Id were a band from the Baltimore area who released only this one obscure album, and disappeared. For many years, it was unclear where they were even from, until recent comments on various websites pointed out Baltimore. Where Are We Going is the album that Terry Brooks and Strange should have released. For those of you that have endured Raw Power, then you know what an exhausting fuzz guitar overload that album is. Id is no different really on that point, but the primary separator is the keyboard work which is all in technicolor mellotron! There's even some decent melodies, especially on the first side. Lyrically it's classic 70s cornball hippy dipster the-world-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket kind of thing. There's some narration and phased semi-singing that's so bad it's bad, thus you have to love it anyway. Honestly, I like this album quite a bit. If you can handle nonstop guitar soloing in a space rock setting, then you'll enjoy this as well. And truthfully there wasn't a whole lot of this kind of music on the market in the 1970s. Where Are We Going was recorded in 1975 and copyrighted in 1976. But the label is clear in appending 1977, thus it took two years to hit the market. It definitely sounds more like a 1975 album.
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Apparently the bass player is working on reissuing the album.
Priority: 2
2/22/11 (new entry)
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