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Spyglass Guest is the third studio album from the British progressive rock band Greenslade
Greenslade
Greenslade is an English progressive rock band. It was originally formed in the autumn of 1972 with the following line-up:* Dave Greenslade - keyboards...

, released in 1974.

Track listing

  1. "Spirit of the Dance" (music: Dave Greenslade) – 5:08
  2. "Little Red Fry Up" (music and lyrics: Dave Lawson) – 5:11
  3. "Rainbow" (music and lyrics: Dave Lawson) – 4:20
  4. "Siam Seasaw" (music: Tony Reeves) – 4:43
  5. "Joie De Vivre" (music: Dave Greenslade, lyrics: Martin Hall) – 8:25
  6. "Red Light" (music and lyrics: Dave Lawson) – 2:27
  7. "Melancholic Race" (music: Dave Greenslade) – 4:15
  8. "Theme for an Imaginary Western" (music: Jack Bruce
    Jack Bruce
    John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...

    , lyrics: Pete Brown
    Pete Brown
    Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet and lyricist.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores and formed a film...

    )
    – 3:52

Personnel

  • Andrew McCulloch — drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Dave Lawson — keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

     (except on "Spirit of the Dance"), vocals
  • Tony Reeves
    Tony Reeves
    Anthony 'Tony' Reeves is an English bass guitarist/contrabassist, noted for his "extremely prominent and complex bass sound" and use of electronic effects...

     — bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Dave Greenslade
    Dave Greenslade
    Dave Greenslade is a British keyboards player. He has played in his own eponymous band, Greenslade, and others including Colosseum, If and Chris Farlowe's Thunderbirds....

     — keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

     (except on "Little Red Fry Up", "Rainbow", and "Red Light")

with:
  • Clem Clempson
    Clem Clempson
    Clem Clempson is an English rock guitarist who has played in a number of bands including Colosseum and Humble Pie.-Career:...

     - electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

     on "Little Red Fry Up" and "Siam Seesaw"
  • Graham Smith
    String Driven Thing
    String Driven Thing were a 1970s folk-rock band from Scotland led by husband and wife Chris Adams and Pauline Adams and featuring the electric violin of Graham Smith.-Formation:...

     - violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

    on "Joie de Vivre"
  • Jeremy Ensor - recorded rain, co-producer
  • Greg Jackman and Lindsay Kidd — engineers
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