Rating: *** (3 stars)
Title: The First of Fisher
Company: P Pan
Catalog: P 101
Year: 1976
Grade (cover/record): VG/VG
Comments: small crease on back panel; small name in pencil on back cover; price sticker on back cover
Available: 1
GEMM catalog ID: 4210
Price: $200.00
Cost: $45.50
For some reason, judging by the homemade cover, I thought this baby was going to be an outing in progressive excesses ... The leadoff instrumental "Overture" didn't exactly change my impressions, but so much for first impressions ...
So what do we know
about namesake Kevin Fisher and 1977's "The
First of Fisher"? Next to nothing. It's
clearly a home grown vanity project and what few references we can find
indicate that only 75 copies were pressed. As far as we know, this
hasn't seen a CD reissue. Technically the album has a fairly primitive
sound, but in musical terms it's all over the spectrum. The acoustic
ballad "Lullabye" has a heavy classical feel (Pentangle came to
mind the first time we heard it), while "Flying" sports a 1950s'
vocal group feel and the horn-propelled "Pirate's
Song" recalls a post-David Clayton Thomas Blood, Sweat and Tears.
Of course first impressions are seldom entirely wrong and in this case the
second side sports some mundane progressive moves in the form of
"Indian
Dance" and "In Search". Again it's fairly raw, but not without it's low-keyed charms, including the
pretty ballad "A House for Wendy".
"The First of Fisher" track listing:
(side
1)
1.) Overture (instrumental) (Kevin Fisher) - 4:41
2.) Lullabye (Kevin Fisher) - 3:45
3.) Flying (Kevin Fisher) - 1:36
4.) Pirate's Song (Kevin Fisher) - 6:24
(side
2)
1.) A House for Wendy (Kevin Fisher) - 5:04
2.) Indian Dance (Kevin Fisher) - 5:13
3.) In
Search (Kevin Fisher) - 7:36