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Concert For Bedsprings
Album: I Spider
Released: Aug 22, 2007
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  • Genre: Jam Band / Jazz / Progressive

    Location UK

    Profile Views: 12250

    Last Login: 4/26/2008

    Member Since 8/22/2007

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    Out with the old, in with the new. Gone was John L. Watson, standing, or rather sitting at the keyboards in his stead came Dave Lawson, and in celebration of his ensnarement by the band, gone too was the "The" in Web. The new look Web released ..I Spider.. in 1970, the group's third and final album. It was also their best, bringing to fruition the group's sound, and leaving behind the rather stumbling genre experimentations of yesteryears. Moving strongly into progressive rock, the band strode far afield from the psychedlic meanderings they'd undertake on their last set ..Theraposi Blondi... Lawson's fabulous organ playing was now the band's fulcrum, filling the album with rich, and especially on the title track, haunting atmospheres, as well as providing a fixed point from which the rest of the band could swoop off in their own directions. .. If "I Spider" was the album's most evocative track, the epic set opener "Concerto for Bedsprings" is its most magnificent. Its passages shift in moods and style, with the jazz inspired "Sack Song" section particularly impressive, while the aggressive "You Can Keep the Good Life" as hard edged as any punk fueled nowave band. Dramatic shift in dynamics also drive "Love You", another showcase for horn player Tom Harris, with John Eaton's vicious, buzzing bass line powering the whole second half of the piece, and providing furious encouragement to Tony Edward's fuzzdrenched guitar. That number lies in the rock realm, "Ymphasomniac" leans toward jazz fusion, but unusually boasts tasty bongoes and percussion solos as well, and provide the bridge into the second pomprock half of the song. .. And that is the glory of this album, as most of the songs comprise two diametrically opposed halves, cleverly brought together either with a crash or with an inspired middle passage. The set's final track, "Always I Want", follows this pattern to perfection, as Lawson bemoans his lack of luck with the ladies, his rather crude lyrics hilariously at odds to the sophistication of the music itself. .. The group went out on a high with this superb set, which Akarma has reissued with its original, wondrously surreal artwork. But although Web disappeared soon after, the members did not, swiftly returning under their new moniker ..Samurai... .. ~ JoAnn Greene, All Music Guide

  • Members

    - ..Dave Lawson.. / organ, piano, keyboards, vocals.. - ..Lennie Wright.. / drums, percusion.. - ..Kenny Beveridge.. / drums, percusion.. - ..Tony Edwards.. / guitars.. - ..John Eaton.. / bass.. - ..Tom Harris.. / wind

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