down on record it didn’t catch my interest.

The orchestration, the blues rock, the relentlessly sleazy lyrics - none of interested me. So when album closer “Make It Right” came around with its orchestra-backed-ode-to-S&M, I was ready to escape L.A.

There is probably a penalty to pay for relating any L.A. Album to The Doors, a fine I’m happy to pay. Snatches of songs bring to mind The Doors - not any one song, but an atmosphere that exudes the undefined feeling L.A. in the 60s, to someone who was neither there then nor alive then. Definitely not L.A. now. Perhaps I went to the wrong bars.

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