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A 1971 compilation double album featuring 3 of the biggest South African bands of the late ’60s and early ’70s, Suck, Freedom’s Children and the Otis Waygood Blues Band.
Tracks
- Suck – War Pigs
- Suck – The Whip
- Otis Waygood Blues Band – Wee Wee Baby
- Freedoms Children – 1999
- Otis Waygood Blues Band – You’re Late Miss Kate
- Otis Waygood Blues Band – Fever
- Freedoms Children – About The Dove And His King
- Suck – 21st Century Schizoid Man
- Freedoms Children – That Did It
- Freedoms Children – The Kid He Came From Hazareth
- Otis Waygood Blues Band – Watch ‘n Chain
- Suck – Aimless Lady
- Freedoms Children – The Homecoming
- Otis Waygood – In The Sun
- Otis Waygood – In Alan’s Car
Release information
2LP: 1971, EMI Starline, SRSJ 7001/2
Comments
This is a double album, which contains the best and (cough) worst of some of the late 60’s early seventies progressive rock!
Garth Chilvers, February 1999
The Kid He Came From Hazareth: When we first recorded this song, it was called ‘The Kid That Came From Nazareth’. When the album ‘Astra’ was submitted to the SABC (Old Regime) for their playlist, they banned the album because of that track, as it was “blasphemous“. They said that if we changed all references to the word “Nazareth” including the recording, they would unban the album. So it was back to the studio and a re-recording of the lyrics as well as re-doing all the artwork. This was quite standard practice in those days.
Julian Laxton, January 2001
“War Pigs” is a powerful version of the Black Sabbath song, that was left off Suck’s one-and-only album. It eventually appeared on the Retrofresh CD reissue of that album in 2001.
Brian Currin