Automatic Man - Visitors (1977) [Reissue 2005]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 226 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 85 MB | Covers - 72 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Funk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Lemon Recordings (CD LEM 66)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 226 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 85 MB | Covers - 72 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Funk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Lemon Recordings (CD LEM 66)
With its second and final album, Visitors, Automatic Man unveiled a new lineup. Lead singer/keyboardist Bayeté (real name: Todd Cochrane) and guitarist Pat Thrall were still on board, but bassist Doni Harvey and former Santana drummer Michael Shrieve were gone-and their replacements were bassist Jerome Rimson and drummer Glenn Symmonds. The Bay Area quartet was still interracial (half white, half black), but with the personnel changes came a more commercial approach. While Automatic Man's self-titled debut album of 1976 was an uncompromising, fairly abstract effort that had to be accepted on its own terms, Visitors finds the band making its progressive rock/space rock funkier and more accessible. Automatic Man definitely increased the funk/soul factor on this LP, and tunes like "Daughter of Neptune" and "Give It to Me" have an immediacy and a directness that the first album lacked…