CD Details

I SPIDER

WEB (THE)
1970 , UK , EAN CODE 5013929712720 - EURO 13.00

Label: ESOTERIC RECORDINGS

ALBUM REVIEW
Web already had two albums under their belt with a different singer, American-born John L. Watson. Those albums were Fully Interlocking (1968) and Theraphosa Blondi (1970), both released on Deram. By 1970, Watson had left to be replaced by none other than vocalist/keyboardist Dave Lawson. Many of you already know Lawson from his involvement with Greenslade and the four albums they made between 1973 and 1975. Web moved from Deram to Polydor and I Spider was the results. Their first two, John L. Watson-led albums were said to be more pop/psychedelia, but I Spider is full-on progressive with jazz-leanings, and regarded as their best album...The music of Web doesn't sound much like Greenslade. Wind instruments take center stage, although Dave Lawson is still highly visible with his keyboards. Mostly he plays Hammond organ here, but he played piano, harpsichord, and even some Mellotron...Throughout the album, there's that slight Colosseum or Gentle Giant-like feel (the Gentle Giant comparisons come from the wind-instruments), maybe a little Van der Graaf Generator (especially the title track), but their sound wasn't a copy of any of these groups. (B.Miler) This Esoteric reissue is re-mastered from the original master tapes and features two bonus tracks recorded live in Sweden in 1971, a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with Dave Lawson.