Waiting For The Sun (CD + DVD) (1968)

"With a few exceptions, the material on this third album was much mellower than earlier work, and while this yielded some fine melodic ballad rock, there was no denying that the songwriting was not as impressive as before. On the other hand there were first-rate tunes such as the spooky "The Unknown Soldier," with antiwar lyrics as uncompromisingly forceful as anything the band did, and the compulsively riff-driven "Hello, I Love You," which nonetheless bore an uncomfortably close resemblance to the Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night." The flamenco guitar of "Spanish Caravan," the weirdness of "Not to Touch the Earth" (a snippet of a legendary abandoned opus, "The Celebration of the Lizard") were also interesting." (Richie Unterberger, Allmusic) Deze editie bevat 5 bonustracks. De meeste bestaan uit studio-dialoog en probeersels, maar de eerste is een adaptatie van Albinoni's beroemde "Adagio" in een door gitaar gedomineerd arrangement (heel anders dan de toetsengedomineerde versie op "An American Prayer".

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